I posted about Nataliya Guseva a month ago, with the admonition that “perfect” swings don’t ruin one’s body.
The clip was only 2-3 weeks old, but just a month after my initial post, I saw a clip of her swing posted just a day ago, which makes it little more than around 6 or 7 weeks apart – and it’s not looking good.
A month and a half ago, she had kinesiology tape on her left leg, probably to support the tendons/muscles attached to the knee joint (with all of the joint-destroying pressure she was placing on it with her swing):
Take note again of the ridiculous title to the clip. Absolutely not.
Fast forward from mid-April to early June, not even two months on, and take a look at Nataliya’s left leg:
She has gone from kinesiology tape or straps to a full supportive device:
Now, let me stress this – golfers are not playing a full-contact sport where they are being tackled or checked as in rugby or hockey, they are not sliding into bases or dodging chin music as in baseball… there is a ball sitting on a tee or on the ground and you’re swinging at it with a club.
You have all the opportunity in the world to set up to this ball in a manner that will let you perform a full swing from start to finish.
So, there is no reason in the world (unless she is suffering from a degenerative disease) for a young, physically fit golfer to be disintegrating before the world’s very eyes.
This is all due to faulty mechanics, unsound swing technique, and it will not be very long before she is unable to even play golf – but first will come the surgeries, recoveries and more attempts to play golf swinging the same way that caused the injuries to begin with…rinse and repeat.
A shame to have to watch unfold in real time.
WAX Golf 
I suspect more players than we know of wear stuff like that.With females it’s easier to see because of skirts.
I share your suspicion and have since I noticed how many young ladies who wear more revealing clothing than the male pros do are wearing tape and wrappings.
I wonder if she has any original ideas on the golf swing or she was guided by “experts”? Actually in the history of this golf blog, DJ has demonstrated many times that leaving kids alone and they come damn near close to a perfect swing. Moral of the story, don’t mess with Mother Nature. If you violate natural movements of the human body, you will pay the price. Very hard to watch golf nowadays with all the swingwrecks.
It’s like a lot of things we learn, Chief – self-taught is far better than flawed instruction.
Sam Snead grew up barefoot, poor country boy who learned to swing a golf club hitting stones with tree branches in the farmers’ pastures.
Chi-Chi Rodriguez, swatting guavas around in Puerto Rico.
Hogan and Moe dug it out of the dirt.
And I believe Greg Norman got a few lessons from his golfing mother and was scratch in six months after picking up a club.