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Great video as usual, best instructor period 🙌🙌🙌

Golf coach told me this today. I have only been playing for 30 years and never have heard this before.

great tip

Beautiful office!

This makes total sense. There has to be a point on the body that is furthest from the ball at the top of the backswing (the furthest point of the coil), and that is the scapula, which is the large bone in the upper back - the scapula is connected to the shoulder bone/upper arm(humerus). ... The scapula needs to be "frozen in place" for a split-second while the downswing is started early and the pressure in the lower body transfers to the left side. ... * Sure, the golf swing is all one continuous motion, but, there is something of a temporary "freeze point" in the upper body/upper back while the weight/pressure is moving to the left side to start the downswing. ... This takes place in a number of athletic movements, like a baseball outfielder making a long throw - there is a momentary freeze of the right scapula while the left leg reaches forward and plants into the ground, THEN the upper body uncoils rapidly in order to start the chain reaction of releasing energy from the scapula, to the shoulder, to the arm, then finally to the wrist and hand as the baseball is released.

Scheffler has terrible swing, but distance control is good an so is his putting. Those will fade over time. 😮

Mike, just curious, why do at times regrip my hands in the middle of my back swing, practice swing is great, as soon as i step up to the ball set up, progress injury the back swing, my hands move... What do you have for me?

This is great

Please check out my new series Part 1 just released Henry Picard believed that Hogan could really bend around, and that he had ‘great posture, footwork, everything’. It was Picard who, in the 30s, had told Hogan to weaken his left hand grip. This was necessary because of Hogan’s flexibility and the amount of counterclockwise motion with his left hand and arm in the downswing. It was Picard who told Hogan to ‘wheel it’ and to ‘turn it loose’, because he believed that if you have a true swing (as he believed Hogan possessed by then), ‘the harder you hit it, the better you hit it’. If you return the club at full capacity to the ball, the club head will true itself up at impact.

The title was exactly what I needed to see. It’s so obvious yet I didn’t do the math on an open face at setup.

I will give this a try thanks!

Your videos are awesome Mike, but the only thing I struggle with is the regular references to baseball hits, and the resultant body movement. I’m originally from the UK but have lived in Australia for the last 40 years. As a result, I never played baseball, as it wasn’t a mainstream sport or even offered when I was a kid. I wouldn’t know how to correctly hit a ball using a baseball bat, and struggle a little trying to put together the baseball link and the golf swing. I’m not complaining, just a feedback post.

This is one of the very best teachers of the golf swing, period. 🇨🇦💝🇺🇸🙏👍🥰

The golf club is not a baseball bat and we do not strike the ball with the shaft! This misconception is why most everyone has a hard time learning golf. The golf club is a very unique tool, unlike any other that we know or use. To assume it works like a baseball bat or tennis racket is exactly the reason everyone finds golf difficult. What makes the golf club so unique is that it's the only tool that sends the ball at an acute angle to the shaft or handle. Literally no other tool does that. Every other tool sends the ball at an obtuse or right angle at the most.

Outstanding!

Similar to what a bowler does with his right foot.

Great video, but you'll be hearing from the Arborist Society.

Got it wrong. get a new job

Imagine you're out on the course and you spot a dude hitting a tree with a baseball bat at various angles, talking to no one

I'm in England, played a round with an ex American forces guy who played a lot of baseball, jee he was long, as long as anyone I've ever played with. Shame he had the yips putting

One of the nest I've seen great job.

Hi Mike so what your saying is the momentum of the club and pushing back of the left hip will engage the right hip to turn correctly without having to make the right hip turn , so in a feel type scenario when practising would that be what I should try to feel in drills till it's automatically happening

Always preferred the baseball grip on the club. If you start down right with your body getting out of the way , the release takes care of itself.

Here in finland we got our own Baseball (pesäpallo) were you hit in a ball coming straight down. So its easier to get a clean hit. But the mechanics of hitting are the same obviously. And yes having played a bit this idea works also for me really well! As you can se, its not a multi million sport, but popular in some towns. ruclips.net/video/Pz19WhYxaxA/видео.html

Hi Mike, great video. You mentioned that you used to play with lead thumb off shaft. That grip seems to be working out well for Miles Russell too.

Unbelievable! After advocating pushing off the back foot for years now you're advocating the opposite? No wonder no one can learn golf from instructors like you. When an instructor changes his entire approach to the golf swing because the world's #1 player does something completely different, you know they're full of shit. This is embarrassing. Mike has never advocated anything like this before and now that Scheffler's #1 ... Mike's instruction has completely changed. Also, ask yourself, was Mike there with Scotty practicing the day after or is he just making everything up? How does he know what Scotty was practicing? He doesn't! After 30 years of golf instruction shouldn't you know what you're talking about by now and not change on a whim?

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Where is the "Malaska Move" in this?

Pushing is the wrong word..pulling is more appropriate.

People who say he's flirting clearly are afraid of women. He's just teaching and doing it well. You adapt to the personality of your golfer. Hes being extremely professional and a great lesson result.

¡Gracias!

Of course Jack Nicklaus used a palm grip on his left hand seem to work for him

Mike hi. Great lesson! Here’s a mini aha moment I got from this video; The reason a lot of practice swings are perfect and then followed by bad shots is because with a practice shot the brain knows there’s no ball to hit straight and so has no need to make compensations. The moment you step up to the ball it’s a different story. No wonder you often hear “ I mess up as soon as I have a ball in front of me”

45 degrees is when. I hinge ! It’s usually my best golf

It's vector physics. Dropping the club grip is one up vector of the head, and gravity is a down vector of the head. They add up to a 45 degree movement of the club head. Inescapeable.

Found through self experimentation that what he is saying is 100% true.

A million thanks mike. I know this advice will help immediately. I fit right into the trap you hear everyone else saying about positions. I for the life of me would not take the club away properly and never knew why it felt like I was never in a good position. Thx so much

Not the tone of video I thought, smoothie Mike , playa

I disagree with mike on this one. Doing that little trick is easy. Nothing to do with the gold swing

Does he gain power and speed doing this footwork? How does he actually create ground forces?

Being a scratch bowler most of my life, I learned this on my own after “professional” instructors were trying to get be to roll everything and “time” it to impact. You can never be consistent doing that.

makes sense to me

I have been playing this game for 51 years. It took me a long time to learn what Beverle has accomplished....to have fun! Mike, if you could teach that to every student, you'd belong in the golf HOF!

Thank you, Mike. This is exactly the key problem in my golf swing 👍

A great lesson as always 👏👏👏

Interesting how she makes a really good practice swing keeping the club away from her and not bending her left elbow much at all. But when she actually hits the ball the elbow still breaks a little too much. The old ball focus syndrome. Good to watch this. I love live lessons.

Great video Mike

Malaska, you are one smoooooth dawg! You surely treat female students much differently than you do male students. The Don Juan of Golf!

I'm sending this to my family group chat. They need to see this!

Do you know how many people never break 100? That was my first goal, then 90-80 then 70. It took a lot of practice and playing to get to my lowest ever handicap 1.4 currently at almost 70 years old currently playing of 7.2 Mike is a really good teacher