I don’t often see swings these days that take me back to the “good ol’ days” of when the Modern Golf Swing had only one major flaw – the nailing down of the leading foot on the back pivot.

For years, the trend has seen the Modern Gold Swing move ever further away from the fundamentals of the Classic Golf Swing, including the setup (largely due to back injuries, I’d wager) to that stilted, stacked and tilted horror show currently unfolding.

I don’t know who this young lady is from the KLPGA, but her swing is breath-taking – and while there are 2 fixes that she could make to perfect her swing, she would only need one make it mechanically-sound.

We rarely now see golfers set up with the proper backwards-tilted spine and right-bias (for a right-handed swing, of course), because swingers are being taught to stay over their leading foot to avoid the lumbar twist required for a planted-heel pivot.

Right-Biased Swing

Taking  a look at her in slower motion, you’ll see what I’m talking about with regards to the two flaws in her swing, which would otherwise be superb:

1. She is swinging with a planted-heel pivot, which with her right-biased swing model will place ever more strain and injury risk on her lumbar region with the X-Factor twist (you can get away with this somewhat when young and certainly when female) and
2. The Flying Foot through impact, which isn’t the worst flaw in the world, but still something that will affect performance, especially as one ages.

That first flaw, I would want fixed ASAP, because one can see at a glace that she has powerful leg muscles and that change of direction with the hip drive from the top of the pivot is just playing with fire with that lower back twist.

The second, I hate esthetically, and while it’s not mechanically-unsound (the Flying Foot is to compensate for the failure to release the trailing foot swinging with a wide stance), it will affect timing and performance.

Now, the angle is not perfectly face-on, which is why the ball position looks to be off her trailing foot, but you can still tell she has a right-biased address because her head is always in the same place and with that spine tilted away from the target at impact, the head starts and must be over the right side at address and impact.

A very athletic and power swing action, and I love to see the right-bias, which is optimal, but if this young lady were to simply allow the leading heel to come up as it wants to on the back pivot, she wouldn’t have to twist her lower back to achieve the shoulder turn.

If she also learned how to get fully into her leading foot on the down swing and let the trailing foot release, Ben Hogan-style (or MCS-style), I would grade her a virtual 100% on this swing model.