I came across something today that is absolutely heart-breaking – I don’t know who this young lady is, but she is literally destroying her body in real time just swinging a golf club.
This is criminal behavior, teaching these golf swings to young and unsuspecting golfers – there is no way on this planet that an athlete this young should be falling to pieces just from the way they swing a golf club.
I came across a YouTube short of Xander Schauffele’s driver swing, which is pretty good as it really only has one flaw – but that flaw leads to another flaw, and then a required compensation to avoid injury.
While listening to the USGA narrator, I heard yet another Modern Golf Swing myth that I have been hearing and seeing for years, so let’s take a look at it, shall we?
I’ve shown the old school Classic Golf Swing players here forever, and if you ever wonder why I’m so negative in my posts on the golf swing, it’s because I can’t sugarcoat or gloss over what I see online or on the television.
If I have already pointed out countless times how one should swing, I have nothing left to do but point out the glaringly obvious problems in the Modern Golf Swing universe, in an effort to steer people away from it.
I’ve been blessed in my life to not suffer from frequent or severe headaches (other than those from hangovers in my younger days), and that’s a good thing when looking at golf-related content online.
I hate headaches, and were I prone to them, I’m sure that I’d get them daily just consuming modern golf swing content.
I found a comment in a YouTube short that encapsulates the madness of the Modern Golf Swing in general, but also specifically the Flying Foot Syndrome.
Let me ask you, if you’ve been involved in any sports other than golf – as an “average person,” which I certainly am, what would you expect to be taught with regards to technique?
I keep going through swing clips that I’ve amassed in these years of swing research, and I can’t escape the nagging (and nearly maddening) reality that I had indeed figured out the optimal action for the golf swing ten years ago.
Notice that I said “optimal action,” which then leaves room for two things that I neglected to notice or fix, for the next seven years.
I keep coming back to it, and I keep seeing it – I had actually nailed the MCS Golf Swing setup – the likely optimal one, at least for myself, way back in 2015, which was the first year I had built a swing model not trying to copy anyone.
Sure, I of course had looked at the greatest swingers when studying their setups and swing actions, but when I actually got over the ball, I wasn’t trying to emulate Ben Hogan or Jack Nicklaus, Mike Austin or Dunaway – I was just getting over the ball and slamming it.
I talked the past week about the “Power Line,” which I call that straight line you can create from the joint of the leading shoulder down through the hands to the club head, and I’ll expand a little.
For the irons and other clubs except the Driver, it’s pretty simple – get that Power Line going vertically from shoulder to club head either past impact or just at impact (say, with a 3 or 5 metal when the ball is teed up) and you’re pretty much assured to have generated maximum leverage and power into the ball.
Of course, the old WAX Nation crew from the days of the Smash Golf blog and the DJ Watts Golf blog (I used to get bored of my sites and create new ones, but WAX Golf has been around since 2013) will remember this.
There are actually two pivot actions that I know of which are mechanically-correct – which one is optimal, I haven’t yet figured out, and each could be equally effective depending on the person using it.
I keep seeing his swings on Instagram and YouTube.
I am not going to tell you that I didn’t admire Fred Couples’ golf swing back in the day. It was smooth, powerful and many consider it the sweetest swing action ever.
I wouldn’t argue with any of the above – except that what was once a romance flick now looks to me like a horror movie, especially in slow motion takes.
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