[Hennybogan]

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.

HB