What it FEELS Like to Swing Like Tiger Woods 

If you want to see the video of how I helped my students pick up nearly 60 yards off the tee, it's here: rotaryswing.com/c4/112529-swing-like-the-goat

Been watching your videos for a long time. It's interesting to see that you've changed your views about being trail side vs lead side dominant. Respect for keeping an open mind and changing your views as you get more information.

This is alot of mike austin , he is all about the release. I think that more and more golf education is going back to old school swings.

Absolutely gold... Use to swing like that until I went down the abyss of RU-vid coaching and tried to get in all those weird and wonderful positions that was physical impossible or very demanding on my body... So glad I came across this video..Definitely going back to the clubface release swing.

Absolutely fascinating. I swing from the right side, but I'm a left hander. Always played just fine and long. But I'm getting older, and am really losing distance. I'll bet that I never really used my trail arm/side much at all. In fact, I used to call the right hand the devil's hand, cause it would mess up my swing. Chuck, if you are correct, this is game changing. Literally. Of course it's harder for me to throw the ball right handed. Left handed no problem. I used to pitch.

I just discovered this throwmotion yesterday in my golfswing. For me it was setting the wrists earlier by pushing the handle down at the start of the swing and bringing the shaft in an 45° angle half way back in the backswing. Then i really felt the strenghts to hit hard with the right arm/ shoulder. Before that changes i was a left body dominant player.

Walked off course in despair yesterday (again). I've embraced and wholeheartedly committed to a few methods and teachers in the past but ALL required my right (trail) side to shut up! Absurdly dominant right hand has killed my golf and batting (cricket) all my life. I'm 61. Maybe this sport isn’t for me.... 1am Doom scrolling anything but golf I came across this video....Can't hurt to watch a GOAT I thought, but I was NOT expecting THIS! Carte Blanche to throw with my right hand? After checking I was not dreaming I felt a lot less depressed. Less than 12 hours later I go to my frosty range and give it a go. Couple of swishes with the club shaft. Yup, I can throw. Pitching wedge....BOOM! Jesus H Christmas on a bike! 9 iron...POW 8 iron...this is now weird. How can this be working? Driver...see ya! OK it won't work on chips, especially delicate ones. I'm good chipper anyway...but IT DOES! and more accurately. Visualise then throw. Bunkers? I'd rather take an unplayable, it'd save more shots....I've just had to rake the entire biggest bunker on our practice range. I floated almost every one out of there. I need to buy you a beer if you're ever in UK! I'm going to try this all winter (I've had eureka moments before) but this feels different.🤞 🙏 No need to think about anything else but the throw. Pick my spot on the ball and viualise the club throwing through that dot. Thank you very much indeed 👍

I’ve always thought this and this is how the release should people call it a flip or a roll but it’s the club just releasing and turning over its letting the club do what it wants to do. It’s been taught out of me and I’m a club and a half shorter in distance now I used to carry 9 iron 150 now I’m down to 140 on a good day. Think I need to go back!

Thank you so much for this video! There is so much conflicting information out there! I'm not great, but I'm not a scrub either. Probably a 5-7 hdcp coming off of a very serious back injury. Ive been obsessively filming my swing and analyzing every tiny detail. And it puts me more and more at a loss simply because I am trying to follow conventional teaching. I noticed myself "casting" a little in my swing. And even though Ive been hitting it long and accurate, ive been trying to "fix" it. It is good to hear that it is not necessarily an issue.

This is the most spot on explanation of the golf ⛳ swing I've ever heard on all of RU-vid. Finally, someone understands what I've been thinking 🤔 about for over a decade.

Kinda makes sense how the 1 handed golfer can hit it so good lol snappy Gilmore

I saw the headline, swing like the GOAT. Would love to swing like Nicklaus, but would be cool to swing like woods, too.

Good explanation. It's makes sense, if you're right handed and that's your most coordinated hand, then which hand do you want controling the face, Obviously right. As I've figured out out to feel shots in my hands my game has drastically improved. This is also why I think it's super important for beginners to spend a lot of time chipping and pitching and getting creative wmariund the greens because it allows you to train the feels of different shots at a lower speed, send it high, keep low, put spin on, take it off and skip it....

I swear to god that I’ve been thinking this for years but bc I’ve always been so bad at golf I was afraid to ruin my swing even more lmao. I’ve been watching a lot of face on videos of pros swings just watching their right forearm and it makes sense that a lot of players are either doing this or trying to do it. Great video

I swing at about the same speed that Tiger does NOW! He 2 has lost 10-15 mph in his full driver swing?

When I trained for WLD, it felt like there was no max to distance gain because it all rellied on how hard you could yank the club in on the way down and an aggressive throw on the right arm. It's like if a standard trailing arm wrist rotation is like shooting a bow, that pitch flick you put into impact in LD is like a railgun. It's the key to the LD power and speed and is the key to effortless distance. I taught a buddy of mine with the right arm pitch and he was over 280 in 3 months, he's 5'7" and never touched a club in his life. It's been ages tho so he's probably ass now, but the point still stands.

Glad I had someone teach me to throw the club with my dominant hand early on in my golf adventure. Went from not being able to break 100 to a single digit handicap in a month. Throw the club underhanded. Keep the club on front of you. Spend the spare time on your short game. Thanks, it isn't as hard as golf wants you to think. 😊

Asked him in person about using my trail hand aka right and he nodded. Followed up by him throwing a bag of skittles at me and saying "just like that"

Right hand dominant makes so much sense to mean.I'm happy you made this video. I can't wait to get to the gulf rings to try this out. Thanks for this. Content and please keep up the good work.

😱😱 this video came up this AM like some kind of prophecy! 54 years old, played in High School and College. Gave up the game due to regular life coming at you .... now trying desperately to rebuild my game after many years and now sporting bad hips... 😔 have been very disappointed in not being able to swing and move my body... Now I have new hope!

I figured out this releasing the wrist trick years ago. It just kind of clicked one day because I was slicing a lot of balls

when i began using my right coordinated arm i started having much more control but then got a bit of golfers elbow, what to do?

Crazy enough I feel like I’m very left leg dominant with a right hand release

If I had the choice of hitting a ball at Augusta or hitting a ball off of Chuck's backyard matt at the San Juan Mountains I think I'd choose Chuck's matt.

This video was on the front page of RU-vid this morning like I was meant to see it. I played college and professionally in the early 2000s as a left side dominant player. I completely gave the game up in 2005 for several reasons. Over the years I thought about what i would do different if i ever picked the game up again. One day I heard Nicholas say play with back to the target and it clicked in my head. 15 years later at 48 years old I came home, got my clubs out and headed to the range. Two years later what has evoled from that is a right handed dominant swing with a full release and im crushing the ball. Im back to a +2 handicap. Now at 50, I routinely hit it 315 to 330. However, my swing has become very shallow (+1.5 to +2.0 angle of attack with 6 iron) leading to an extremely high ball flight. Yesterday i hit balls with the intention of going back a left side hold the face off swing to see if that would improve ball height but after watching your video im going to continue what im doing. I would love to hear your thoughts on improving angle of attack.

This was incredibly interesting! I play right handed even though I'm a lefty. I'm a former soccer player, and I'm right footed. I think that's why right handed golf felt natural for me, because I'm used to transferring the power through the right side of my lower body. I'd consider myself lead side dominant, because I feel like the golf swing is a backhanded swing for me. This video was really food for thought, because I'll definitely be looking more into the right hand in regards to the release. Not that I need distance as such, I can already hit it around 300 yards off the tee, but and improvements in terms of consistency and narrowing in dispersion is of course valuable, as well as making the swing more effortless, since I'm often suffering from soreness around the left shoulder blade even though I'm relatively young and quite athletic. So thank you, this was really food for thought!

Where are you located? I'm interested in learning through actual lessons with you....

Really nice video man. It deadset makes me want to go to the range and experiment lol. Of course I see this video when I’m striking the ball the best I have been in a while. When you talk about a fast transition and just rip at it with the lead hand, does that as a consequence throw your club path out? Is it a recipe for swinging over the top in a powerful manner? I’m swinging from the inside these days with a draw and I’d love to keep it that way whilst still adding power. How do you be careful to still keep a nice club path and not revert to being steep?

This is absolutely fantastic and i'm facinated by what i just saw... I've swong both ways but feel more comfortabe with my trail hand lead. i often felt like i was cheating using my rt hand as my lead hand but now that I know that Tiger does the same thing im good. to me its the easiest way to swing... thanks for your video it has truely eased my mind... now in can play with less stress.

Read Faldo's book...his whole reconstruction of his swing is this...left side then changing to right hand dominant. Tho he, and I disagree with you with respect on the fact (as does Snead, Hogan) that the Shoulders are indeed the hub of the motor and main power source...try throwing without shoulder motion...it comes hand in hand. See freddie couples video on timing and tempo...the bit right at the end... sure it is a Mike Austin right hand throw...but it is ALL important. Watch Mike Austin skeleton suit video. Step and throw... " the shoulders are the hub". Focus only on the right hand and you will do a fake shoulder turn then lose leberage potential. Good vid tho dude.

Near end of clip fu@&#_n murdered 😅

Skip the stone Maruch

I’d take Ernie Els swing over Tigers swing any day, Ernie’s swing is like flutter, built for longevity Tiger swing in 2002 was built to win majors, but had a shelf life of 8 years, that amount of torque and speed was out of this world.

Watching till the end, and this is great!🎉

Once you pair this with a good grip that lets you square the face naturally, you're on the way to truly enjoying the game.

One a side: why do we ALL want speed? Because a 9 iron is easier to flush than a 5 iron. If all our clubs carry further, then we get to use our easier clubs more frequently.

Ironically, Tiger told Charlie not to copy his swing. He said to copy Rory's. After all this time i spent building my swing after Tiger's...🤦

What do you tell a left-hand side dominant person who plays right handed.

Just found you. I really dig your style. I'm a mostly self taught player. Ive read over 60 golf swing books. I'm a plus 2 and have a swing shape like Faldo. I feel like I really understand my swing and have coached a lot of high level am's. The only thing you are incorrect with in this video is about Tigers swing knowledge. He is a swing geek. He can go down any rabbit hole you want. He knows as much about the swing as anyone on earth. I look forward to watching more of your videos!

Well I watched one of your videos yesterday, about letting the arms fall continue swing with the body following, had a great nine playing this way. Ok I watched this one today y about right throwing and being dominate. Unfortunately Ive be been your formers self and am left side dominate and my right hand goes for a ride . Bit confused now because to get the opposite feel will be like wipping your bum with the opposite hand. I'm 65, played all my life, do you really feel right side dominate is more powerful, t hats a big change with right hand no longer going for a ride

I have a 2 calluses on my right hand but they are both on my ring finger. Tiger had his tape on his middle. Where are yours?

I'm very right hand dominate and it causes me to shut the face down fast and causes hooks and left misses.

Appreciate your work

Great stuff, as always! Is what you did with Pedro available to watch?

So with the cut you mentioned at the end, would it be the same feel like you would do throwing a ball and the way you would flip your fingers to put left to right spin on it. Typing it I'm not sure if what I'm saying is making sense. Or if you were bowling and wanted the ball to spin left to right down the lane. That feel could help improve the cut shots.

Skip rocks on the pond

Tiger's swing looks like Ben Hogan's with a touch less shallowing and a slightly narrower stance to me.

This was my missing piece

tha's why he the GOAT

Have been using my trail side hand for decades. For me when I cast ehen u wanna hit harder. Now I am focusing in letting the lead hand drop and lead, keep the bow and release which is more consistent. Without shaft lean the right hand push will make me shots more inconsistent. 😢

I agree with this, I used to be a lead arm golfer and moved to trail arm golfer. If you think about how you would skip a rock across a pond, the throw comes from the trail side of the body using the dominant arm. Learning to do that throw with non-dominant arm is so key.

so a throwing/hitting motion with the right hand/arm/side must also have a solid left hand/wrist...the left hand/wrist must remain stiff and not flip under the power from the right, also like bryson does at impact...

Spin. It. Down.

Jack Nicklaus is the GOAT but excellent video none the less

I have been watching Tigers swing for a long time. From slow motion to golf pros breaking his swing down and no matter ow hard I try I cannot get in the same release positions I see him in. I have even tried to reverse engineer his position to figure out how he gets there with no success. I am a lefty, and your trail arm explanation is such a different feel I took some swing in the mirror with iron and driver and am the closest I have ever been to a Tiger swing finish. I can throw pretty good and this feel is so much more natural. I will be taking this to the range today or tomorrow and report back. Great video.

Been on a big swing journey the past 2 years. I’ve changed my grip numerous times different swings tried the Matthew Wolff. Rahm Morikawa Rory everything. I think one thing is I have learned I have a very active right hand. And I don’t get to my lead side very well I tend to push off with my trail leg. I’m 34 Ive always been athletic and aggressive so smooth isn’t really built into my dna lol So I’m gonna dive into this theory of yours hopefully something clicks. Thank you

Why it’s called Goat theory?

So this is super interesting. I'm a 42 year old 1 handicap. I have been working on power and was feeling this handle pull with my right hand. Recently had a teacher say I'm lead side dominate but really struggled to generate power with it. I think this makes a ton of sense.

The South African 🇿🇦 oostehiuzen what a swing that is 👌

Very interesting video .. how do you think this system would work on a left handed person who places right handed golf ? As obviously don't throw right handed?

Great video. Hogan said he wished he had 3 right hands. 🤔. Different things work for different people, but overall I 100% agree with this for my own swing. I feel like a lot of golf instruction nowadays is geared towards people being extremely strong and flexible with limited face rotation and it’s just not realistic or natural for most of us to play golf that way even though the numbers may look good on TrackMan or GC Quad.

Question for you.. Im a left handed player but right hand dominant. Im definitely a body swing but am intrigued by this swing. Im a little useless with my left hand. Do you think it possible to train my non dominant hand/wrist to swing like this?

This is quite a change of direction. I've been a premium member for two years (22/23) until this summer. I had the impression that what was taught was to keep lead side quit. Remember the truck and trailer video of pushing vs pulling... I'm seing also that more emphases is put on the trail elbow that should be against or in front of body in the downswing. Using the right side (for right hand people) is for sure "power" if you can control it. Why that change in direction now? Better result? easier to learn? We use to practice movements without a club for hundreds of reps, is that still teach at RotarySwing?

Question: What do you think is Rick Shiels problem?

Years ago you espoused a lead side swing would be best way to cure the ails of a right side dominant swing. Right side overtakes left and causes left wrist to break down and resultant chicken. Now you say right side but how will this not cause above stated issues. Also might cause right medial epicondylitis(golfers elbow) so how to prevent this and still use this new method?

what would you recommend for someone who is right hand dominant but swings left handed?

Im 73 and not a big guy 5 feet 8 inches tall (shrinking some) 180 pounds. Can this help me? I would love a 230 yard drive.

Hey Chuck! Didn’t know you went from being Hollywood actor to a golf instructor!? Are you going to make a martial arts instructional videos?? Thanks for the video Mr. Norris 👌

I focus more on throwing my right forearm rather than flipping my wrist. Throwing the forearm creates stability in the wrist and allows you to better control the club face. It also helps maintains shaft pressure/lean to hit down through the shot. Throwing the wrist produces volatility in club face angle, shaft lean and arc depth. This is because you essentially have to time the throwing of the wrist to get to the proper club position at impact. In my opinion, the golf swing is too fast for the average golfer to time the flipping of the wrist consistently. Lastly, keeping the ball in play is just as fun as hitting it further :)

What about the philosophy of body being the engine of the swing 35lbs of muscle to hit it long way I’m confused now we need to go back to dominant side army’s hands swing? Hard to hear for all the folks drilling the left side for thousands of reps?

So, how do you swing lead side dominant? I got a bad right shoulder, and I'm naturally left handed. I feel like I should look at that.

The way I see it the lead arm is purely there to line up the ball

When you throw you pronate .. are you pronating when you release your hand in golf swing too?

With your swing, does your lead arm go longer than trail arm tee shots? Or vice versa? Or same? Just curious..

All the top long hitters are swing this way now, that why they all hit it so far, u can't hit it far using your none dominant hand.. It's a combination but mostly the right hand when u swing thru...

Thanks for the videos. It seems simple, yet whenever I do the post up, my head always pops up, too. How do I stay down during that part of the sequence?

Do you think lead side players have more accuracy than the trail side players?

It’s his glute activation

I was always told you can’t teach club head speed at a certain point you either got it or you dont

Very great video!

Curious, how were you able to film at Augusta?

What you suggest for people like me who play golf right handed but are left handed. I wouldnt throw with my right arm so not natural for me

Good analysis video!! I think Tiger is left-handed. So it doesn't need to be the "dominant" hand. I also studied the year2000 Tiger/Harmon swing and it looks pretty much similar to Mike Malaskas. The trail arm/hand dominant with the shaft in front of you always and not behind (stuck position). It's clear both on Taylor Made 9windows video and the other one with TM Tiger and Morikawa video which Tiger "slaps" the ball so differently (even the sound) compared to Morikawa with basically his right hand. So, I tried to copy that, and i had to open the face at address big time. And only then i could manage to hit well. I think the problem is, we amateurs, shut the face tremendously at address and/or in the downswing. And then the classic amateur mistakes happen. Again, nice video of yours!!👍

this is interesting. ive been a student of Jack Nicklaus's smooth swing style and emulated that as much as I can and then over the years I tried all kinds of various other methods, over the top. down the back, flatter, moe norman, hogan etc but I since I trained with JAcks style that has always just felt the most natural and easiest and its morphed a bit over the years but Ive always always had an issue with my ball striking. i would always impact the turf infront of ball and incidentally ive always relied on my left arm as the dominant arm to focus on. earlier this year, I was going through another test phase and I started focusing on my right hand drive and added a snap through at the bottom of the swing, I concentrated on my right hand driving through the ball at impact and suddenly Im hitting dirt behind the ball and getting a clean impact on the ball first consistently, like I dont even need to worry anymore. to hear this really made me realize the focus was on the wrong hand all these damn 35 years.. plus I can easily add a draw or a fade now. like how has nobody taught me this ever

What about trying to combine the 2 concepts ? Is there an advantage in doing so?

Should I stay w a lead hand dominant swing if I am a lefty golfing RHanded?

Tiger woods driving game had been quite inconsistent for past 5 years😢

this might be the most important golf instructional video I've ever seen

I had to learn nearly the entire swing pattern. My natural swing included a cupped left wrist (result: open clubface at impact), lifting up in the backswing, hips moving toward the ball in the downswing (result: steep and over the top coming down) and no forward weight shift (result: falling to the right hitting high). I had zero low point control and was completely unaware of where my swing path or club face was at impact. I had to completely redo my swing once I learned what I was doing wrong.

Left-hand to me is more of the foundation and fundamental structure of the swing. The right hand is more shot specific based on each specific shot

Why the title to this video of "GOAT Theory"??? Tiger is NOT the GOAT! Jack is the GOAT!!! 18 majors vs Tiger's 15... Jack's 19 runnerup finishes in majors... Tiger??? Not even close... using Tiger's own words about Jack's 18 majors being the GOLD Standard to measure GOATness...

I have always said that the longest hitters will also be the longest throwers

I'm saying left and right work's simultaneously. Brain 🧠 heart ❤️ and courage 💪 and willpower 🎉🎉🎉😂❤ Thanks 🙏👍 for the information channel 😸 good to know 🙂🎉🎉🎉

24 years ago I began building my golf swing with a 6 finger grip. Because Mr Hogan says for a right hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers. So for a left hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers 🎉. Hogan's secret is a 6 finger grip. And I focused and concentrating on the six finger grip and the inner muscles 💪. From the ground and up ❤🎉 I dug it out of the dirt and I follow the sun 🌞. I own my swing because I am the swing. 24 years to master the same grip/ muscle's for the left and right hands. Flawless victory 🙌 Hands of a surgeon 👏. I spent 12 years in the beginning putting, chipping and pitching so my swing is built off my putting stroke 🎉😂. One feeling for all. ❤❤❤ I'm empathetic and this is my superpower 🙏🤠🔱💯. Sun gazing ❤🎉 Love light ⛳😇💪🌞🧬

Tiger’s body isn’t breaking down from his golf swing. It’s breaking down from all the drugs he’s consumed and his violent car crashes.

Tigger's recent swing doesn't have the upper chest tilted back, none of the contemporary PGA player swing in his way. Specifically, he uses the top-scapula to drive and hence pushes his shoulders forward more than the waist! But it is different than when he is younger.

Jack is the GOAT! Don't get it mixed up...

Nicklaus is the GOAT so the theory is flawed at the start.

Jack is the GOAT, just ask Tiger.

Not the goat, your actions on and off the course both count. Don