I have come to suspect that the main reason people struggle to learn anything from golf swing instructional videos is simply that they are too long.
I have been watching more videos, mine included, on the swing, and there is just too much talking and digression – I’m being brutally critical here, and I’m not saying that they aren’t any good, just that they are too long.
Taking a break from the video-editing – Golf Digest just gave me an excellent article to use to point out how Modern Golf Swing instruction is just… pretty much useless.
Instead of giving some really good advice (in my opinion), they are compounding the problem by not really explaining what causes a slice.
It is not, as they state, the simple matter of one’s club face being open at impact – in fact, club path has a good deal more to do with slicing that the simple open face.
I’ve been working on the video to get it out this month (don’t jinx me now, fates), and am tentatively pleased to inform that I may be swinging again this spring or early summer.
I have talked about this mysterious left shoulder ailment that appeared sometime last year, where I went to make some swings after not having swung in days, and felt this pain or severe soreness in my left shoulder joint and in the muscles in my upper arm.
How critical is it?
Let me tell you all how critical it is – I essentially completed my swing research could have perfected my own golf swing research in 2015-16 if only I had taken the care to look at and correct my own grip.
I wasn’t aware of this development until The Welshman sent me a message about it yesterday, but my response to him was, “it was only a matter of time, the way he twists his lower back…”
That development was a long-expected one for me, because even while Rory McIlroy has at times embraced the notion of not nailing his leading foot down on the back pivot, he has always insisted on twisting his lower back like a pretzel, and that was never going to end well, unfortunately.
“How difficult should it be to learn (or to explain) a proper golf swing?”
I am refraining from giving constant updates with regards to the video project because things keep evolving in the process.
I think I’ve nailed a part of something (and because I have OCD, I keep re-visiting things), only to have a better way (I believe) to explain or show something, and revising begins anew.
In days past, I just put my head down and went through it all, and I invariably ended up hating all of my videos because I thought they could have been better.
This article may just be another thinly-veiled Golf Digest article promoting something (usually lessons, this one with a teaching pro and simulator session), but the visual chart it includes is one people may find useful.
The reason I suspect an ulterior motive is because, in the article, the writer Alex Myers purports to be on a one-year mission of daily training, practice and playing, but somehow didn’t already know what causes a hook?
Says he: Continue reading
It is counter-intuitive to think, if you’re not used to the concept, that you swing from something other than your arms, but that is reality.
The arms are the only links to the club, of course, but they arms are swinging from the shoulders, and the mid-point of the shoulders is really the point around which the swing turns.
I took a look at what I had completed with the new video, after I recovered from my flu and things settled down with the holidays, and I just wasn’t happy – I am simply a bit of a perfectionist at the worst of times.
What I found was that much of the explanation portion of the previous videos wasn’t what I want to say NOW about the golf swing, and searching through endless previous footage of the tutorials was ending with my having to “make do” with things that I thought or felt I would explain differently were I to actually shoot a new video.
First, I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and success in 2026!
My apologies for the prolonged absence – the holiday season has been packed with family and friend events, hosting people, etc – I haven’t had any time to write, and I will be taking a new direction as well in the New Year.
When I have completed this endlessly-delayed MCS Golf Swing video, I will no longer look through and post about the wrong and silly things I see on YouTube – I’ve no longer any appetite to consume the brain-rot Modern Golf Swing “instruction” contained therein.
WAX Golf 