The greatest players of the game played in the 1940's and 1950's. I find that remarkable . Even Tiger said he wished he could have owned his golf swing like Ben Hogan and Moe Norman did. 👍
The game was radically different than the game played today. Greens were rough and generally much smaller, fairways tighter, with thick rough and the equipment restricted the average pro to 250 yard drives. Lots of long iron play off the fairway into par 4's. Conditions varied dramatically from week to week with different kinds of grasses. The ball was much softer and more high spinning and a lot more difficult to control.... however it was an advantage for good strikers. Steel spikes allowed for a different kind of golf swing. Different game, objectives, articulations. As far as ball control, depth of required shot making skills, side spins, trajectory control, even putting techniques had to be different.
What do you think about a tour that uses restrictive equipment and balls that limited things to 1950’s and 1960’s numbers, I think that would be super interesting to watch.
I agree, we did have a few pro events down in Las Vegas a few years back TRGA where everyone played persimmon and a low compression ball (like balata) and the courses played correctly again. Much more authentic and enjoyable! @@TW_LeftyGolf
Can you train holding shaft flex by having it stuck behind in a tree (for example). Behind you at start of transition. Where your flexing it by pulling as body lateral shifts stuck in tree.. or sliding down a wall behind you
Probably the worst thing you could do. That would lead to way too much stress on the shat at transition and make it much more difficult to maintain those kinetic forces loaded into the shaft all the way down to impact.
The real problem (in my very personal opinion) is that you don't wanna have that much pressure early in the downswing. It's very easy to build shaft flex and feel the stress on the club at the start of transition (because of the change of direction) but keeping it till impact is impossible because you should accelerate the club exponentially. What the great players figured out (I think this is what John Erickson is teaching us) is a series of methods and techniques to delay the stress on the club as much as possible in order to feel it through impact, hence controlling the shot way better in every aspect (precision, speed, shot-shaping, ball control)
A list of 5 top swingers and 5 top hitters would be useful for comparison and visual learning. Maybe 5 that were in-between both methods too. Thanks John for the generous content. 👍
