You all know that I can’t bear to wear golf on television, haven’t been able to since roughly the time I began to refine the MCS Golf Swing model a year from its creation, which would make that around 2015.
After that summer, I began to watch less and less televised golf until I pretty much stopped watching altogether (aside from the odd major weekend when interesting characters were at play, such as this year’s Masters), because of the awful technique displayed by the world’s best players.
I want to make a point right off the bat that I’m not trying to manipulate the club here the way you see the Modern Golf Swing instructors telling their students to “hold off” the release through impact.
This is why pro golfers with plenty of athleticism don’t have any power – when you “hold off” the release, you have already slowed the natural momentum and speed of the club at the bottom, and so you have lost natural speed and therefor power.
I have talked about the no-turn down swing for a while, but let’s take a look at it from the down the line perspective.
When I say that there is no turn in the down swing until momentum of the arms and club pull you around, I mean precisely that.
I have paused the down swing in the slo-mo just past impact, a fraction of a second before my right arm reaches full extension, and you can see that at that point, my shoulders are still pretty square to the target line.
I deal with my title statement about other peoples’ swings, here is the thing about models.
From my experience in other sports like hockey, baseball, track & field, basketball etc., I know (outside of the golf world, apparently not so much inside it) that there is such a thing as kinesiology.
There is also a reason I am so harsh on the Modern Golf Swing and its proponents – they violate the principal tenets of kinesiology.
Even Rory McIlroy, one of the best players on the planet, has to manipulate his down swing because of how the Modern Golf Swing has lost its natural leverage, which is not a problem with the Classic Golf Swing.
My issues with the golf swing never had anything to do with leverage, because I have almost always swung with a Classic Golf Swing motion.
There is one thing that essential to comprehend and to believe in, for one to achieve one’s utmost potential in swinging a golf club with both precision and power, and to swing “in the box,” with no lateral motion.
That thing, friends, is to comprehend and believe the golf swing effort is over at the swing bottom.
I used to say the “the swing is over at the bottom,” but that then conjures the image for many people that “the swing stops at the swing bottom,” as if swinging into a wall or impact bag.
They are teaching absolute nonsense, and I nearly choked on my tongue when, at the beginning of the below clip, the student performed a “Turn & Swipe” motion with his head moving laterally (a big sway and turn and swipe), to have the “instructor” (I use this term far too loosely) say, “that’s how you turn your hips!”
Oh, do tell, instructor!
You turn your hips by swaying to the target rather than sliding to the target (both being garbage mechanics)?
Golfer are now being taught that you can’t turn in a golf swing, that you have to harpoon because turning will somehow mess up what you’re doing.
Of course, if you’re swinging or being taught to swing in the Modern Golf Swing style of swinging over the leading foot, then turning is the least of your problems.
I was lamenting to Mrs. DJ that I can’t seem to write positive posts when it comes to the golf swing, which is a change from years ago.
It seems that every time I put my fingers on the keyboard, what comes out is going to end up being negative, but I have just figured out why that is.
I was conducting swing research in the early years and, until I built my own swing model using Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan, I was looking at so many great golfers and swings from the Classic Golf Swing era.
I was doing my usual tour through YouTube yesterday and posted about how the art or knowledge of the natural swing has been lost – it’s even more than that – the Modern Golf Swing has evolved.
It seems to me that lesson of the X-Factor wrecking lower backs has been taken partially to heart by the Modern Golf Swing world, and the swing theory has evolved, or devolved, if you will – back to the days of Stack & Tilt.
WAX Golf 