Golf Swing Arc v Target Line [ They are not the same! ]

[@tmacphd7871]

Thank you for the gift of simplicity. I find it so amazing how convoluted and contradictory most golf instruction is presented on the internet. It's no wonder most golfers don't improve! So many guys I know are chasing the tip of the day.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

I couldn't agree more. I still watch golf videos to see just how bad and confusing they are. Not to mention they'll probably not actually help anyone.

[@tinytoons2517]

great use of visual aids . . makes for better understanding.

[@doctorswing1546]

Brilliant illustration.

[@vicreichle2931]

Seems so simple but is so critical.

[@Ray-ur8ei]

Very good demonstration. It actually shows that the path or swing is an up, down, and around motion. I sometimes get the path correct, but hit the ball thin or fat because my arc changes. The 'low and slow takeaway' that some people teach is not a good idea. Thanks again.

[@stevetrevino5346]

Great visual!!!

[@dementus420]

It always makes me laugh for some reason when you imitate the bad swings people do. This is an epidemic level problem in amateur golf. The ultimate lightbulb moment I've ever had while practicing golf, was when I learned to envision the swing arc like you're demonstrating here. It's near impossible to come over the top once you have this in your mind. That's when you realize that half your golf swing has never been right and the speed and good strikes start coming quick. Man, that was an awesome moment.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

I spoke more at length about it in other videos but only adults have this problem. Children couldn't care less about physics and just swing the club and it works. Adults think that the club has to be moving straight down the target line in order for the ball to go that way so thats what they try to do. I ask people all the time if that's what they're trying to do and they always say, yes. It's only a problem because people think they understand how the tool works but they're dead wrong and no matter how hard they try to make it work the way they think it should, it never does. ... And yet they keep trying the same thing over and over, thinking, one day it's going to start working.

[@timotaot7125]

@@HolyGrailOfGolf You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

[@spondiveswandive561]

This to me seems like I need to stand farther from the ball at address than I have been and while swinging the club head out toward the target line

[@doc2help]

Thank you!

[@saabtech3510]

Good video illustration for most poor golfers. That said, it is interesting that Lee Trevino found that by lining up from 30-45 degrees open, one can slightly elongate that part of the arc along the target line. That was a big part of what made him perhaps the best controller of the golf ball ever.

[@WereAllThatBored]

Would like to hear your thoughts about wrist set in terms of naturally letting it happen vs forcing it to happen (like Hank Kuehne)... Former baseball player here so everything you say hits home because you speak my language lol

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

It's hard to say, I think they should set naturally but some days setting them purposefully feels good. If you set them intentionally you also have to release that intentionally and that takes timing. I'm not a fan of having to time anything.

[@jameshannon3067]

Of course the first derivative of the curve is the slope of the tangent line at any point...sine squared plus cosine squared equals tangent squared...golf is easy😮⛳️🚀

[@rekababa6671]

what did you stick into the end of the hula hoop?

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

I only leaned the hula hoop against two tilted shafts to demonstrate the “arc” of the clubhead is actually all about perception and is actually a flat plane.

[@joevelte4252]

if you widen the arc you widen the amount of distance the arc and tangent line are somewhat in alignment and it makes it easier to hit the ball.

[@tattooedb1563]

That’s the 8 inches my wife wants. She only manages to get 6 though.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

Get yourself some cialis and she can have those extra two inches. I'm not kidding. If you haven't tried it, it's stud magic!

[@michaelsparks8632]

@@HolyGrailOfGolf Lol, OK!

[@triggerhappydad65]

😂 when he said "extra 8 inches" I KNEW there had to be a "that's what she said" comment in here somewhere! 😅

[@Rick-tf4dl]

8 Inches we want ??? speak for yourself hahaha

[@rangepro]

PAGE >82 (hogan) When the golfer is on this correct downswing plane, he has to hit from the inside out!.... Why are you

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

It's not really inside out, it's flat, straight and level. It's all a matter of perspective. Also, I'm putting this out because I see people trying to swing on a vertical arc all the time.

[@jayscott1380]

Hogan's explanations sucked and/or don't work. If he was actually good at explaining the golf swing, the golf playing public would be better at golf and people wouldn't even need to seek instruction elsewhere or on KZbin.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

@@jayscott1380 I don't think it's Hogan's fault. I think it's the average adults fault. Adults have a preconception of what they think a golf swing is and how to use the tool and they try to perform what they think is a golf swing. They're almost always wrong, but they keep trying anyway thinking someday, somehow it's going to start working. It never does. The tool is an odd one, we don't have anything else like it in sports. Children on the other hand couldn't care less, have no preconception and just swing it as it was meant to be used and it works for them.

[@jayscott1380]

@@HolyGrailOfGolf I don't disagree. I just think it's annoying that people are so narrow minded that they put "Hogan's five lessons" as the "end all" "be all" of golf instruction. It's not. The issue is we are all different, we learn different, we see the world differently, we move similarly but different, we are not "cookie cutter" clones. Ergo no one type of instruction is sufficient for all of us. Hogan wasn't wrong, but his instruction probably only helps 5% of us.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

@@jayscott1380 I think Hogan was correct in just about everything he said but he was only describing the end result. He'd completely forgotten how he got there and that's the important part. What's weird is the whackier I tried things and the more unconventional I thought I was swinging just to see what works, the more the end result became correct or conventional.