@@epakerd I love watching Rory swing. And I think he's the closest thing to Couples on the modern tour. But you're right. Ultimately, there's just no comparison.
@@nate_feag8044 ernie is close but tiger put in countless hours and thousands of swings to become as great as he was,Freddie just has it naturally. Just roll a ball, swing and repeat. Lol
Even though he’s only hitting the first couple of wedges 50-60 yards notice how he still finishes with a full follow through. Proof he’s swinging the club and the ball is getting in the way. He and Ernie Els definitely two of the sweet swingers in the recent era.
Many moons ago I walked the fairways at the Long Beach Open with Freddie and Corey Pavin. It was the tournament where Fred turned pro. He was carrying his Houston golf bag and on windy holes he would kick up a tuft of grass on the tee and hit his driver right off the deck. It was sheer luck that I picked that group to follow...they were unknowns. No galleries or ropes. This was at El Dorado CC.
Freddy has been my fav pro since he started almost. Love his swing! Wish the Champions Tour has a Live broadcast similar to PGA Live - I would switch over in a heartbeat!
Hey guys I’m watching this video the night before my counties match tomorrow. I’m a senior in highschool and shot a 70 in the practice round which is the best anyone has ever shot in highschool counties history around me so I’m trying to win tomorrow. This video is helping me think slowly and relaxed so I just felt like sharing that. Peace everyone
It’s like after each shot he’s trying to catch up on the driving range gossip. I’ve met him twice the last 20 years and he’s always so friendly to his fans.
this is so calming for me. what a beautiful swing! i wonder why, given how effortless his swing seems, he's had so many back problems?? seems like a nice guy. i've always liked fred.
Open stance push swing. He aligns himself left of his target and pushes the swing in order for it to go straight towards his target. This is not at all good for your lower back and in later years he’s talked about how he’s trying to square his stance because of the lower back problems it causes.
Bought my first set of Lynx parallax irons and boom boom woods because of FC. Still have them and still swing them from time to time. Love watching him swing.
Have you seen the cable channels that just show a hearth with some Yule logs burning during the holidays to help you chill out? The Golf Channel should have this range session on during the holidays for us golfers who live in cold climates. My blood pressure goes down just watching this swing! I watched him hit 3 woods,one after the other,over the back fence of the driving range at Oakmont with the same languid,effortless swing. He mesmerized you with his tempo!!
I keep thinking , gosh, he’s probably done this a million times and he still seems like he’s into every single shot. And I need to know who the 8 people are who hit thumbs down... Langer? McCarron? Fletsch? Monty?
A lot of the younger tour pros could learn from this man. His attitude is so easy going. I am sure he gets disappointed when he isn’t playing well. But his demeanour never changes. There are three people I would love to just sit and talk to in the world. Fred is one of them.
Saw him swing at a Jr event in Pilchuck WA when he was 14 and I was 17. Same amazing tempo. Before they called him Boom-boom, we called him Bam-Bam because he was so small and hit it so long!
Same as how you get to Carnegie Hall... Whenever I feel myself rushing or just out of sync, I "walk like Freddie" and the tension just leaves me... Really helps with putting...
8:57 is the highlight of the whole thing. Commentary about Crazy Chicken in Akron, a muted f-bomb from Freddy, and an impressive ball scratch. Good stuff man.
He puts very little effort into the swing but it still carries and gets the distance he wants. So textbook and calm at the same time. Virtually perfect!!!
My favorite of all time! Only guy I've seen almost in full sprawled out nap faze waiting for other players to hit. Davis Love III dared to grace the same fairways
@@AW93_ Freddy' s being modest. He hasn't missed the center of the club face since he we 16. He has a dime sized wear make on the sweet spot on his irons
I was there about 900 yards away. There was nobody allowed there except the volunteers. Got to follow Freddie and Ernie around. Freddie blocked one on 7 to the right into the woods. He hit a root on his second shot through the trees to 15 ft of the pin. Beautiful shot even if he wasn’t hitting them well that week.
Outside of grip, posture and alignment, forget everything you've ever been taught about the golf swing and just watch this video everyday for one year....scratch golfer.
Whenever my swing breaks down I review Fred's smooth timing. Not hard nor fast just smooth and complete. His dispersion must be no more than two yards!
You can if you choose to. The idea of pain and related maladies gives you the only excuse needed to not try harder. Do something else for entertainment that’s easy and ready made for the feeble minded. They tell me checkers is a safe bet.
Oh that rythem and tempo is to die for as a guy in his mid 60s I watch videos of Freddie I used to swing hard with a high mph swing speed long but sometimes erratic now because of injuries age and the limitations they've caused I've slowed my tempo right down changed from stiff to regular flex shafts and still hit it just as far if not further with a more rytmical swing and results so much more consistent and with the lowest handicap in my mid 60s I've ever had think tempo and rythem before hitting every shot on course think Fred couple's it will help your game immensely
The beauty of Freddy Couples swing is it’s just an upper body turn with very little hip movement on the back swing and a nice easy weight shift going forward but with club head speed. No muscle tightening and rigidity like a springing tiger of today’s PGA players.
I remember swinging like Couples back when I was learning to.play.....I watched Jack Nicklaus and used his swing as a model .....read "How I Play Golf" and watched the videos. Then Couples became my favorite because I used to lift the club.....it felt natural......and drop it in the slot......then I started reading Hogan and other instruction books and tried all these things. Before that I had a huge shoulder turn that my group I used to play with would marvel at.....and with my Lynx Boom Boom driver......that Couples played with......which had the head of my 3 wood today and steel shaft.....I could easily drive 300 yard par 4's because I just swung freely and let it go. Then I tried to get in all these positions and better my swing....would work here and there but would do so for a round then I would lose it and have to find again. Went back to just lifting the club and dropping into the slot with pitches, chips, irons, drivers, etc., and played so much better. Like Couples my driver became my favorite club again.....and Putter. Not a scratch player but can match any group I play with no matterthe skill level all because I played whzt I naturally felt and it was ok for my elbow to fly.....LOL
I think I know his method. Full shoulder turn combined with big arm lift above shoulder shoulder plane. A ticket to effortless club head speed thanks to gravity. Keeps his right foot down as long as possible which is pulled up in follow through secondary to the momentum of the club and rotating torso.
I remember at some point somewhere someone said Freddy use to start off hitting 3 irons slowly to begin with. Like 100 yards. This obviously isn’t the case here. Not sure if it ever was with his bad back issues.
Yes people always comment on his swing looks so smooth and stress-less/effortless. So how did he manage to wreck his back playing golf with that swing?
from his Wiki bio: back injuries have affected Couples' career. His swing features an extreme shoulder turn at the top, which, combined with the fact that he keeps his left foot flat on the ground throughout the backswing, puts a lot of pressure on his lower back.
When Freddie turns around he looks a bit like Johnny Carson. He absolutely has the silkiest swing around, even now. I bet he can still air it out 300 yards on the fly...
What might be cool is a Super Bowl of Golf. The PGA Tour vs PGA Champions - top 5 or so from each tour going at it like the President's Cup or the Ryder Cup.
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Keep this bookmarked. Whenever you feel stressed, just come here for 5 or 10 minutes, and it'll smooth you right out.
True!
LOL ... Yup!
And the entire congregation said amen.
Done my man. It's one of the few vids I watch regularly before going out to golf. Such a beautiful tempo.
Ha, ha. Funny comment
No glove...no alignment rods...no gimmicky stuff. Just flow, tempo, simplicity. And a light breeze with birds chirping.. Amen, Freddy.
Man, if I could summarize the beauty of golf in one video this is it...just so peaceful
Amen
Maybe he would of won more
Majors if he had all that gimmicky stuff😅😅😅
There should be a channel devoted only to watching Fred Couples swing.
Check out Boom Boom channel.
ruscopcoltrain and they say Rory has the nicest swing. I say hahaha to that!
@@epakerd I love watching Rory swing. And I think he's the closest thing to Couples on the modern tour. But you're right. Ultimately, there's just no comparison.
there exit an classical music version
th-cam.com/video/5ZzqI5aQp-0/w-d-xo.html
sign me up.
He may have more natural talent than any other golfer. He makes it look so effortless. A true thing of beauty.
Lol
Ernie els and tiger
@@nate_feag8044 ernie is close but tiger put in countless hours and thousands of swings to become as great as he was,Freddie just has it naturally. Just roll a ball, swing and repeat. Lol
@@davyjones922 yeah from what I heard, Freddy didn’t practice much he just played a lot of rounds
Even though he’s only hitting the first couple of wedges 50-60 yards notice how he still finishes with a full follow through. Proof he’s swinging the club and the ball is getting in the way. He and Ernie Els definitely two of the sweet swingers in the recent era.
Many moons ago I walked the fairways at the Long Beach Open with Freddie and Corey Pavin. It was the tournament where Fred turned pro. He was carrying his Houston golf bag and on windy holes he would kick up a tuft of grass on the tee and hit his driver right off the deck. It was sheer luck that I picked that group to follow...they were unknowns. No galleries or ropes. This was at El Dorado CC.
I played there once visiting my buddy in Redondo
I followed Fred at Oakmont in the mid 80’s. He did the same thing.
nice, i saw fred for a few holes at pebble in the mid 90's, also saw clint in the crowd up close.
Could literally watch this all day
You have to love Fred’s rhythm. It’s almost like in his head he’s going “andddddd whatever.”
Exactly
Yeah!! 😂👍
Couples and Seve, two of my favorite swings.
Still remember his quote to the press in the late 80s " I usually don't answer my phone, there's probably someone on the other end" 🤣🤣🤣
Freddy’s swing is the epitome of the phrase “timing is everything”! Best swing ever.
Him and Ernie Els
The most pleasing swing in golf to watch. It’s calming watching Fred Couples hit golf balls.
I could watch this all day on a loop. It’s just so...simple...perfect...effortless
Just watching his swing for a few minutes before I play knocks shots off my score. That tempo is money!
Freddy has been my fav pro since he started almost. Love his swing! Wish the Champions Tour has a Live broadcast similar to PGA Live - I would switch over in a heartbeat!
Hey guys I’m watching this video the night before my counties match tomorrow. I’m a senior in highschool and shot a 70 in the practice round which is the best anyone has ever shot in highschool counties history around me so I’m trying to win tomorrow. This video is helping me think slowly and relaxed so I just felt like sharing that. Peace everyone
Good luck this season. You picked one of the all time greats to model. Smoothest swing in golf. Ever.
Thank you for this. I could watch hours of Freddy. The range sessions are really a treat.
Not sure what's nicer, the swing, or the range grass. My local spot looks like it was hit with mortars the week prior.
🤣🤣❤️❤️🤣
I’d take mortars any day. My local place looks like it was nuked 😂
Ours gets fertilized with soil sterilant.
That is the driving range at Firestone just played there a couple of weeks ago. The range still looks the same.
This is great to watch, super relaxed swing, great tempo
It’s like after each shot he’s trying to catch up on the driving range gossip. I’ve met him twice the last 20 years and he’s always so friendly to his fans.
Feel asleep watching. Woke up and he was still hitting balls
this is so calming for me. what a beautiful swing! i wonder why, given how effortless his swing seems, he's had so many back problems?? seems like a nice guy. i've always liked fred.
Open stance push swing. He aligns himself left of his target and pushes the swing in order for it to go straight towards his target. This is not at all good for your lower back and in later years he’s talked about how he’s trying to square his stance because of the lower back problems it causes.
Plus he's a long hitter. He swings the club very fast.
Watching Freddie is good for my swing. His tempo is perfect. So is his ball striking
Freddie has got the smoothest swing in golf.
Ernie els
Either one.....they are smooth as silk
@@Kanchen8 at one point, about 15 years ago, i was trying to mimic ernie's swing.
Sam Snead as well
Oosthuizen has gotta be up there too
GEEZ! At 60 years old!? He swings smoother than pro's half his age! My generation best golfer by far.
The most fluid swing in golf.
I could watch him swing all day. So smooth, so perfect. Looks effortless. I wish I could do it like him. Best swing in the pga
His timing is impeccable such a beautiful move through the ball
I love how he didn't know the shaft in his L wedge when the rep asked him. Love that about Freddy all feel.
Wedge shots hes using weight of his arms (gravity) only. I incorporated this myself after watching him long ago. Consistent and saves alot of energy
Bought my first set of Lynx parallax irons and boom boom woods because of FC. Still have them and still swing them from time to time. Love watching him swing.
He has such an effortless swing it's so smooth ⛳
That is one of the best ranges I have ever seen!!!!
the swing you could watch all day, just so relaxing to watch. i like to watch before i go out and play, maybe it'll rub off on me i hope.
Because of all the bad media these days, i am going to cancel my cable subscription and just play this in a loop. my world will be much better....
He makes the golf swing look so natural and effortless.
One of the all time best swings in golf.
I love to watch peoples golf swings on the range. This one is is a cut above them all.
Have you seen the cable channels that just show a hearth with some Yule logs burning during the holidays to help you chill out? The Golf Channel should have this range session on during the holidays for us golfers who live in cold climates. My blood pressure goes down just watching this swing! I watched him hit 3 woods,one after the other,over the back fence of the driving range at Oakmont with the same languid,effortless swing. He mesmerized you with his tempo!!
smooth Freddie :) ..one of my all-time faves
I keep thinking , gosh, he’s probably done this a million times and he still seems like he’s into every single shot. And I need to know who the 8 people are who hit thumbs down... Langer? McCarron? Fletsch? Monty?
There’s not enough O’s In smooth to describe his swing!❤
Freaking effortless! Incredible!❤
Great to see Bernhard there as well 😊
A lot of the younger tour pros could learn from this man. His attitude is so easy going. I am sure he gets disappointed when he isn’t playing well. But his demeanour never changes. There are three people I would love to just sit and talk to in the world. Fred is one of them.
Saw him swing at a Jr event in Pilchuck WA when he was 14 and I was 17. Same amazing tempo. Before they called him Boom-boom, we called him Bam-Bam because he was so small and hit it so long!
Great Story!
Mt Pilchuck was one of my favorite hikes. Played many courses around that area when I lived in Lynnwood and Everett.
Same as how you get to Carnegie Hall...
Whenever I feel myself rushing or just out of sync, I "walk like Freddie" and the tension just leaves me... Really helps with putting...
Ol Boom Boom still has the smoothest swing in golf. Always perfectly balanced.
"Like ... butter" -- Johnny Miller on Fred's swing.
The greatest swing ever in the history of golf .
The coolest sound I ever heard is him hitting his approach to 14 in the 92 Masters. Find it on TH-cam, it's at 1:56:00 in the video. Amazing!
Just watched it, and wow what a sound
That’s the purest iron shot I’ve ever heard
man that is so true! will definitely go back to it 700 times until the end of the year
Well that was the reaction to having the microphone right on top of the swing.
8:57 is the highlight of the whole thing. Commentary about Crazy Chicken in Akron, a muted f-bomb from Freddy, and an impressive ball scratch. Good stuff man.
fred seems like the one guy that doesn't need a coach, a natural.
Crazy... Bernard Langer , arguably the greatest Champions Tour player of all time, looks like a 12 handicapper next to Fred.
The greatest natural swing in the history of golf.
Mr Fred Couples, ladies and gentlemen.
Payne Stewart and Fred Couples, my two favourite golfers. Both have beautiful languid swings. Effortless power.
Had. The plane went down.
He puts very little effort into the swing but it still carries and gets the distance he wants. So textbook and calm at the same time. Virtually perfect!!!
My favorite of all time! Only guy I've seen almost in full sprawled out nap faze waiting for other players to hit. Davis Love III dared to grace the same fairways
Wish he had won more Majors. Love this golf swing.
back acted up in his prime
I can't decide if this or staring at aquarium fish is more relaxing.
Looks like he's ready to fall asleep but never misses the center of the club face
marc marini I saw an interview with Freddie when he said there was a time he went like 7 years without ever having a mishit.
@@arthurford829 i havent hit one iron flush for 2 years 😶
@@arthurford829 thanks Arthur. I'm a big Freddy Fan. And who isn't !
@@AW93_ Freddy' s being modest. He hasn't missed the center of the club face since he we 16. He has a dime sized wear make on the sweet spot on his irons
@@marcmarini6365 how does he do it? Its almost supernatural- God given talent.
32:44 best sounding driver.
Honestly, I think I would enjoy just hanging out at the practice facility for an afternoon.
What a beautiful range! 😊
From his first swing to his last swing, no matter what club he’s using, it is the exact same swing.
Same tempo, not the same swing
That's the most impressive part too.
@@stephendibari5010 it should be the same swing for all your clubs.
Great timing and sequence lessons for every golfer still
I just woke up. How long have I been out?
The most beautiful swing with or without the extra weight around the middle.
I was there about 900 yards away. There was nobody allowed there except the volunteers. Got to follow Freddie and Ernie around. Freddie blocked one on 7 to the right into the woods. He hit a root on his second shot through the trees to 15 ft of the pin. Beautiful shot even if he wasn’t hitting them well that week.
Outside of grip, posture and alignment, forget everything you've ever been taught about the golf swing and just watch this video everyday for one year....scratch golfer.
Whenever my swing breaks down I review Fred's smooth timing. Not hard nor fast just smooth and complete. His dispersion must be no more than two yards!
Fred's caddie is dialed so hard into that material man.
Fred and Na Yeon Choi....marvels.
We’ll throw in the Euro Tour player Raphael Jacquelin as well - not as successful, but terrifically smooth and easy.
He could hit a raw egg and make it land softly on the range again without breaking 😊. Brilliant swing - best ever...
What a lineup of legends.
I am amazed Fred can hit that many warm up balls with his back issue, I sure cant.
Im 40 and im limited on warm up balls..
You can if you choose to. The idea of pain and related maladies gives you the only excuse needed to not try harder. Do something else for entertainment that’s easy and ready made for the feeble minded. They tell me checkers is a safe bet.
get a massage gun, it will change your golf life. It vibrates your joints and loosens them up better than anything else.
Do you two guys know what long time chronic lower back pain feels like? Not that simple you know.
I live it every day.....was a good single digit golfer....had to quit the game I loved.@@generalgrant3189
Meditation for golfers. 👌🏼
Oh that rythem and tempo is to die for as a guy in his mid 60s I watch videos of Freddie I used to swing hard with a high mph swing speed long but sometimes erratic now because of injuries age and the limitations they've caused I've slowed my tempo right down changed from stiff to regular flex shafts and still hit it just as far if not further with a more rytmical swing and results so much more consistent and with the lowest handicap in my mid 60s I've ever had think tempo and rythem before hitting every shot on course think Fred couple's it will help your game immensely
This is as relaxing as a lofi channel.
Its like a warm hug.
The most demoralizing video to watch. How can he not have the urge to hit ? Gifted. Beautiful.
And the greatest snr tour player behind him!
The beauty of Freddy Couples swing is it’s just an upper body turn with very little hip movement on the back swing and a nice easy weight shift going forward but with club head speed. No muscle tightening and rigidity like a springing tiger of today’s PGA players.
I could (did) watch that for hours. It's Ali in the ring, Senna in the McLaren and Röhrl in the S1: perfect!
God that’s beautiful. Same swing since the 80’s
I remember swinging like Couples back when I was learning to.play.....I watched Jack Nicklaus and used his swing as a model .....read "How I Play Golf" and watched the videos.
Then Couples became my favorite because I used to lift the club.....it felt natural......and drop it in the slot......then I started reading Hogan and other instruction books and tried all these things.
Before that I had a huge shoulder turn that my group I used to play with would marvel at.....and with my Lynx Boom Boom driver......that Couples played with......which had the head of my 3 wood today and steel shaft.....I could easily drive 300 yard par 4's because I just swung freely and let it go.
Then I tried to get in all these positions and better my swing....would work here and there but would do so for a round then I would lose it and have to find again.
Went back to just lifting the club and dropping into the slot with pitches, chips, irons, drivers, etc., and played so much better.
Like Couples my driver became my favorite club again.....and Putter.
Not a scratch player but can match any group I play with no matterthe skill level all because I played whzt I naturally felt and it was ok for my elbow to fly.....LOL
Is that just the best golf swing ever ? 👍🏌️♀️⛳️
When people say, "Swing easy." this is what they mean.
When I swing this easy, the ball goes 14 yards.
@@erimei8478 true, he is swinging fast, just smooth tempo makes it look slow.
Rare but true... Carlos Franco, Ernie Els
Smooth....I've always liked Freddie, just a cool cat all around.
A swing like a man totally at ease with the world !
This range...is such a target rich environment.
I think I know his method. Full shoulder turn combined with big arm lift above shoulder shoulder plane. A ticket to effortless club head speed thanks to gravity. Keeps his right foot down as long as possible which is pulled up in follow through secondary to the momentum of the club and rotating torso.
I remember at some point somewhere someone said Freddy use to start off hitting 3 irons slowly to begin with. Like 100 yards. This obviously isn’t the case here. Not sure if it ever was with his bad back issues.
Ángel Cabrera spotted there, maybe the last time he was outside!
GREAT SWING PERIOD. FC IS A COOL DUDE✌
Yes people always comment on his swing looks so smooth and stress-less/effortless. So how did he manage to wreck his back playing golf with that swing?
It was not due to his golf swing.
@@saabtech3510 Okay, but I don't recall ever reading or hearing either way.
from his Wiki bio: back injuries have affected Couples' career. His swing features an extreme shoulder turn at the top, which, combined with the fact that he keeps his left foot flat on the ground throughout the backswing, puts a lot of pressure on his lower back.
Don’t try any pill to relax watch Freddy swing and you will forget your stress
hey,who filmed this ???swing the camera a bit to the right,now we have two great players Couples and Cabrera.!!
When Freddie turns around he looks a bit like Johnny Carson. He absolutely has the silkiest swing around, even now. I bet he can still air it out 300 yards on the fly...
Somebody wake me up when this is over -- too smooth....
What might be cool is a Super Bowl of Golf. The PGA Tour vs PGA Champions - top 5 or so from each tour going at it like the President's Cup or the Ryder Cup.
I want to know who Fred said couldn't run an ice cream truck but was making 45 million a year...
He's talking about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Time stamp?
Same here !
@@alexkimball7131 absofuckinglutely
Goodell now makes over 60 million a year.........still can't run an ice cream truck.