I was a young tennis pro at the time. A buddy and I walked from Carmel Beach to the dunes north where we saw all the people walking down from. It was the 1977 PGA championship, and we got tickets from the people leaving and headed to Carmel. At the time I definitely considered golf to be a "sissy" sport. So we get up the dune and the crowd was massive. All of a sudden the crowd parted kind of like Moses parting the Red Sea. And there he was, Jack Nicklaus. I don't know what hole it was but I do remember being directly behind the tee box by shear luck, with our backs to the ocean and Nicklaus hitting towards the east. So Jack tees off and I have never seen anyone in any sport hit a ball that hard. The noise at impact was sonic and the ball took off like a jet, dead straight and staying about 20 feet off the ground until it was almost out of sight and then it rose up into the sky and KEPT GOING. Trust me, in comparison, todays's big hitters are politely waving at it. A young Nicklaus with today's equipment? I couldn't even guess.
Jack wasn't tall but had an upright swing.Jack had great legs in his prime.He had a great instinct to have every thing working together.To hit the ball solid as far as he did with the old persimmon driver and the ball back then he was absolutely crushing it.He was never that long with his irons.He played them for distance and control.
Use to be on a forum a long time ago, and there were some old timers on there that told some great stories about having seen Jack back in his heyday. One the best was when the narrator was watching Jack on the range a the Masters. He was hitting 5 irons to 180 yd sign. Then some guy starts mouthing off how he hits his 5 iron 180. Jack steps away, glances back, and then steps in and flies one to 225 yard sign, he then turns and say I hit my 5 iron 180 because thats how far I want to hit it. I'm old enough to have played wound balata in the 80s and 90s, and those were much longer than the atti-pattern balata of the 60's, so the idea of a 225 5 iron of that era kind of boggles my mind.
The first golf instruction book I bought in the mid 1980s was Jack’s “Golf My Way” so naturally I tried to model my swing on his but found difficulty getting consistent ball striking with it because it has so many moving parts and relies a lot on athletic coordination of which Jack obviously has more of then I-why he won 18 majors and I haven’t 😂 After re-learning the swing in 2007 using Hogan’s “Five Lessons” I found his swing style far easier to execute because it is more mechanical, utilizing the maxing out out joints and muscle torque instead of the “feel” I found the Nicklaus swing required. Specifically Jack’s hand and shoulder first takeaway, which required the lifting up front heel to get the shoulders squared and keeping the back leg bent were the the things where superior athletic coordination / intuition are needed. With the Hogan swing hips, shoulders and hands turn together, back leg straightens and twists like a spring by the time the hips lock 45° and that spring tension when releases with a lateral shift of hips fires them dragging shoulders and club down to ball. With Hogan’s swing if the club head is in the right place in 3D space when the wrists cock in the takeaway the rest of the swing is like flying a plane on autopilot. Much easier I think for the average recreational golfer to master and use consistently with limited practice between golf rounds.
GREAT JOB CHISTO!! One thing that I believe would help you alot, is to let your head tilt to the right on your downswing, because it will keep you behind the ball a bit better and make your legs and hips rotate through faster, maintaining your spine tilt, which of course builds rotational speed without hurting yourself, allowing for a greater lag and a later strike. All without doing anything else different. BTW - the early extension you have been doing lately is bad for your back, let the extension be along your spine angle that is set at address, for most golfers, perfect spine angle will typically be somewhere between 35 and 45 degrees., and that will save your lower back.
Ooh, I do want to save my back. BTW, I would like to get the head tilt like Hogan, Snead, and Nicklaus, but I've found that they were left eye dominant and I'm right eye dominant that makes me very uncomfortable to twist my dominant eye away from the ball.
@@christogarcia7505 I am right handed golfer who is left eyed dominant also, yet I still had to learn to keep my head inline with my spine plus a little more towards my right shoulder, and it worked. For you, being right eyed dominant, just keep your head aligned with your spine and that should be enough.
Christo, your swing is good, but if you raise your hands higher at the top, you will hit the ball higher, longer, and straighter, like Jack. His hands are the highest in history. To me, it is THE key to his great success, along with his great putting of course. After 10 swings with the driver, you will have it. Your hands should cross halfway between your neck and your right shoulder. I'm a golf pro. I know what I'm talking about. Try it, let me know what happens.
You've come a long way since the beginning. Hogan's Five Fundamentals was my bible 30 years ago. Ten years ago I fell into the trap of the modern teaching methods and lost my way. But yesterday I dove into your My Swing Evolution site and watched Mr. Hogan's incredible golf swing. I video in particular turned on a light bulb. One of your video's (could be 3 or 4 years ago) where you were showing the beginning of Ricky Fowler & a young Rory Mcilroy's downswing and how their right shoulder from the top dropped down in the transition. I went to the driving range that afternoon and it was Shangri La. Can you please tell me which video that was as I forgot to bookmark it and has since lost it. Thanks Cristo.
I've only just started golfing but played tennis and did boxing beforehand. In both of those sports all power comes from the legs, and looks like golf is no exception. The weigh transference with my big swings feels a lot like you have to do with a tennis serve, so it feels quite natural to really lift up my left heel and transfer all that weight to the back. All that leg action seems to be paying off when I hit 200m long shots and contact feels effortless, and there's even more backswing action to bring into it!
Great video Christo. As a kid I remember reading the paperback version of “Golf My Way” where I would flip through the full swing images. I believe they were all illustrated by Ken Bowden? I also had the comic book style “Playing Lessons.” That’s where I leaned what a cut, fade, draw is or about how a ball above your feet goes left etc. Great reads from great golfer and athlete.
Hi Christo note his trail shoulder weight appears to be directly over his trail leg from the very start of his swing This one act provides his secondary tilt and activate his powerful obliques as we see him keeping them active throughout his swing. Cheers
Love the continued introspective work. IMHO. The best way to analyze any action is to experience it for yourself. I strongly believe in these types of videos. Anyone afraid of the changes are looking at it in terms of how do you teach it? Thats missing the point! The point is to see what YOU can borrow.Continued success AMIGO!
Great content Christo! I see that by looking at your fit body you eat very clean. Do you think by eating clean that it helps chronic pain? Back issues have depleted my golf game where it’s not enjoyable anymore.
Best swing you ever had. Stop with the changes. This is me talking. I know you have to Evolve. I think you have done so. Again it is just me. You are on balance and you have brought both Mr. Hogan and Mr. Nicklaus together. Keep this swing and ideas. Just saying. Love what you are doing here, Christo.
Thanks, Billy. It means a lot. I practiced with a pro I recently met yesterday. After we hit balls for an hour and a half he asked me how much I practice. I proudly said “I try and play once a week, and hit a couple of buckets if I can.” He told me to hit 500 balls a day, 5 days a week. He said I’d shoot in the 60’s in a month because my fundamentals are pro level, but I don’t own my swing. The only way is to hit a ton of golf balls.
@@MiracleSwingExperience On a totally different subject have you “done Bryson”? Unlike me you seem to be a very nice guy and never take the low road. Personally I can not abide DeChambeau’s ugly swing lol. It bugs me to the core. The dude is obviously an extremely good natural athlete and an equally fit human specimen. But. But. I swear that swing is holding back his full potential. If he’d return to a more classic swing that he possessed as a teenager I swear he’d be ranked 1 or 2 today instead of 6. He could be in the elite league with Nicklaus and Woods some day if he continued to work as hard as he does now. With that swing I think he will be only a footnote in history. Well below someone like Greg Norman. Which is damn good but it could be so much better. My 2¢.
In the Nicklaus imitation swing the arms and club should be higher and more verticle more upright less flat. As you mentioned try a forward press, hands in front of the ball, before the one piece takeaway. Good job.
Jack Grout was taught by Alex Morrison, so everything in Nicklaus' swing is directly from the Alex Morrison golf instruction: chin pointed to right foot, feet pointed outward from target line, ankles rolling, left side control, wide swing, etc.
@@MiracleSwingExperience And I forgot to mention, Hogan got the pointed chin from Henry Picard, who of course, was taught by Alex Morrison. Also, Picard and Grout were close friends, and according to my old coach who played the tour back then, were instrumental in keeping Morrison's teachings going.
Thanx for all you do to improve our game.👍😁 -- true... Jack sometimes stands up... but his L hip-leg continues to rotate wide... to a point where his L-hip at finish is as deep as R-hip backswing. Jack's stripe shirt nicely shows upper body rotations... stripes diagonally pointing twd ground, the ball... @4:25.😲 -- Your L hip-leg at finish is more vertical... not as deep as Jack's. Your spine continues to rise and the L-hip does not finish deeper, DTL... Had you worn a stripe shirt, your stripes would be more parallel to ground, stripes pointing almost straight R, DTL... instead of diagonally pointing downward twd the ball... @11:06. Wear a stripe shirt nxt time for better illustrations (??) -- Jack's wedge swing shows no early xtension. L-hip finishes as deep as R-hip backswing. Spinal angle stays consistent throughout the swing... @6:10 🧐
One thing you never mentioned: His head: his eyes don't point at the ball at address, his head is pre-turned to the right. Does this allow for a more full shoulder turn on the backswing??? Your thoughts.
Hogan's swing looked more effortless because it was more one plane. Jack's was one and a half to two planes. Hogan actually swung beyond parallel more than Nicklaus did. If you want to swing like Hogan then take the driver slightly beyond parallel for extra lag distance and a flat trajectory.
I like how he didn’t straighten his left knee at impact. Today’s modern player puts too much stress on the left knee (IMO). Jack’s swing very powerful and it looks relatively easy on the body.
Check the weight of an old driver versus a modern driver. I think the smaller, heavier head, with steel shaft would have required MORE body power to keep it on plane.
The R&A. and the USGA. keep on about todays golfers been to long, Jack drove the last hole at St Andrews nobody complained then.Not alot of new pros drive that hole.
Great video! Thank you. But I have to say… at 9:10 how do you not zero in on your stalled rotation and arm flip? Yeah you extend but it’s artificial with the arms. KEEP ROTATING!
The basics of his swing are taught, but the style has changed. Jack's swing was not perfect, but it was perfect for him. Modern swings are custom made for each body type, as they should be. Even Mr. Hogan's swing whilst fundamentally "perfect" becomes flawed when it is powered by a different structure, but its fundamentals of engineering the swing are again the baseline of Jack's swing and now modern swings. Jack's swing was a race car from the 90's against a racer from the 60's, that is why it won so many races.
I think it has more to do with the modern day equipment,and a little to do with course design.The modern clubs have built in forgiveness,better shafts,better grips,custom made everything,the balls are 100% better than what Nicklaus was hitting,Trevino said he never hit a good ball until the 90's and the golf course where a lot harder to play,narrow fairways,smaller greens,and a maintenance level far below today's standards.Jack's swing was tailored to that equipment and those conditions,although i think jack was starting to stretch the limits of both the equipment and the conditions back then.The modern Swing is all power of the tee,with greater forgiveness for misdirection and an approach shot with one of 5 wedges,middle iron are becoming less relent vent.If you ever hit some of old equipment you soon realize it take a different approach to hit the ball than you would today.Which means a different swing.
@@christogarcia7505 A former HS player of mine took lessons from Jack Grout and his swing looks a lot like Jack's. He was 5'6" and 140 pounds and in the 80's could drive 260-270 with a power fade. He played college golf but I do not think he ever came close to generating the torque and power Jack did in his prime. The equipment in the later half of the 80's was much much better than that of the 60's and the balls were way better.
@@christogarcia7505 oh interesting. No hate was simply curious if you found you couldn’t get what you needed out of the hogan swing. I’ve followed for a long time since 5 lessons is essentially my golf bible. Seen the Lee Trevino swing video too
@@TripsView The most important thing to me is how all 3 use their legs, it's very similar. However, the look of the swings is very different the way they set the club at the top. And, the results are as good as it gets!
How could anybody who knows anything about making a judgment regarding who the best player is say that TW is close to JN? One of the things that must be compared is who they beat. Well, here's who TW beat in 9 of his Majors, all of them a bunch of second-rate chokers: Sergio, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Thomas Bjorn, Bob May, Chris Demarco, Shaun Micheel, Woody Austin, Rocco Mediate, Colin Motgomerie. You have 2 Major winners in this whole crowd! Now, whom did JN beat? Think about it. You don't even have to list them. No contest as to who the best is. And how about the fact that TW won 13 of his Majors using the crowd and intimidation that his old man taught him? No contest! He's not even close to Jack!
Your historical data on da 341 yd ding dong is inaccurate Him hit in 1963 in Dallas Texas during the week of the PGA, which at 23 years old, he won. Adding to the 63 Masters which he won in the spring. Three majors by the age of 23. U.S. Open at 22 as a rookie. Against Palmer. In a playoff. In Pittsburg, Palmer's backyard.
Thanks for posting.....Jack's swing is savage beauty.
Came off a stroke and embraced the OTT model…game soared….got sick again and it took me months to get back to this OTT…so glad I did.
Great leg action from Jack! Lifting the left heel seems to ensure the weight is loaded on the right foot. It reminds me of Mickey Wright!
The only guys today I know of that do this are Phil, Bubba, Wolff, and Bryson.
I was a young tennis pro at the time. A buddy and I walked from Carmel Beach to the dunes north where we saw all the people walking down from. It was the 1977 PGA championship, and we got tickets from the people leaving and headed to Carmel. At the time I definitely considered golf to be a "sissy" sport. So we get up the dune and the crowd was massive. All of a sudden the crowd parted kind of like Moses parting the Red Sea. And there he was, Jack Nicklaus. I don't know what hole it was but I do remember being directly behind the tee box by shear luck, with our backs to the ocean and Nicklaus hitting towards the east. So Jack tees off and I have never seen anyone in any sport hit a ball that hard. The noise at impact was sonic and the ball took off like a jet, dead straight and staying about 20 feet off the ground until it was almost out of sight and then it rose up into the sky and KEPT GOING. Trust me, in comparison, todays's big hitters are politely waving at it. A young Nicklaus with today's equipment? I couldn't even guess.
Jack wasn't tall but had an upright swing.Jack had great legs in his prime.He had a great instinct to have every thing working together.To hit the ball solid as far as he did with the old persimmon driver and the ball back then he was absolutely crushing it.He was never that long with his irons.He played them for distance and control.
Use to be on a forum a long time ago, and there were some old timers on there that told some great stories about having seen Jack back in his heyday. One the best was when the narrator was watching Jack on the range a the Masters. He was hitting 5 irons to 180 yd sign. Then some guy starts mouthing off how he hits his 5 iron 180. Jack steps away, glances back, and then steps in and flies one to 225 yard sign, he then turns and say I hit my 5 iron 180 because thats how far I want to hit it.
I'm old enough to have played wound balata in the 80s and 90s, and those were much longer than the atti-pattern balata of the 60's, so the idea of a 225 5 iron of that era kind of boggles my mind.
The first golf instruction book I bought in the mid 1980s was Jack’s “Golf My Way” so naturally I tried to model my swing on his but found difficulty getting consistent ball striking with it because it has so many moving parts and relies a lot on athletic coordination of which Jack obviously has more of then I-why he won 18 majors and I haven’t 😂
After re-learning the swing in 2007 using Hogan’s “Five Lessons” I found his swing style far easier to execute because it is more mechanical, utilizing the maxing out out joints and muscle torque instead of the “feel” I found the Nicklaus swing required. Specifically Jack’s hand and shoulder first takeaway, which required the lifting up front heel to get the shoulders squared and keeping the back leg bent were the the things where superior athletic coordination / intuition are needed.
With the Hogan swing hips, shoulders and hands turn together, back leg straightens and twists like a spring by the time the hips lock 45° and that spring tension when releases with a lateral shift of hips fires them dragging shoulders and club down to ball. With Hogan’s swing if the club head is in the right place in 3D space when the wrists cock in the takeaway the rest of the swing is like flying a plane on autopilot. Much easier I think for the average recreational golfer to master and use consistently with limited practice between golf rounds.
GREAT JOB CHISTO!! One thing that I believe would help you alot, is to let your head tilt to the right on your downswing, because it will keep you behind the ball a bit better and make your legs and hips rotate through faster, maintaining your spine tilt, which of course builds rotational speed without hurting yourself, allowing for a greater lag and a later strike. All without doing anything else different. BTW - the early extension you have been doing lately is bad for your back, let the extension be along your spine angle that is set at address, for most golfers, perfect spine angle will typically be somewhere between 35 and 45 degrees., and that will save your lower back.
Ooh, I do want to save my back. BTW, I would like to get the head tilt like Hogan, Snead, and Nicklaus, but I've found that they were left eye dominant and I'm right eye dominant that makes me very uncomfortable to twist my dominant eye away from the ball.
@@christogarcia7505 I am right handed golfer who is left eyed dominant also, yet I still had to learn to keep my head inline with my spine plus a little more towards my right shoulder, and it worked. For you, being right eyed dominant, just keep your head aligned with your spine and that should be enough.
@@scottsmith8546 Okay, I'll give it a go!
Christo, your swing is good, but if you raise your hands higher at the top, you will hit the ball higher, longer, and straighter, like Jack. His hands are the highest in history. To me, it is THE key to his great success, along with his great putting of course. After 10 swings with the driver, you will have it. Your hands should cross halfway between your neck and your right shoulder. I'm a golf pro. I know what I'm talking about. Try it, let me know what happens.
You've come a long way since the beginning. Hogan's Five Fundamentals was my bible 30 years ago. Ten years ago I fell into the trap of the modern teaching methods and lost my way. But yesterday I dove into your My Swing Evolution site and watched Mr. Hogan's incredible golf swing. I video in particular turned on a light bulb. One of your video's (could be 3 or 4 years ago) where you were showing the beginning of Ricky Fowler & a young Rory Mcilroy's downswing and how their right shoulder from the top dropped down in the transition. I went to the driving range that afternoon and it was Shangri La. Can you please tell me which video that was as I forgot to bookmark it and has since lost it. Thanks Cristo.
That's fantastic! To be honest, with almost a thousand videos, I'm not sure! But, maybe if you look up Rory and Fowler it will come up.
I've only just started golfing but played tennis and did boxing beforehand. In both of those sports all power comes from the legs, and looks like golf is no exception. The weigh transference with my big swings feels a lot like you have to do with a tennis serve, so it feels quite natural to really lift up my left heel and transfer all that weight to the back. All that leg action seems to be paying off when I hit 200m long shots and contact feels effortless, and there's even more backswing action to bring into it!
Great video Christo. As a kid I remember reading the paperback version of “Golf My Way” where I would flip through the full swing images. I believe they were all illustrated by Ken Bowden? I also had the comic book style “Playing Lessons.”
That’s where I leaned what a cut, fade, draw is or about how a ball above your feet goes left etc. Great reads from great golfer and athlete.
Nicklaus was so influential, it’s hard to believe no one teaches his swing anymore!!!
Hi Christo note his trail shoulder weight appears to be directly over his trail leg from the very start of his swing This one act provides his secondary tilt and activate his powerful obliques as we see him keeping them active throughout his swing. Cheers
Love the continued introspective work. IMHO. The best way to analyze any action is to experience it for yourself. I strongly believe in these types of videos.
Anyone afraid of the changes are looking at it in terms of how do you teach it? Thats missing the point! The point is to see what YOU can borrow.Continued success AMIGO!
Hey, my brother! Used a couple Jack swings today, and dropped a bomb on 18!
@@MiracleSwingExperience Heck yeah dude! any upright I add to my own move = 30 yards ...Jack was onto somethin'!
Great content Christo! I see that by looking at your fit body you eat very clean. Do you think by eating clean that it helps chronic pain? Back issues have depleted my golf game where it’s not enjoyable anymore.
Eating clean reduces inflammation. Avoid processed foods for sure.
Jack was the greatest putter too
Amazing pressure putter!!!
i love this video!!! this might be your all time best...
My idol when I was a junior golfer , still is !
Best swing you ever had. Stop with the changes. This is me talking. I know you have to Evolve. I think you have done so. Again it is just me. You are on balance and you have brought both Mr. Hogan and Mr. Nicklaus together. Keep this swing and ideas. Just saying. Love what you are doing here, Christo.
Thanks, Billy. It means a lot. I practiced with a pro I recently met yesterday. After we hit balls for an hour and a half he asked me how much I practice. I proudly said “I try and play once a week, and hit a couple of buckets if I can.” He told me to hit 500 balls a day, 5 days a week. He said I’d shoot in the 60’s in a month because my fundamentals are pro level, but I don’t own my swing. The only way is to hit a ton of golf balls.
As always very nice vid and nice analysis. I forgot what an athletic swing Jack had when young.
He was a slugger!
@@MiracleSwingExperience On a totally different subject have you “done Bryson”? Unlike me you seem to be a very nice guy and never take the low road. Personally I can not abide DeChambeau’s ugly swing lol. It bugs me to the core. The dude is obviously an extremely good natural athlete and an equally fit human specimen. But. But. I swear that swing is holding back his full potential. If he’d return to a more classic swing that he possessed as a teenager I swear he’d be ranked 1 or 2 today instead of 6. He could be in the elite league with Nicklaus and Woods some day if he continued to work as hard as he does now. With that swing I think he will be only a footnote in history. Well below someone like Greg Norman. Which is damn good but it could be so much better. My 2¢.
In the Nicklaus imitation swing the arms and club should be higher and more verticle more upright less flat. As you mentioned try a forward press, hands in front of the ball, before the one piece takeaway. Good job.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Jack Grout was taught by Alex Morrison, so everything in Nicklaus' swing is directly from the Alex Morrison golf instruction: chin pointed to right foot, feet pointed outward from target line, ankles rolling, left side control, wide swing, etc.
Very cool 😎
@@MiracleSwingExperience And I forgot to mention, Hogan got the pointed chin from Henry Picard, who of course, was taught by Alex Morrison. Also, Picard and Grout were close friends, and according to my old coach who played the tour back then, were instrumental in keeping Morrison's teachings going.
@@sandwah9901 That’s awesome 👏🏻!!!
ref these 1960's swings.
noted golf coach jim mclean describing jack nicklaus
" It was unreal to watch him hit drivers!!"
Great review. Excellent points.
Thanx for all you do to improve our game.👍😁
-- true... Jack sometimes stands up... but his L hip-leg continues to rotate wide... to a point where his L-hip at finish is as deep as R-hip backswing. Jack's stripe shirt nicely shows upper body rotations... stripes diagonally pointing twd ground, the ball... @4:25.😲
-- Your L hip-leg at finish is more vertical... not as deep as Jack's. Your spine continues to rise and the L-hip does not finish deeper, DTL... Had you worn a stripe shirt, your stripes would be more parallel to ground, stripes pointing almost straight R, DTL... instead of diagonally pointing downward twd the ball... @11:06. Wear a stripe shirt nxt time for better illustrations (??)
-- Jack's wedge swing shows no early xtension. L-hip finishes as deep as R-hip backswing. Spinal angle stays consistent throughout the swing... @6:10 🧐
Great notes 👍🏻
@@MiracleSwingExperience check out Hogan's curved L hip-leg downswing in CZcams, ''Ben Hogan Swing! - Swing Analysis - Incredible Angles!'' by CraigHansonGolf 🧐🏌🏼♀️ Incredible! 😲👍 czcams.com/video/jAfTO88qNcE/video.html
One thing you never mentioned: His head: his eyes don't point at the ball at address, his head is pre-turned to the right. Does this allow for a more full shoulder turn on the backswing??? Your thoughts.
100%. I've also heard that Hogan made it one of his keys for greater shoulder turn. I worked on it yesterday because I need all I can get!
Hogan's swing looked more effortless because it was more one plane. Jack's was one and a half to two planes. Hogan actually swung beyond parallel more than Nicklaus did. If you want to swing like Hogan then take the driver slightly beyond parallel for extra lag distance and a flat trajectory.
Jack was 3/4 most of the 60’s!
Great video! Did Nicklaus use an over the top swing?
I like how he didn’t straighten his left knee at impact. Today’s modern player puts too much stress on the left knee (IMO). Jack’s swing very powerful and it looks relatively easy on the body.
He played well for a long time!
nice vid bud,,him and trevino with those legs,so dynamic,,stuff cant really be taught
Legwork can be improved as I’ve shown! 👍🏻 I used to have stiff legs.
@Frankie Gregory Ooh, that's a great idea.
Check the weight of an old driver versus a modern driver.
I think the smaller, heavier head, with steel shaft would have
required MORE body power to keep it on plane.
Very good point 🙌🏻
To me the shorter your stature the MORE upright you want your backswing plane. Don’t throw gravity out of the equation.
Ian Woosnam did that!!!
Imagine what Jack would’ve done with today’s equipment technology!
The R&A. and the USGA. keep on about todays golfers been to long, Jack drove the last hole at St Andrews nobody complained then.Not alot of new pros drive that hole.
I think that's about 340!
Justin James, one of the top world long drivers, says he has a Nicklaus type swing.
There you go!
Great video! Thank you. But I have to say… at 9:10 how do you not zero in on your stalled rotation and arm flip? Yeah you extend but it’s artificial with the arms. KEEP ROTATING!
I like the 70s Nicklaus when his hair was longer and he looked leaner. He controlled his temper out there, too, most of the time.
One question I've always had...if Jack is the greatest, why is swing not the standard that all golfers are taught?
Great question. It used to be. But, now it's chopped liver! It drives me crazy. Same with Trevino. There's so much to learn there.
The basics of his swing are taught, but the style has changed. Jack's swing was not perfect, but it was perfect for him. Modern swings are custom made for each body type, as they should be. Even Mr. Hogan's swing whilst fundamentally "perfect" becomes flawed when it is powered by a different structure, but its fundamentals of engineering the swing are again the baseline of Jack's swing and now modern swings. Jack's swing was a race car from the 90's against a racer from the 60's, that is why it won so many races.
I think it has more to do with the modern day equipment,and a little to do with course design.The modern clubs have built in forgiveness,better shafts,better grips,custom made everything,the balls are 100% better than what Nicklaus was hitting,Trevino said he never hit a good ball until the 90's and the golf course where a lot harder to play,narrow fairways,smaller greens,and a maintenance level far below today's standards.Jack's swing was tailored to that equipment and those conditions,although i think jack was starting to stretch the limits of both the equipment and the conditions back then.The modern Swing is all power of the tee,with greater forgiveness for misdirection and an approach shot with one of 5 wedges,middle iron are becoming less relent vent.If you ever hit some of old equipment you soon realize it take a different approach to hit the ball than you would today.Which means a different swing.
@@dennisdobin8640 Yup, agree with everything you said. Jack was destroying the game back in the day!
Because it is actually very very hard to do.
Yes but this may have caused the Hip replacements in later years.
True.
@@christogarcia7505 A former HS player of mine took lessons from Jack Grout and his swing looks a lot like Jack's. He was 5'6" and 140 pounds and in the 80's could drive 260-270 with a power fade. He played college golf but I do not think he ever came close to generating the torque and power Jack did in his prime. The equipment in the later half of the 80's was much much better than that of the 60's and the balls were way better.
@@Seer645 I remember I had a metal wood in 1984 that I loved. The Thunderbird, and the balls did start to improve a lot.
It's called the reverse C finish. Hard on the hips.
@@jeffreysmith5175 Good Point
Why would you change from hogan swing to jacks after years developing in one discipline
I'm just having fun. I've explored this in the past.
@@christogarcia7505 oh interesting. No hate was simply curious if you found you couldn’t get what you needed out of the hogan swing. I’ve followed for a long time since 5 lessons is essentially my golf bible. Seen the Lee Trevino swing video too
@@TripsView The most important thing to me is how all 3 use their legs, it's very similar. However, the look of the swings is very different the way they set the club at the top. And, the results are as good as it gets!
@@christogarcia7505 I can email you a swing from
Today?
@@TripsView Sure!
How could anybody who knows anything about making a judgment regarding who the best player is say that TW is close to JN? One of the things that must be compared is who they beat. Well, here's who TW beat in 9 of his Majors, all of them a bunch of second-rate chokers: Sergio, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Thomas Bjorn, Bob May, Chris Demarco, Shaun Micheel, Woody Austin, Rocco Mediate, Colin Motgomerie. You have 2 Major winners in this whole crowd!
Now, whom did JN beat? Think about it. You don't even have to list them. No contest as to who the best is.
And how about the fact that TW won 13 of his Majors using the crowd and intimidation that his old man taught him?
No contest! He's not even close to Jack!
In the 1960s Jack Nicklaus hit the ball as far as DJ and Bubba do now.
His sixties swing with modern equipment and golf ball would be long af.
christ swing is similar to payne stewart
Cool!
I love your swing,i love Jacks swing..
Not a fan at all,hinging the hands..
It looks to me like Jack used his head to gain speed....
His used it all!
Right hand grip way too strong compared to Jack videos.
How important is the hinging his hands,this confuses me..
Todays teachers hammer the hinged hands.
Because you got Ben Hogan built in you it’s not easy to get away from it.
True my friend
Looks like you hit it 230. Very little power.
Your historical data on da 341 yd ding dong is inaccurate
Him hit in 1963 in Dallas Texas during the week of the PGA, which at 23 years old, he won.
Adding to the 63 Masters which he won in the spring.
Three majors by the age of 23.
U.S. Open at 22 as a rookie.
Against Palmer. In a playoff.
In Pittsburg, Palmer's backyard.