What appeared to be another catastrophe is not as bad as I feared – I came down with the nasty flu variant in our area last week (hence the lack of posting recently), which is bound to happen with two college-aged kids and one in high school picking up bugs on campus.
I have chronic bronchitis and a pre-asthmatic condition, so when I get the flu, it puts me right out and I’ve not been able to do much for a few days while I try to rest and recover.
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.
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.
Here is the corresponding one-armed swing action to go with yesterday’s right-arm motion.
Again, you see that, with a stable swing-point, you take out a large degree of risk of mis-hitting the ball with a proper motion.
I have been going through the raw video footage from past projects which I discovered on an old hard drive packed away in my storage, and found yet another gem that I would definitely have included if I had shot a brand new video last summer.
As you all know, the only reason I didn’t was because I developed a mysterious and chronic pain in my left shoulder around March (I wasn’t even swinging at the time), which I discovered when I went to swing my training aid after a couple or few days off.
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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I nearly deleted my YouTube account when I read that comment regarding the golf swing this week.
Now, let me preface the following observations by stating that I don’t care what this golfer or that golfer does, because we are talking about optimal with regards to mechanics here.
So, how do I make a statement that refutes this statement that there is no fixed fulcrum in the golf swing?
If you don’t notice much posting in the next couple of weeks, that’s just because I’m working on the upcoming MCS – The New Perfect Pivot golf swing video.
I’m calling it The New Perfect Pivot because I had already released a video titled “MCS – The Perfect Pivot” video back in 2016, but in that video, I was showcasing the still-great pivot action that Ben Hogan was using before his near-fatal wreck.
I have taken a swing of mine with the driver viewed from the rear aspect to illustrate my point about Ben Hogan’s later pivot being powerful even with a very low heel leading heel lift.
Because of the particular mechanical action of the hips and legs, you don’t get the high heel lift of, say Jack Nicklaus, but there is still a full hip turn and loads of leverage in the down swing action.
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