Keeping that lead arm tucked into the upper side of my chest/armpit at the start of backswing parallel, all the way thru impact, has brought way more consistency w/ my irons than I've ever had before. As long as my lead wrist makes a smooth turn once it passes below club parallel again. Thx Russ 👍
This is BUNK. I'm 53, I use a standard 45.5 inch driver, and I swing a full rotation beyond horizontal a bit with a smooth move with a more flexible shaft though it's labeled S, it's a bit softer than labelled, get a solid contact, and I get about 275 yards carry - and that's all because of the length of the club, the COR of the driver head, a hard, fast ball, optimised launch and carry with the correct spin, and because I can get my backswing to a good spot - NOT because I'm swinging EASY - NOBODY should swing easy if they want more distance - no matter what the swing looks like, you have to have SPEED - and if I want MORE SPEED - I SWING HARDER, and try to WHIP that clubhead as HARD as I CAN with MORE ROTATION and MORE ARM SPEED and a HARDER YANK at the shaft than my normal lazy swing. There is NO EASY in golf, not at all, that is a bollocks myth perpetuated by Tour Pros telling rookies and up and comers to get lost back in the day when they weren't the types of players who grew up playing the game with coaches through high schools and colleges being fine tuned as athletes unlike now.
Yikes I'm not sure anybody should be yanking their shaft so hard! But seriously, there's lots of semantics and misunderstandings in describing a proper golf swing, because there are "feels" and "reals". The point is the proper swing does indeed feel easy because you have mastered the real. The real being proper weight distribution and proper tension between upper and lower. Once you have that firmly in your grasp the radius is locked in place for you to unleash on that little ball with whatever you've got. I could make another analogy to your claims to yanking hard, but you catch my drift.
@@djpoints Of course!!! But usually when people are told to swing hard or try to, they are yanking the handle and mistime it, right? But for ME, my own feel, I grip as tight as I could and swing as hard I can, that's just how I FEEl, versus how it LOOKS to you, it might look smooth, but on the inside, I am swinging my arse off. Looking at all the varied swings over time and even currently on Tour, there is no PROPER. Scheffler exemplifies it, a prime example
@@TheOtherKine totally! I feel ya! I think you're correct and it's a very valuable subject!...reminds of a major lightbulb moment some years ago that launched my deeper exploration of the swing. It had to with an interview of Freddie couples who like many younger men i always wanted to look like. So I made a swing that looked cool and easy. Looked good, but results were lacking because i had too much testosterone and naturally resorted back to my love of gripping it and ripping it. But then I saw his interview where he said, "it looks like I'm swinging easy, but believe me I'm swinging with everything I've got". Wow. That was a major lightbulb moment in my journey.
The consistent rope swing theme is fantastic and man I could watch Nelly all day 🤓. You have my permission to highlight her as much as you want ☺
Keeping that lead arm tucked into the upper side of my chest/armpit at the start of backswing parallel, all the way thru impact, has brought way more consistency w/ my irons than I've ever had before. As long as my lead wrist makes a smooth turn once it passes below club parallel again. Thx Russ 👍
How much tension do you have in your lead and trail arm?
This is BUNK.
I'm 53, I use a standard 45.5 inch driver, and I swing a full rotation beyond horizontal a bit with a smooth move with a more flexible shaft though it's labeled S, it's a bit softer than labelled, get a solid contact, and I get about 275 yards carry -
and that's all because of the length of the club, the COR of the driver head, a hard, fast ball, optimised launch and carry with the correct spin, and because I can get my backswing to a good spot -
NOT because I'm swinging EASY -
NOBODY should swing easy if they want more distance - no matter what the swing looks like, you have to have SPEED -
and if I want MORE SPEED - I SWING HARDER, and try to WHIP that clubhead as HARD as I CAN with MORE ROTATION and MORE ARM SPEED and a HARDER YANK at the shaft than my normal lazy swing.
There is NO EASY in golf, not at all, that is a bollocks myth perpetuated by Tour Pros telling rookies and up and comers to get lost back in the day when they weren't the types of players who grew up playing the game with coaches through high schools and colleges being fine tuned as athletes unlike now.
Yikes I'm not sure anybody should be yanking their shaft so hard!
But seriously, there's lots of semantics and misunderstandings in describing a proper golf swing, because there are "feels" and "reals". The point is the proper swing does indeed feel easy because you have mastered the real. The real being proper weight distribution and proper tension between upper and lower. Once you have that firmly in your grasp the radius is locked in place for you to unleash on that little ball with whatever you've got. I could make another analogy to your claims to yanking hard, but you catch my drift.
@@djpoints Of course!!! But usually when people are told to swing hard or try to, they are yanking the handle and mistime it, right? But for ME, my own feel, I grip as tight as I could and swing as hard I can, that's just how I FEEl, versus how it LOOKS to you, it might look smooth, but on the inside, I am swinging my arse off. Looking at all the varied swings over time and even currently on Tour, there is no PROPER. Scheffler exemplifies it, a prime example
@@TheOtherKine totally! I feel ya! I think you're correct and it's a very valuable subject!...reminds of a major lightbulb moment some years ago that launched my deeper exploration of the swing. It had to with an interview of Freddie couples who like many younger men i always wanted to look like. So I made a swing that looked cool and easy. Looked good, but results were lacking because i had too much testosterone and naturally resorted back to my love of gripping it and ripping it. But then I saw his interview where he said, "it looks like I'm swinging easy, but believe me I'm swinging with everything I've got". Wow. That was a major lightbulb moment in my journey.