Mac O'Grady MORAD Golf Clinic

[@horacedouglas8130]

Shout to the Mac Man. He is a genius in his ability to break it down. Mr. Hogan is all over this swing. Thats why i love it. Mac added the sauce.

[@jackritter8923]

unreal footage, love how he breaks down p2

[@72RocknRoll]

One of the most gifted athlete ever to play golf. The left handed 3i is phenomenal and this guy qualified for the US Open both right and left handed! The USGA would not allow him to play both ways as two different entrants. Video is funny to watch now... but this is more Mac discovering / sharing the kinematic sequence + some Golfing Machine info learned with Homer Kelly. He's just not using TGM terminology which turns people off. Today, the sequencing stuff is passe' but it was a BIG secret deal when this video was done. O'Grady "sensed" it by measuring the degrees of body to shoulder to are to club variances in degrees using primitive swing analysis software at each one of his "swing sections". Before that Homer Kelly and Mac would draw lines on a TV with magic markers or on old sequence photos out of golf magazines. You can do that very easily today on a smartphone but not understood at the time this video was made. Mac was a Golfing Machine guy and found / built a sequence that worked within the Golfing Machine curriculum which is 90% as valid in 2016 as when Homer Kelly published his book in 1968. Caution: Both Mac & McChord are long legged tall men so some of what Mac preaches does not work perfectly for shorter players though the overall concepts apply across all players. Good stuff!

[@joseserranosuner]

+72RocknRoll Great comment! Would love to hear more about that sequencing issue and why today it is passé. Pleeeaaase!!!

[@blackie75]

It also took him 17 tries to qualify for the PGA tour lol.

[@temporarystranger95]

@@blackie75 Did you not hear him explain why? His sponsors got him to go to a teacher early on in LA who changed his entire swing. Got him to swing like Nicklaus … more vertical backswing, high hands, leg-driven downswing, reverse C finish. Mac totally lost his swing and was in the golf wilderness for years until he hooked up with Homer Kelly (author of The Golfing Machine). Mac later developed the MORAD system which he is explaining in this video. He went on to win a couple of times on Tour, finish 7th in the ‘87 US Open, and as he confesses in another video, had he been a good putter, he would have won 15 times a year on Tour. The man was such a bad putter, he putted left-handed with an old Bullseye. People who go after O’Grady know very little about golf history or the golf swing.

[@shortgamebull]

@@blackie75 makes him even more impressive

[@jasontroutman9845]

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a Mac video without a plane , train or automobile sound in background

[@jameshoran8]

Dave Stockton and Johnny Bench are in this.

[@TheNYgolfer]

I have seen Mac hit shots on video left handed , with left handed clubs, but my jaw dropped to my nut sack when he hit that RIGHT handed 3 iron, LEFT handed!!! I just lost all hope in my golfing skills. Reminds me of a comment I once read on a Stevie Ray Vaughn ( one of, if not the the greatest, guitar player ever) video. " Jimmie" ( Stevie's brother) " got me interested in learning the guitar. Stevie made me quit". Lol

[@lawrencesargent1392]

I met mac at the pga at shoal creek. He was a nice guy. He signed my book the golfing machine by Homer Kelley. I was the last instructor certified by Homer I believe. But bent left wrist at address flat level vertical at impact. If you don't have a flat left wrist at impact nothing will work. I think mac should teach the golfing machine.

[@pyramidtrianglegolfswingan9588]

Thank you ,very beneficial

[@joseserranosuner]

Very, very valuable. Thanks for sharing, attending any of these clinics costs 2-3 k.

[@mazdaspeedmx512lbs]

Whaaat $2K to $3K? My theory is way better & more simple than this. What the hell a computer read out seriously? The more complicated a person makes something means that they really do not understand the subject themselves.

[@BasedHadrian]

JCHangtime you don't have a relevant golf theory that any gives a fuck about shut up about your flyer lie 3 iron shots and shit

[@austinlang4540]

Lol at the dude saying Mac doesn’t understand the subject..this dude probably knows more about the golf swing than anyone who has ever lived

[@darts7116]

@@mazdaspeedmx512lbs hahaha, imagine leaving a shit stain of a comment with your profile on it. You should probably delete this. We are laughing at you not with you.

[@tomnelson8515]

Would really enjoy hearing Mac compare what he is teaching to Percy Boomer's 'swing in a barrel' technique.

[@scottnorman2296]

Is this High Def?

[@guitar1950]

If Mac putted like Stockton he probably would have won multiple times!

[@mattsilver4482]

Is that Dave Stockton with Mac?

[@rebel1154]

Love Mac but @ 23:18 he says at 20 years old he was riding his bicycle from LA to San Diego once a week? That's like 120 miles lol.

[@georgesmith4639]

All those grand plans for a curriculum for different handicap ranges, etc. If he wasn't such a perfectionist, if he had gotten it done quickly and wasn't so paranoid that someone was going to steal his ideas it just might have happened and it could have helped people. It's just a damn shame. All that study, and work for essentially nothing (other than a few tour pro's he may have helped).

[@MrKillahippo]

Bryson has his hands high, this guy says to keep them low. it just goes to show, there are many different way to swing a club and it should be so, you can't have different bodies and different athletes swinging exactly the same.

[@KevinBostwick]

Well... duh! Bryson uses a much different approach, ie Single Plan Swing and the key to that is setup which is often referred to as hands high. MORAD is much different so yes, everyone's swing is different.

[@garrymajor7528]

Hogan started downswing with hips both Steve ellkington and Mac start with shoulders ,John Jacobs and earnest jones start with there arm swing,David Leadbetter with the left knee .that is why the the secret is in the dirt go out and practise till u find the thing that works.

[@A-FrameWedge]

@@garrymajor7528 Hogan’s downswing was initiated by his right leg pushing his lower body to the left before his backswing was completed, and his hips were still turning to his right when this push started. So hogan was making a lateral shift to his left before the hips finished turning in his backswing.

[@sduke39]

The biggest tragedy of Mac O'Grady's legacy is that all we have are these poorly recorded and poorly organized videos of his teaching. Mac was brilliant in his understanding of the golf swing, and completely ignorant in the marketing, production, and distribution of his work. It's like watching bootleg recordings from the 60's. His ability to alienate everyone that supported him wasn't helpful either. An enigma no doubt.

[@fontking1a]

Here's the problem with "this" kind of golf swing. Trying to hit each position is incredibly hard to do. You have about 1.2 seconds from start to finish to accomplish these tasks. If you think this is for you, try an experiment first that should be easy to do...but it isn't. Go ahead and sign your name on a piece of paper. Use your normal signature. Next....take a piece of tracing paper and place it over your signature and try to copy exactly, without any variation whatsoever, what you just did automatically. Chances are you won't be able to do it. That is just a hand - eye exercise without the use of any of your other muscles. Why would anybody think they can master the golf swing by hitting six or eight positions? In golf, no two shots are exactly the same. The ball is either above, below or in some other position. You have to adjust your body to accommodate that shot. Science is a wonderful thing. Golf is an athletic endeavor. Ball - stick - hand-eye coordination. There are no easy answers IMHO.

[@stevenchampion8137]

fontking1a Fun to try though eh. Even if you can make incremental improvements it shows validity in the process, would you agree. Just don’t expect perfection! I like your analogy.

[@TheNYgolfer]

There is scientific validity in practicing a movement in slow, incremental motion. The brain absorbs the information more easily, then can reproduce it reliably at faster and faster speeds. A boxer does not learn to throw punches at full speed the first time he walks into a gym. The trainer shows him the different punches much slower than normal speed and in various stages between start and finish. Once the brain has been shown the proper technique , the process can then be done faster and faster until it can be performed in one fluid motion WITHOUT having to consciously think about it. We didn't pop out of the womb not knowing how to walk and talk then all of a sudden woke up one day and went for a jog while singing a song. It was a slow gradual learning process. Now, do you ever think about how to place your feet when walking or running?

[@steveperryman8102]

The point is you practice the positions slowly then blend them building up speed. In a way it's much like learning piano. You don't go from nothing to complex motions without lots of slow practice

[@sunnyduscle]

Who is the other guying standing with Mac?

[@garrymajor7528]

Dave Stockton

[@nova68nova]

Good stuff, but suspect he's a nutter right from the start - "What makes the golf swing look so smooth is that the three dimensional space is not being disturbed."

[@wilding69]

There's a very good reason that even his closest friends called him "whacko"

[@slappy0077]

living in Calif. for extended period of time does that to people

[@sunnyduscle]

Nutter? He is in good company - Columbus, Edson, Leonardo, Dali etc

[@jduncanm3golf]

26:25 thats some serious clubhead speed

[@harrybrandt6553]

What ever happened to the book? :-)

[@johnclark3697]

section 4 meets section 5 @ 45 degrees? HOGWASH!!

[@johnclark3697]

p1 , p2. etc. what a load of BOLLOX.

[@sunnyduscle]

Ummm idiot its a TGM term

[@TheNYgolfer]

You telling a guy that can take a right handed 3 iron , flip it on its toe and hit it left handed, WITH COMPRESSION , that he is full of shit just because you don't understand his phylosophy or technical terminology? Odds are you believe in God but don't understand the bible ( who does?) You gonna tell God he is full of shit? I have faith in Mac. He is the golfing God!!! 😂