Saturday musings – quite a mouthful, but all I’ve done in the title is use the titles of previous MCS Golf Swing videos post-2014.
The themes contained within the titles are still relevant, I might add – in fact, ever more so, and I’ll explain.
Tag Archives: Modern Golf Swing
There’s Too Much Bad Golf Online – I Can’t Fight It
Update: I will be listing any online swing instructors that people alert me to at the bottom of the posting /update
I took some time off blogging, as you’ve obviously noticed, and it wasn’t just that I’ve been spending summer time with the family during the school break.
I also just got so sick and tired of going through golf content online that I can no longer do it for the purposes of pointing out nonsense and garbage swing mechanics.
The Tragic Tale Of Tiger Woods (Nearly Hogan But Not Hogan)
As I’ve said, I never really looked very hard at Tiger Woods’ golf swing other than to look for things to tell others not to do, but the more I look at the younger Tiger Woods, the more tragic his story becomes.
It’s because he was likely taught a Ben Hogan swing model, but a Modern Golf Swing version of it, which made it not Ben Hogan’s swing because of the one thing that made Hogan the great swinger that he was.
And Of Course – So, If Tiger Woods Jumped Off A Cliff…
Yes, the entire Modern Golf Swing world would follow him, it unfortunately seems.
I didn’t even go looking for this – I was watching all of this ridiculous modern swing instruction that tells everyone that it’s not proper mechanics to shift one’s hips on the down swing, and it eventually fell from the sky as these things do.
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?
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.
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).
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?”
“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.
Thoughts On Aldrich Potgieter
I posted back in February about Aldrich Potgieter after he had set the golf world afire in reaching a 660 yard par 5 hole in two.
I had said at the time that it shouldn’t be that incredible with his youth, size and strength and the equipment they use today.
I still don’t see, looking at him without a chart to measure his height, how he is listed at 5’11” and 87 kg (191 lbs), but whatever.
WAX Golf 