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When I Nearly Drove A 363 Yard Hole

Originally posted on the Smash Golf blog October 22, 2009 – I have work to do and pulled this out of my archives.

For those interested, I used my KZG PFT-333 driver, 9 degrees loft, regular flex shaft (I play XS but it was a gifted driver that I could absolutely smash, so I used it until I caved the face in the spring of 2010.

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I have written already about a drive I hit on this hole recently, when I nearly drove the 363 yard 18th at my golf course. Today, the temperature was cold and falling and the course was wet from two days of rain.

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I’ve Already Made “The” MCS Golf Swing Video – Here It Comes Again

I have been going through my MCS swing videos, most particularly the EMCS series from 2017 and 2018, and I have to say, I can’t find much that has changed in my swing theory other than my own interpretation and execution of  the mechanics.

I had actually taken the videos down from sale because I was unhappy with my own swings in the videos, but the content itself .

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The Knees Are The Shock Absorbers – Don’t Hyperextend The Leading Leg

One of the problems you find in the modern golf swing methodology is that whole “straightening the left leg” concept, of course, ostensibly for generating leverage and thus speed and power in the impact phase.

This is leading to a generation of golfers who will suffer from knee ailments as they inflict incremental damage on that leading knee with the hyper-extension you see in many power swingers. Continue reading →

Jack Nicklaus Called The Modern Golf Swing “Hogwash” In 1974

I originally posted this about Jack Nicklaus back in 2016 after KidCharlemagne had sent me the quote, and Scott from Arizona sent me a screenshot of the actual page taken from Nicklaus’ book “Golf My Way,” so why not re-post?

With all of our talk about Ben Hogan “experts” creating the Modern Golf Swing based on misinterpreting his mechanics and the explanations thereof, here is the G.O.A.T. telling it like it is, probably a few years after that infamous Ben Hogan video began misleading people the golfing world over.

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My Mizuno MP-14 Forged Irons (Beauties)

Update: Originally published June 3rd, 2019 – I had put this post into archive but figured it is relevant to the earlier post today about equipment. 

So, yes, I have blade irons myself and have no problem hitting them. /update

I received a pleasant surprise gift from The Welshman a couple of weeks back on my last session at the range, when we got together to hit some balls together after the long winter.

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Forget Better Swing Mechanics – Get Easier Clubs To Hit!

Blame the Modern Golf Swing for this, to be sure.

An absolutely depressing piece of golf journalism greeted me this morning, and I don’t know where the game is going – one day, they’ll be loading balls into mortar tubes and not having to hit them at all, it seems.

The Golf Digest article at hand, “For Most, The 4 Iron Is Dead,” by E. Michael Johnson, should have the legends rolling in their grave.

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Lee Trevino’s “Hogan” Drop Move & Why Today’s Pros Can’t Do It

If you don’t know who Lee Trevino was, then I blame the Modern Golf Swing world for forsaking all of the Classic Golf Swing greats who came before it, because that would be a real shame.

Trevino is another golfing legend from Texas, and he was so good in his prime that Ben Hogan didn’t trust anyone else to hit his prototype clubs when he was running the Ben Hogan golf club company.

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How Leverage Is Lost – Breaking The Kinetic Chain

I had a video out a few years back that focused on the Kinetic Chain, which is the connection of body parts one uses to produce leverage in the golf swing.

The reason that Modern Golf Swing models are all faulty and mechanically unsound because they break the chain when they involve restricting the hip turn and twisting the lower body against the restricted lower body to achieve the shoulder turn.

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More Confusion On Hogan & Obvious Oversights

It’s amazing what you find online just looking at random clips, but I have just found an old Ben Hogan television demonstration of a swing drill and suddenly, everything makes sense.

The thing I don’t get is that before he even performs his drill in the way he does, his actual golf swing is widely available to watch, so I don’t understand how everyone in the world of golf today fails to see what he was doing in his actual swings and how they so badly interpret it.

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A Three Minute Indictment Of The Modern Golf Swing & Hogan “Experts”

I have recounted to you all the lesson I learned over a decade ago, which is to never listen to or take another’s word for something if what they are saying can be independently checked.

For years, I believed (because it was all you heard about him) that Ben Hogan was a restricted-hip swinger and I’ve laid out for you all the theory I have that he was unwittingly the father of the Modern Golf Swing when people with eyes couldn’t see what he was doing.

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