Making it look easy

[lia41985]

Nicklaus wrote in Golf My Way

If he is a good player, his swing is obviously finely controlled. Yet there is often about it an element of abandoning of freedom, in the way the club releases through the ball: almost as though it were whistling along of its own volition. Over-all, to me, this open-to-closed type of golfer makes the game look graceful, physically "easy"--sometimes you might say, almost symphonic. There rarely appears to be much stress or strain about this manner of striking the ball. The relatively difficult way to play golf, as I see it, is with a swing in which the clubface habitually closes (turns counterclockwise) as it goes back and opens (turns clockwise) on its return to find squareness at the ball. Again, these movements may not be excessive, but to me the resulting complex swing often looks more contrived, forced, less natural. I associate this kind of swing with a flattish plane, a restricted arc and either a blocked or chopped-off finish.

John Jacobs stated (http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2011-03/jacobs-diaz-lessons#ixzz1ISuGsxmN):

GOLF IS NOT PLAYED exclusively with the hands, nor is it played exclusively with the body. The whole art of the game is to synchronize body action with hand and wrist action. You just can't play well enough with either one alone. It's a swinging wrist cock. I like to call it two turns and a swish. That's the correct coordination of movement.

THE COMPLETE FREEDOM of the club from end to end is what we're all looking for. It will come square at impact because we are geniuses. Absolutely we are geniuses. That's one of the things you have to be fearful of losing in the individual. Getting very deep into technique can lead to some successes, but it's dangerous for most.

Here's Tiger talking about Federer:
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Here is Federer hitting:
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Here are a couple of old Tiger swings:
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Some may downplay the importance of rhythm/timing or purport to have a method that does away with reliance on rhythm/timing, but it's "there" and it's important.

 

[dinhdai88]

The video is interesting. Tiger Woods is my idol, and the golf sport, I just know him.