As I’m going over the tutorial for performing the now-standard pivot action for the MCS Golf Swing (Classic or Late Hogan, they’re the same from slightly different setups), I can’t help remarking upon how the model will change peoples’ view of the golf swing.

When I say that there is a so-much-simpler way to perform a pivot with complete lateral stability and effortless leverage, I am deadly serious, WAX Nation.

I’ve been doing this for twenty years, and when the curtains parted for me this year, first with figuring out how the Late Hogan pivot is performed, then when domino after domino fell when I began working out a simple pivot drill for the standard Classic Golf Swing, I began to wonder what on earth I’ve been doing these twenty years.

Not only myself – what has the golf world been doing in the decades since kinesiology became a field of study?

How are there people out there with degrees and PhDs in kinesiology related to golf?  It’s actually a thing, as Gemini informs:

A PhD in Kinesiology focusing on golf explores biomechanics, motor control, and exercise physiology to optimize swing efficiency, prevent injury and enhance performance.

As we watch the golf world get farther and farther away from proper and sound golf swing mechanics, I start to wonder what is even the use of a PhD program specializing in the golf swing.

I mean, look at the part I’ve bolded in the description – the Modern Golf Swing is the opposite of swing efficiency and we don’t even have to ask about the injuries that Modern Golf Swing practitioners incur, when hurting oneself swinging a golf club in the Classic Golf Swing era was practically unheard of.

Every time I click on an online golf article or video touting the kinesiology degree or PhD of a particular person, I find them working with people using the Modern Golf Swing principles of either reverse-pivoting (the Stack & Tilt type of pivot) or the lower back twisting to achieve a full shoulder turn.

It’s a nonstarter – the Modern Golf Swing is not mechanically sound and raises the risk of injury to the swinger, two violations of the expressly stated purposes of kinesiology and the golf swing.

People claim that the Classic Golf Swing was abandoned for the Modern Golf Swing because it has “too many moving parts,” which is absolutely ridiculous.

If anyone looks at this pivot action and concludes that there are too many moving parts:

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… then they don’t know what they’re talking about, plain and simple. Not only that, I don’t think that this is even the real reason for the change.

I say that the Modern Golf Swing was born when people got Ben Hogan’s swing mechanics completely wrong, starting with this video:

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… and then so-called swing “gurus” like Jim McLean and his odious “X-Factor” nonsense piled on and a very damaging and unworkable swing model was born.

It is so ridiculous that you can literally look at Ben Hogan swinging the club in this gif.:

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… and you can see the clear lifting of the leading heel on the back pivot as well as a free and full hip turn, but you will not find any Modern Golf Swing proponent who will admit that Hogan had a Classic Golf Swing action.

Not only that, Ben Hogan was a shadow of his prime after his car wreck, and this is the way he was swinging when he was winning everything on the planet similarly to his childhood associate Byron Nelson:

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Now, I would ask you to look at those two swings and you will see that, just as I describe the MCS pivot not having a “turning” action, Ben Hogan never turned away from the ball either – he pivoted his hips and the body followed, but there is no “turn.”

Do you know why you find Ben Hogan’s golf swing mesmerizing or hypnotic or as sweet a syrup, whatever superlative you wish to apply to it?

It’s because it was mechanically-correct, and his pivot action was a sublime action – you don’t really see the issues that trying to copy his swing would bring in, from the super-weak grip, the fanning open of the club face going back, the shift off of the ball and then back into it and the “swinging left” through impact.

What captures you is the beauty of his overall motion, and that’s because he had a beautiful Classic Golf Swing pivot action, where the hips and legs do all the work.

Now, perform that pivot action, or the standard Classic action he had in the 40s, from the optimal setup, with no lateral action and a stable head from address to impact, and you have the optimal golf swing pivot and golf swing.

Those of you who are working on your pivots using the “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video already have a head start on this, and as much as I liked the pivot drill I devised for that video with the Late Hogan pivot action, there will be no topping the progressive pivot exercise sequence I am working on to take you from the setup to the finish.