These videos are great for showing the geometry of the swings, but in real-time you can see the beautiful tempo and smoothness. Ernie Els' swing is so oily smooth and easy-beautiful.
@@funkster007 lol... Yeah his swing may not have been easy on his body. But he has always found a way to get everything out of it. His swing looks so efficient now I think it's pretty remarkable.
Total rubbish his dominance is in his self belief and mental toughness, his swing has caused him many injuries and is not as efficient as many on tour.
What I'd love to watch are this same thing with the 20 weirdest swings of successful players: the Trevinos and Palmers and Furyks and the like. Could be just as instructive.
They all have one thing in common - where the shaft, club head and human head are positioned at the moment of impact in relation to the ball. Palmer looks pretty horrible to me but in slomo he is in absolutely perfect position at moment of impact (when at the peak of his game).
Nice kompilation! There are push(hitter) swings and are pull(swinger) swings. For example Garcia is pushing very hard from his right side, as his right arms pushes trough the hitting area with force. This gives him a chicken wing tendency. Same goes for L Westwood and R Goosen. Still very effective golfswings but not very sweet. Ernie Els is pulling wth his left side providing a straight left arm trough the hittingarea. Same goes for Adam Scott. Very sweet golfswings.
Trevor Immelman had a sweet swing, like a lot of the South African golfers, and earlier, Bobby Cole. In the 50s and 60s, Gene Littler was regarded as one of the sweetest swingers on tour but he preferred tinkering with his vintage cars and so never really achieved what he might have.
these great golfers have a lot of similar techniques in their swing. One thing I've been noticing lately is how they hit down sharp on the ball, turning their hips onto their left leg. About half way down they straighten the left leg. That helps to snap the club through, turn the hips, and keeps hips from sliding.
THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT SWINGS BUT THEYRE ALL CONSISTENT THEREFORE ITS ALL ABOUT BEING CONSISTENT EVEN IF YOUR SWING LOOKS WEIRD OR DIFFERENT THERES NO ONE PERFECT FORMULA FOR BEAUTIFUL SWING THRES ONLY FEW IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MUST FOLLOW OTHERWISE BALL WILL SHOW YOU THAT YOURE TRYING TO CHEAT BALL WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THE TRUTH :)
No. Consistency is very important but not by itself. I’ll show you endless slicers with 25 handicaps who very consistently banana their drives 185 yds into the right rough/woods/water. There is a perfect formula where key things are positioned at moment of impact.
@@mrsmartypants_1 if the perfect formula would exist everyone would follow it and there would be no banana slicers :P what works for me doesnt have to work for you...just find your own formula, thats it, I have found mine and started enjoying my golf at hcp 20 :)
@@TruthDefender Umm no. Few people have the ability to replicate the correct shaft position, club head and human head at ball impact. Simply knowing the formula does not mean you can execute it lol.
@@dttruman That is true. He was notoriously wild. Still, when he was swinging well, I found him very aesthetically pleasing to watch. It wasn't ALL his short game. He's the most successful European player ever, unless you want to argue for Harry Vardon. He did a lot right. And no one did it with better style.
@@DougKercher But it was injuries that ruined Wie. When you play through injuries...like all athletes do...then you compensate one way or another. Michelle just had more athletic ability than her body could stand up to. I love that she kept trying, though. Now maybe her children will come along some day and do what she couldn't.
It's ok to do that. Didn't cost him distance, didn't ruin his back, and got him into a playoff in the Open at 59. The highly torqued swing is great if you're young and very athletic, but it's hard no the body
Playing the "what if" game...if Michelle Wie did not have the injuries, what may have been? She nearly made some cuts on the PGA tour when she was 14, and in doing so actually beat some winners...in fact, MAJOR winners in doing so. Not so hard to believe that with no wrist injury that she may have won a PGA event or so. Of course, we'll never know now. But if you pitted her at age 14 against Tiger at age 14, she would have beat him.
Babe Zaharias doesn't deserve to be on this list, Louise Suggs called her swing a cheap Texas hook. Louise's swing was way sweeter. After all this the sweetest list.And the greatest ball strikers of all time were lowering their knees into impact, didn't straighten till after impact. Can anyone say knee surgery. Tiger?
Sweet swings and great swings aren't the same thing IMO. Sweet swings are buttery smooth and effortless. Some great swings, Tiger, lashed at the ball. The outcome was something to behold, but watching him swing was not. The condition of his body is the proof (pre-wreck of course).
The problem with most of these swings is that they're not remotely replicable for the average person: all those perfectly straight left arms, left heal on the ground, and huge shoulder turns. Watson's swing is probably the one here most worth studying. It doesn't stress out the body. That's why he nearly one that Open at 59. Look what happened to Tiger and Couples. Their swings ruined their backs.
Every time I see golfers finishing their swing with their lead knee facing the same direction as address, I cringe. Your hip is internally rotating 90 degrees inward. Human body isn’t design for that. That’s why lot of golfers face knee surgery and hip surgery later in life. When you finish your swing, your lead knee should be facing the target, which is so much healthier on your back, hip, and the knee. It’s amazing to me, they still haven’t figured this out.
I disagree. Your lead knee shud never face the target at the finish of your swing. Anatomically it is impossible anyway unless your left foot at address was turned 90 degrees outwards.
you're smoking some good drugs or really dislike Tiger by a lot. he's gotta be in the top 5 best players to play the game, if not the top 2. most of the Pro golf swings are very alike. so not sure what's going on with your video.
There's always going to be disagreements with such a list but you guys are REALLY off! Sergio Garcia?!? What swing are you guys watching...over exaggerating lag and flat swing that never really lows through the same plane. His swing is one of the ugliest on tour! That being said, where Adam Scott? Do you guys even watch golf?!?
This video is part 1 of 2, Adam Scott is #7 on the part 2 video. No two people are going to come up with the same top 20 list, and of course personal biases and preferences will always prevail over objective evaluations.
You can't call some of these swingers. There's a difference between a hitter and a swinger. Mclroy and Woods are hitters-not swingers. Snead was a swinger, and Hogan was a hitter. Jack was a Swinger, and Arnold was a hitter. You can't be a "sweet hitter"; there's never been such a thing.
@@pigslefats Wonderful! After 150-years of golf and professionals who've studied every swing worth studying, Pig has invented something unknown to the rest of golf. Another Thomas Edison in golf! Danka!
@@pigslefats Let me add, pigs, that what you are I suppose is a sweet swinger. And as a rule, they last a lot longer than hitters do. So, enjoy your game. Can you putt? If you can't copy Nicklaus. He's the greatest ever. Yet, no one mentions his putting ability, except for Brandel Chamblee who wonders (as I do) why no one copies JN's putting style. After all, they copy everything else he did: grip, set up, visualization, line up, head position, et al.
These videos are great for showing the geometry of the swings, but in real-time you can see the beautiful tempo and smoothness. Ernie Els' swing is so oily smooth and easy-beautiful.
11. Ernie Els - 17:07
12. Retief Goosen - 15:04
13. Tom Watson - 13:15
14. Sergio Garcia - 11:26
15. Seve Ballesteros - 9:40
16. Luke Donald - 7:31
17. Tiger Woods - 6:23
18. Rory McIlroy - 3:58
19. Michelle Wie - 1:45
20. Babe Zaharias - 0:00
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Thanks for the compilation, music and slow mo!
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Nice video, Tigers swing will
always be number one. His efficiency is bar none...
Sweet swing, but his back and knees begged to differ.
@@funkster007 lol... Yeah his swing may not have been easy on his body. But he has always found a way to get everything out of it. His swing looks so efficient now I think it's pretty remarkable.
Which one, he's had 5 of them. Early, Butch, Haney, Foley, and the newest.
Total rubbish his dominance is in his self belief and mental toughness, his swing has caused him many injuries and is not as efficient as many on tour.
Beautiful job. Thank you.
What I'd love to watch are this same thing with the 20 weirdest swings of successful players: the Trevinos and Palmers and Furyks and the like. Could be just as instructive.
They all have one thing in common - where the shaft, club head and human head are positioned at the moment of impact in relation to the ball. Palmer looks pretty horrible to me but in slomo he is in absolutely perfect position at moment of impact (when at the peak of his game).
Nice kompilation! There are push(hitter) swings and are pull(swinger) swings.
For example Garcia is pushing very hard from his right side, as his right arms pushes trough the hitting area with force. This gives him a chicken wing tendency. Same goes for L Westwood and R Goosen. Still very effective golfswings but not very sweet. Ernie Els is pulling wth his left side providing a straight left arm trough the hittingarea. Same goes for Adam Scott. Very sweet golfswings.
Great stuff! Need to add the year of the swing for the newer players. With all the swing changes on almost all on this list from the modern era.
Seve simply the best . Most natural swing , pure art .
Sergio looks like he saves every shot with his hands. Amazing
Trevor Immelman had a sweet swing, like a lot of the South African golfers, and earlier, Bobby Cole. In the 50s and 60s, Gene Littler was regarded as one of the sweetest swingers on tour but he preferred tinkering with his vintage cars and so never really achieved what he might have.
these great golfers have a lot of similar techniques in their swing. One thing I've been noticing lately is how they hit down sharp on the ball, turning their hips onto their left leg. About half way down they straighten the left leg. That helps to snap the club through, turn the hips, and keeps hips from sliding.
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Bobby Jones in Top 5. And don’t forget he played with “ wooden sticks” in those early days & still had great results!
Fred Couples needs to be in this top twenty.
Thank you! He has the most gorgeous and graceful swing.
Freddy in Top 5
THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT SWINGS BUT THEYRE ALL CONSISTENT
THEREFORE ITS ALL ABOUT BEING CONSISTENT EVEN IF YOUR SWING LOOKS WEIRD OR DIFFERENT
THERES NO ONE PERFECT FORMULA FOR BEAUTIFUL SWING
THRES ONLY FEW IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MUST FOLLOW
OTHERWISE BALL WILL SHOW YOU THAT YOURE TRYING TO CHEAT
BALL WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THE TRUTH
:)
No. Consistency is very important but not by itself. I’ll show you endless slicers with 25 handicaps who very consistently banana their drives 185 yds into the right rough/woods/water. There is a perfect formula where key things are positioned at moment of impact.
@@mrsmartypants_1 if the perfect formula would exist everyone would follow it and there would be no banana slicers :P
what works for me doesnt have to work for you...just find your own formula, thats it, I have found mine and started enjoying my golf at hcp 20 :)
@@TruthDefender Umm no. Few people have the ability to replicate the correct shaft position, club head and human head at ball impact. Simply knowing the formula does not mean you can execute it lol.
Seve Ballesteros? His swing got him into more trouble and he had a great short and recovery game to compete on tour.
That's true. But it looked sweet. So rhythmic
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Yeah, but a lot of the times it didn't look rhythmic, his swing looked fast and jerky. That's why he was erratic off the tee.
@@dttruman That is true. He was notoriously wild. Still, when he was swinging well, I found him very aesthetically pleasing to watch. It wasn't ALL his short game. He's the most successful European player ever, unless you want to argue for Harry Vardon. He did a lot right. And no one did it with better style.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 I am not up on either's record, but Seve knew how to get out of jail and smell like a rose doing it.
@@dttruman That's for sure. Probably the most exciting player between Palmer and Woods.
Goosen for me. Understated power.
Watched him hit a 3 wood into a long Par 5 like he was swatting away an annoying fly.
Yep. Remember seeing him hit long iron out of a bunker about 230 to a par 5. Looked like the simplest thing in world.
Fred couples
how do you miss Oostheusen....the smoothest of all
Well said! But I would say one of the smoothest.
@@dttruman ernie els?
Wie looked soooo much better in the old videos, much more free and powerful, now she looks like shes trapping her body on the downswing.
Leadbetter ruined Baddeley and Lydia Ko as well
@@DougKercher But it was injuries that ruined Wie. When you play through injuries...like all athletes do...then you compensate one way or another. Michelle just had more athletic ability than her body could stand up to. I love that she kept trying, though. Now maybe her children will come along some day and do what she couldn't.
14.40 Tom Watson's left foot completely leaves the ground during the backswing.Then is planted in a slightly different position in the downswing.
It's ok to do that. Didn't cost him distance, didn't ruin his back, and got him into a playoff in the Open at 59. The highly torqued swing is great if you're young and very athletic, but it's hard no the body
Nice vìdeo
Still crazy that Tom Weiskoff isn't in either of these...sweetest swing ever
One thing is certain...all have their head behind the ball at impact.
yes absolutely.
Leaving out Greg Norman and Peter Thompson is like leaving Van Gogh and Picasso out of a list of 20 great painters!
Let’s not forget back in the day these lassies had hairy growlers... I too am “out” coz the music is agony pal!
Playing the "what if" game...if Michelle Wie did not have the injuries, what may have been? She nearly made some cuts on the PGA tour when she was 14, and in doing so actually beat some winners...in fact, MAJOR winners in doing so. Not so hard to believe that with no wrist injury that she may have won a PGA event or so.
Of course, we'll never know now. But if you pitted her at age 14 against Tiger at age 14, she would have beat him.
I was wondering what happened to her. My favorite swing on this list.
She probably wouldn't have made it through Q-school.
@@johnshogskins4443 She was beating actual TOUR players. I'm sure she could have scratched out beating some amateurs.
@@taxsaversteve you don't seem to understand how things work.
@@johnshogskins4443 I played competitively. And you need to try this thing called, "reading comprehension."
I'd like to know more about the music, such as album and composer, if you have that information readily available. Thank you.
I used the 10 classic songs per video. It is hard to list them all but if you need to know what song I would point out
GolfLeaks the piano song for michelle wei please. thanks
@@golfleaks5322 what is the piano song for Wie? Els has the same song. I just love it
One can laugh at some of the swing...but cant laugh at the result !
4:31 6:28
I liked Faldo swing
Ben Hogan is my number one!
Tiger 17th 🤔
Babe Zaharis forgot to shave in one of those sequences I’m sure.
Babe Zaharias doesn't deserve to be on this list, Louise Suggs called her swing a cheap Texas hook. Louise's swing was way sweeter. After all this the sweetest list.And the greatest ball strikers of all time were lowering their knees into impact, didn't straighten till after impact. Can anyone say knee surgery. Tiger?
Sweet swings and great swings aren't the same thing IMO. Sweet swings are buttery smooth and effortless. Some great swings, Tiger, lashed at the ball. The outcome was something to behold, but watching him swing was not. The condition of his body is the proof (pre-wreck of course).
2 min that's it
Moe Norman.
Period.
Tom Watson has a better swing than Tiger? What drugs you on
can not be all great swings, because they all look different. Personally I like some swings, and some swings look flawed. But guess they all work.
Sean oHair??
rory is the best
The problem with most of these swings is that they're not remotely replicable for the average person: all those perfectly straight left arms, left heal on the ground, and huge shoulder turns. Watson's swing is probably the one here most worth studying. It doesn't stress out the body. That's why he nearly one that Open at 59. Look what happened to Tiger and Couples. Their swings ruined their backs.
Not sure the golf swing was the culprit, shaggers back, both those two...
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Every time I see golfers finishing their swing with their lead knee facing the same direction as address, I cringe. Your hip is internally rotating 90 degrees inward. Human body isn’t design for that. That’s why lot of golfers face knee surgery and hip surgery later in life. When you finish your swing, your lead knee should be facing the target, which is so much healthier on your back, hip, and the knee. It’s amazing to me, they still haven’t figured this out.
I disagree. Your lead knee shud never face the target at the finish of your swing. Anatomically it is impossible anyway unless your left foot at address was turned 90 degrees outwards.
you're smoking some good drugs or really dislike Tiger by a lot. he's gotta be in the top 5 best players to play the game, if not the top 2. most of the Pro golf swings are very alike. so not sure what's going on with your video.
There's always going to be disagreements with such a list but you guys are REALLY off! Sergio Garcia?!? What swing are you guys watching...over exaggerating lag and flat swing that never really lows through the same plane. His swing is one of the ugliest on tour! That being said, where Adam Scott? Do you guys even watch golf?!?
This video is part 1 of 2, Adam Scott is #7 on the part 2 video. No two people are going to come up with the same top 20 list, and of course personal biases and preferences will always prevail over objective evaluations.
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I don't think Seve should be in this list and Faldo in the top ten list! Seve had a more beautiful swing than Faldo.
You can't call some of these swingers. There's a difference between a hitter and a swinger. Mclroy and Woods are hitters-not swingers. Snead was a swinger, and Hogan was a hitter. Jack was a Swinger, and Arnold was a hitter. You can't be a "sweet hitter"; there's never been such a thing.
I'm a sweet hitter. I hit the ball sweetly
@@pigslefats Wonderful! After 150-years of golf and professionals who've studied every swing worth studying, Pig has invented something unknown to the rest of golf. Another Thomas Edison in golf! Danka!
@@lillybloom1590 So its impossible to hit the ball sweetly?. HAHA-MORON
@@pigslefats Let me add, pigs, that what you are I suppose is a sweet swinger. And as a rule, they last a lot longer than hitters do. So, enjoy your game. Can you putt? If you can't copy Nicklaus. He's the greatest ever. Yet, no one mentions his putting ability, except for Brandel Chamblee who wonders (as I do) why no one copies JN's putting style. After all, they copy everything else he did: grip, set up, visualization, line up, head position, et al.
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