@@diogeneslantern18 Ernie only won 1 major from 2001-2009. Won a lot of stuff in the first part of the decade but Vijay had a better run throughout the decade. Ernie never really recovered from his 2004 knee injury IMO.
Well he always had a very full swing and so.I.can imagine that VJ as shown would have no trouble hitting the ball. A great golfer whose only.weakness is putting. " Drive for show and putt for dough"!!
Back in the late 90's, I was on the range at the Houston Open watching a friend get ready to play and Vijay was next to him hitting drivers off the deck. All of a sudden Vijay asks me to come over and check his alignment and clubhead position at the top. I asked him what he was aiming at and he said "The first C in that Coca-Cola track at the end of the range. I'm trying to fade it back to the second C." I told him his alignment was good and then he hits a dead solid perfect driver off the deck and it start at the first C but fades to the third C in Coca-Cola, a miss of about 10-15 feet! It easily traveled 285+ yards. He looks at me and says "see I keep missing my target." I just shook my head and laughed. He was one of the best ball strikers ever period.
Q: what did Vijay Singh do after he hit over 200 balls on the range at 6am? A: he ate a banana, hit 150 more, putted, then walked to the 1st tee for the 09:08am pairing Vijay’s on the range nearly as much as the grass - he damn sure earned those prestigious titles -
@@ikigai47 you obviously missed what I was saying. no one worked as hard as Vijay did back in those days…no one. he was notorious for his practicing work ethic & inspired many to be as vigilant. moron
😮 oh no, guess who has one of those whips laying around the house. YUP!! fair warning better clear out all driving ranges in the southern U.S. I'm definitely trying this out tomorrow 😅
Back in my playing days when I was pretty good I had one of those. I loved it. It was a great training tool. I didn’t use it a lot…I probably swung it like 10 times on the range before I started my practice session. My practice session didn’t last long either. Maybe another 10-15 minutes before my round. But anyway that thing really helped me to lengthen my backswing a little bit and also slow down my transition. It really helped me to hit the ball straighter.
@@CB-rv2lj Officially I got down to a 1.2 USGA for a little while, but mostly I was a 2.0 during the last two years before I had to abruptly give up the game entirely due to injury. I was only 37 at the time. Anyway, I’ll just tell you about my game. I used to be ok in high school, then pretty much stopped stopped for a while, then tried picking it up again and I was horrible. No point in even playing, but then I decided to go get fitted for clubs and everything changed. I went for the whole nine yards. Driver, 3 wood, hybrid, irons. After I did that my long game became almost automatic. But I was never good around the greens though. Mediocre at best chipper and pitcher and downright poor putter. I really should have taken some lessons because I was obviously doing something wrong. So, for you at least…I’d say to make sure your clubs fit you properly (you might be surprised) and it’s cliche but spend more time than you might want to or think is necessary practicing your short game.
How much confidence do you have to have to do this by the way. It's not enough to be able to do it, you have to be able to do it consistently enough that you're not at risk of shanking one into the crowd. A rec golfer hitting a teed ball could probably hit themselves in the face with it. The dispersion is insane! It really highlights how small a target PGA tour players hit consistently on the face.
Vijay will always be a PGA tour legend, and is undoubtedly one of the all time greats. Also he became World No 1 golfer, and secured the vast majority of his big wins during the time that Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen were competing against him, together with many other great younger players.
A legend, no doubt. However, I wouldn’t say he became #1 when Tiger was at his “brilliant and dominant best”. Vijay became #1 in the world toward the end of the 2004 season, Tiger didn’t win a major in 2003 or 2004. It was actually a “slump” for Tiger which is still saying something. When Woods was at his dominant best, nobody touched him. Between the 2002 US Open and the 2005 Masters (the length of time between Tiger majors) he won 15 of his 34 PGA TOUR titles, his hottest stretch of his career. Vijay won his last two tournaments (Barclays, Deutche Bank - big events, too) in 2008 after Tiger had his season-ending surgery post-US Open. Vijay has a couple signature wins while Tiger was in form but, respectfully, it’s not the way you’ve painted it. He secured a large number of wins picking up where Tiger temporarily left off (sorry, rest of the field). I like Vijay, he’s probably taken more wedge grooves off in his career than the next 5 players combined. 34 wins, 3 Majors, Hall of Famer… it doesn’t need context but it does require some clarification from your framing of his best run compared to where Tiger’s game was in relation to his career-best.
The third best golfer of the 2000's. Easy to forget just how good VJ was but unfortunately he played in the same era as two of the best the sport has seen in Tiger and Mickelson.
VJ is out there crushing on the Champions tour now as your would expect. It's him and Steve Stricklin for the next 10 years who will dominate that entire tour.
I once saw VJ on the range at the Buick Open in Flint, MI. He was warming up and joking around with Steve Flesch when he pulled out Steve's driver and started ripping these easy 290-yard drives. All of them were within a few yards of each other. While 290 yards is impressive, what was more impressive is Steve Flesch is left-handed and right-handed VJ was smoking these drives with Steve's left-handed driver.
This is a good example of how the laws of physics create force in a golf swing via acceleration of club head around hands. Just holding a club over head and dropping it will cause gravity to accelerate it at 32 ft. / sec / sec. The action of side bending and dropping the hands at the start of the downswing adds to that downward force and as the ball catches up with the hands the shaft is seen to be almost straight and it stays straight until his hands slow down starting as they pass his back leg at which point two things happen: 1) the ball at the end keeps accelerating at the rate of gravity flying past the hands causing the shaft to bow forward ( Regular clubs do the same thing. 2) As the shaft starts to bow forward he changes the angle of his back wrist simply by allowing the force pulling on the hands to pull it straight. I learned to do the same thing in my swing. What the wrist action does is release the “lag” which was created by extending the back hand to the max in the downswing JUST BEFORE IMPACT. That wrist action timed with the point the force tries to bend the shaft forward ( acts to allow the club head to get that extra burst of acceleration before impact putting more force into the ball than if lag (via max extension in the back wrist) were maintained. VJ also uses ulnar deviation before impact which is the same wrist movement used when cracking a whip. A whip cracks because the tip is breaking the sound barrier (~ 700 mph) due to the same cause and effect: The hand holding the whip handle stops and the whip portion accelerates past the stopped hands. What causes his hands to show down? Resistance to his hips turning open all the way create by keeping his back foot on the ground. He raises his front heel in the back swing for maximum shoulder turn but observe how long during the downswing and finish he keeps his back heel on the ground and how he raises it up significantly before he turns the foot around. It is is the release of the back heel that frees up the hips to turn from 45° open to face the target in the finish but he does not do that until the force of the mass on the end of the stick has been allowed time to pull his trail arm straight. Keeping the back foot on the ground creates the resistance to allow the club to pull the trail arm straight. When it does it SLOWS DOWN THE CLUB HEAD by transmitting the considerable force remaining in the club head down the arm and body to the ground. Balanced is maintained while doing that in the same way you keep balance playing ‘tug-of-war” with a rope - plant the lead foot and lean the body mass back counter to the the direction the club is pulling. The way VJ executes that post-impact extension so ideally is why he has such a slow and graceful finish. There is barely enough energy left in the club to force it to flip up and then back over his shoulder with a thumb-up “hitch-hiking” radial deviation of the both wrists which then causes the elbows to bend in the finish. His is a very efficient swing because he allows the club force to do all the work, which is the point of using a training aid like the Orange Whip which exaggerates the force. But save your money. The same drill done with a kitchen broom stuck in the belly works just as well.
That’s not an orange whip that’s a SKLZ swing trainer. I have one and it helps with my path and tempo. But the fact that he’s hitting drives with it tells you how awesome the man is as a golfer.
Always have respect for VJ but with that said he's getting very old & barely makes any cuts anymore! So my question is how does his caddie make any money at all???
I agree..hes underrated. I saw him hit an upside down 6 iron, left handed and made it stick on the green from like 160-170. If he just would have stopped all that "rags under the arms" connection nonsense...it RUINS swings as it's a misconception for the most part.
'how did you do it with that thing'' ''Really really cool''? uhhhhh this is what you are supposed to be able to do with the whip trainer, watch videos on it and you will see, high handicappers hit balls with the whip, its not that ''cool''
The dumbest sports comment ever is one that Steve Sands mentioned here. I think Ted Williams said it....the toughest thing to do in sports is to hit a round baseball with a round bat. Just a nonsensial statement (not even sure the 90 miles per hour part of the quote is true). I mean, it has to be the dumbest quote ever. There are thousands of things in sport tougher than that. Ted Williams was a liar, as well. He said something dumb about being able to see the seems on the ball or something ridiculous, plus that he divided up the plate into like 90 sections. Absurd stuff.
It's easy to forget how great he was. Absent Tiger and Phil he was probably the best golfer in the 2000s.
Ernie is in the running there too.
I only used him in Tiger woods golf. Dat spin
Personally I think he was better than Phil
@@diogeneslantern18 Ernie only won 1 major from 2001-2009. Won a lot of stuff in the first part of the decade but Vijay had a better run throughout the decade. Ernie never really recovered from his 2004 knee injury IMO.
Dam right. Give the man the respect
VJ still has won more tournaments in his 40s than any other player... ever.
Anyone who's used this training aid will know just how insane this is.
This guy was a legend in his time. Nobody put in more time trying different techniques on the range either than Vijay!
He had one year when he won 10 tournements? and was nr 1? very consistent top player
@@willemhaifetz-chen1588 He is the GOAT
He practiced so much!
Perhaps more than any other player at the time.
They've got it backwards. The training aid was using VJ to get rhythm.
Well he always had a very full swing and so.I.can imagine that VJ as shown would have no trouble hitting the ball. A great golfer whose only.weakness is putting. " Drive for show and putt for dough"!!
Back in the late 90's, I was on the range at the Houston Open watching a friend get ready to play and Vijay was next to him hitting drivers off the deck. All of a sudden Vijay asks me to come over and check his alignment and clubhead position at the top. I asked him what he was aiming at and he said "The first C in that Coca-Cola track at the end of the range. I'm trying to fade it back to the second C." I told him his alignment was good and then he hits a dead solid perfect driver off the deck and it start at the first C but fades to the third C in Coca-Cola, a miss of about 10-15 feet! It easily traveled 285+ yards. He looks at me and says "see I keep missing my target." I just shook my head and laughed. He was one of the best ball strikers ever period.
Cool made up story
Yeah, and I remember showing Michael Jordan how to do a 360 dunk
@@I_need_an_oil_change wow…brings back memories to when I showed Rodger Clemens the cut-slider, would leave batters perplexed
@@BeastMode-xl7rz lol
Reminder for everyone to turn their volume back down after this
Thanks…had just flicked on the porn and nearly got caught out😂😂😂
I miss seeing Vijay on tour. Love his relaxed style, very Fred Couples in his swing and manner on course.
Q: what did Vijay Singh do after he hit over 200 balls on the range at 6am?
A: he ate a banana, hit 150 more, putted, then walked to the 1st tee for the 09:08am pairing
Vijay’s on the range nearly as much as the grass
- he damn sure earned those prestigious titles -
Well he does do it for a living with millions on the line so... it makes sense
So smooth what a great swing!
@@ikigai47 you obviously missed what I was saying. no one worked as hard as Vijay did back in those days…no one. he was notorious for his practicing work ethic & inspired many to be as vigilant. moron
+8 with that club!? Legend
What a great swing , tempo is beautiful
😮 oh no, guess who has one of those whips laying around the house.
YUP!! fair warning better clear out all driving ranges in the southern U.S.
I'm definitely trying this out tomorrow 😅
I watched him on the practice ground at Wentworth, England many moons ago….he was by far the most impressive ball striker there.
VJ had tremendous work ethic.
Back in my playing days when I was pretty good I had one of those. I loved it. It was a great training tool. I didn’t use it a lot…I probably swung it like 10 times on the range before I started my practice session. My practice session didn’t last long either. Maybe another 10-15 minutes before my round. But anyway that thing really helped me to lengthen my backswing a little bit and also slow down my transition. It really helped me to hit the ball straighter.
Good too hear!
Rashad Glover Just the one o required here sir! Cheers
How good do you think you were at your best and what did you learn, as someone who’s a 9 handicap and wants to get better
@@CB-rv2lj Officially I got down to a 1.2 USGA for a little while, but mostly I was a 2.0 during the last two years before I had to abruptly give up the game entirely due to injury. I was only 37 at the time.
Anyway, I’ll just tell you about my game. I used to be ok in high school, then pretty much stopped stopped for a while, then tried picking it up again and I was horrible. No point in even playing, but then I decided to go get fitted for clubs and everything changed. I went for the whole nine yards. Driver, 3 wood, hybrid, irons.
After I did that my long game became almost automatic. But I was never good around the greens though. Mediocre at best chipper and pitcher and downright poor putter. I really should have taken some lessons because I was obviously doing something wrong.
So, for you at least…I’d say to make sure your clubs fit you properly (you might be surprised) and it’s cliche but spend more time than you might want to or think is necessary practicing your short game.
What a beautiful swing!
Great swing
The els, VJ, Mickelson, woods period was absolutely amazing
Probably hit it straighter than my driver
How much confidence do you have to have to do this by the way. It's not enough to be able to do it, you have to be able to do it consistently enough that you're not at risk of shanking one into the crowd. A rec golfer hitting a teed ball could probably hit themselves in the face with it. The dispersion is insane! It really highlights how small a target PGA tour players hit consistently on the face.
that swing is creamy
Mr Grumpy, but such a great golfer over the years!
Vijay, Ernie Els, & Fred Couples... I built my swing as a teenager copying those guys.
that was the purest strike too. insane
Seems like a genius practice drill. If you can hit a ball pure with another ball, you can definitely hit it pure with a club😂
I’ve got me of those basically just to loosen up. Will have to try this.
You should see him nae nae.
LOL, underrated.
who gives a shit what it is , that's a clean swing
well it's the whole point of the video so....
beautiful
Same thing, either way it was damm impressive. :)
VJ is an amazingly talented man. He's a 4 handicap left handed. I can't even drink coffee left handed.
He's scratch Handicap not a 4....
Where u got that 4 hcp? :D
@@dontevntrip8627 read again, LEFT HANDED, like phil mickelson.
@@Jupetuning read again, LEFT HANDED, like phil mickelson.
I read the title and instantly thought about John Candy in Blues Brothers. "Three orange whips"
He is on The Fried Egg podcast all time top 10 flushers list and I have to agree.
Vijay will always be a PGA tour legend, and is undoubtedly one of the all time greats. Also he became World No 1 golfer, and secured the vast majority of his big wins during the time that Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen were competing against him, together with many other great younger players.
A legend, no doubt. However, I wouldn’t say he became #1 when Tiger was at his “brilliant and dominant best”. Vijay became #1 in the world toward the end of the 2004 season, Tiger didn’t win a major in 2003 or 2004. It was actually a “slump” for Tiger which is still saying something. When Woods was at his dominant best, nobody touched him.
Between the 2002 US Open and the 2005 Masters (the length of time between Tiger majors) he won 15 of his 34 PGA TOUR titles, his hottest stretch of his career. Vijay won his last two tournaments (Barclays, Deutche Bank - big events, too) in 2008 after Tiger had his season-ending surgery post-US Open. Vijay has a couple signature wins while Tiger was in form but, respectfully, it’s not the way you’ve painted it. He secured a large number of wins picking up where Tiger temporarily left off (sorry, rest of the field).
I like Vijay, he’s probably taken more wedge grooves off in his career than the next 5 players combined. 34 wins, 3 Majors, Hall of Famer… it doesn’t need context but it does require some clarification from your framing of his best run compared to where Tiger’s game was in relation to his career-best.
Vijay was great but the reality was that during the early 2000's golf was in a down era
If any of you guys are interested in improve your game you can do it by using Golf Kinetics!!
Who tf cares what it is he is using. VJ hits that training tool further and straighter than most of us lol
Most?
Vijay is awesome!
Effortlessly hitting a ball with a slightly bigger ball lol thats wild
⛳. 🏌️♂️
I bet this man and won mucho $, he always showed for years at a time, back to the 90’s
Was that shot skimming across the water the greatest shot in golf??
The third best golfer of the 2000's. Easy to forget just how good VJ was but unfortunately he played in the same era as two of the best the sport has seen in Tiger and Mickelson.
VJ is out there crushing on the Champions tour now as your would expect. It's him and Steve Stricklin for the next 10 years who will dominate that entire tour.
Langher
Insane!
not a orange whip looks more like a SKLZ Gold
It is a SKLZ, I have one. Ive never hit balls with it though, lol.
Smooooooth!!!
that's the difference between an average joe who post golf videos on instagram and a pro.
VJ could tape a rock on a piece of water hose and hit balls better then me with a $600 driver.
Where did this clip get posted that it’s all of a sudden getting comments 3 years later? lol
Algorithm can never explained lol
the only guy who dethrone tiger at the top no1 spot..
Why do so many comments refer to him in the past tense? He just played (Aug 2021)at the Boeing Classic out in WA.
I'm amazed at how many people here care that it's not an orange whip.
Yeah I thought it was bout to be a vid from the 1800s
I clicked for an orange whip.
I expect an orange whip.
This is why I have trust issues
You're not very smart then
@@logandavidson5842 and youre not very nice! Wowzers
@@robertcapostagno2082 The nicest thing you can do is tell someone the truth
That’s not an Orange Whip. It’s a SKLZ Gold Flex Swing Trainer
GOOD EYE. It costs less too
He’s a scratch player from the left hand side also!
Ernie Els is on hold for you. Line 1.
I mean.... At 8 over, why not
I didn't know he was into S & M!
He impressed me when he took mike weirs left handed 8 iron and put ball up by the pin.. like for reals?!!! Amazing talent
Who's that guy in the Grey shirt being such a dude talking to VJ??😎
Tom Watson. Not sure though
@@chm97chm97 assuming that's a joke! for one, tom is much older... for two, vj didn't need intro from tom
That is the sklz gold filex
those shoes tho
I wish I had his flexibility. Very impressive.
Just stretch and exercise more. It's that simple.
Perhaps I should have commented,
"I wish I had his flexibility at this moment, right now."
I have a stretching routine, but results take time.
Thats how the thing works? More than swing in the air!?
I got that thing.. Havent tried that yet tho..gonna hit it fohundy
That man has hit more golf balls than probably anyone on the planet, a true range rat
Even Fletcher from Whiplash would like that tempo.
Bro that's a skill hit stick, used for baseball lmao
The fijian Ben Hogan
1000balls/day
You seen he was 8 over too
Wow what what
Vijay are you also rude at Costco when going down aisles?
I once saw VJ on the range at the Buick Open in Flint, MI. He was warming up and joking around with Steve Flesch when he pulled out Steve's driver and started ripping these easy 290-yard drives. All of them were within a few yards of each other. While 290 yards is impressive, what was more impressive is Steve Flesch is left-handed and right-handed VJ was smoking these drives with Steve's left-handed driver.
That’s not an orange whip. That’s a skilz yellow head practice stick. It’s easy to hit balls with.
That is not an orange whip. Looks like a Gold Flex to me. Rival brand. I have one myself.
This is a good example of how the laws of physics create force in a golf swing via acceleration of club head around hands. Just holding a club over head and dropping it will cause gravity to accelerate it at 32 ft. / sec / sec. The action of side bending and dropping the hands at the start of the downswing adds to that downward force and as the ball catches up with the hands the shaft is seen to be almost straight and it stays straight until his hands slow down starting as they pass his back leg at which point two things happen:
1) the ball at the end keeps accelerating at the rate of gravity flying past the hands causing the shaft to bow forward ( Regular clubs do the same thing.
2) As the shaft starts to bow forward he changes the angle of his back wrist simply by allowing the force pulling on the hands to pull it straight.
I learned to do the same thing in my swing. What the wrist action does is release the “lag” which was created by extending the back hand to the max in the downswing JUST BEFORE IMPACT. That wrist action timed with the point the force tries to bend the shaft forward ( acts to allow the club head to get that extra burst of acceleration before impact putting more force into the ball than if lag (via max extension in the back wrist) were maintained. VJ also uses ulnar deviation before impact which is the same wrist movement used when cracking a whip.
A whip cracks because the tip is breaking the sound barrier (~ 700 mph) due to the same cause and effect: The hand holding the whip handle stops and the whip portion accelerates past the stopped hands.
What causes his hands to show down? Resistance to his hips turning open all the way create by keeping his back foot on the ground. He raises his front heel in the back swing for maximum shoulder turn but observe how long during the downswing and finish he keeps his back heel on the ground and how he raises it up significantly before he turns the foot around.
It is is the release of the back heel that frees up the hips to turn from 45° open to face the target in the finish but he does not do that until the force of the mass on the end of the stick has been allowed time to pull his trail arm straight.
Keeping the back foot on the ground creates the resistance to allow the club to pull the trail arm straight. When it does it SLOWS DOWN THE CLUB HEAD by transmitting the considerable force remaining in the club head down the arm and body to the ground. Balanced is maintained while doing that in the same way you keep balance playing ‘tug-of-war” with a rope - plant the lead foot and lean the body mass back counter to the the direction the club is pulling.
The way VJ executes that post-impact extension so ideally is why he has such a slow and graceful finish. There is barely enough energy left in the club to force it to flip up and then back over his shoulder with a thumb-up “hitch-hiking” radial deviation of the both wrists which then causes the elbows to bend in the finish.
His is a very efficient swing because he allows the club force to do all the work, which is the point of using a training aid like the Orange Whip which exaggerates the force. But save your money. The same drill done with a kitchen broom stuck in the belly works just as well.
Tell me more
Thank you, Bryson.
Shut up
@@Timmeh2Buck "how dare you learn me a thing! I almost had to read it!" This post isnt for you dude. Dont bash people actually providing useful info.
Excellent explanation- after 4 or 5 reads for us mere mortals
The cheat .. why is he getting any air time, most hated player on tour
Wow lol
No wonder he is 8 over playing with that
Maybe thats why hes 8 over
I wonder what that training aid is supposed to do?
Tempo
BTW it’s not an Orange Whip. It’s a SKILZ swing trainer. They’re both essentially the same thing though.
That’s not an orange whip that’s a SKLZ swing trainer. I have one and it helps with my path and tempo.
But the fact that he’s hitting drives with it tells you how awesome the man is as a golfer.
6 of one; half dozen of another (at least as it applies to hitting golf balls with one or the other). Talk about splitting hairs.
That’s not the orange whip that’s the skills trainer
It's not that either... it's a sklz gold flex trainer...
That is a baseball too actually. Had one for my kid when he was younger. Vijay isn’t using it like it is designed for, but still pretty cool.
dude thats an orange whip and its a highly marketed golf swing aid but nice try there
@@sodawaterlime maybe so… looks a lot like a SKLZ hitting stick… probably same manufacturer.
Used to really like Vijay till I found out he cheated.
That's not an orange whip
Its mostly VJ talking with some rando..
And considered a cheat by most of the guys he played with....don't hate it's what most thought of him!
That is not the orange whip, that isa cheaper verison of the wgip!
What an advertisement for the more value-based option!
@@llamont2336 Thank you Orange Whip!
Always have respect for VJ but with that said he's getting very old & barely makes any cuts anymore! So my question is how does his caddie make any money at all???
that's a ball hitting another ball and probably going straight, with a full swing, not freek'n easy!
I agree..hes underrated. I saw him hit an upside down 6 iron, left handed and made it stick on the green from like 160-170. If he just would have stopped all that "rags under the arms" connection nonsense...it RUINS swings as it's a misconception for the most part.
'how did you do it with that thing'' ''Really really cool''? uhhhhh this is what you are supposed to be able to do with the whip trainer, watch videos on it and you will see, high handicappers hit balls with the whip, its not that ''cool''
Not an Orange whip, change the video title.
It's a Baseball Hitting Training Stick.
Its not. Its a golf swing speed & accuracy trainer. They are all over Amazon & ebay.
The dumbest sports comment ever is one that Steve Sands mentioned here. I think Ted Williams said it....the toughest thing to do in sports is to hit a round baseball with a round bat. Just a nonsensial statement (not even sure the 90 miles per hour part of the quote is true). I mean, it has to be the dumbest quote ever. There are thousands of things in sport tougher than that. Ted Williams was a liar, as well. He said something dumb about being able to see the seems on the ball or something ridiculous, plus that he divided up the plate into like 90 sections. Absurd stuff.
I can hit a ball with an orange whip, but it doesn't go straight.
That’s not an Orange Whip
Not well liked on tour and has been caught
cheating before, check it out!
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