Category Archives: Classic Golf Swing

Apologies To Scottie Scheffler (The WAX Golf Curse Strikes Again)

I hate when this happens – for years, whenever I have singled out individual swingers in a post on unsound mechanics, they uncannily come down with an injury within weeks.

The reason I rail against unsound golf swings and mechanically-incorrect moves is because I’m trying to get people to avoid hurting themselves simply swinging a golf club.

I wasn’t watching yesterday’s Tour event, but a WAX Nation citizen (thanks, Chief!) alerted me to something that happened to Scottie Scheffler during his round.

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Why My 2015 Swing Was It – Compare To Jack & Rory

No two people will ever look exactly alike swinging a golf swing, unless they are identical twins, I imagine.

However, I just decided on a whim to compare my 2015 driver setup from May of that year to Jack Nicklaus’ 1963 setup and to one of Rory McIlroy’s from the last couple of years, and the similarities are striking, especially since I had never tried to emulate either of them in my swinging.

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Confirmed – The MCS Golf Swing Prototype

I will be releasing a golf swing video this summer, hopefully by late June but no later than July if all goes well with the shooting and production.

I don’t currently have any brand new swings to show to illustrate the MCS Golf Swing (of the Classic Golf Swing type) model as it will look exactly, due to weather and the late openings of the facilities in my area, but I have found some swings from 2015 that are nearly identical to what you’ll see.

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Heel Spinners – Try The Kettle Bell Test

While I would never blame or mock amateur golfers who have something like a heel spin in their mechanical action, it is a wonder to me that there are professional golfers out there who still do it.

I have been thinking about how to illustrate that the heel spin is from improper mechanics and not some physical impediment as many people with flaws in their swings claim to have, and this could be the one.

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Nicklaus Was Nearly Optimal But Ben Hogan Was Poetry

Let’s rinse the sour taste of the past few posts from our collective palates, shall we?

I’ve talked at length about how Jack Nicklaus’ swing model in 1963 was nearly optimal, but Ben Hogan has always been poetry in motion for me.

It is incredible to me that the videos on YouTube of the great Classic Golf Swing era don’t have so many more views, because these gents knew how to swing.

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Basic Kinesiology – Swinging Or Throwing Motion

This is something so basic that it’s incredible to find myself writing this post today.  It’s simple kinesiology and I’ve dealt with the subject before when comparing other athletic motions, but here we go.

The Flying Foot Syndrome is destroying the leading knee joints of many who perform this move because it is not mechanically sound.

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Right On Cue – Rory McIlroy Proves My Second Point

I had commented a while back and mentioned again that in addition to the internet being a problem with Modern Golf, the lack of knowledge of kinesiology among the pundits, the former and current players was also a problem.

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A Tiger Woods Clip Shows The Problem With Modern Golf – Internet Know-Nothings

I just came out of a Tiger Woods YouTube clip from 2020, and man am I depressed by the state of golf today.

I have wondered for a while what is wrong with Modern Golf, and I said recently in a comment that the proliferation of the internet in the 90’s was part of the problem.

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A Perfect Golf Swing Doesn’t Destroy Your Body Pt II

I came across something today that is absolutely heart-breaking – I don’t know who this young lady is, but she is literally destroying her body in real time just swinging a golf club.

This is criminal behavior, teaching these golf swings to young and unsuspecting golfers – there is no way on this planet that an athlete this young should be falling to pieces just from the way they swing a golf club.

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Xander Schauffele Decent Swing & USGA Swing Myth

I came across a YouTube short of Xander Schauffele’s driver swing, which is pretty good as it really only has one flaw – but that flaw leads to another flaw, and then a required compensation to avoid injury.

While listening to the USGA narrator, I heard yet another Modern Golf Swing myth that I have been hearing and seeing for years, so let’s take a look at it, shall we?

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