I came across something today that is absolutely heart-breaking – I don’t know who this young lady is, but she is literally destroying her body in real time just swinging a golf club.
This is criminal behavior, teaching these golf swings to young and unsuspecting golfers – there is no way on this planet that an athlete this young should be falling to pieces just from the way they swing a golf club.
Make no mistake about it – as soon as I saw the bandage on her leading knee:
… I knew what I would see with regards to that leading leg when she actually swung the club.
And that would be this:
Rolled-over ankle and a hyper-extended knee on the finish.
No amount of kinesiology tape or ace bandaging are going to save this young lady’s knee. If she continues to swing this way, it’s done for.
This, again, comes from the failure to release the trailing foot on the finish, because there is apparently a law in the Modern Golf Swing world that one can not release that trailing foot, no matter what, but whatever one does with the leading foot and leg is A-OK.
Don’t believe me?
Check this out:
“Holy Flying Foot, Batman!!”
Taking A Moment…
OK.
If you take a look at this golfer’s address, you will see immediately that the stance is far too wide for the ball position:
… and that same time, the ball is far too inside her body line – a driver ball position inside the leading shoulder is a recipe for trouble getting through the ball properly.
And look how far back that leading foot flies in order to prevent absolute carnage on her body – ending up basically where the ball should be placed in relation to the leading foot to begin with.
Narrow the stance, put the ball where it should be, along side the leading foot at or outside the leading shoulder, is all that needs to be done.
And release the trailing foot just as you would walking or throwing, if your swing and hip turn produce twisting forces on the leading leg:
What is so terribly wrong with how Mike Dunaway protected his body from twisting forces even driving a ball 375 yards with a Callaway Big Bertha driver?
The answer is, “Nothing, because that’s how you release into the finish with a mechanically-sound motion.”
But as I’ve said, Modern Golf will do anything to perform a golf swing except that which is mechanically-sound.
All of these issues in professional golf are – there is no other word for it than criminal, I’m sorry. Anyone being paid money to teach this nonsense is getting away with murder.
WAX Golf 
Folks love this stuff on YouTube but their criterion is not kinesiology.
I’ve noticed that as well, Chief. The view counts to attire definitely follow a pattern.
And the more views fuel their enthusiasm to destroy their bodies. Vicious cycle.
eesh! DJ the torture you put yourself through watching these swings to give us these insights is admirable. I wonder if the modern golf swing is one of the reasons why the 1 iron is no longer used by pros? NOW THAT I would like to see be done by these people with a perfect swing 10 times in a row.
That Dunaway gif is hyponitising. He had the most fluid and efficient action next to Bobby Jones and George Knudson.
Dunaway had the smoothest move, didn’t he?
Pure leverage and power fuelled by the hips, legs and proper weight transfer. Poetry!
With all the rage about hitting the ball long these days,the fact no one outside of us golf fanatics knows who he is, is criminal. Mike Dunaway shows how easy it is to get distance and accuracy with no strain or struggle.
Hopefully in the near future there’ll be a major winner on the tour who swings like him, and starts a trend.They must be somewhere..
It’s utterly bizarre – I think his association with Mike Austin may have hurt his credibility (nearly if not all of Austin’s claims about his own accomplishments have been exposed as fabrications).
But he was the Callaway Golf club tester when they were designing the Big Bertha, he was Art Sellinger’s inspiration with the Club 350 thing (Sellinger went on to found Long Drivers of America of Remax World Long Drive fame), you have John Daly and Greg Norman having sung his praises back then.
It’s a mystery he’s not a household name.
Yep Greg Norman and John Daly both feature in on the cover of his book “Power Golf”,and he was a Callaway tester.You may be onto something with the Austin connection.A shame as the one thing that was real about Austin was his golf!