1P/2P/Austin/Hogan&co).įWIW, I am starting to believe that the main differentiating factor between all of them is whether one goes for a connected (to the chest) right upper arm in the BS or not and that what follows, matches and what doesn’t derives from that.įor example, I recently saw a Mahan sequence where he practised with a glove in the right armpit if he didn’t, or if Snedeker, Couples or Nicklaus did also practise that, we would probably never have heard of either. My personal experience is that most pros either seem to have the idea that there is one PGA manual model swing each person must be fit into, or that they try to fit you into a particular model they came up with or adopted (e.g. The problem though for many pros will be to figure out what matches and what doesn’t. IMHO required reading for every teaching pro (not to speak of the many major golf forum swing know-it-alls) and a prime candidate for insertion into the PGA teaching manual…

Zeroing out positions that look pretty on great players and long hitters end up hitting ZERO good shots. I am sure there are people out there that literally think if you could perfect all of those moves, you could hit the ball 500 yards. You can throw in Jack Hamm’s grunt if you’d like. No Dustin Johnson’s Bowed left wrist, Tiger’s locked left knee, JB Holmes short hinged backswing, Bubba’s straight rear knee, high hands and arm over run, Hogan’s Bent right elbow, Sergio’s 19 year old down load lag move…and certainly not my 1992/3 massive lateral move off the ball. The end result was I changed his setup to match his swing and viola, he started to hit it better and feel better. I tried to get him a little more vertical, to match his setup, he actually steepened the club even more than he did from the flat position. I had a client the other day who had a very flat shoulder turn and even flatter arm swing. There are very few rights and wrongs in the swing, what is more important is that your swing matches. It depends on body type, the amount of hip clearance…and duh…what happened in the swing up to there. Some Golfers will have bend at impact and others will be straight.

You can’t look at stop action positions in his swing and zero them out. Great ball striker, great swing, but I will be redundant yet again and kill two birds with one stone.

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