i sware i havent followed a thread 6times a day in along time. This one is well worth it....
Henny, seems to me that there a fewer and fewer natural different swings out there on tour, you know the days of chichi, nicklaus, palmer and trevino had very different styles and the characters that came with it it seems...
its looking alot like cookycutter swings these days, is that a fad or fact of knowledge and general teaching? i'd like you view on this...maybe there still are a few characters you know of that im not thinking of besides freaky furyk of course!
just looks alot the same these days....is that good?
thanks!
i sware i havent followed a thread 6times a day in along time. This one is well worth it....
Henny, seems to me that there a fewer and fewer natural different swings out there on tour, you know the days of chichi, nicklaus, palmer and trevino had very different styles and the characters that came with it it seems...
its looking alot like cookycutter swings these days, is that a fad or fact of knowledge and general teaching? i'd like you view on this...maybe there still are a few characters you know of that im not thinking of besides freaky furyk of course!
just looks alot the same these days....is that good?
thanks!
Powerdraw,
More uniform does not necessarily mean better. My guess is the advent of TV and video is the cause of the cookie cutter scene. Young golfers, often adept at visual learning, have greater opportunity to see the tour swings of today and model them. They tend to "look" more like golfers. I don't know that modern teaching (present company excluded) has done a great service to the functionality of the swing other than producing powerful drivers of the ball.
The golf channel has been showing Shell's WWoG and others. Some nice looks at great swings from the 50's and 60's. It may be unfortunate for the current generation that the viewing of those swings was not more readily available as today's models were being formed.
I think that the swing fads will continue. People always copy the top players. Some say Hogan and then Nicklaus had too much influence on their public's swings. Our mission should be to get some nicely aligned golfers in front of the public eye a little more often for the sake of future generations. I know the boys here are working on it.
awesome....as for the golf channel shell thing, having my first kid, now 6months old, i have had many a early morning shell show from 4am too 6am...the pleasure of watching naturals go at it and even commentating their opponents next shot!!!! wouldnt that be blast to see tiger decipher a phil mickey special live!
personnal opinion, (im going back to the different swings topic), is that having a chance to see more than one way to skin a cat leads to finding different personnalitys and 'sellability' of the game as well....
i mean, if everyone wrote the same way, you will never notice and applaud a good writer...same for the swing imo....
my dad always sang 'i did it myyyyyy wayyyyyy'....lol.
i think you are correct, there should be a mix of examples and results.
nice pickin your brain, no wonder some send a 'bucket' load of questions
awesome....as for the golf channel shell thing, having my first kid, now 6months old, i have had many a early morning shell show from 4am too 6am...the pleasure of watching naturals go at it and even commentating their opponents next shot!!!! wouldnt that be blast to see tiger decipher a phil mickey special live!
personnal opinion, (im going back to the different swings topic), is that having a chance to see more than one way to skin a cat leads to finding different personnalitys and 'sellability' of the game as well....
i mean, if everyone wrote the same way, you will never notice and applaud a good writer...same for the swing imo....
my dad always sang 'i did it myyyyyy wayyyyyy'....lol.
i think you are correct, there should be a mix of examples and results.
nice pickin your brain, no wonder some send a 'bucket' load of questions
Powerdraw,
I've got some great footage from the shows of Player, Palmer, Snead, Venturi, Nelson, etc. Fun to watch.
As far as marketing, I think the tour is missing the bus. There are contributing factors. They promote only a select few, so when someone else wins it's Cinderella. Often, Cinderella has been making a steady run for years. The courses the tour selects, esp TPC, may provide drama of miss or make, but they don't offer a wide range of possible shots. Most courses want long, high shots. The players adapt to the conditions.
Now the tour has the Fed Ex Cup. It's an artificial way to get the top players to play the same week. It may be a fantastic month of golf. I'm concerned about the tourneys after. The draw to tournaments for tour players (who can't play every week) begins with the golf course and the title. Purse matters too. If the tour played more great courses, we would see more great golf, with the top players facing each other.
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