Originally Posted on the Smash Golf Blog January 3, 2011
Now edited: I made reference over a year ago on my blog to a “left foot stomp” in the mechanics of what is now the “MCS” or mechanically-correct golf swing that I developed studying Mike Austin.
I’ve just started finally managed to transfer my Smash Golf blog postings over to this site. There are 200 posts to go through and I’ll likely transfer most of them for posterity’s sake, but it will take a while as there are, as I just said, 200 of them (Update: I transferred 105 of them, and have the rest of them saved in case I find them to be relevant in the future).
I was watching some old video from my Smash Golf video folder, and I was struck by something while watching footage from a day early in the autumn of 2009, when I had a swing that wasn’t anywhere near what it is now.
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Jack Nicklaus has some thoughts about the “modern” golf swing. Briefly, he doesn’t think too highly of it.
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J.B. Holmes has developed a nifty way to fool kinesiology and maximize his power while avoiding (for now) injury to his lower left leg/ankle.
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There is a Golf Digest online article on Domenic Mazza. It shows Dom’s swing sequence in photo slides that I found interesting. In his swing, I was able to get a great impact position face-on and his address position in the down-the-line view.
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Take a look at the long drive technique of 16 year old Domenic Mazza in last year’s Remax World Long Drive championships. We’ve been having some discussion on the blog in the last few months about how Domenic uses many of the Mike Austin/MCS principles in his swing.
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This is the funny thing about golf. The industry has somehow managed to convince millions upon millions of people that there’s no such thing as a perfect golf swing. Only great players with swings you can copy.
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I was able to find a not-so-great quality video clip of Robert Garrigus hitting driver down the line, but it has the Minolta Swing Vision slo-mo action capture, which gives you a really nice look at Garrigus’ swing. It’s all about power and leverage.
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One of the Smash Golf commenters posted a link of this video of Mike Austin hitting balls, and if anyone doesn’t have the GIMI video, you’ll see stuff you haven’t seen before. Nice find, Nat…
(Originally Posted August 14th, 2009 – Updated)
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Bobby Jones had one of the purest “classic swing” motions of all time. He didn’t try to muscle the ball, his swing action was pure leverage and rotation around the spine.
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Take a look at one of the straightest drivers never to have won a major. If you watched golf in the late ’90′s, you’ll remember Colin Montgomerie’s run of 7 consecutive Order of Merit titles on the European PGA, as well as his many close calls in majors.
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Sam Snead was completely self-taught and possessed perhaps the best swing in terms of mechanical correctness and technical components in the history of the PGA Tour.
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Here’s a good mechanical visual to use when unsure if you’re using your body correctly to leverage your MCS golf swing – the Hammer Throw action.
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Here’s a drill for those still having issues grasping the difference between “Turn vs Tilt” on the spine and hip action of Mike Austin swing. It’s a pretty basic but (I think) effective way to appreciate the nuances of the proper spine and hip tilt, especially when combined with the tilt drill from a few days ago.
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You all know that I’m a big proponent of the “Hip-Tilt” school of thought advanced by Mike Austin. Austin described the swing as having the action of a Ferris Wheel rather than a Merry-Go-Round. I mention this whenever I talk of the swing being a vertical action rather than a lateral one.
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I played in a fun foursome today with three other members, two of whom I know well from last year. We played skins of course, and I left a lot of money out on the course with about four missed birdie putts that would have won holes instead of sawing them off. Continue reading
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My best drive of the day today, of which I hit quite a few nice ones, was the drive to the 17th Par-4 hole that measures 290 yards uphill. Continue reading
When I saw Tiger swinging at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, I couldn’t believe my eyes and I wrote a post that I called Tiger Woods – Stack and Tilt?!?. Well, my eyes weren’t foolin’ me, there’s an actual whisper going around that he’s going there. Continue reading
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If this is Tiger Woods‘ new swing mechanics, he might never win another tournament where he has to hit driver off the tee. He seems to have gone with some form of the so-called “Stack and Tilt” swing motion, which is the worst kind of swing for a power-hitter to use (or try to use, as Tiger isn’t doing so hot with the driver these days). Continue reading
