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Thanks O.B

Interesting.... do you know what lie angle and shaftlenght he had on it... Seeing him swing in older clips (on youtube) he looks like having more kneebend than many others in his era. But in MB´s clip he stand taller.

Does the clubmaker perhaps have more info on that?

Hey Amen Corner

I didnt measure it or check the lie angle. Ill check it out and ask about his iron set up for you too.... I do know the iron heads were custom ordered heavy and the shafts were Brunswick super stiff, tipped and the butt end counter balanced back to a more normal swing weight. The added weight making the shaft more bendy. George wasnt a long hitter so its an interesting set up.


There's a youtube video of George playing golf in the Shells Wonderful World of Golf series ......I think in South America maybe. Anways its image is "stretched" for some reason and as such Georges posture looks a little weird to the eye. Perhaps this is the clip you are referring to?

I think George goes over knee bend in the video that accompanied his book, Natural Golf , not sure if that part made it onto youtube or not. To my recollection it wasnt very bendy, he was a short man but he stood tall.......like Hogan. Got his right forearm on plane too. He liked to stand to a longer shot with his foot line closed (not plane line just foot line) which if you then square the knees from a DTL view will give the appearance of two bendy knees when it really just the right. If you know what I mean. Also kind of Hoganish.

While I never had a lesson with George (what a stupid I am) I did have a few with one of his old teaching assistants who teaches stance in that manner, balance, "rotate to load", dragging the right foot , what we'd call the Three Stations of which impact isnt one, pretty much pure CF (in theory anyways...... but thats another story for another day maybe)



All the best for 2011 Amen.


PS If you're really interested in his play you can contact Shell via their website. They will reproduce any show from their catalogue and send you a dvd for a small fee. George played several matches during its run on TV. My personal fave is his match against Gene Littler at my old club The Royal Ottawa. Maybe just for memory sake but Gene the Machine was great to watch too.