- TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF SWING IT LIKE A HELICOPTER PRO
- TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF SWING IT LIKE A HELICOPTER PROFESSIONAL
TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF SWING IT LIKE A HELICOPTER PRO
A great teaching pro is a major asset to anyone who wants to play the game seriously.īut that said, most teaching pros only teach the physical aspects and that is only 20 per cent of the game. Most of who they teach are people who have been doing it wrong since the beginning and probably never learned correct basics. Teaching pros have a tough job trying to get people to understand the physical aspects of the swing. Yeah, OK, the heads of teaching pros all over Vietnam just simultaneously exploded. I can take someone who never hit a golf ball in their life and have them hitting almost picture perfect 7-irons within 10 minutes.
If there is a secret to playing golf, it certainly isn’t in the physical aspects. Sam Snead (perhaps the greatest swing ever) swung like nobody else.īut every one of them made the swing work for them. Lee Trevino certainly didn’t swing like Ben Hogan, and Ben Hogan didn’t swing like Jack Nicklaus. If you look at the old Tour players, they had many different swings which worked for them individually. There really is no secret to golf the physical aspects of golf except that “there really is no secret to golf to the physical aspects of golf.” These are all natural athletic principles. The same principles I used to hit baseballs over the fence, or to launch 90 mph slap shots in Ice Hockey applies to golf as well. I have changed by swing only twice since I picked up the game 53 years ago.įor most of my life I kept it as natural as possible, relying on common sense and my natural athletic ability. I can continue to make fun of him because it’s so easy, but the bottom line is he shot a phenomenal round of golf and deserves all the respect in the world for it. People say he is one of the hardest working guys out there when it comes to practice time, especially on his putting stroke which does seem to change from day to day, hour to hour.īut it all came together for him, that’s for sure. The guy is all go…and yes some show, but that’s a accident of birth most likely. He’s a Casper Milktoast kind of looking guy when he takes his cap off, but the comparison ends there when he gets ready to play. If anything, he looks like maybe an accountant or an insurance salesman.
TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF SWING IT LIKE A HELICOPTER PROFESSIONAL
To look at Jim Furyk, he doesn’t really “look” like a professional athlete. Nevertheless it worked and he went on to become “Mr 58” by posting a score that will not be beaten for quite a long time. A better question would be if Furyk has any mechanics in the first place? How the swing “feels” rather than actual mechanics. It seems they like to concentrate mostly on “feel”. However, on occasion it also looks like a spasmodic contortion brought on by a few bees getting into his shirt.Īfter putting up a few scores in the low 70’s, Furyk called home to talk with his father who gave him a little advice. Yes, I am taking about Jim Fuyrk…and yes, his swing DOES look like an octopus falling out of a tree. How does a guy with a golf swing that looks like “an octopus falling out of a tree” (Kudos to David Feherty, for one of the funniest descriptions of a golf swing that I have ever heard in my life) manage to break the PGA Tour record with a 58 on Sunday at the Travelers Championship?