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.
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 have already posted my opinion on the G.O.A.T. debate, and I say that the stats put that argument to rest, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
If you are fresh to the blog and haven’t already seen the discussion, I will happily link proof to you of a couple of things I’ve already highlighted.
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.
I had made this gif. from the found raw video tutorials I had unearthed last month but was feeling too ill to write a post about it.
Today is a little better, so I wanted to share what was watching and listening to, and how it mirrors Ben Hogan’s hand action drill nearly exactly.
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.
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.
Part of the reason this project is taking so long to complete is that I am still looking at things while I’m putting all of the components together.
I have in the past couple of days spent a good deal of time looking at the grip instruction in my previous videos, and finding them OK for showing the “standard neutral grip” that I have always advocated, but there’s something else I want to offer.
