I made a little swing gif. that easily shows how a mechanically-correct golf swing creates effortless leverage where the Modern Golf Swing fails miserably.
Swingers today are being taught the ridiculous reverse-pivot where the weight never really leaves the leading foot, followed by a “drop” with the arms and finally the turn and swipe action through the bottom.
All the while, you have the head dropping and shifting backwards from the target, the leading leg hyper-extending and the foot either rolling on the ankle or flying around in the air, all for the purpose, apparently, of swinging a golf club.
Watch a bit of this following “lesson” on how to begin the down swing, and you would think that telling people that “it took Tiger a year to perfect this” under Butch Harmon should have been a hint that this is not the proper way to swing:
All of these problems because of that little “don’t let the leading heel come up” commandment of the modern game, so now instead of twisting one’s lower back like a tea towel (I guess, in a way, things are changing), you have the reverse-pivot and the problems this method causes.
Now, they’re getting the full shoulder without twisting the lower back, but they’ve not moved off the leading foot and they’re as stuck as a fat cat trying to get through a narrow opening:
Now, watch the leverage leverage that brings the arms and hands (and the club) down naturally and irresistibly with the simple transfer of the weight from the trailing back to the leading foot on the transition with a proper, Classic Golf Swing:
All I’ve done is begin to transfer my weight to the leading foot, and this transfer continues all the way to the finish, and there is your leverage.
I’ve demonstrated this by having someone take hold of my hands at the top of the back pivot and saying, “Now, all I’m going to do is start to transfer my weight to the leading foot…” and they couldn’t keep my hands from dropping due to the pure leverage.
So this:
… with all due respect, is a nonsensical drill for the golf swing, because you’re not swinging a baseball bat at a ball, you’re swinging down at a ball sitting on the ground or tee.
You would do much better to hold a pull-down bar in the position you’d have at the top:
… and using your weight transfer to pull the bar or handle down to the half-way position.
It’s in the hips and legs, and not the twisting, jumping, rolling and hyperextension type – it’s the hips and legs supporting and transferring the body’s weight from the trailing to the leading foot.
You do not drop the arms and then turn.
Ben Hogan, the god of the Modern Golf Swing crowd, would have told them the same thing:
You see that action? Hogan even said so:
But they won’t listen to him, or even watch him – they’re too busy watching and listening to the charlatans and snake-oil salesmen who will tell them what Hogan was doing, even when he was doing nothing of the kind.
I prefer to tell you, and then let you see and hear for yourself, what the greatest swingers were doing, in their own words when I can find them.
WAX Golf 
haha some of those golf specific exercises make me wonder just how heavy the clubs they use are. What would the slim slamming Snead make of such people?
He would wonder what sport these people are training for, because it couldn’t be golf.
The only golf-specific exercise anyone needs is to swing a golf club. If it’s a training aid in the home, or a heavy club out on the range, the only exercise needed is the one that has one making a proper back pivot, transition and down swing.
The repeated swinging trains the muscles, and a heavy club teaches one how to leverage it with the pivot and transition weight shift. If one has a kettle-bell, it isn’t a club but will also help train the swing action with weight shift instead of brute force muscles.
Anything else is a waste of money.
I second all of this. I started using a weighted club at home (due to how the weather is most of the year, and so I don’t break anything in the house), and It gave me the proper feel for leverage.
I could go months without hitting balls and then pick up right where I left off, by swinging my swing stick indoors.
Every day, I would swing it while watching the telly or taking a break from the computer.
I once took 8 months off and the first day back, still striping the ball and driving it over 300 – and this in my 50s.
I cringe when I see instruction at my club being taught outside of the short game (which by it’s nature is limited lol). Once you see the light and what the darkness is you can’t see things the same again. It’s like being John Nada, and the aliens are the PGA haha
Now you know why I don’t watch golf on television.
There’s only so much my brain can take, and watching swings about which to post, on YouTube, is about all I can handle. Any more and I’m dreaming of the good old days of the Spanish Inquisition.
Outside of the last 2 days of the Masters and The Open I don’t watch any golf on TV, either. The Shell games and old golf (up to when Tom Watson retired) on the other hand? All the time lol
DJ
on the downswing does the body move the arms down with the pivot -weight shift ? I struggle with the downswing.
Hey msattler – sorry about the delay in returning your email, I will get back to you ASAP.
And yes, the proper pivot gets the arms to the top with connection to the body, so that the hips turning and moving toward the target pull the arms and hands down (with the club).
Talk soon.
DJ