I have spent much of the past couple of years just focusing on swing models and tinkering, but as recently as 2022, I was still banging drives of 330 yards and upwards with off the rack drivers.
This is the proof that my model search ended a while ago, but it took my being satisfied that I had looked into everything I possibly could, at which point I began to look back through my swing archive (2010-2024 is a lot of clips) and break down exactly what the optimal swing model looks like.
Once again, Jack Nicklaus has come to the table with his close-to-optimal setup from 1963, as he does time after time.
Once again, let me say this – there are endless ways to swing a golf club and probably countless variations that are pretty good – but there is only one optimal way to swing, and you’ll see what I mean below.
I’ve looked for years at Jack Nicklaus’ golf swing, going so far as to say that the Golden Bear had the closest setup to an optimal one that I could find.
Close behind Jack though, and one of the first swingers I ever looked at, is Ben Hogan. The problem I always had with Hogan was all of the anti-hook features built into his swing, features that probably created an army of slicers after he released his “5 Lessons” book.
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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