I am working diligently on my shoulder rehabbing, because I am behind you – those of you who have downloaded the “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video are ahead of me.
Ahead in what?
In creating that perfect combination of a Jack Nicklaus-type grip with the MCS setup and Ben Hogan’s last silky pivot action that mesmerized the world when he won 3 majors in 1953.
Let’s go over the history of this evolution in the MCS Golf Swing.
Update: I’ve edited this after mistakenly attributing Dr. Lafontaine’s statements to Michael Bamberger. Fixed.
File this under “Are you kidding me?”
Michael Bamberger has apparently caught on to the fact that the Modern Golf Swing is bad for one’s back. I’m shocked – shocked that there’s gambling going on in here…
I’m happy that someone is finally taking notice. I mean, it’s only been 7 years since I posted on the shocking discovery based on scientific analysis.
I wasn’t aware of this development until The Welshman sent me a message about it yesterday, but my response to him was, “it was only a matter of time, the way he twists his lower back…”
That development was a long-expected one for me, because even while Rory McIlroy has at times embraced the notion of not nailing his leading foot down on the back pivot, he has always insisted on twisting his lower back like a pretzel, and that was never going to end well, unfortunately.
It is counter-intuitive to think, if you’re not used to the concept, that you swing from something other than your arms, but that is reality.
The arms are the only links to the club, of course, but they arms are swinging from the shoulders, and the mid-point of the shoulders is really the point around which the swing turns.
First, I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and success in 2026!
My apologies for the prolonged absence – the holiday season has been packed with family and friend events, hosting people, etc – I haven’t had any time to write, and I will be taking a new direction as well in the New Year.
When I have completed this endlessly-delayed MCS Golf Swing video, I will no longer look through and post about the wrong and silly things I see on YouTube – I’ve no longer any appetite to consume the brain-rot Modern Golf Swing “instruction” contained therein.
I had made this gif. from the found raw video tutorials I had unearthed last month but was feeling too ill to write a post about it.
Today is a little better, so I wanted to share what was watching and listening to, and how it mirrors Ben Hogan’s hand action drill nearly exactly.
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.
Part of the reason this project is taking so long to complete is that I am still looking at things while I’m putting all of the components together.
I have in the past couple of days spent a good deal of time looking at the grip instruction in my previous videos, and finding them OK for showing the “standard neutral grip” that I have always advocated, but there’s something else I want to offer.
Here is the corresponding one-armed swing action to go with yesterday’s right-arm motion.
Again, you see that, with a stable swing-point, you take out a large degree of risk of mis-hitting the ball with a proper motion.
I have been going through the raw video footage from past projects which I discovered on an old hard drive packed away in my storage, and found yet another gem that I would definitely have included if I had shot a brand new video last summer.
As you all know, the only reason I didn’t was because I developed a mysterious and chronic pain in my left shoulder around March (I wasn’t even swinging at the time), which I discovered when I went to swing my training aid after a couple or few days off.
WAX Golf 