Author Archives: DJ Watts

The MCS Video Is Nearly Completed… A Few More Days

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I apologize to everyone who’s been awaiting the new MCS Golf Swing video – work is progressing and I think I’ll have a finished product in the next few days, but it’s been an arduous process trying to distill everything to its simplest form.

I don’t think the golf swing is that complicated a motion, after twenty years of swing research and analysis – the issue for me is trying to find a balance between too simple (not enough information) and overlong and complicated – it may just seem simple after twenty years, which is the hazard I’m trying to avoid.

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A “Simple Tip” In Modern Golf – Good Grief

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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.

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Ben Hogan’s Setup Face-On – Perfect Illustration Of Why NOT To SWING Like Hogan.

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I’ve already highlighted in previous posts how people claiming to emulate Ben Hogan’s swing are so far from the goal, they’re not even in the stadium, first and foremost being the way Hogan set himself up to the ball with his various clubs.

We know that Hogan placed the ball on the exact same line from Driver to wedge, and that he adjusted his stance to angle himself from closed with the feet to wide open with the wedge, something that no one you have seen every does.

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Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Tom Weiskopf Were All Wrong – Ask This YouTube “Pro”

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I’m likely going to have to start paying royalties to Ben Affleck for this picture, because every time I try to even enjoy watching something on YouTube, something invariably comes across my feed to make me react the same way.

This one is a beauty – you literally have to discount just about every great player in professional golf history to be this wrong about something, but hey, it’s the internet, so you know what’s going to happen.

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The New MCS Video – Simple & Basic Steps To Building The Golf Swing

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“There’s No Fixed Fulcrum In The Golf Swing…”

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I nearly deleted my YouTube account when I read that comment regarding the golf swing this week.

Now, let me preface the following observations by stating that I don’t care what this golfer or that golfer does, because we are talking about optimal with regards to mechanics here.

So, how do I make a statement that refutes this statement that there is no fixed fulcrum in the golf swing?

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The Beauty Of The Neutral Setup – No Shifting Required

If you don’t notice much posting in the next couple of weeks, that’s just because I’m working on the upcoming MCS – The New Perfect Pivot golf swing video.

I’m calling it The New Perfect Pivot because I had already released a video titled “MCS – The Perfect Pivot” video back in 2016, but in that video, I was showcasing the still-great pivot action that Ben Hogan was using before his near-fatal wreck.

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Ben Hogan’s Book Was Also Incorrect (Illustration)

First – I was looking through my swing archives again today and found a tragedy unfolding in the summer of 2018, a year after I’d released the “E = MCS” swing video.

That tragedy, I’ve talked about before – I had figured out the optimal setup by 2015, and the Hogan “Perfect Pivot” action by 2017, but I kept investigating and researching and trying new swing stuff… all because of my right hand grip.

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My Hogan Pivot Action – Rear View

I have taken a swing of mine with the driver viewed from the rear aspect to illustrate my point about Ben Hogan’s later pivot being powerful even with a very low heel leading heel lift.

Because of the particular mechanical action of the hips and legs, you don’t get the high heel lift of, say Jack Nicklaus, but there is still a full hip turn and loads of leverage in the down swing action.

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3 Hogan Pivots – The Last One Was The Perfect One

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I was delighted to have found that Golf Digest video talking about Ben Hogan’s swing mechanics, because it contained a swing clip I’d never seen before.

It bridged the gap between Hogan’s early years on the PGA Tour with the early pivot action he performed then and his eventual “Perfect Pivot” action that everyone today knows by sight.

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