I don’t know, perhaps I don’t understand English all that well (my first language was Quebecois French), because I am still trying to figure out what the “simple tip” was in the clip you’ll watch below.

At this point, I’m convinced that Modern Golf Swing instructors are purposefully teaching gobbledygook to confuse their students so that whatever they say, the student will shrug and do their best without knowing what on earth they’re supposed to do.

For example, this clip, watch how at 40 seconds, he is teaching the student how to absolutely destroy his leading knee joint if he really swings like this for years to come:

As far as the “simple tip” is concerned, I believe that it is a little heel lift with the leading foot so that the foot can be twisted with the heel closer to the target – in other words, squaring the leading foot even further.

The purpose?  No idea, really.  But nowhere in the clip do you see the student actually do that, and I’m guessing that he never does, because they don’t show his feet after that.

I have no idea what’s going on with this lesson, because the caption is a “simple tip,” yet all you hear for the duration of the clip is one technical thing after another.

Arm this, shoulder that, clubface closed 2-3 degrees, twist the heel closer to the target, retract the shoulder, loop this way, work that way…

So a person who has no clue how to swing a club, let’s say, will know intuitively what 2-3 degrees closed is, on the fly during an actual back pivot?

I would be very hard-pressed to find a difference between this swing motion and any other Squat & Dump & Hyperextend motion you see everywhere.

I guess that’s the point, because we’re moving beyond the X-Factor swing now after 30-40 years and going back to Stack & Tilt type swinging but with a Squat & Dump, Hyperextend & Swipe swing model.

This is mind-boggling.  But at least we aren’t teaching students how to shred their lower spines now?

Just how to destroy knee joints?

At one point, after a swing, you hear, “Money.”

Yes, absolutely.

A lot of money will change hands between students and this type of instructor.

Here’s another problem – telling students that they have to have certain angles with their arms – you have no way what angle your arms are when swinging, and can only practice and practice a certain feel, but guess what?

When you’re on the course, the first thing to leave you is “feel,” and I bet you’ve experienced that – under pressure or during a bad round, you could swear that you can’t even feel anything that you’re doing with regards to your body, and it’s like you’re swinging in the dark.

A proper golf swing involves getting into the proper position over the ball and then pivoting and reacting to that ball sitting there, so that if you were hitting balls in the dark, you’d have no problem as long as you could see the ball (glowing or with a small light shining on it).

If I didn’t know how to swing a club already, I certainly wouldn’t know how to after a lesson or a series of lessons like this.

I would however be well on the way to left knee replacement surgery.