I’ve got a wild one here, folks.  Fasten seatbelts.

This account has over 1 million followers and the clip I just watched has over 20K likes, and I don’t know what’s going on out there.

Here’s something that is so obvious that I feel silly even saying it – nearly 100% of people who play golf possess two working legs, and this is for those people – why would you swing on one leg when you have two of them?

If your answer is, “I wouldn’t swing on just one leg, that’s silly,” then you’re already ahead of the 22K people who liked this clip:

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First comment is, take a look at that footwork.

Second – I nearly fell out of my chair watching this, and not in disbelief, but because I kept shifting my balance watching this fellow talk and swing.

He actually made me dizzy.

Look at this insanity:

Gives new meaning to Stack and TILT!!!

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That setup – I kept looking at the background, wondering if the camera angled was tilted, but no, it was him.

Now, since we all know that this abomination of swinging comes from people who absolutely mangled Ben Hogan’s swing mechanics, let’s take a look at The Hawk hitting an iron, shall we?

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Unfortunately, just about all of Hogan’s video on irons was shot at a diagonal, but even with the angle, do you see Hogan way out over his leading foot at address or that finish?

In fact, his spine is leaning away from the target on the finish, not even vertical, and certainly not way over his skis like these Modern Golf Swing fellows.

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Now – hear me out – it seems to me that Hogan was over his right side at address, and finished balanced with a backward-leaning spine on the finish, with his entire body behind his leading foot.

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That’s because Hogan had a free hip turn and lifting leading heel, which allowed him to set up properly with his head to the right of center of this stance:

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… and allowed the lower body action to leverage the club down and pull his head and trailing foot along for the ride.

Friends, let me tell you something wild, and most of you in the back already know it, so it’s for the new arrivals – all of this nonsense with the Modern Golf Swing and how it’s getting more and more ridiculous is all because of one single thing.

One.

The refusal to permit a free and natural hip turn by allowing the leading heel to rise – that is why you’re getting all of this.

Literally one thing in Hogan’s swing that everyone either overlooks or sees and ignores, thinking they know better than the man who’s swing mechanics they’re obsessed with.

I wish I could be nice about it, but that’s the silliest thing I can imagine:

Let’s religiously try to copy EVERYTHING about Ben Hogan’s swing – except the one thing that made his pivot perfect, the free and full hip and lifting leading heel. And let’s try everything under the sun to get a full shoulder turn on the back pivot except the one thing that…

By now, it could be that most of these people have never looked at Hogan’s golf swing (hard to imagine), and they’re just going along with what Tiger Woods has been doing (Squat & Dump) since he started working with Sean Foley.

But you can likely trace all of this  straight back to Jim McLean and his “X-Factor” swing abomination.