Met PGA 2015 Spring Educational Forum - Chuck Cook

Chuck Cook talks about his experience with golfers on the tour and his personal approach to coaching the top players around the world.

[@toddkoehler0418]

One of the best golf instructionals of all time. Chuck Cook is a true Master. A treasure of golf information.

[@kort1344]

I think in my 40 years of playing golf he is the most efficient, most simple and clear on teaching this game.

[@benmarnocha8634]

This is a great presentation for serious golfers. A treat for this man to share the wisdom of a generation. Hope Mr. Cook lives to be 100 but he will not always be available. Enjoy and savor!!

[@davidplachta4373]

I took lessons at Golftec, which I loved. This video reinforces pretty much everything I learned with Golftec. It really gets at the fundamentals of the body and hands and explains lag quite well. This is my go to video when I'm struggling. I'm an 8 hcp, down from an 11 before I took the lessons.

[@atimpactOGF12BearBack]

That left thumb, great.

[@robertsaunders9662]

Great presentation, thanks for sharing this.

[@jpbouffard]

I really enjoyed this. But I just want to make one comment, from the perspective of a recreational player, but a decent one (6 hcp): At one point, he says something like "...this is why [Charles Howell III and Luke Donald] are such horrible drivers of the golf ball." This is literally a shaking my head moment. They may be horrible on a scale that runs from Moe Norman down to, say, Dow Finsterwald, but compared to 99% of golfers on the planet, Donald and Howell have always been superb drivers. I am not saying his concepts about the swing are not valid, I'm not saying it isn't correct that "swinging left" is better than the other type of swing and release mechanism he mentioned. But from the perspective of an average player, it is clearly possible to play elite level golf with many types of swing. So for me, I'm left sort of wondering, what is it we really should be concentrating on? Maximizing our results with our existing swing pattern, or trying to learn the better pattern?

[@1DCCX]

Maximising what you’ve got with personal instruction that can tailor to your abilities, physical capacity and proportions. This is a lecture to professionals. Not that club golfers can’t understand it, or try the principles therein. But that’s what makes it more dangerous in a sense, the question comes back to what is efficient to learn with your ability and your time in order to be functional. You risk ending up information rich and educationally vacant.

[@1DCCX]

And as he says at the start, I’ve never seen anyone swing to this model.

[@sph262]

Modern golf is too complicated! 😢