Category Archives: Classic Golf Swing

I Forget At Times That Not Everyone Hits It Long

A little levity on this Friday, perhaps?

The solitary nature of my swing research means that I’m usually lost in my own world of swing analysis for hours at a time hitting balls, and I tend to forget that A) There are other people at the range, unless they do something to bother me and B) Not everyone can drive the ball over 300 yards.

I get some chuckles at times when I’m back home making swing clips or just analyzing swing after swing looking for things to work on, and then I notice what others around me are doing while I’m working out.

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The “Power Line” At Impact – All In The Setup

The reason so many people struggle to maximize their power with the golf swing is likely because they’re not set up in the proper manner in which to do so.

It is also a reason you’ll find all sorts of professional players who contort themselves coming into impact – they manage to get the power they want to generate, but at a cost to consistency and/or physical health.

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DJ Hits Irons – Face On View – 9i, 7i, 5i

I’ve just uploaded some irons swings from the same date as the down the line swings I shot back in August of 2022.

Now, I had said that I loved the setup viewed down the line and the face-on, not so much – however, upon review, it’s not so much the setup that I didn’t love, rather the pivot action.

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DJ’s Iron Swings DTL – 9i, 7i, 5i

I have just uploaded a swing clip of myself hitting three irons down the line from August 16, 2022.

The setup, I have to say, is absolutely nailed, at least from the down the line view.

Face on, I am not in love with because of the work I’ve done in the intervening 2.5 years, but I have nothing to pick at with this view.

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DJ Blasting Driver – Face On & DTL (Aug ’22)

As promised, here are two drives from August of 2022 showing me swinging from a virtually optimal setup that will essentially comprise the setup I describe and provide instructions for in my upcoming video.

This is a neutral setup, meaning you can set up this way over the ball whether you are left or right-dominant in swinging.

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Beautiful Example Of Why The Grip Is So Important (Driving It Long & Straight)

Now, this applies of course to all clubs, not just the driver, but I have found in my archives a swing session in which my setup and grip are nearly perfect with regards to swinging optimally.

Sadly, I am not enamored of the actual pivot action, but I was still hitting my irons and driver beautifully long and straight on this day of tinkering with my setup.

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There Are Two Mechanically-Correct Pivot Actions

Of course, the old WAX Nation crew from the days of the Smash Golf blog and the DJ Watts Golf blog (I used to get bored of my sites and create new ones, but WAX Golf has been around since 2013) will remember this.

There are actually two pivot actions that I know of which are mechanically-correct – which one is optimal, I haven’t yet figured out, and each could be equally effective depending on the person using it.

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Fred Couples Proves A Swing Can Be Powerful – And Dangerous

I keep seeing his swings on Instagram and YouTube.

I am not going to tell you that I didn’t admire Fred Couples’ golf swing back in the day.  It was smooth, powerful and many consider it the sweetest swing action ever.

I wouldn’t argue with any of the above – except that what was once a romance flick now looks to me like a horror movie, especially in slow motion takes.

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330 Yard Drives at 52 Years Old – MCS Golf Swing Model

I have spent much of the past couple of years just focusing on swing models and tinkering, but as recently as 2022, I was still banging drives of 330 yards and upwards with off the rack drivers.

This is the proof that my model search ended a while ago, but it took my being satisfied that I had looked into everything I possibly could, at which point I began to look back through my swing archive (2010-2024 is a lot of clips) and break down exactly what the optimal swing model looks like.

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Found It – Watch DJ Nearly Nail Nicklaus’ Adjusted 1963 Setup & Hit A 7.5 Second Hang Time (With Video)

Update: I accidentally inserted previous Jack-DJ comparison pics, apologies. The correct pics have now been inserted /update

Here we go, WAX Nation – I actually kept looking through my archives and, incredibly, I found a video clip from just two days after the May 14, 2015 clips that I had gone over, with a setup that matches Jack Nicklaus’ adjusted setup even more, this one from May16th.

Not only did I get very close, I recorded myself hitting a drive right down the pipe with a hang-time of 7.5 seconds.

For reference, the average PGA Tour hang time for a drive is 6.3 seconds.

That’s a blast!

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