Some golf coaches encourage you to watch and copy PGA Tour players. Do you listen to them? Are you guilty of trying to copy the perfect swings of PGA Tour players like Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods? If so, you might be sabotaging your own golf game without even realizing it. In this video, I break down why imitating professional golfers can destroy your swing and how to approach your game in a way that works for YOU.
What You’ll Learn in This Video:
The physical and genetic differences between PGA Tour players and amateurs.
Why swing fads (like Stack and Tilt, One Plane Swing, and the X-Factor) fail for most golfers.
How the shot creates the swing, not the other way around.
The importance of focusing on the fundamentals: grip, posture, alignment, and balance.
Why you should avoid quick fixes, “secrets,” and unqualified advice.
How working with a local coach tailored to your unique skillset can improve your game.
Key Stats and Facts:
PGA Tour pros hit 500-1,000 balls a day; amateurs average fewer than 100 a week.
Professionals take 3,000-4,000 lessons over their career, while most amateurs barely take five a year.
The physical training of pros includes deadlifts over 300 pounds, while amateurs often lack the mobility and endurance to match.
Don’t Fall for Swing Fads
Swing trends come and go, but the fundamentals of golf have remained the same for hundreds of years. If someone claims they have a “secret” to transform your game overnight, run the other way!
Watch Now to learn how to avoid these common pitfalls and start building a swing that works for YOUR body and YOUR game. Let’s take your golf game to the next level!
Tell us in the comments: Have you ever tried copying a Tour pro’s swing? What was the result?
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00:00 Introduction
00;35 What is a PGA Tour Professional
00:59 Physical and Mental Conditioning
03:34 Practice of PGA vs YOU
05:11 Lessons of PGA Tour vs YOU
06:22 Technology and the PGA Tour Player vs YOU
07:02 Equipment and the PGA Tour Player vs YOU
08:18 Why you shouldn’t and CANNOT swing like a Tour Pro
10:30 What secrets work in the golf swing
11 Comments
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This is the only dude on YouTube being honest.
This was the reality check I needed to hear thanks pro
Sent you my videos look forward to seeing what you see
I think it's worth looking at their mechanics for sure, but agree you need to adapt and adjust them to your current flexibility and ability level
I’ll be honest going for specific looks of a guy is bad. But I chased swinging the club like them and found out the feel eventually. The hip open and looping the club. They are just people. They had more time to figure it out starting as kids. You don’t need 120mph club head speed to swing like them. It’s the technique. Swinging as hard as I can literally causing an injury I could get to 105. Learned how the swing works slowly over time trial and error trying things listening and on my own. I barely try and I swing 115 now. You don’t even need that. The technique and gravity does most of the work. Don’t listen to this it’s defeatist nonsense. I have felt like that and hopeless like they were different. The only difference they have is time doing it and perseverance. Stop judging yourself and just keep going and trying new things. If your swing doesn’t work now keep trying something new til it does. Give up short term score for long term skill. You got this. And don’t listen to you can’t swing like the pros. Jack Nicklaus broken and old probably still swings the club well enough to beat us. It’s not about peak athleticism
Bonus points for incorporating "synovial fluid"👍within this video.😲
Okay, okay.. I'm not expecting to copy her net results, BUT are there elements from Angela Stanford's swing mechanics that I can learn from?
I mean she played on the LPGA Tour well into her age 40s competing fairly well against players half her age, before officially retiring just two months ago.
Can you find any footage on her, and what lessons can we draw from the grandma of the ladies game?
*Note to self:
"The demands of the shot create the swing."💡
— say it again >
"The demands of the shot create the swing."💡
(🤔 … hmm, is that from Star Wars, Karate Kid, or last week's fortune cookie..)
100%. Touring pros included. You hear all the time tour pros get their cards ditch their childhood coach for a "tour coach" in order to mimic some other top pros'swing characteristics. Most of the time they end up losing their cards. I do however think if you're a good young athlete you can replicate a lot of the crazy positions. I think 99% of the time it's probably not helpful. But in saying that I think some of the bad positions high handicappers get into are harder to get into than the average orthodox touring pro.
Youre just not wrong. It is the truth. It takes so much time for me to feel like I can keep up with local D1/D2 talent. Professionals? On my best career day and their career worst