'Classic Swings' is a compilation of some of the finest Golfers that have ever played the game. It features footage of Bobby Jones, Tommy Armour, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan in their prime. ENJOY!
Sweet, real sweet. Notice Jones starting his backswing with his lower body and the clubhead lags behind the arms and shoulders for the first foot or so. This puts him squarely behind the ball, as is his head, generating loads of power. Amazing he understood the golf swing that well back then.
Jones had to make a lot of micro-moves to return the clubface squarely given the whippy hickory shafts of his day. Great to have that high-quality slow motion footage, a lot of it filmed at Riviera CC in the early 1930's.
Yep. I call it OTT from the inside. The most subconscious-friendly way of changing the orientation from backswing to downswing. Nowadays they force students to act against nature.
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One further comment, I left out the greatest swing of them all, the fabulous Ben Hogan. Like his great contemporary Sam Snead, Hogan owned the golf swing. In a wonderful comment by the golf channel's Brandel Chamblee he stated Hogans swing had zero compensating moves. It was in his words euclidean precision. Gear meshing precision from start to finish. Argue the greatest overall player, the greatest ball striker was a fraternity of one, Ben Hogan.
Notice that Palmer's swing is more like the modern swing that came out of Europe, and has now affected American golfers as well, except for Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, and Jordan Spieth. Palmer's bent over the ball, has a flat backswing, and lunges at the ball.
Re Peter Thompson. His ball flight was too low for the pga tour. He was deadly accurate with his driver, and was almost unbeatable on links courses, where his ball would run more on the hard fairways. He is still a great supporter of the game in Australia, and can still be seen watching amateur tournaments , often with an ice cream cone in hand. He is still a member at victoria golf club, and still plays.
Many great swings and Arnold Palmer's! It's a tribute to his competitive fire that Arnie won as many times as he did with that butt ugly swing of his. I love the comment from the great sportswriter Jim Murray that Arnie's swing looked like a drunk at a driving range at midnight. For the average player lacking the physical attributes of these champions a swing like that would never work. The real trick is to put as many of the fundamentals of the great swings into your game that you possibly can. The more unorthodox the movement the more athletic a player must be to perform it. Copy these champions grip, stance, posture and alignment and at least you can play your best game. Look at Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus and try and clone those moves. Then your scores will plummet.
OK, where is Gene Littler??? Gene, I understand, was not a natural at the game, but worked very hard to develop a rhythmical repeating swing. He wanted to swing the club similarly from the shortest irons through the driver. I still try to emulate Gene's swing, and I'm in my eighth decade!
