Legnds of Golf: Bobby Jones 

Very well done. About 2 yrs ago, I started emulating his swing and never looked back for me. Other instructors say I hit it too hard, but now I can using my body in the swing. You are on the right track and I did enjoy your analysis, and style. Thank you too. cheers.

Swings great but analysis is matched in perfection by the great Wayne Defrancesco.

Thanx for the analysis. Because of the great rhythm of bobbys swing i tried to copy it. In my analysis i found a very important detail which i didnt hear in any analysis on RU-vid. Its the left wrist! Look how much he cupped it in the backswing! His clubface is completely open at this time. In the downswing he will bow the wrist as hard as he can. Thats the reason why he can swing directly to the ball without dropping the hands. This bowing-move drops the Club inside. Also it closes the clubface. He also times the bowing move perfectly with his rotation. With this move you get a powerfull contact, nice rhythm and a good way to put the Club on plane. The problem is: when you rotate in the downswing to slow youre ball will go left of left 😂 Try it out. It feels very easy to create a lot of Power! Turn freely and do this cupping-bowing-move. I think thats also a very good way to create clubspeed and good contact!

Poetry in motion, freedom of movement, relaxed, balanced, and totally powerful as a whip, but I doubt he injured himself as so many golfers nowadays do. I started athletics in baseball and totally incorporate the heel lifting actions of Jones and believe teaching his method of hitting could greatly reduce modern golfer's injuries, as well as improve their game, no matter what level they're playing.

excellent analysis. he presses down with the left side of his head at the top of his down-swing. and it is this that moves his head down. but crucially, also, he uses the position of his right elbow to get his hands well behind his head the top. his right elbow is used as a pivot to arc his swing around. in the take-away he allows his right elbow to stick out. this places his elbow way inside the line. from there he flexes his right arm back. one moment his elbow is pointing out the next it is under his hands. i do think that bobby jones' swing is in many ways the future of the game. we have not not learned as much as we should have from jones and armour's swing. the modern day method of extending the arms straight back causes the back-swing to lock up. and the new idea of keeping the club outside the hands, to prevent the wrists twisting round, makes the back-swing even steeper. thank goodness for these old videos. coaches tell us that there are no short cuts to success, but modern day methods are setting up a road block

Love the heel off the ground what a wonderful golf swing

A great example of the concept of "throwing" the clubhead at the ball, using the shaft as an extension of his arms with creates incredible speed at the clubhead, vs "hitting" with the entire club; same type of movement that a pitcher in baseball uses to throw with a sidearm action. It's a graceful and athletic movement vs a mechanical step-by-step procedure. Thanks for posting the video. IMHO, a book is a terrible way to learn an athletic movement. If only RU-vid was available when I started playing 40 years ago.....

Imagine how long of a boat ride it took for these golfers to travel to and from the British open and other European golf tournaments yearly back then

Wayne, thanks for this analysis. I really like the point you make at 12:15 about the "misunderstood" move. Also, Bobby's swing seems much more loose with much less tension than many people nowadays. I bet many mid to high handicappers would do themselves well to work on a more free and tensionless swing like this. Thanks.

He has a lovely down and back movement with the head on the downswing, just like the Seve swing you looked at.

Great demonstration Wayne, thanks you.

Well, you have to look at his swing arc to truly discern the treasure that nature bestowed upon him, as his old swing coach might say. And, the key to his arc was that his long arms cut him a lot of slack and enabled him to bend his right elbow out at address and move it back in the direction that it pointed. This moved the club back very much on the inside. He then fully extended the extensors in his left hand, taking the club back as far on the inside as he could. When a player does this it then makes the wrists cup. For all the world he appears to bow his left wrist and then cup it. But, this would be virtually impossible. Extensor extension may seem very similar to wrist bow; but, it is very different. The loop at the top was just simply borne out of the fact that he pressed the index finger of his left hand towards the thumb pad of his right hand, to start his downswing.

Love your analysis and I think your right on.

A golfer can improve just by watching Jones' rhythm and tempo. The swing is all one movement and is not done in parts. It blends into itself with no hint of step one, step two, step three... I have always thought that it was the easiest movement to get a feel for.

Hands and arms for the first 2 feet of take away (not referring to club drag) is perfectly keeping the triangle on it's plane, club face square to it's path. That's exactly the motion Jones employed for sand and pitch shots, and with dead accuracy. Interesting that he almost completed his torso rotation prior to any raising of the arms off the rib cage.

the most remarkable part of jones's approach relates to how he keeps the club outside his hands while swinging back inside and deep. if he doesn't lag the handle on the takeaway and cup his wrists significantly, we'd never have heard of him.

went and pulled my old Whippy Tempomaster out of the closet and tried to swing it without stressing the shaft. Once I figured out that I needed to slow down the transition and create the speed at the bottom, I was puring it..... Cool to see from Wayne's analysis that Jones did not roll over the wrist's through impact and pivot stall, but actually let his rotation square up the face as he swung left.

One of the best golf swings ever. It has never been replicated by any pro golfer, simply because todays modern teachers know everything, yet know nothing. They think they are Gods answer to some hidden secret that no-one can find. Mr Jones swing/setup will never give you back problems, unlike the 68% of pros in the physio bus. Look at where he is in his BS when the club is parallel to the ground @9:51....compared to what is taught today. A golf swing of elegance.

Isn't the shaft flex on the take away an illusion because of the camera and film of the Era?

I heard one Jones expert say that Jones didnt have a lot of flexibility in his spine and as a result he had to turn his hips nearly 90 degrees in order to turn his left shoulder 90 degrees (under his chin). It's a great swing if you have the balance and talent to pull it off but it's very hard to bring all those moving parts back to square at impact.

Wayne I would say that Bubba is one of the only modern day guys that has that type of hip motion. (more than 90 that is at the top of backswing)

FYI, jones and hogan routinely curb stomped hogan. In fact Nelson was said to be whipping hogan in practice rounds well into his 60s playing less than 5 times a year...

Interesting. Look at the feet only. The feet are not both flat on the ground very much throughout the swing. They match in action, back and through. As his left foot heel returns to the ground, the right heel starts to come up.The swing starts and ends from the feet up. Just like throwing baseball, the motion starts from the feet up.

The restricted hip turn requires extraordinary strength to get power, whereas a free hip turn creates twice the power with significantly less effort.

Bubba Watson has huge hip turn as much as Bobby. Bubba jack Bobby all high front heels. All could bomb it in any era

jones spoke in such weird diction in that series he did in 1931. strange even for the period, i think

I was trying to see what started first in takeaway.Jackie Burke says lower body starts backswing and he doesn.t agree with modern teaching neither do I,maybe i,m old fashioned but i think the old way of swinging was best.S/J.

This is what Jim McLean calls the "reverse slot" swing. Jones loops the club to the inside and then comes over the top to hit the ball. The opposite of what we usually see. Jones, however, still manages to hit the ball from the inside. This analysis does not explain HOW he does that. Neither does McLean by the way. Bruce Lietzke had the same type of reverse slot swing but cut the ball. How do you draw it? In other words, how does one swing in this reverse slot pattern and still hit the ball from the inside?

Something you missed. On the back swing his weight goes to the outside of the right foot. This allows him to engage his feet in the transition. The right foot rolls to the inside rather than having the heel lift up early.Moving the weight to the outside of the right foot encourages this rolling move. This move is regarded today as totally wrong. I believe that may be a mistake.

woooooooooooow bobby goes waaaaaaaaay across the line. way across. i wonder how he manages not to hook it off the planet.

Other than the giant hip turn, Bobby Jones has the classic one-plane Jim Hardy teaches.

do not tick move the video so often. it is really nerving.

Ben hogan's swing was a lot nicer huh? Probably why you accomplished more than bobby?

yet another great swing ridiculously dissected by pontificating bafoons........in a lot of ways video has set the golf swing back 100 years

Yawn..