The answer is very simple – I don’t actually “squat” in my swing, as I’ve said for a long time that this position is merely a snapshot in a down swing where the weight is transferring from the trailing to the leading side.

It is useful to show positions in a swing, but useless to try to teach “swing by position,” because it occurs so quickly.

Remember this real-time gif of my swing and I would invite you to try to make the motions by position:

Let me take a super slow-motion gif. of a driver swing of mine that illustrates the point of my squat which is not a squat:

You do see a motion that Ben Hogan imitators have turned into a meme, but as you can see, all I’m doing above is returning my raised leading heel to the ground and shifting my weight to that foot and leg.

The reason my squat move (along with that of every other person swinging properly in the Classic Golf Swing style) is different from the Modern Golf Swing’s squat move is because the entire motion is leveraged from the top by the shifting of the weight – if you never left the leading or left side, you can’t return to it, so you’re essentially stuck from the word “go.”

Even Tiger Woods, one of the greatest golfers ever, would get stuck because of his failure to get off his leading side, and when that happens, you get have to do something to get unstuck – and that means either a super hyperextension of the leading leg to keep the hips turning, a Flying Foot move, or both.

Lee Trevino “Squat” Move

I said that this is why the “Hogan Squat,” or the “Trevino Squat,” will not work for them. You can’t go home if you never left.

It’s not a magic move, anyone can do it, and you see that the squat move is just a changing of positions from the top to use the weight shift back to the leading foot to leverage the club down and through:

So, this is a far cry from the move that Modern Golf Swing practitioners make when they literally do squat to try to copy the Hogan/Trevino “sit down” move.

If you don’t let the hips turn and you twist the lower back to get a shoulder turn, or if you reverse-pivot (keeping your weight on your leading leg on the back pivot), you haven’t shifted your weight from that leading foot, and you have nowhere to go on the transition.

It really is that simple.