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,

Well, I have several doctors and surgeons as clients and they disagree with you. Please come back again in 10 years and grace us with your wisdom and judgement.

That would have been my guess, but I wanted to make sure. You have a little bit of lead wrist extension at p6 for my preference. All things being equal if you rotated hard, you’d wipe everything. So your hips kind of shut down and roll the face late….thus the low hook. Id work on getting a little more lead wrist flexion in transition and allow more lead wrist extension versus wrist roll from p6-p8.

A swing like this with no low hanging fruit needs a miss context. BTW, club not thrown out late, it’s a bit early if anything

Always a middle ground. Lack of proper mechanics, bad, cookie cutter mechanics and over teaching for everyone, bad.

This I dont disagree with. Just like in instruction you have people giving people uber strong grips to manage slices and hold lag to stop casting. However, if you go to a good doctor who actually wants you to get better, he will address the problem using modern understanding and technology.

There’s a fairly large contingent, including instructors, that adhere to the “Swing your swing” method and spout tired phrases like the swing happens from the ground up if anyone dare speak of wrist and arm movements. Well, swing your swing has been misinterpreted for 70 years and I got that from Palmer himself. Ground up is a redundancy if there is gravity and you hit a ball with your feet touching the ground. I repeat this over and over. If you want to turn a blind eye to modern technology and teaching methods, aspiring to things written in books 100 years ago, you would be hypocritical not to do the same with your physical health and not use modern methods of diagnosis like blood panels and MRI’s. Because as we know, doctors, medical insurance, big pharmaceutical companies and the food industry doesn’t care and is just killing us all to make more money. Yes, there are some doing that, but when food was completely organic and we had no modern medicine…. Just saw a stat that since 1840 the age at which half the people died has gone from 35 years old to 80…..so keep improving your game from the teachings of Old Tom Morris.

That feel will likely make the issue worse.

You’re addressing the wrong thing. You have plenty of separation, you aren’t playing draws the right way from this position. You need a very significant change, or understand this is a fade pattern. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMtslqhRY6j/?igsh=MXNzazM4dWN1YWw1bw==

Pitching and hitting is taught the same way as golf swing. My son is a high school QB. It’s the same. When I had knee surgery in 2017, I was told by the PT’s my walking motion sucked and they taught me to walk better this way. I had a bowling lesson from an PBA hall of famer….same My daughter is being taught better shooting mechanics in basketball as we type. Same.

Here’s a drill I give people, but it’s just something you have to do until you can do it. How do you ride a bike? You get on it and do it until you can do it. The shift is the last move of the backswing, not first move of downswing. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnHtR2hoW-W/?igsh=MXYwMDN2Mm1qb3k3ZQ==