In looking through my Mike Dunaway archives, I found an iron swing from his video “World’s Best Driver,” and one of his swings gives you the idea of how he’d have looked swinging with no head shift on the back pivot.

I also found an iron swing from the rear with him shifting into a bias before swinging, which then stabilized the head on the back pivot.

Why he didn’t just set up like this to begin with, I’ll never know.

I think I now understand why he struggled in his PGA Seniors Tour attempt (he talked about blading a wedge onto the rocks over the green at Pebble Beach after a massive drive), because even shooting this particular video, his setup was all over the place from straight center bias to nearly full right.

I’m not bashing him in the least, as you all know how much I admire his ball-striking prowess, just pointing out my observations watching the video.

So here is his nearly motionless head pivot with the iron:

I mean, you could argue that there’s no shift at all, but there is smidgen of one from the beginning of the back pivot to halfway back.

On the rear view, he was nearly center-biased and then began to shift to his right before beginning the pivot, with again a little shift when in motion before stabilizing:

Another odd thing he says in his “Coaching Point” section on the stance is that he sets up with his toes crimped (feeling as though you’re digging your toes into the ground or the bottom of the shoe), so that he can freely detach his heels – but he never detaches the leading heel on the back pivot, and he doesn’t lift the trailing heel until impact.

Again, it seems he was teaching from Mike Austin’s playbook while swinging his own swing as in all the other videos.

I don’t know about you all, but doesn’t that look so much better than starting from a centered bias and shifting to the right on the back pivot?

I keep finding things re-watching these videos years later.

What can I say, I love looking at swings that don’t make me gag.

Dunaway had a sweet action, head shift and all, and it would have been even sweeter with a stable head.