The most important and valuable thing I learned from his book is the importance of what you do before you start your swing. He said if he got all those things right even a so-so swing would get him on the green.

The thing I admire most about Jack is he puts family first in his life. Did I mention he is the GOAT?

This guy fucks!!!!

1994 wasn’t that long ago. Why does this seem like ancient history? 😅 Things were so much more simple. Everyone is just watching, not a cell phone in sight.

Love these vintage, no BS, instruction vids from the GOAT. How cool would it be to recreate them with modern shot tracking and high definition?

palmer is the butter knife and nicklaus is a bazooka

The best explanation thanks JN

Re finger/palm grip: Jack says grip it diagonally across the palm of the left hand, but 0:46 looks like it's in the base of the left fingers. Why? Because you wrap your hand around the grip, so both fingers and palm are both on the grip. All left hand grips are palm + finger not either/or.

This is an absolute treasure, not just of golf but of America.

Best player and teacher ever. This is The Mt Sinai of Golf

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No BS - just the best understanding and explanation. Not for those who want miracles.

Is it any wonder that Jack Nicklaus is golfs greatest champion? Including Tiger Woods!! Almost every instructor tells a player to vary ball position based on the club being used. Jack says, "Play every shot from inside the left heel." Who is right? I'll place my money on an 18 time major champion. It makes perfect sense, because every time you switch ball position there is a chance of a small error. At the highest level that can be disastrous. Jack was the best and smartest golfer of them all.

Having respect for the golden bear, the beginning of the video shows it all. Jacks bulge was above the belt, Arnold's was below the belt. Ask the Ladies which they prefer...

Great husband, great father, great person, greatest golfer!

Notice at 7:41 he starts the back swing by moving his right hip back. It moves before the club starts to move. Ben Hogan did the same thing.

From what I have researched, Jack won is first 7 Majors not using an intermediate target (1962 - 1967). In 1967 he's looks at the hole were up to about 6 - way too many (first 5 Majors it was 3 looks). In 1970 he is back at around 3 looks at the hole when over the ball with the help of the intermediate target. So, you don't need to use won to win Major Chamionships. Tiger in 2019 was down to 1 look at the target (2 in glory days) when over the ball, plus the use of an intermediate target initially. Not for me, I lose my feel for the swing and the ball flight I want. Use it if helps, do not if it hinders. See the 1962 match on YT with Sam Snead to see clearly his early years process (the early US Opens and Masters are available also but footage is not clear).

Modern teachers take note, however, Jack by his own admission was a mediocre wedge, bunker, and short iron player. I always thought ball position that far forward with wedges was disastrous. I guess he made up for it in other areas. I mean he only won about a bazillion majors.

Who else misses the professionalism with which Jack conducts himself. I know I do! Remember the description of being “polished?” Us old timers remember. I could go on, but I’ll just enjoy the memory of it.

The best. Full stop.

This is about the follow through, not the start.

Brilliant

Greatest swing in the history of the game (and least damaging to the body), yet it’s no longer taught as part of modern day golf instruction... madness !

Jack always being thoughtful of those around him. Did you know he always played with three marker coins in his pocket. One for himself, one if he would lose the first, and one for his opponent is he should need one. He has said his best moment in golf was when his grandchild made a Hole in one on the par 3 competition at the masters. Not any of his own wins. Including Luke, Tom and all the caddies on the bridge is so typical of Jack. Class.

B4 🇺🇸 was invaded

Look at the size of the club head! Now that’s precision!

Pure class -- there will never be another. GOAT.

Gee we don’t hear the idiot “in the hole” on every hole.

Good to see two gentlemen respecting each other. If Rory had the first 8 holes Arnold had he would have walked off the course and deleted his Facebook account.

Wow didn't know about this one. What a classic. The magic certainly lingered in these two.

Gold from the goat!

He is the GOAT

Such clear and simple instruction - no mad hype.

12 hole courses are a great idea. But I think kids aren't into golf because they are priced out of it. It's a really expensive sport. Unless you're rich, you're not going to play it.

i dont get the palm of left hand - no one does this, except Jack ? feels weird to me. harrington says keep it in fingers

Man this is beyond amazing 👏

Love Bryson and thrilled he won but that last putt Rory had was tough. He played it outside left and it ripped to the right quickly

Simplicity is the key. As Sam Snead explained his golf swing, 'I wind up my body, pause, and unwind my body. That is my golf swing in a nutshell.'

jack was the greatest putter of all time.

I have a couple anecdotes I'd like to share about Mr. Palmer. I'm now retired but in the early 90's I was still working at Martin Marietta's (later Lockheed Martin) Missile Systems in Orlando as an Aerospace Engineer. Our "Main Plant" was right around the corner from BayHill, and I was starting to get serious about golf and had been taking lessons from a well known local golf coach in Orlando (Mike Keymont). I then read a Golf Digest mag article about the top 5 golf instructors in America and number 4 was Mr. Dick Tidy, the director of golf instruction and the golf school at Bay Hill. Mr. Tidy had been #2 behind Arnie at Wake Forest and a lifelong friend. Bay Hill is a private club so i didn't even know if i could get lessons from Mr. Tidy but I picked up the phone and called and next thing I know I have six lessons scheduled. Mr. Tidy was great, and he taught me to hit the Palmer Draw. One day I am hitting driver on the range and I hit a bullet...Mr. Tidy growls..."We'll Take 18 and those and pitch back to the par 3's!!!" Anyway after my driver practice Mr. tidy said okay let's go up to Mr. Palmer's office to watch your video...I went, Wait, What? We are going to Mr. Palmer's office, is he going to be there? Mr. Tidy says nonchalantly, I don't know but that's where the video recorder is. So we walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor above the clubhouse and walk in and there is Mr. Palmer at his desk. I'm a grown man with two Engineering degrees working on some of America's blackest defense programs but I felt as nervous as a school girl. Dick asks Arnie if we can borrow his desk to use the video machine/monitor and Arnie gets up and says sure. then he comes around the desk and extend his hand and says, "So how is you game coming along?" like I was some tour player...what a great man and great human being he was! My second anecdote is shorter. It was about the same time, the early nineties and the Bay Hill Invitational was in play. Arnie had said before the tourney that he wasn't happy with where his game was and was really not interested in just being out there if he wasn't competitive but he relented and said he would play. It's Friday and Arnie is playing well and has a chance to make the cut. He has drawn a huge gallery and I am one of them and I'm watching Arnie and he has a very serious look on his face (you could tell he really wanted to make the cut). He leaves the 8th green and is walking to the 9th tee and he is eyes down and working...a crowd forms around him and one poor dope blocks his path on the cart path to the 9th tee...lol, without skipping a step Arnie gives him a perfect forearm shiver with those popeye like forearms and knocks the guy right off the cart path and almost puts him on his ass...it was great to see!!! Mr. Palmer ended up missing the cut but it was nice to see him playing with the bit in his mouth for the last time in a PGA Tournament.

30 years ago. Hard to believe. Where has the time gone?

Thank you for posting.

I was there and even though these GOAT's were past their prime, it was Jack V Arnie and there was definitely still a competitive fire burning in each of them . The late 80's and the 90's was a great time in Phurst. This was only a couple years or so after both Mr Palmer and Mr Nicklaus had built 2 great additions to golf in Phurst, Pinehurst Plantation and Pinehurst National. The Deuce was a different course then but back on the radar after having hosted the 91 and 92 Tour Championship as well as the 94 Senior Open - followed 5 years later with the 99 US Open. And now this week we have the 4th US Open to be played on Course 2 in the last 25 years. I think it is safe for us to continue to say that Pinehurst is the Golf Capital of the World.

Grant Horvat shot 1 worse than Nucklaus, but with an additional 900 yards!

Amazing how much technology has changed the game in 30 years.

Pinehurst doesn’t look like this anymore. Lots of sand and native grass on the sides of the fairways.

Lovely man, and such grace. Love you Jack - complete legend.

Best instruction out there No fixer tips. Just really good instruction. Really helped me

I am glad Jack has a lot of teaching videos available to watch. Younger golfers get to see the actions and demeanor of the GOAT. A legend who faced and beat legends. Yound people tend to think their era had the best. Tyson LeBron Tiger etc.

Miss those days