MonteScheinblum

For some, yes

In many cases he’d be correct

He’d be in my top 10. He’s great.

Most of the people on that list are excellent. Some are not and not just in my opinion. A few are universally known as not knowing their a-hole from elbow.

I made fun of Foley a little when he had Tiger going left early without going right first and he was chunking woods, but he has a lot of good stuff.

PPS-I obviously know Erika is in VA and Allison Curdt is my president. The joke was funnier in my head.

Nobody worth a damn teaches positions and paralysis. You’re conflating education with active instruction. If you had any experience in the lesson tee you’d understand most golfers struggle because they have a poor understanding of what they’re supposed to do. You have to tale to them about all the bad ideas they’ve implemented from a century of misleading instruction before they can clear their head and work on one simple idea. Ive told the story many times where all I was trying to get a guy to do was free up his hip turn. After 30 minutes he was exhausted and I asked why. He said he was thinking about too many things. I said I was only asking him to achieve one simple task. He said that on top of his 12 step swing checklist was overwhelming. I laughed as I thought he was kidding. He was not and pulled out his 12 step checklist that was given to him by his friend who was a good golfer. It was laminated. It took me an hour to explain why every thing on that checklist was objectively incorrect. I had to get technical on why each on was not correct and not what good players do. Luckily he had booked two hours. After being educated he was able to narrow his thoughts down to free up backswing hip turn and hit ball. Over simplified is the other poor extreme from paralysis. Your issue in this forum is you make too many judgments based on suppositions that are quickly discounted after a short time teaching golf. Don’t feel bad, it’s just as common among people who don’t teach ever day and it is coming for someone who teaches every day to make things simple at the expense of it being objectively incorrect. PS-Erika is president of my section and I have a very good report with her.

So here’s a story about Golf Digest rankings. A guy trolls me on my Instagram. I tell him what I said has been measured to be true. He says he’s on the Golf Digest top list in CA and I should defer to his knowledge. I looked at the list, he was well below me. I responded that he should look at the list and suggested I was well above him. ”That list is a sham, you just had more friends voting than I did.” It’s kind of peer review but there are people not on the list that should be and some that are that shouldn’t. It’s half peer review and half popularity contest among other instructors. I feel I earned my spot because I’ve pissed off everyone. 😜

Yes

That’s not much different from what I teach.

That’s definitely a draw swing. You have just proved what I have been saying for years. I’m 50 pounds heavier than I was 10 years ago and am now 58 and 250 and my swing is as good and effective as it’s ever been. I just hit it shorter. This swing from 2020 has the same issue as today’s. A little out of position at the top and arms late in transition sequence. 5 years and a few pounds later it’s harder for you to manage. This is why homemade swings that don’t adhere to most measured efficiencies become unmanageable when golfers get older and less fit. My 25 year old swing was unmanageable at 40. My 58 year old swing is way better than my 25 year old swing and even being old and fat, I can still manage it.

If you want something to work on that will help you, this video should be on loop on your phone. Your arms accelerate REALLY late.

That’s even more severe. You’re going to be prone to really bad hooks and it will get worse as you get older. Not saying you can’t hit draws with that swing, you obviously do, but it’s a time bomb on every swing. Some days it lines up but other days hook city. If you want long term success, you need a change in backswing and transition. Look at the instragm link I put above

Agree. Either understand the stock shot for this swing is a fade, or make significant change in backswing and transition of you want to play a draw.

You’ve just made a change for the better, don’t nitpick for a look. See how things progress and if there is a chronic miss, address the why on that instead of going for perfect symmetry,