Fred Couples tests his 3-wood while mic’d up on the range
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- Fred Couples tests his 3-wood while mic’d up on the range during the SAS Championship. He talks about the loft and lie of the club while testing them.
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I could watch Freddy hit golf shots all day. It’s like therapy. What a swing!
Your cured
A Freddy video a day keeps the quick swing away
That contact.... giving the grass a neat little trim!
I literally clicked on the vid just to watch him swing. I dont care about that 3 wood. Lol. I just love watching that swing.
How many decades have we all been watching this guy swing and still cant get enough. It's almost getting better with age.
..and dont let the demeanor fool you, he's got some fire inside.."the face!"
Every time I watch him swing it surprises me even though I've seen him swing hundreds of times. Nobody has a sweeter swing than Freddie.
I'm thinking of two others (Champions Tour)
.... but yeah, you're right
What an absolute delight it is watching Freddie swing. He's always had that smooth, relaxed movement and tempo that just amazes me.
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I'm a low-handicap golfer. Played scratch in my late 20s, early 30s. I liked to think of myself as a decent ball striker. Then I followed Fred all day at the Fed-X St Jude a few years ago, and with every swing my spirit dropped more and more! LOL. After 5-6 holes I realized I was so far below his level that I wanted to give up the game. The swing is so smooth it looks like he's swinging in mollases. Yet the ball absolutely explodes off the face of the club and the flight is something to behold. It started low, then climbed to an apex, and then dropped gently to the right in the most gorgeous fade imaginable. Truly a genius ball striker.
Similarly, I'm a 1hdcp(+/- .5) at age 36. Roughly a shot better than when I was a teen.
I'm often told I should play more, which I can't argue the merits of, but I never seem to make it a priority. This year has seen more rounds than normal.
Some years I only play 2-3 times. My home state's amateur (in southeast us) is normally one i play every year. Short game seems to never leave me, even when other parts do.
On topic- of several tournaments I followed Freddy, the most memorable would be TPC Sawgrass 10-12 years ago.
He's my dad's favorite player as my father was able to pick him out in the distance just by what he was wearing.
The effortless rhythm of his swing and that smooth Loop in his shoulders at transition is mesmerizing to watch.
Knowing Freddy, he couldn't care less and is rather disinterested in why people are so mesmerized.
But we all know why!
Watching his swing will transcend one to a happy place, a peaceful State of Mind. Like your own private beach, laying down relaxing as the waves fold & crash ashore.
What I noticed most, not only about Freddy but most of the pros, is the penetrating ball flight and their effortless swings, body rotation. And Freddie tops that list, hearing the ball off the club face, sound like a jet taking off, watching the low penetrating ball flight slowly start to climb until it gradually reaches its apex in the distance and begins its descent towards a precise target, exactly where it was meant to land.
I've never watched myself play, but even playing more golf than ever nowadays in my mid 30s, I have a 100% feeling I don't look similar. Many of my shots may have the sound or sometimes the shape, but not all of them have the smooth swing, the sound, the trajectory, the shape, and the precise location you see on tour.
Cheers!
follow me around for a few holes and you'll feel really good about your game again.
Ya the pros make you realize just how bad you really are. I've been to several events now, but my first one was the Tour Championship in 2001 and I followed Tiger for 12 or 13 holes. To see it in person was something else. You've never even seen golf balls behave that way before.
As impressive as it is on TV, it's unfathomable in real life.
@@TUKUMZ Oh man that is hilarious!! Self-deprecation is the best of all humor. Thanks!
I did give up the game after qualifying at a local US open Event & going to the sectionals @ Winged Foot. I played the best 36 holes in my entire life, I had an early tee time cause I was a scrub & sat at the 36th green to watch the other players come “in”. Sadly with each score posted pieces of my heart were takin with them. I went from thinking that I was playing in a U.S. open to realize that I wasn’t even close, in-fact I wasn’t even close to getting an “alternate” spot. I am not not sure that people understand how good a player like Fred Couples is
“It looks hot to me!”. You’re not kidding, I bet that rolled out to 260ish. So pure.
Freddie swing is a thing of beauty, and the ball explodes of the face
And it looks like he’s barely trying!
THE FACE!!!!
the world needs more fred couples. period.
I wish I could mimic Freddy’s swing…
Always great to see Fred hit balls and hear what he has to say
The guy is on the Augusta leaderboard at some point every year. Amazing.
More of these vids please. Much more interesting to hear the Tour legends talk about their equipment and why they make their decisions to change.
My word, that golf swing is still a thing of pure beauty !
Unquestionably one of the greatest swings in golf history is possessed by Fred Couples. And he still has not lost it.
I was a tour rep for Callaway for 15 years, seeing this makes me really miss those days! Seeing the country and working with the best players in the world! This is great!
im trying to figure out what club this is? my guess was the old callaway diablo... do you know what it is?
@@golfdoctorphd Callaway FTI Squareway 3 wood 15 degree!
Why'd you stop? Seems like a dream job
@@HankTheStank710 being on the road every week wore in my family! My kids were young and I was missing them grow up!
@@golfingcowboy5409 Thanks for the insight! 100% the correct decision. My Dad made a similar choice and we were lucky to have him around growing up. Family/children over everything else.
Having the pleasure to work at the SAS event...Freddy made sure to personally thank every single person he could find.
"The face, the FACE."
You better know your craft if your attempting to change Freddie’s tools. 😂😂
@@earnwithhearn180 They don't change often...15 year old Callaway Square way
63 years old. Identical swing to when he won the Masters 30 years ago and was world number one. Looks superb
He’s tweaked it a little with butch Harmon I think but it’s still pretty much the same
Freddie, bustin' some chops. What a guy, still using a 3 wood that's nearly 20 years old.
The exactness of his precision shows his great talent.
The swing is so effortless, still! Just amazing! ☮️🖖🏽
& he just bombs it 😎
Always loved his swing
Smoothest swing in golf. Love it!
Such an easy, smooth, effortless swing, simply amazing
The swing is just unreal silky smooth.
Those other golfers on the range know of what greatness is at the end. Pretty cool to share the range with the greatest swing ever
In the beginning of GolfNow, It directed me to a new golf course. I enjoyed that so much because not only was I playing a new golf course but I was putting in work between my 50, 56, swapping 60s out but reps on the range.
wow. effortless power. incredible timing/rhythm
Never get tired of watching that swing.
Love that easy swing - trademark Fred👍
Still has a most beautiful swing! Fun to watch.
Honestly, Fred's swing is the ultimate Magic Trip: watch me hit this ball with my Pitching Wedge--120 yd swing...but it will end up 300 yards away magically. I've followed him at the LA Open often, and the sound of that strike is shocking; given the effort.
it's all about club head speed throught he ball.
@@krusher74 Cheers Geoff.
That freaking swing! Pure DOPE
That swing is effortless. He’s just picking it off the turf with a 3wood😏
Scoring a 60 in the final round of a top level professional tournament at 63. We all need a bit more of what Fred is doing.
The sound of the ball strike is just magic! Fred might be getting old but his swing never will!!🔥😁
The man has the smoothest balanced swing, been watching Fred for years
Boom Boom! I love Fred Couples!
Still a majestic swing, very little has changed over the years, remarkable
Lucky Leadbetter or Harmon didn't get hold of him and ruin him, like they did to everyone else.
I could watch Fred swing all day. Had some of the Callaway square heads and they were good.
Greatest follow through in golf.
"The face, THE FACE!" 😂😂 Fred bout to pop a vessel!
I put the FT-I driver in my bag 10 years ago and it's never come out!!Still awesome even to this day.
My goodness, what a swing!
If there is a prettier swing than Freddies I would like to see it. Smooth as butter.
He’s going to outdrive most of the older guys on the champions tour when he’s 75 with that magical, smooth and effortless swing. What a thing to watch 😎
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It's therapeutic watching him hit balls. It shows you how easy you can make this game.
Elite athletes are just built different, love his easy swing.
A very young Fred was nicknamed Boom Boom due to his great and effortless length off the tee....he hasn't slowed down much. Wish his back had cooperated more during his prime.
Its been so long, I forgot that was his nickname. Where did all those decades go ????
As a huge fan---I think we all should realize this is a guy with MAJOR back issues his whole life and still did what he did--and still does.
With a good back, he would certainly have been in the top 10 of all golfers of all time. Argue that.
Smoothest swing, ever? Been said here already, it's like therapy to watch
2:10 Watch the face, pay attention guy! Freddie's a true legend
Noticed that lol. The FACE!
"Here's how we're gonna check it..."
Freddie is the Bomb
Then “Christ almighty”
😂😂😂
He used to go by the name " BOOM BOOM "
This is a man that is in tune with his golf swing
In my opinion, that is still the greatest swing in golf (past or present).👍🏻
Freddie C has always been my favorite golfer since I was a kid
Speeder nx is the shaft he's using, comparing that shaft to a tensei is crazy!!
That’s a golf swing to die for 👍🇦🇺
Oh Freddy, that buttery smooth swing...
Fred has the smoothest swing in golf.
Maybe the best golf swing all time! Even some pros wish they were as smooth
as Freddy😊
Hey freddie watch the video, the one he said he toe fatted he actually did. Pay close attention to the ball at impact the club impacted the grass about 2 inches behind the ball. 😅😅
The most beautiful swing in golf.
One of the best to ever do it.
The most beautiful swing ever.. it gives me a chub. So effortless.
It's funny when Fred says he chunked it or toe'd it. I've heard many pro players say that Fred has never missed a shot. Sure they may go right or left, short of long. But for pure contact other pros think that Fred is magic. Obviously I couldn't speak to that. But I've watched Fred hitting balls for decades, and every shot looks like the shot before, and the shot that comes after. To my mind, he is magic.
That swing.... Dang!
Amazing swing but i still love the great Lee Trevino when it comes to swing and doing stuff with a golf ball, Trevino and Ballesteros were magicians. Couples is more remembered back in the day as someone you would have to lock your daughters, wife and even your granny up when he was on the prowl.🤣
The elusive best fit 3-wood. It just seems to be the club that's hardest to find and fit, or hardest to change once you like something.
One of the best swings of all time. Top 10 at least.
More of these videos please
I don't know what it is, but there's something about watching Freddy swing and talk and interact with other people. Whether it be other pro's, or a club mfg, or just fans. It's addicting. I could have watched this video for an hour. The back and forth. And of course. The swing. I mean, come on.
Putting a Callaway FT-i Squareway wood into play? That’s crazy! 😳😳😳
He makes it look so easy.
I could literally watch Freddy hit golf balls on the range all day
I watched him hit balls on the range at the Memorial in about 2000, when he was in a little bit of a slump. He was hitting a 3-wood off the deck as long and high and straight as you can imagine, every shot. And then he would draw one, and then fade one, back and forth on demand. I thought, if I could hit hit a 3-wood like that, I would never carry a driver, or even golf tees for that matter.
...and now I am going to replay this video.
Cool 😎 Freddy keep on swinging the way you do its elegant
Smoothest swing in golf. Ever.
It must be nice to know that you are pretty much going to flush the 3-wood 9 times out of 10 without knowing anything about a golf swing nor ever thinking of your mechanics because you just don't have to because you are so freaking talented!!
Favourite swing in golf.
What model/make is the 3 wood?
He seems to have a really big ribbon in his swing, but obviously it works perfect....👍👍
“Just watch the face … from there … THE FACE” 🥶
The most beautiful tempo.
Thing of beauty
Freddy rockin' the square head
Pure.
What club is he testing? Is that the old school Callaway FT-I (square head)? This video was posted 6 months ago but when was this filmed? That FT-I came out like 10-12 years ago, right?
Anyway…..Freddie could swing a garden shovel and I would still be mesmerized….
What a swing
I had those Rotexs on spot from 30 to 110 and alot of reps.
Mike in the Champions Tour Repair trailer got the ferrule the next week - how did Fred like the club after the new, adjustable ferrule?
Are those square club heads? Are those coming back?
I knew the square head clubs would come back.
It's not back, that's an old head
Man ...........Fred is so cool
I love this. With today’s modern tech and thousands of ways to optimize Freddy is resting on his trademark FEEL. He could have a Trackman out there analyzing data til he’s blue in the face but he’s only worried about how it looks, how it feels, and how it performs. Great lesson here in a crowding golf industry that is now a numbers game.
Surprised they didn’t have numbers on the new woods? Was this just a video for us?
Such a great swing..
Made it to nationals in Battle Creek from Cleveland
Nike called and wants their SQ Dymo back from 2009. On a side note, I could watch Fred's swing all day.
This was the old callaway FTI squareway. Released 2008.
the way he said "THE FACE"
I could watch his swing on a loop for hours
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