If you really want to see something that puts the Modern Golf Swing to shame, take a look at the golf swing of a man born in the 1800’s who had better technique than today’s players.

Francis Ouimet won the 1913 U.S. Open and his victory popularized golf with the common masses, whereas beforehand, it had been the game of the wealthy and privileged.

Considering the game was played at the time with hickory wood shafts, this swing is sure poetry in motion:

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It is a model of using the hips and legs to leverage the club down through impact.  What a free-flowing and relaxed motion, especially through the swing bottom.

Absolutely gorgeous, wasn’t it?

This Is Superb

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1. Nice right-biased setup, head over the right side,
2. Beautiful pivot with the hips & legs to get a full shoulder turn over the right side and
3. Classic impact position with the extended leading arm, head over the right side and backward-tilted spine angle.

It really doesn’t get any better than this, form-wise, considering the equipment at hand and it really puts the Modern Golf Swing industry to absolute shame.

Here is a man who was born over a century and quarter ago who had better swing knowledge and technique than what people are earning kinesiology degrees studying.

If anyone is earning any type of kinesiology, physics or or science-related diploma working with the Modern Golf Swing, all they are doing is studying and teaching the best way to swing wrong.

The person narrating this clip, if it isn’t Gary Bates, has a nice breakdown of the swing:

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… however at 1:45, he falls into the “Ben Hogan About Hip Restriction” trap, because we know that Hogan wasn’t talking about the hip turn but rather a hip slide to the right on the back pivot.

He used the right leg to keep the hips from sliding right, not to restrict the hips, and we know that he did not keep his left heel down, whether he said it or not:

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If you watch Hogan’s action, especially from the rear, you can see him pushing with his right leg to keep the hips from sliding to the right, but there is absolutely no restriction of the hip turn.

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Now, Hogan had a unique pivot action even for the Classic Golf Swing (as seen above) in that he achieved a full hip turn without the extreme high heel lift, and I’ve been able to replicate this pivot (again, the pivot and not the actual exact swing):

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… right down to the slide-release of the trailing foot.  It’s all in the setup and the action of the hips and legs.

So, a great swing model from before the Great War, and probably the best swing you’ll see before the likes of Bobby Jones and Byron Nelson.