How Manassero BROKE His Swing

Matteo Manassero was a phenom at 17… until he changed his golf swing chasing distance. In this video, I break down exactly how those changes affected his tilt, shaft pitch, timing, and natural matchups, and why the rebuild backfired. This isn’t a deep dive, just a clear cause and effect look at how a great motion can unravel when you chase the wrong things. Let’s take a closer look at what really happened.

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Matteo Manasero might be the perfect example of what happens when a young phenom tries to rebuild a golf swing that doesn’t need rebuilding. This kid burst onto the scene, winning at 17, beating grown men with emotion that fit his body perfectly, and then he chased distance, changed the DNA of his swing, and everything started unraveling. Today, I’m going to show you exactly what changed, why it didn’t match his natural patterns, and how that swing rebuild turned a world-class ball striker into a guy fighting to keep his card. Cause and effect, that’s the whole story. And real quick, I created this channel to give you the other side of the instructional world. Not the quick fix promises, but the truth that actually speaks to your needs and not your wishes. Three decades of teaching amateurs have taught me one thing. You need realistic expectations and better education. If that’s what you want, hit subscribe. But let’s go take a look at his changes. So, if you watched yesterday’s video of Jordan Speed of how that two or three degrees at start changed his inswing principles, we’re seeing something very similar here. And this is all chasing distance. We see that shaft plane again is two to three° difference. And we see the arches of the heels where they start connecting. The one on the right side is technically better connected. And we understand what he’s trying to accomplish. arms hanging more naturally down or more inside so he can pull it back quicker and get some depth and width versus the older setup much like speed from yesterday. So these swing changes are going to be about the same thing but the face on is where it really makes more sense. So without repeating the same video that we did yesterday we can still see the same patterns occurring. Look at the arm on the right side going in versus the arm on the left side staying more out and away. Specifically at the top we get to that top plane line and we look at the club sitting. This is definitely longer. The club’s moving back versus here it’s laid off. Now, the great thing about this laid-off position is look, it’s matching the spine angle. So, he actually gets the one on the left side to drop down quicker and he is actually flatter or I hate this term shallower than the newer one. So, I don’t really understand other than width and depth what he accomplished. So, the older one is definitely utilizing more of his turns and tilts. And we see he tilts about the same that he did in the old days. So, we do see this big increase of tilt. increase of tilt. However, the hand path is slightly different and the release pattern is slightly different. So, we’re going to take a look at the face on cuz this is where it makes the most sense and hopefully you learned something a little bit different than we did yesterday. So, face on. Let’s start by drawing where that ball position is connected to him. I know there might be some confusion about where do I put my ball position, but the way I look at it and let’s draw this in Barney purple. We’re going to look at the shoulder tilting on both of these and see where the center of the spine is connected to the hands and also how much fore press we are establishing. And once we connect the shaft, we can see that we are already establishing a little bit more angle on the right side of the screen versus the left side. There’s less angle, but that’s not where the change is. It’s pretty similar. And this visual change could also actually come from the camera angle. So unless we have identical camera angles, we can kind of forgo this because it’s pretty close. But we’re going to go straight to the top. Now, we saw on the down the line that the hands do work more inward on the right side of the screen. This wider turn is going to help him establish a couple things, which is I’m sure he was going after, which is more turn. We can see how much more shoulder turn we’re establishing. Obviously, there might be a little bit more hip turn. Hard to tell with the sweater over his hips. And although we visually see some changes, this isn’t really where the biggest change will come. we have to go down. So, the hands are in fairly similar positions. We know the body’s in a pretty similar position, but what I want you to look at, and this is very important to see how much more timing is needed for the newer motion, is we’re going to draw where the shaft is. We’re going to run it all the way through the hand so you can kind of see these lines a little bit easier. And then we’re going to relate it to the shoulder tilt. So, we’re going to go from the seam to the seam and then seam to seam. Now, you notice the one on the right side, there’s more compression on this right side of his body versus the one on the left side, there’s less compression. Things are keeping up with each other. So, to make it easier to see, look at the shoulder tilt versus the bottom of the shoulder tilt and the difference of the club in that same position. So, when your shoulders are tilting more than the shaft, like he is doing here on the right side of the screen, you’re basically asking the wrist to do way more work than they should because the body is creating a steeper angle, but the club isn’t following that same tilt. So, guess who has to pick up the work? The wrist have to hold extra angle just to keep everything lined up. And that’s where the timing issue starts. It looks good like on the left side of the screen where everything syncs up perfectly but it puts a lot of pressure on the hands to save this shape on the right side of the screen over and over again because now look at the left side we have one two frames to hit the ball. Right side we have one two three frames to hit the ball. So he has to hold that angle for an extra frame just to keep his shaft from dropping under the tilt. The club is sitting higher, the hands are further from the body. And yes, on paper, that can look more powerful. And honestly, it is when you time it up perfectly. But that’s the problem. On the left side, he has that gifted natural timing built into the motion. On the right side, he’s trading that gift for a move that’s delayed. It’s tighter and way more dependent on hitting that release window at exactly the right moment. So, to me, that’s not an upgrade. That is basically attacks on your consistency. You can see even further. Here’s the club at parallel on the left side versus the club at parallel on the right side. There’s that extra frame now to hold off and to rettime everything because he’s increased his tilting before he strikes the golf ball. We do have a wider extension. We do have more body tilt and turn. But again, we’re taken away from this guy who made it at 17 years old with this beautiful timing. So, this wasn’t meant to be some deep hour-long breakdown. It’s just a reminder of how sensitive the golf swing really is. And when you start to chase distance, especially the way YouTube tries to shove it down your throat, and you don’t understand your own cause and effect, you can end up doing real damage to your motion. And we’ve seen it over and over. Speed from yesterday, Matteo from today, a whole list of guys who try to keep up with the Joneses and paid the price for it. So, I’ve always said God didn’t give wings to a scorpion. We all have strengths. We all have weaknesses. is the question is whether chasing something you’re not built for is worth the gamble. And that’s for you to decide. My job is just to give you the education so you know what you’re risking before you go down that path. Let me know what you want to do next. Thank you so much for the support. Hope that helps you. See you next time. Ferros and Greens.