What Is The Perfect Golf Swing?
By Paul Wilson
If you were to ask 100 people this question, you would get 100 different
answers. Some people probably think it's a swing that would allow a
person to hit the ball 400 yards. Other people probably think it's a
swing that would allow the person to shoot 64 every time they went to
play. Still others would say that it would be the swing of Ben Hogan,
while a totally different group of people would say that Byron Nelson or
Tiger Woods who has a perfect swing. There isn't one clear idea of what
the perfect swing is.
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When I was learning the game, perfect to me was a toss up between Ben
Hogan (flatter swing now known as a one-plane swing) or Jack Nicklaus
(upright swing known as a 2 plane swing). Sure, there were other great
players on tour at the time, but these were the 2 everyone talked about.
It made sense to pick one of their styles and copy it.
Out of these 2 golfers, Jack Nicklaus had the swing that I wanted to
copy. I used to imagine I was him on every shot I hit. I had quite a few
people at the club tell me my swing looked like his and I even had the
blonde hair to match. In 4 years of using this Jack Nicklaus swing, I
became a scratch golfer and our Men's Club Champion at 17 years old.
As I got a little older, golf instruction started to gain popularity. It
became mainstream in the late 1980's, early 1990's when David Ledbetter
created Nick Faldo. This was a whole new way of building the golf swing.
Dissecting every movement and setting very precise positions was now the
way to perfection. I remember how people described Faldo as having a
machine-like swing. To me, mechanical was cool. Setting perfect
positions was cool. The thought of perfection had now become my
obsession. I was no longer using my old out-of-date Nicklaus swing, I
was a new man and I was seeking perfection. I was trying to become a
blonde haired Nick Faldo. Unfortunately, this is where the trouble
began.
In seeking the perfect swing, I totally destroyed my game. My obsession
with perfection became my demise. I read books, watched videos and I
listened to anyone who would give me a tip. I couldn't break an egg for
over 10 years. Within this span of terrible golf, I tried going back to
my Jack Nicklaus swing (that didn't work anymore) then the flat Ben
Hogan swing (that didn't work either). Then it was Faldo swing again
which I knew didn't work but I thought it might (again). Then, Nicklaus,
Hogan, Faldo, Hogan, Nicklaus, Faldo (I can't remember but I think there
may has even been a couple of Greg Norman's in there as well ) it was
never ending and I was totally frustrated.
After floundering for many, many years, I finally saw the perfect swing
... really I did! The perfect swing I saw was that of the Iron Byron
swing machine. For those of you who don't know, the Iron Byron is a
robotic golfer that was designed by True Temper Sports in 1963 to test
their golf shafts. The Iron Byron hits the ball perfectly every single
time. The funny thing is this machine was not just picked out of thin
air, it perfectly replicates the golf swing of the legendary golfer,
Byron Nelson (hence the name "Iron Byron").
By seeing the Iron Byron hit a ball, it made me clearly understand what
the perfect golf swing was and how it worked. By incorporating the
movement of Iron Byron into my swing, I immediately improved (when I say
immediately, it really was). Because of the Iron Byron, I got my swing
back and I now hit the ball better than I ever have (and I rarely
practice).
To this day, I teach all of my students to copy the Iron Byron swing
machine. Why? Because it really is the only perfect swing on the planet
and it only has 2 moving parts! I invite you to see a video clip of the
Iron Byron and myself hitting a ball together on my website at
www.swingmachinegolf.com so you can see that it really is possible to
copy the only perfect swing on the planet.
Hopefully after seeing the Iron Byron in action, you too, can stop
searching for the answers and changing your swing like I did for so many
years.
Paul Wilson
Creator - Swing Machine Golf