I’ve run across this account before and have just shaken my head over the stuff I see being peddled by a guy that could be me – older, grey beard and still swinging.
I can offer one redeeming factor in this channel, and it’s that this silver gent actually performs a Classic Golf Swing pivot with the lifting lead heel, which is the only reason he’s still able to swing hard at that age.
There’s no other word I can come up with to describe what I just watched.
An absolute fraud, and I’ll show you what I’m talking about.
If you watch the one-handed swing, this dude is pulling the club way outside-in and hard across the line to the left.
When I did the podcast with Josh Karp on Tom Weiskopf and other things golf, the two of us lamented the lack of historical knowledge in today’s game.
Talking about anything in golf before the Age Of Tiger usually has the other person’s eyes glazing over, because it seems that people who watch golf now think golf only started with the Big Cat.
Again, I’m not hating on TW here – he was the reason I bought my first range membership and lesson package the Monday following his ’97 Masters win.
Here is something I just fell across today while taking a little jaunt through YouTube.
You will all know our friendly baseball-player-turned-golf-instructor-teaching-a-baseball-swing, by now, so he needs no introduction.
The clip that I came across is the analysis of Jack Nicklaus’ driver swing clip from the 1963 Masters, one I’ve shown you all before.
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.
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.
I have said that no one out there who mythologizes Ben Hogan actually follows what he did, nor have they any clue what he was actually doing in his swing.
Here is yet another example of such, where the fellow here (again, seems a decent fellow) uses Ben Hogan’s image in his video’s thumbnail, then proceeds to get it completely opposite of what Hogan’s swing mechanics entailed.
You will all know by now my repeating the phrase, “only in golf,” or “all other sports,” perhaps ad nauseam, when comparing golf (negatively) to other sports.
It is not a mark of distinction to be held apart from the others – in life, we call someone like that a black sheep or outcast, or any other such uncomplimentary terms.
Nelly Korda is currently ranked 2nd on the Rolex World Rankings and has spent a considerable time at No. 1.
I didn’t know much about her except for the Korda name as she turned pro around the time I stopped watching televised golf much, so I decided to check her out after reading a headline about her withdrawal from an event with an injury two weeks ago.
I have the No. 1 reason why you should never watch YouTubers if you’re a Classic Golf Swinger, and it’s the only reason you really need.
That’s because of the same reason you shouldn’t try to swing exactly like Ben Hogan, even if you are a Classic Golf Swinger.
Emulate Hogan’s pivot, by all means – but leave the rest of his swing alone, because it will only come to grief due to his personal compensations and club manipulations, just as if you watch the YouTubers.
WAX Golf 