We may be approaching Peak Internet with regards to idiotic golf “instruction,” and I really feel for innocent dupes of these charlatans if we’re not.
I feel it’s too harsh to blame people who follow them and go on to injure themselves, but really, did you ever find anything of worth online that you got absolutely free?
You get what you paid for, usually – I give out free advice but it’s mostly limited to telling people what not to do, given the current state of golf instruction.
You’ll notice I’m not on YouTube or Instagram giving out free swing instruction, and you won’t, because if something is worth anything, people will be willing to pay for it. Or not, but that’s up to them.
Here is the latest offering from the tubes, and it’s not good – this clown is literally telling people to hyperextend their leading knee and roll onto their ankle just to get through the impact phase of the swing.
No, I’m not kidding:
He even says, if you can believe it, “the goal is to finish with your weight on the outside of your left heel, as opposed to on your toe or flat-footed…”
Are you kidding me?
Is it a master-trolling operation here? You want to roll your ankle rather than finish flat-footed?
So let me get this straight. This:
… is wrong, but this:
… is good?
I’ll say it again – you get what you pay for when trying to learn anything online that is worth paying for, in the form of lessons or consultation.
This absolute nuttery:
… saying you want to hyperextend your leading leg and roll onto your ankle… I don’t know how much further we can go with this before everything collapses into a black hole of BS Golf Instruction.
WAX Golf 
Got a camera? You’re a pro! How many tournaments has Mikey Tee Time played in? Won? Again, the gold standards are already in place – watch Nicklaus swing, Jones swing, Knudson swing, Moe Norman swing, and then tell me this contortion is the way to swing a golf club….Eeeesh! Sorry, Milo, I am sure you are a great guy and mean well. And yep, I’ll wager you can hit the ball a mile. But this is motion…come on, man!
This is it, Peter. As I said a while back, the internet is the worst thing to have happened to golf instruction.
I have only played in some amateur tournaments myself when I was starting my golf journey – HOWEVER, I have now spent twenty years studying and analyzing golf swings, and over a decade ago, I decided that any swing models I built would be based upon the greats of the Classic Era.
A few years back I even declared that I would build a model based solely upon my athletic intuition – fast-forward to the end of last winter when I came full circle and, on that research, determined that a swing model using Jack Nicklaus’ modified setup from 1963 was the optimal way to set up, and Hogan’s pivot action was the optimal way to pivot.
There is no reinventing the wheel. The Classic Golf Swing is and always has been the proper way to swing a golf club, and within that methodology, there is an optimal way to swing. I have looked through nearly two decades of my own swings and the only swing model I can really bear to watch is… the way I swung with Jack’s setup and Hogan’s pivot.
So, if I don’t know what I’m talking about, then Jack and Hogan didn’t know what they were doing.
You can take my word for it, or that of these internet jokers who have nothing more than a camera, an internet connection and a gullible audience.
Milo Lines worked with Mike Malaska, another former baseball player, before striking out on his own. Lines did play on a number of smaller professional tours and won more than a few tourneys. It is important to understand that winning tournaments spekas to the competitive ability of a player. We’ve seen any number of players win and with swings that hurt their bodies. Tiger is a prime example – Anthony Kim, and many others join him is sacrificing their bodies to win. Call me a fan, but what DJ shows is a swing method based upon a motion that does not ruin your body. A swing methodology that was used by the greatest golfers in history.
Looking forward to your new video, DJ!
Cheers, Peter! 🙂 It’s a little slow-going, as I keep having revelations on how to explain and even perform this model that has been around for years, but fresh insights and my daily blogging on subjects keep me revising what I’ve already worked on. I think this video will set two standards for my work – the shortest and yet the easiest to understand and implement.
Or at least, I hope! 😉
Now I know why these golf pros work out so much. They need to be in really good shape to put their bodies through these contorted movements.
That’s correct, Freddie – and the overwhelming irony of this is that in getting stronger, they are going to damage themselves even more than they would otherwise.