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Modern Golf Swingers – It’s Not That Fracking Hard…

It is absolutely unbelievable to me what I was seeing on YouTube before I took that week off blogging just to keep my sanity, and I’ve wondered before if we’re all just living in a really stupid simulation.

“Let’s just take all thought, reason and intelligence out of the golf swing world and see what happens…”

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IF I WERE To Swing With A Left-Biased Pivot…

There is something to be said about having a background in diverse athletic pursuits – I played everything from footy (soccer) to baseball to hockey to basketball to competing in track & field, all between the ages of 7 to 23 before swinging a golf club for the first time at age 25.

During that time, I obviously acquired something of an instinct for self-preservation, shall we say, or avoiding injury through proper technique and the drilling of such.

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The Left Arm Leverage Drop – Down The Line

I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post that John Daly used this left arm swing drill before playing every round when he was on Tour.

He wasn’t the type to warm up hitting dozens of balls with different clubs – he would get the feel of his swing for the day hitting a few wedges swinging left-arm only, and then head for the 1st tee.

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More Modern Golf Swing – “Let’s Just Swing On One Leg!”

I’ve got a wild one here, folks.  Fasten seatbelts.

This account has over 1 million followers and the clip I just watched has over 20K likes, and I don’t know what’s going on out there.

Here’s something that is so obvious that I feel silly even saying it – nearly 100% of people who play golf possess two working legs, and this is for those people – why would you swing on one leg when you have two of them?

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Compare Modern Swing Junk To Classic Motion (Proper)

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.

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It’s All Stack & Tilt Instruction Now

It’s becoming obvious to me that there has been a shift in the recent past from a right-biased golf swing setup, drifting ever more to the left (in a right-handed swing) to the leading side stack and tilt pivot method.

Everywhere I go, I start looking at the instruction and the instructor is invariably trying to solve the one problem (unsolvable) you have with this swing method – it is impossible to strike the ball without a severely descending strike angle (only good for wedges).

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I Don’t Know What To Title This Bryson D Lunacy

I could have titled this, “Bryson DeChambeau Shows Why Stacking & Tilting Isn’t It,” or perhaps “The Bad Scientist Strikes Again.”

Maybe even “Bryson Throws Same-Length Harpoons.”

How about “Bryson DeChambeau Quits Golf For Baseball?”

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“DJ, Why Are You So Negative?” Here’s One Reason

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.

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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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