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You Can Blame Tiger Woods (Or His Coach) For the “Squat & Dump” Move (Updated)

Update: Since posting this, I have uncovered evidence that takes the Tiger Squat back to his Sean Foley days, and it has just gotten worse and worse over time. /update

I have been wracking my brain for the past few days, trying to think of where the Squat & Dump move came from.

I have seen the Tiger Woods Tai-Chi routine, of course, but it wasn’t until I went looking for some old Tiger Woods swings that I found it – and yes, you can lay the blame on this horrific move on him and his coach at the time.

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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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Modern Golf Re-Inventing The “Snead Squat” (Which Isn’t A Thing, By The Way)

I’ve been blessed in my life to not suffer from frequent or severe headaches (other than those from hangovers in my younger days), and that’s a good thing when looking at golf-related content online.

I hate headaches, and were I prone to them, I’m sure that I’d get them daily just consuming modern golf swing content.

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If The Average Person Can’t Do It – It’s Not Proper Mechanics

I found a comment in a YouTube short that encapsulates the madness of the Modern Golf Swing in general, but also specifically the Flying Foot Syndrome.

Let me ask you, if you’ve been involved in any sports other than golf – as an “average person,” which I certainly am, what would you expect to be taught with regards to technique?

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Golf.com & AI Inform Us That Grass Is Green… 3 Tips For Irons

There’s nothing wrong with helping people improve their golf swings.

It is a tad disingenuous however in my opinion to present old and established mechanics principles as new and a result of “the advent of new technologies in the sport,” which is an exact sentence from the article I just read.

Or worse – it means that these basic principles aren’t being taught to beginning golfers.

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More Jake Knapp – This Swing Is So Close…

We are talking a tweak to his setup (I mentioned how it was centered in the last post, so right-biased is the move) and one to his pivot action (Classic rather than Modern), and this swing would be as good as any you’ll see on Tour.

The smooth power he displays with that great leveraging action, just makes everything look so silky when you watch it replay.

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Aldrich Potgieter Drives It Long (661 Hole Reached In Two)

I’ll say first off that I am impressed with Aldrich Potgieter’s golf swing, even if it is a Modern Golf Swing version, and although his having reached a 661 Par 5 hole in two at the Mexico Open is impressive compared to what the other pros are doing, it shouldn’t be.

He hit a 331 yard drive and then smoked his Driver off the turf another 323 yards to reach the green, and it’s the second shot that impresses me.

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Gary Player Shows Which Foot To Release (The Step-Around Finish)

The older WAX Nation citizens here will of course remember Gary Player very well.  The man nick-named the Black Knight stood only 5’6″ or 168 cm tall, yet he won 9 majors between 1961-74, competing against Arnold Palmer and Prime Jack Nicklaus.

So, how did such a diminutive fellow compete against larger and heavier players during the persimmon driver and Classic Golf Swing era?

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How Silly Modern Golf Has Become

I don’t know how many of you played golf before the advent of the Modern Golf Swing nonsense probably around the ’80s or so.

I myself remember beginning to take an interest in golf in the summer of ’95 (I didn’t have my first lesson until April of ’97 when TW won the Masters and the very next day, I bought a range membership that came with five half-hour lessons).

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Bryson Turns A Swing Flaw Into Modern Golf Instruction

Note: Thanks to long time WAX Nation citizen Chief Cowpie for forwarding me the attached video clip.

This is really getting out of hand – we’ve gone from a time where golf analysts were clueless about mechanics and so tried to explain and excuse swing flaws in a positive manner – i.e. the flying foot became “using the ground” and “vertical lift,” but we’ve reached bottom.

Now, we’ve got Bryson DeChambeau taking a swing flaw – the jumping leading foot to avoid snapping oneself in half due to not releasing the trailing foot – has turned it into swing instruction.

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