Running 2021 Golf Thread

VERY clever.

 

There are some other tour pros with a mostly upper body swing. A few weeks ago I changed to the single plane swing, with some similarities to Bryson's. Search Moe Norman or Todd Graves on YouTube to see for yourself. I added 40 yards to my drives and mostly eliminated slicing.

 

Take it from an old. Time will shorten your backswing considerably. As a result, I am straighter and shorter off the tee and make more consistent solid contact with my irons. Now if age only had some help for putting...

 

I'm well on the downside of my athletic prime but I'm hitting the ball farther and more consistent than ever off the tee (I hit 12 of 14 fairways yesterday; irons are strangely the same as 30 yrs ago). For me, I've just discovered that the speed of the swing is irrelevant to distance and is the biggest offender to mishits. My swing key is to keep everything, hands, arms, and shoulders in sync (at same speed) with the hips and that helps hit the ball square. I used to try to max out my swing speed, dead wrong for me. Now I swing probably at 50% and still get it out there 200+ flat carry. Sorry, last personal golf story.

 

The beauty of the single plane swing is that it eliminates variables and refines biomechanics. One doesn't need a lot of upper body turn to load up, and it's straightforward when diagnosing mis-hits.

 

I'd guess something like 80 percent of my bad shots come from swinging too fast.

 

Swing as hard as you want with single plane; even bad shots are playable. I'm swinging faster than I did 25 years ago.

 

I get theory, I do (one guy in my senior league swears by it), but I have never ever been able to keep my body still enough if I swing too fast.

 

Proved, Michael, not a theory.

 

It's like everything else in golf. Theory works for some, not for all. That's why it's still just an idea, not an absolite.

 

IMHO the best thing is knowing what caused the miss.