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Gary Player Was Good – Don’t Listen To Him On The Swing

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We all know that Gary Player was a great golfer – he won 9 majors and was the first international golfer who jetted all around the world to play in tournaments back in the day.

His talent however didn’t translate to an ability to talk about the golf swing with any coherence, because the YouTube short I came across today was a study in “how can you swing so well and get it so wrong?”

As with so many great swingers, you’re better off watching them do it over listening to them talk about the swing, because even the greats like Player can be absolutely clueless about what they did in their swings.

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Cameron Young’s Late Hogan Pivot But The Analysis Is All Wrong

I watched an analysis of 3rd World Ranked Cameron Young’s golf swing from a couple of years back and noticed that he’s performing the Late Hogan pivot (very good), but his down swing is all wrong (mechanically), as was the analysis of his whole swing model.

It’s amazing that, to today, they’re still going with the “using the ground” nonsense with the Flying Foot (Trevor Immelman calls it a “floating foot) and trying to call it a power-enhancing move when there are two reasons for Cameron’s Flying Foot.

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Golf Digest Discovers That Grass Is Green (And The Modern Golf Swing Is Bad For Backs)

Update: I’ve edited this after mistakenly attributing Dr. Lafontaine’s statements to Michael Bamberger.  Fixed.

File this under “Are you kidding me?”

Michael Bamberger has apparently caught on to the fact that the Modern Golf Swing is bad for one’s back.  I’m shocked – shocked that there’s gambling going on in here…

I’m happy that someone is finally taking notice.  I mean, it’s only been 7 years since I posted on the shocking discovery based on scientific analysis.

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Rory McIlroy Is 36 Years Old (Back Injury)

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.

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YouTube Pro Says “Why Overloading Your Lead Leg Is Bad… So Watch Me Do That…”

I’ve run across this account before and have just shaken my head over the stuff I see being peddled by a guy that could be me – older, grey beard and still swinging.

I can offer one redeeming factor in this channel, and it’s that this silver gent actually performs a Classic Golf Swing pivot with the lifting lead heel, which is the only reason he’s still able to swing hard at that age.

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Watch This Fraud Teaching People How To Slice/Pull

There’s no other word I can come up with to describe what I just watched.

An absolute fraud, and I’ll show you what I’m talking about.

If you watch the one-handed swing, this dude is pulling the club way outside-in and hard across the line to the left.

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Re-Writing History With Tiger Woods

When I did the podcast with Josh Karp on Tom Weiskopf and other things golf, the two of us lamented the lack of historical knowledge in today’s game.

Talking about anything in golf before the Age Of Tiger usually has the other person’s eyes glazing over, because it seems that people who watch golf now think golf only started with the Big Cat.

Again, I’m not hating on TW here – he was the reason I bought my first range membership and lesson package the Monday following his ’97 Masters win.

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A “Simple Tip” In Modern Golf – Good Grief

I don’t know, perhaps I don’t understand English all that well (my first language was Quebecois French), because I am still trying to figure out what the “simple tip” was in the clip you’ll watch below.

At this point, I’m convinced that Modern Golf Swing instructors are purposefully teaching gobbledygook to confuse their students so that whatever they say, the student will shrug and do their best without knowing what on earth they’re supposed to do.

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Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Tom Weiskopf Were All Wrong – Ask This YouTube “Pro”

I’m likely going to have to start paying royalties to Ben Affleck for this picture, because every time I try to even enjoy watching something on YouTube, something invariably comes across my feed to make me react the same way.

This one is a beauty – you literally have to discount just about every great player in professional golf history to be this wrong about something, but hey, it’s the internet, so you know what’s going to happen.

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Once Again, The Hogan Meme Rears Its Head With The Instruction To “Do The Opposite”

I have said that no one out there who mythologizes Ben Hogan actually follows what he did, nor have they any clue what he was actually doing in his swing.

Here is yet another example of such, where the fellow here (again, seems a decent fellow) uses Ben Hogan’s image in his video’s thumbnail, then proceeds to get it completely opposite of what Hogan’s swing mechanics entailed.

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