It occurred to me, watching things come across my YouTube feed earlier in the morning, that the knowledge or art of natural swinging has been lost, and the culprit is clear.

You simply can’t make a mechanically-sound golf swing with the leading heel nailed down and the hip turn being restricted, so instead of solving a simple problem by removing it, people are getting further and further adrift from proper mechanics in trying to solve it.

How easy is this below?

Problem: You can’t make a mechanically-sound golf swing keeping the leading heel nailed down.

Solution: Stop trying to keep the leading heel nailed down.

Instead, the entire golf world’s philosophy has been to try to re-invent the wheel and to keep coming up with compensation after compensation to counter the problem.

The first compensation – get the weight into the leading foot (why not, if you’re going to keep it nailed down), and reverse-pivot to the top:

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It’s gotten so bad that even a player like Bryson DeChambeau, who actually turns his hips and lets the leading heel lift, swings with this reverse-pivot action:

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Watch again with another failure get off of the leading foot – it’s become an epidemic, likely because of the ubiquity of golf swing videos on the internet, so it’s the blind leading the blind:

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If you know what you’re looking for – in this case, getting the body over the trailing foot and side so that you can swing down and impact the ball with the head over that right side:

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… then it fairly leaps out at you when you’re watching swings on YouTube – everyone is stuck on or shifts into their leading foot on the back pivot, which allows a hip turn now, but leaves you hopelessly stuck trying to come back down to the ball.

And therefore, you start seeing the contortions being taught like pantomime, because of this:

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Do you see that?  The first “wrong” down swing doesn’t have the same back swing pivot.

On the second “correct” down swing, he has performed a reverse-pivot onto his leading foot before beginning the down swing, and then all of the squatting acrobatics ensue.

Next:

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Another internet “pro” who doesn’t ever get off his left foot – forget what he’s talking about, just watch his back pivot and transition.  Glued to the left side.

If you don’t get off your leading foot, you have nowhere to go to begin the down swing, and you really can’t be serious comparing the Modern Golf Swing top position with the Classic:

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It’s gotten so bad that people are now teaching others how to “finish.”

Yes, I kid you not:

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Here’s a clue to all of the people teaching “the finish” – if you have to tell people how to move post-impact, then there is a problem with everything that came before it.

Look at the fellow in the rear – way over the leading foot, which is rolling over, hyperextended knee… just awful to see.

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When you swing naturally, nothing happens after impact that doesn’t involve just letting the momentum carry one to the finish, because the swing is essentially over at the swing bottom:

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Looking at Jack Nicklaus, he’s through impact so quickly that the only thing he’s doing after impact is maintaining his balance whilst the arms and club carry on to finish behind him.

He’s not doing anything after impact.

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The only conscious effort in the post-swing I can think of the Dunaway step-around, which again only happens because momentum causes the arms and club to pull the body around and the step-around occurs as thoughtlessly as putting one foot in front of the other when walking.