He was a magician. For some he wasn’t taken as serious because he hit a fade. But now we understand how much he actually knew. He hit a fade because he could control it like radar. He could hit draws any time he wanted but he didn’t need the extra distance. His swing adapted to the shot and he had a thousand variations.
And now most pros hit a fade as a draw is considered inferior mostly. If I'm not mistaken, it's the technology of each Era that is responsible for the respective preferences.
I feel so lucky to be old enough to have watched Lee Trevino play on the PGA tour because he was and is awesome! All you young people who don't know about him, you missed out big time!!
Alexander - I believe he was the greatest controller of a golf ball EVER - had he not been struck by lightning, and had he not had a blind spot about the Masters, he would have wom twice as many majors. One of my biggest regrets is never seeing him in the flesh - I went to the 76 Open (British) and, because of his injury, he didn't play.
Trevino once said his wife's credit card was stolen. When asked if that upset him, he replied "hell no, whoever stole it can't possibly spend as much as she can".
I did. He gave a shot clinic in 1981 at a golf course close to Merion just before the US Open that year. He was absolutely amazing, hitting the same trajectory, distance every single time. He wasn't long as compared to the tour average, but his control was jaw dropping. This was also after he got hit by lightening in Chicago in 1975, back surgeries prevented him from practicing as much as he did prior to the lightening strike. It is conceivable he would have won some more majors if not for the injury. Very entertaining too, loved his humor.
But he's so much more than that don't you think? He's a great father now (yes, better late than never) and a good kind hearted man. If he can make a ball dance or not isn't the issue to me, because so many young kids can do that today and some of them are simply thugs like Dustin Johnson for example. Anyhow, we both respect Lee so that's nice to see.
Oh please.....this is a game that has standards and elevates us to higher ground with class and dignity that so many built before us and it seems you k now very little of that aspect and if I'm wrong I apologize. Dustin would go sell the stolen things his friends got from breaking into the neighborhood houses robbing them when he was 19 and he was no CHILD.... bought a gun so his pal could murder another kid....bought bullets for the gun for him....twice kicked off PGA for cocaine abuse, two drunk driving and several pot charges, having sex with his PGA PALS wives and on the list goes. I'll stop here as I'm wasting my time I think. When character means nothing to some people, then I'm wasting my time talking. good luck to you.
You're right. I'm sorry about that but It's been a really poor day and I'm used to people falling down with praise for Johnson when they know nothing about him. I'm totally for men like Palmer, Nicklaus Player, Jordan and Ricky and those type that make me proud to be a golfer. Character means nothing to the vast majority today so I expected an argument and was wrong here. I tip my hat to you and say thanks for correcting me. I've never fallen down three stairs in my whole life, nor has anyone I know, but three steps brings down a world class athlete so they can't play....Pardon me if I'm suspicious of even that story with his background, but I really don't know in this case. and honestly don't care. And this is what seals the bad deal for me. When asked by the media about his sorted background and helping murder someone, he simply smiles a little with that empty blank stare of his and no personality and stutters out..."I ah, ah, I ah really don't ever think about, about it ."
Always loved to watch Lee and all the other greats with my Dad when I was a boy. Dad would always tell me when Chi Chi was in the finals though because I used to love when he drew his sword 😊
I consider myself a very good wedge player , very instinctive at getting the ball to do what I want it to do. But watching videos like this tell me that I know nothing and I may just be lucky at chipping and pitching. This information is gold. Video saved.
Yeah unfortunately it is not always interpreted right, like he explained some start to cock the wrists to early and hit at the bal with a steep angle. That is not what he means. He means that the ball should be struck just during the descending arc of the swing. There is no intention of the player to hit down. The same applies to hitting up with the driver. There is no intention to hit up. You just position the ball in a way that it is struck during the ascending arc of the swing.
What a GREAT teacher Lee was! being able to explain how to get into positions by feel is not easy,,,,GLAD he mentioned Strick! what a wedge player he is! G>
Great drill! It has really helped me fly the ball pin high. I have set my wrist too early in the backswing for years only to watch shots that appeared straight fall woefully short of the target. I wish I saw this years earlier.
does lee love this shit. ha. u have to love lee and how much he loves golf. i could listen to lee all day and all night. i followed him once in houston and walking down the fairway he was yelling up to roofers putting a roof on a home close to the fairway. He was just laughing and having a great time with those roofers. There is only one Lee Trevino. He is the best for the gallery and the fan. Number One!
I love this guy! I have red his life story which really moved me! He made it as a pro the hard way -his way! He is a happy go lucky guy who loves to entertain his followers! He is the full package! Mind you - I could not play a round of golf with him, as he just does not stop talking! Yet he was the golfer I followed when he was playing the opens in Scotland!
He announced on NBC for a number of years. Did a nice job, that kind of carried him over until he made it big on the senior tour, (50 & over), called that at that time.
"If you can't hit and hear the shape of each ball on the range with a seven iron or less brother.... Just fill up your eski cooler with a beverage and may I just show you a little.." 🙏❤️🙌 #ownedit ❤️
Wedges are tough to know what is the correct grind and bounce and usually pros have softer shafts in their wedges,short game is the most technical part of golf.
2:30 Trevino: "Google Steve Stricker." Tiger: "Just like Stricker." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AtBiajJYU2w.html Stricker: "I'm gonna give you a tip." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0NYjM5UkxZQ.html
Want Lee says about the subconscious mind is the reason 95% of recreational golfers fall off balance without realizing it. They will start off balance by resting club dead on the ground to grip and not taking any practice swings to check if swing path is balances and hands are turning over like a hinge, not pulling away from body and ball as they turn over which is leads to a slice “you can’t talk to” 😂 Then they start the club back on an unbalanced path, too inside like the kid in the video Lee corrects, which starts to pull them off their feet backwards. The subconscious brain detects the balance problem and intuitively solves it by swinging the club somewhere that won’t pull them off balance by flipping the club mass up closer to the center of rotation (like a figure skater pulling in arms to spin faster in balance) away from the ideal path for the golf shot and putting club head out of position when changing direction at the top of the backswing. The outside the hands takeaway using hip action is the same one Hogan and his contemporaries used. It tries to pull the golfer off balance but in a direction - thanks to the way the feet point- which is easily countered by a bit of leverage by angling back foot on the instep and shifting upper body mass forward of the center of rotation with a lateral shift of the hips backwards in the takeaway move < / hips bump back and turn, front leg bends, pelvis tilts forward to target, upper body mass also tilts forward all with the same subconscious reaction to the unbalancing force but in a way that puts the club head mass at a point in 3D space when it forces the wrists to cock which swings it put on the perfect path to the top setting up the ideal backswing. Jimmy Demaret once quipped, “The golf swing is easy to master once the golfer learns to keep the club head outside the hands and stay in balance.” That’s a riddle because keeping the club head mass outside the hands (as Lee demonstrates) is the key factor for starting and keeping the swing in balance. Lee’s comment “Good backswing if you can’t touch the head, bad backswing if you can.” is equally priceless advice as was his description of how the ball need to be compressed into the ground and climb the face to generate spin. 👍
He rants bc hes a golf addict... one can relate... The only good thing about being a golf addict and not a heroin addict are the obvious health benefits. Other than that it will make u think about doing it constantly day and night from the first solid shot u hit.
Truthful observation. He was totally different when he stepped off the golf course. You have to remember his personality was formed in object poverty for the first couple of decades of his life, dirt floors, no running water growing up, no education to speak of. He admitted that inside he never felt comfortable or as good as the great players, which is interesting given he was one of the best ever. He used humor and an extroverted personality inside the ropes to cope with those feelings. Some who knew have said if he had to play as a serious player all the time he would not have won as much as he did.
MAN YOU ARE A IDIOT YOU KNOW NOTHING LEE TREVINO IS A GREAT MAN AND ONE OF THE BEST GOLFERS IN HISTORY OF GOLF LOOK IT UP YOU MUST NOT BE A GOLFER ARE YOU ARE JUST A RACIEST ''''''
Sorry Lee, the ball does not roll up the club-face, that's what you 'feel' as though it's doing. Today's technology proves this beyond doubt. Same with the 'compress the ball into the ground' thing. The ball compresses upon impact with the club-face, not the ground. Great player and great advice for feel, his explanation is incorrect.
@@chetroberson5760 it has nothing to do with accomplishment, it's simply science. You can find highly accomplished golfers who will give you diametrically opposite advice. Launch monitors and high-speed cameras prove that the ball does *not* roll up the clubface to any significant degree. You can be the GOAT and still be wrong about what's going on with the ball and clubface, they're different things.
Patrick is right.The best short game player in the world , Phil Michelson, on his pitch shots hinges immediately the wrists and consequently he has a very steep back swing.Exactly the opposite of what Trevino advocates
Yeah cuz he only won 6 majors and 29 total events but knows nothing about how to play a wedge. Get a clue man instead of accusing one of the greatest ambassadors to the game of golf of not having one.
