Even Rory McIlroy, one of the best players on the planet, has to manipulate his down swing because of how the Modern Golf Swing has lost its natural leverage, which is not a problem with the Classic Golf Swing.
My issues with the golf swing never had anything to do with leverage, because I have almost always swung with a Classic Golf Swing motion.
The only times I didn’t were when I received instruction from ’98 until I quit playing the next year (out of frustration with swing issues), and briefly in periods between ’07-’08 when I was trying out everything including the planted-heel back pivot.
Even then, I would wager that I had plenty of leverage because of the nature of my planted-heel pivot.
Here below in ’07, I was still hammering the ball and sending this 5 iron well over 200 yards because I kept my body connected:
It was all leg and hip action driving that down swing, but I will show you something here that is incredible to see a world-best player like Rory doing:
This is absolutely shocking, and let me point out something that just leaps out from this down swing transition drill that Rory is performing – there is no connection between his hips and his arms:
Let’s Practice the Drop & Swipe
It’s all arm action. Just about anything can happen here under stress or when the focus lapses for even one second, and if you’ve see Rory’s driving stats, they are horrific except for the distance and strokes gained.
If you’ve ever wondered additionally how Rory sometimes can’t hit the green at times with his wedges to save his life, imagine trying to make a precision swing motion with a short club and absolutely no connection between the upper and lower body.
Now, take a look at the Classic Golf Swing action here below:
Taking the same swing, I’ve started the below gif. just before I reach the top, at which point I pause and show 3 arrows:
Look at the gif. as many times as you wish, and you will see how my hips (green arrow) and hands (red arrow) are connected to the lower body via the left or leading leg (teal arrow):
As soon as my left knee begins to move back toward the target, my hips begin to rotate back as well, but not as an independent action – the left leg swinging back pulls the hips around, which pull the hands down from the top.
I am doing nothing with my arms other than letting the hips pull them down, to the point where I reach the 3 O’clock position halfway down by simply having shifted my weight into the leading foot.
From there, my right arm will extend to help the leverage and gravity accelerate that club down to the swing bottom as I push up with my right heel:
The overwhelming majority of the down swing effort is in the hip and leg action, and if I’m in the proper position from the setup and get to the proper position at the top, the swing is essentially guaranteed to end well:
This is full-body connectivity and provides all of the leverage you need for a proper golf swing.
It is also how you can swing a 20lb Kettle-Bell like a golf club without hurting yourself:
It’s all in the hips and legs, and this is what has been lost with the X-Factor Modern Golf Swing Squat & Dump Turn & Swipe method of swinging a golf club. These guys are all in the gym building muscle in order to muscle the golf club instead of just using the body as its constructed to leverage the club.
The leverage is absolutely effortless.
Just ask Jack Nicklaus
Or Ben Hogan
Why does anyone think the old Classic Swingers looked so graceful and fluid?
Leverage beats muscle.
You shouldn’t ever need any type of drill for the transition and down swing – remember how fast it all occurs – the only practice needed is in perfecting the setup and pivot so that it all happens naturally with leverage.
This is the only practice drill I’ve ever had to use with my MCS Golf Swing model:
That’s right – the only practice needed would be an entire swing from address to finish.
If you’re working on anything other than that, you’re practicing manipulations and compensations, and that road doesn’t lead anywhere good for most people with the golf swing.
WAX Golf 
“Leverage beats muscle.” Everytime 🙂
Rory’s a good player but would not survive in the era of persimmons and proper blades with his swing. Modern golf is fake
Very few players swinging Modern would have survived in the persimmon era – look at the 90’s when the equipment was beginning to change and see Tiger, who wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in his era if he’d played in the persimmon era – then you have Fred Couples, who was a good player with power but who destroyed his back. Nick Faldo fared well, but he was a short hitter who had to retire when the modern equipment just overpowered his finesse game.
The thing is, every great golfer today, born in the persimmon era, would have learned a Classic Golf Swing model. I doubt the Modern X-Factor junk would even have lasted very long without the timely advent of the new equipment science. It was a fateful coming together that will haunt today’s players into their old age.
It is deeply ironic that players swung more athletic when golf was a game rather than a sport. Wish the days of art and strategy could come back. When you can see old guys at your club who can’t even play 18 holes,driving the ball 280 due to technology,the distances the pros get isn’t really impressive
Exactly. I am much more impressed with a 290 yard drive using persimmon and balata than what these guys today are doing.
Or a buttery 200 yard fade to a tucked pin with a blade 3 iron. These things took power and skill to do.
Not just swinging out of one’s shoes with a shoebox on the end of one’s shaft whilst rearranging one’s spinal column and knee joints.
I switched to blades precisely for this reason 🙂 all the way down to 1-. So much you can do with them. Though I have to keep reminding myself that most people playing used jacked lofts, when I’m playing with others. Seeing people hit a 7 iron where I would hit a 5 or 4 plays with my head a bit haha Especially when I can outdrive them by 100yds.
I think clubs should be identified by loft – “he’s got his 32 degree out here,” instead of calling a jacked iron with a 6 iron loft a 7 or 8 iron.
But then, that wouldn’t sell as many sets of new irons, would it? Because a 32 loft is a 32 loft, whatever you cal it.
Modern golf instruction loves to teach in positions. All this does is leave one with 400 swing thoughts that one has to grapple with in the span of 1 to 2 seconds.
That’s about it. And no end of “lessons” to make sure you get them all properly bungled and need… more “lessons.”