So Lee basically hit a block shot? If so, it makes sense he would be consistent. Very little face rotation in a blocked shot.

Moe pulled his right leg back some with the driver, like Hogan.

Wayne,,,,,,,X factor Jim Mclean./Leadbetter Were the main culprits in my estimation. Cage that lower body,,,,Torque against the hips,,,,keep that ball between your legs and turn against it,,,,,,,Can you play that way,,,,,of course you can,,,,,at a high level,,,,yes,,,,,but what happens,,,,,,bad backs,,,,,Doc Middlecoff said in the early '90's Tiger would have back problems,,,,,,,,at 6'4" Faldo was a very short driver of the golfball,,,,,,all results of the 80's nonsense.....imho

This is similar to Lee Trevino's swing.

My brother caddied for him in the early 80's in a pro am at lansing country club

"A little bit of a temper." At Colonial one time, watching a fairway to my front, I heard behind me a quiet whop-whop-whop...... The noise came from a club Tom had thrown from the tee of the next hole. But I did get his autograph on a Colonial program after he'd finished the round.

What the phuck are you chewing on???

Thanks for all you crank out Wayne!

"Outward hand path"=extension

Bless you!

Planting the left foot back down to initiate the downswing allows the hands to drop inside, eliminating coming over the top. Allowing a bigger turn for more distance is just an added bonus. There, saved you 17 minutes of rambling.

Julius Boros died the day I was born. I think that’s why my dad always said it was the worst day of his life.

Swings great but analysis is matched in perfection by the great Wayne Defrancesco.

Tempo Tempo Tempo

Outstanding... simply outstanding.

Very good observation. I am a vocalist and golfer and can tell you that vocal instructors typically teach a vocal technique entirely different from the techniques of actual performers like Pavarotti and Corelli. It is strange that regardless of the genre this tends to be the case. My advice is do what the pros are doing. Listen to what the pros have to say. If instructors aren't saying what the pros are saying and doing....don't take their advice. You will be light years ahead doing so. Love the video. Thank you for posting! Steve from Ohio.

Great analysis! Low handicap players' primary focus should be on not getting stuck on the downswing in my very humble opinion. The understanding of the golf swing has made tremendous strides since the 80's, which players like Tom Watson incorporated. This improvement is not based on marginal variances in swing plane, but on connection between upper and lower body.

Duval’s swing was really complicated.

Bob had a good base to hit from…size 16 golf shoes

Appears the players are pointing butt end of club at ball as they start down. Also are they toe up to toe up as I was taught, right hand over left release. Thanks for your work, great content as usual.

At a driving range recently, I was told by an 88 year old retired golf professional that by my falling for the grounded left heel in the backswing that began being in vogue in the 1980s that I was not only giving up power, but it was wreaking havoc on my sequencing, causing me to fall back on my back foot on the downswing, resulting in the fat and thin golf shots I was hitting. He told me I could play with a grounded left foot, but timing would be probably be “day to day.” I admitted that was the case for me. He went on to say there are many different ways to swing a golf club and the only thing that matters is impact, but he showed me this video on his phone and suggested I try lifting my left heel on the backswing. My contact became more consistent and I felt I was able to shift my weight forward, moving the low point of my swing ahead of the ball, virtually eliminating my fat and thin misses. I think unless you are are professional or blessed with the flexibility needed to keep the lower body still in order to wind up the upper body or are blessed with exquisite timing, lifting the left heel on the backswing can cure a lot of swing issues.

I loved his show with Joe Foss. I wrote him a letter when I was a kid, and a month later Wilson Sporting Goods sent me a set of golf clubs, and I have been playing for the last fifty years.

Thank you for this great feature and bringing the move of De Jonge to my Attn. As a fellow natural ott mover it is great to see that it can be performed at the highest level. Love you whole channel.

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One of your favorites was Anthony Kim. He needs your help right now. Break his current swing down. Thanks for the content,

Watched Phil rip through a bucket at the US Open at Chambers Bay, and it was jaw dropping!! 20 really great players hitting and none of them had the pure athleticism of Mickelson. It was like a line of base model Vettes hitting until the Z06 started hitting, night and day. I’ve seen Jordan and Nolan Ryan it was that much of difference between Phil and the other guys. Watched Tiger but he was coming back from some injury and wasn’t going full throttle.

Allenby was worldno 1 ball stricke in his prime lot of people don’t know that

JT has basically perfected the old school junior swing. Tons of release and extension, but he has managed to make it consistent, largely due to his insane flexibility. His wedge swing shows he doesn't have to hit the ball hard all the time. Such a player's player.

the first big three were vardon, taylor and braid😡

Zacharias- transgender like Babe Ruth,!

Well, you have to look at his swing arc to truly discern the treasure that nature bestowed upon him, as his old swing coach might say. And, the key to his arc was that his long arms cut him a lot of slack and enabled him to bend his right elbow out at address and move it back in the direction that it pointed. This moved the club back very much on the inside. He then fully extended the extensors in his left hand, taking the club back as far on the inside as he could. When a player does this it then makes the wrists cup. For all the world he appears to bow his left wrist and then cup it. But, this would be virtually impossible. Extensor extension may seem very similar to wrist bow; but, it is very different. The loop at the top was just simply borne out of the fact that he pressed the index finger of his left hand towards the thumb pad of his right hand, to start his downswing.

Great to hear accurate discussion of how the shallowing happens. I.e., not through external rotation, but mainly through supination

I love the slight sway to the right. It works so well with my swing personally. I think of it as a little dance move to keep me consistent.

I wonder if Calvin took lessons from Count Yogi? His swing looks similar but not quite as fluid.

Wayne. If you look at swings from the 30s, 40s and 50s, most good players took the club back way inside which made them appear OTT coming down. Why do you think most of them took it back inside? It was too common for them all to stumble upon this by coincidence. Snead is my favourite BTW. Thanks.

I followed him, jack Nicholas and jerry pate on the Wednesday practice round at the 1976 British open, he outdrove Nicholas on every hole and hit every fairway, nicholas played the best score wise, pate was terrible, i think he was overawed.

Add Snead he is the poster child

Tiger reaches his maximum hep lowering much, much earlier than Hogan, I believe this could lead to timing issues on the downswing, and prevent Tiger’s boulders from rotating enough on downswing.

@1:43 the shaft looks in a pretty good position, but his shoulder are too closed. Which means his arms are out of synch with his shoulder and he needs to manipulate club or he is going to hit a push, or a hook if his hands try to square up the club too much. At the same point Hogan shoulders are much closer to square to target line. As Tiger’s caddie Steve Williams said Tiger never missed a shot on the range. And if you look at Tiger hitting balls on the range vs his swing on the course you will see a much softer transition at the top to the downswing, Tiger was much quicker at the top than on the range, and this would get his upper body to not synch up with his lower body.

Only one O.B. in his entire career. Also first or second in G.I.R. five times. Magic transition.

I was not expecting that, darn near wet myself.

“Free it up”. This is going to be my swing cue.

Wayne. Do you think this is a more natural way to swing the golf club?

You do notice the "player's players" or guys that are well rounded, especially with good short games, have more rotation near the bottom of the arc. It seems guys that rely less on body rotation squaring the face and more on hands and wrists, at least amongst pros, are actually accurate as well. I kinda wish teaching moved away from this hold release pattern and incorporated more of what Stricker does and what Tiger did when he was younger. Training the hands is probably the best lesson anyone can receive.

FLUSHER! What a wonderful & unique golf swing. He could pump it out there too when he was on tour, 320y in the air he said. Who cares if he was on heaps sh*t. It makes his performances even more remarkable. We all love a redemption story & hopefully we get to see it one day from him as a player and not a caddy with SJ Kim.

good analysis. his deep hips allowed him to hit high and straight with an in to out swing plane. he hit a driver up over the trees on the 9th at Metropolitan GC in Aust. showing off to Bernard Langer. persimmon driver dead straight like a missile on a wedge trajectory. unbelievable.

Absolute Gold! Lifting the left foot promotes a wider backswing and stomping down hard a moment before the downswing helps stabilize the torso to create a more whip like action following through. Result....more power. Also, many of the old pros you profiled bend their lead arm significantly at the top. Everyone nowadays (except Shawn Clement and Marcus Edblad) bend their arms significantly and they hit the ball long and solid.

Wish both of these guys were back. Watching golf on NBC now is worse than watching paint dry! Thanks Wayne

The flex in right knee decreases significantly after in the backswing.

Bingo! I figured out the same thing just messing around. This set up promotes a lot of freedom in the swing. There are quite a few great ball strikers that use an open stance. My problem was getting the left side out of the way - this solved that problem. Just needed to get a good path and you're all set. Works great for older golfers that have some game.