golferdude54

+3 and I've taken lessons from Dana in the past and worked on what he told me to do instead of straying off. Because I know that I don't know as much about my swing as a multiple time major winner's coach. Sometimes just one set of eyes is enough, no need to get a second opinion.

Scheffler was actually the least forced actor out of all the golfers. But I can see how most of the people who watched the first movie would be all "Go back to your shanties" with the sequel.

Is this a Tropic Thunder reference, never go full stupid?

Exactly, it’s not like he took lessons from the top ranked instructor in California who’s also inside top 10 in the country. Even if he did, it’s not like he would not commit fully to the instructor’s suggestions/solutions and go off on swing searching tangents that doesn’t relate to his current swing issues at all. Oh wait, that’s exactly what he did!

If he had just listened to Dana and only worked on what Dana told him to do and actually do it properly, he would’ve shot the same score or better years ago.

George Knudson had a couple great points, but not about the swing itself, more about physical relaxation. I.e. blood pressure and heart rate shouldn’t be elevated. Too many players are above 100 bpm and 120/80 reading on a shot. But that doesn’t apply to what OP needs, I just mean it’s possible to have full active control of the swing and still be relaxed.

No one here ever compares him to Tom Watson for some reason. It's always either Tiger or Jack but Scottie's career parallels Watson's at the same age.

Hogan was .888... seconds in 1953, I measured one of his slo-mo videos that was shot at 90 FPS in 1953 which was basically his prime year. His swing was actually 20/7 tempo, not 21/7. I noticed the same about Mickey Wright in 1961 which was her best year as well. Tour Tempo beats are pretty outdated and one can easily make their own golf metronome nowadays with their own custom times instead of adhering to TT's 21/7, 24/8, and 27/9. I know that doesn't answer your question really but I just wanted to put that information out.

So Mickey Wright, who's equal to Annika Sorenstam or arguably better for an LPGA career, had an old-school drill for the trail foot in her book. Tom Watson also wrote about the drill in his book as well. Place a golf ball under the middle of the outstep of the trail foot to put more pressure on the instep and stop the weight from going out to the outstep, which stops hip swaying/reverse pivoting. But a whole golf ball is too steep for the ankle to pronate that much, so a better variation is to cut it in half; this also has the added benefit of it not slipping and sliding out from your outstep on grass. Another good footwork drill is to put a water bottle just outside the heel of your right foot on the outstep side. At no point at all in the swing are you supposed to hit the water bottle, especially in the downswing. Hogan, Tiger, Nicklaus, Snead, etc. they would never hit the water bottle at all, you can check every video of their swings face-on. Don't be too concerned about keeping the heel on the ground in the downswing. As long are your arms catch up with your lower body in front from the downswing transition, that heel can go up as much as it wants.

I just want a B.3 model. B.2 putters previously used are going on the bay for more than their original retail cost, it's ridiculous.

To be fair, he gets taller after P6. But he was still under 5’10!

I’d love to see a GRF comparison of Tiger in 2000 and Jack in 1972 hitting driver. Tiger jumped his entire left foot off the ground while Jack pivoted around his embedded left heel and spun the toe out. IMO Jack’s was more effective as he was known for being a better driver than Tiger but it’s hard to embed the heel like he did with today’s plastic spikes. That’s why there’s a lot of jumpy footwork in this generation, there’s no metal spikes to keep the heel inside the ground.

The top ranked amateur and also the top ranked junior of this generation swing like Zalatoris, it’s not really looking good.

Isn’t arms lagging behind in transition a bigger/more common problem than not pushing off the ground enough? Won’t pushing it more just leave the arms even further behind if the arms aren’t fixed first?

Aside from proper grip and setup fundamentals, the rest of the swing can pretty much be broken down into this ranking in importance from first to last: Steady head (head doesn’t sway all over the place) Stable footwork/lower body (feet doesn’t move weird and no hip swaying/EE) Consistent arc (the horizontal part of the swing involving both the clubhead and the butt end of the grip from FO camera view, lots of people mess this part up and get “narrow”) Plane (where the clubshaft points DTL, if a laser was pointing out of both ends of the club, it should trace the target line at all times or as near it as possible) Depth (how far away from the target line DTL the hands/arms/club travel; this is dependent on arc as well, “narrow” arc can create too flat/upright) Upper/lower body synchronization (arms match up with lower body and are in front rather than lagging behind which is very common, the alignment stick in belt loop drill/Gankas G-box aid is popular for this) Get all those down and that’s it, you have a better swing than everyone on WRX. Aside from a few lurking tour pros!

Speaking of hip bone directly over ankle bone, who actually has the best posture of all time? Like zero anterior tilt, just the right amount of torso bend, right amount of knee flex, etc. It would be nice to get a DTL posture model for a pin.

Stop hitting balls. It's the mishits making you feel bad, along with the pain from swinging wrong. Nowadays we have access to low point feedback training aids (divotboard) and foam golf balls that stick to a velcro taped to the face (impact improver) that won't make you feel like crap for mishitting it. You work on perfecting P1 first then take it back to P2 and swing through to your finish from P2, then move on to P3, then finally the full swing. There's no instant gratification on the journey towards hitting the sweet spot and ground exactly where you want it with the swing of your dreams with the low point/sweet spot training aid combo I suggested. But... When you do get there and hit your first real shot, you'll fall in love again 100%.

I want to add Steven Fisk as a recent notable player, this guy has been a great ball-striker statistically for a rookie and he might have even more late wrist set than Dan Pohl in the 1980s.

I think it's implied that the correct hand depth and on-plane clubshaft motion is occurring at the same time, let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

He has the most consistent arc (left arm and club very wide) and his plane is steep enough that he can hit right down on the ball in the rough and get it out better than anyone; at the same time it’s not steep enough to cause a bad pull/pull-hook or pull-slice on normal shots. Very formidable combo.

Tiger in 2006 was pretty dead on-plane with his irons at P4. He always worked on getting less across the line at the top with both Harmon and Haney.

Scottie tied JT’s record 72 hole score of 253 on a course that was half a thousands yard longer. JT’s record was at Waialae that was 7000 yards. That’s 1 total stroke higher than shooting 63 every round on a 7500 yard course. Come on now. His average margin of victory in his major wins would be more than a stroke higher than it is if he had just 2-putted the 18th green in 2022 Masters instead of that funny 4-putt to win by 3.

Add Calvin Peete, Jim Furyk, and Joe Durant to right eye dominant, these guys are former Mr. Fairways and Greens.

Back eye dominant have convenient stopping points for P3 and P4. I’ve noticed my front shoulder touches my chin in the backswing at exactly P3 if I don’t rotate my head P1-P3. P3-P4 is letting the head rotate with the shoulder through the chin until just before the ball gets completely blacked out by the nose if only the back eye was open and the other closed. The front arm clock position at that point seems to point past 10 o’clock but not 11, which is what Trevino’s P4 looked like. Front eye dominance has the advantage of turning a lot more and hitting it longer but they have to figure out the point where it shifts from foveal vision on the ball to peripheral and stop short of that. There’s no blacking out “rule of nose” for them.