You’ve been LIED to about the golf swing! J.J. Spaun and Sam Snead have completely different swings, yet both found massive success. This video proves that everything you’ve been told about “the right way” to swing a golf club is WRONG.
Most golf advice—especially on YouTube—forces players into a one-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t account for body type, tilting, rotation, and athleticism. But when you break down Spaun’s and Snead’s swings, it becomes clear: golf is NOT about copying a method—it’s about what works for YOU.
🔍 In this video, we’ll cover:
✅ Why J.J. Spaun and Sam Snead’s swings look NOTHING alike—but both work
✅ How body structure and athleticism shape a player’s ideal swing
✅ The TRUTH about tilting, rotation, and swing mechanics
✅ Why mainstream golf advice could be holding you back
This breakdown will change the way you think about your swing forever. Don’t let bad advice keep you from improving—watch the full video now!
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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Sam Snead Feel vs. Real
06:08 J.J. Spaun vs. Sam Snead
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Let me know what you think of Sam and JJ! Also don't forget to send me your face on and down the line videos to info@liongolfacademy.com for our LIVE Sunday show at 6:00PM PST to help you for FREE on your golf swing!
New to your channel, great education on the golf swing. Hopefully I can keep up, cheers…
Something I’ve notice for using my body to swing, and not use my hands, is I need my feet to be twisting into the ground from set up. Otherwise I have poor lower body stability. Something I don’t see mentioned much
Tony! You are on a roll as of late! Keep it up pro
So glad I found this channel, new sub here as of two days ago and I have been binge watching a lot of y our videos. Wish I found you earlier!
Have you talked about the Jim Venetos swing? I joined his system and really like it. Would be curious about your thoughts on it for amateurs
There is an awesome quote from Sam's biography on this: "Thinking is the No 1 golf disease. If I'd become tangled up in the mechanics of the swing when I first hit shots, chances are I'd have been only an average player"
Love your videos, I might even submit my swing one day.
Oh, yeah. Here we go! Slammin' Sam Snead! When I first got into golf as a kid, a family friend gave me a book he bought at a pawn shop called "The Driver Book", written by Sam Snead (printed in 1966, my birth year). I modeled my driver swing after that book, hence my YT name. It has flip pages on his swing from 2 angles (behind and front). I studied that book constantly and did my best to copy his swing during my younger years. I have a similar build and consider myself athletic. When I came back to golf 3 years ago after an long hiatus, I tried to shift my mechanics to the modern swing but I just can't do it, it's just too mechanical for me. I'm a feel player and have always relied on timing, although it can get me into trouble once in awhile when the tempo gets a little off. The only types of instructors I have been successful with are what I consider old school. A few years ago when I first came back, I had a PGA teacher of the year for my state give me a lesson but he was just too technical and while I could do what he asked, it just didn't seem natural to me. I'm all about grip, stance, alignment, and ball position. I like to keep my head empty when I swing and not overthink things. Over the years, I've had the best outcomes with instructors who know how to score and win tournaments and they're always old school types. Although my wife doesn't play, she is very clear that if "The Driving Book" comes up missing on the bookshelf, it's immediate grounds for divorce. Keep the vids coming! Great stuff!!!
Furyk would only listen to his dad. Early Tiger, Duval, Keopka and Rahm don't "shallow" the club. That's the silliest term golf instruction has came up with in the last 10 years. Let a person get a good grip, alignment and posture. They'll figure out what they can do with that
Really enjoyed this video. It is great. JJ is inspiring
In all fairness I have to believe that's an older Sam Snead.
First of all, People need to realize that their is more than one style of golf swings and that the parts of each style are not interchangable . Also Sam is releasing on the left and not on the right . Sam’s is a more upright Old School narrower stance with a lot of footwork and hand release as well as more graceful looking , back then style mattered and there were no robotic swings like today , a more unique era !
Thank you for mentioning Hogan’s book. Its proper title should be “The Autobiography of Someone Trying to Get Rid of a Hook.”
Everyone's swing is different. It is better to not copy a swing.
Sam was a natural athlete. He said his swing felt oily as in loose.
This video speaks to truth and is insightful.
Youtube videos have slowed many beginners' progress.
Being good or even greatvatvsomething does not mean you can teach others. The golf swing is unique to every individual. You cannot get better at golf by watching youtube instructional vids. You csn get better by watching course management and strategies videos
jj spawn? really? Use a better example. This guy is in the bottom quarter of pros
sam is a swinger jj has to hammer both work unless your under pressure then a error can be compounded as we all witnessed also age changes swing
To be fair in his example he was showing just before impact coming into the ball VS the actual swing was paused after impact. The 2 images would have been more similar had the video been paused just before instead of after impact. Around 8:36 if you slow the video play speed down, it shows just before impact(where his example was showing) both players hands are leading with a decent amount of shaft lean compared to right after impact.
The major difference between Sam on the left apart from age difference is that he is demonstrating in slow motion whilst Sam on the right is a full speed dynamic swing!
On my journey down to 5 hcp i realised that "connection" is an illusion caused by good sequencing, not stuffing things under armpits etc!
This is why we should never rely solely on a 2D camera view, it distorts what we see vs what. Is actually happening in 3D, and why we should not try to emulate another person’s swing. Learn to swing your swing, not someone else’s swing, especially a PGA, DP World Tour, or LIV Tour. Also, Tiger has said many times: stop watching YT and get proper lessons and practice. If you’re going to emulate any Tour Pro, it should be an LPGA or LET Tour player. They are closer to our swing speed and have great fundamentals. Cheers.
An interesting stat is that both pros and ams make 100% of the shots they make. A more interesting fact is they both miss 100% of the shots they miss. The more you know 👍
New subscriber here. Looking at many of the older golfers; Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer… they had an initial take away that was inside and then over the top at the top of the swing. They were good ball strikers but why isn't this technique taught today?
I’m 48, and I was decently athletic as a teen. I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at a young age, and so I developed physically more slowly than others my age. Other than some spinal trauma from a few stair falls, I’ve had a low-impact lifestyle. One of my chief concerns nearing 50 has been maintaining flexibility, and I am able to comfortably get 90°/45° shoulder/hip turn back, and full turn to square coming through, and able to maintain my balance and weight forward. So I feel pretty good where that’s at, my issue is trying to develop consistency in arm, wrist and hand position coming through. Lately I’ve been using 15lb dumbbell to simulate a slow practice swing, focusing on posture and hand/arm position, trying to strengthen the muscles to stay in form.
Give Sam a $2009 shaft, a 460 cc head with more technology than a NASA lift off has built into it, a modern ball, a sweet spot as big as Texas and technology to annualize every segment of your swing, do you think he would have the same swing as demonstrated, today? Sam had the perfect golf swing for that time in golf. The sad fact is that ALL of today players are relying on the one system fits all, that I think mainly is a by product of the modern golf equipment and golf courses, which sadly for me is a little predictable and boring.
I enjoy the way you present these videos
You make so many great points! You state concepts that have been floating around in my mind, unconfirmed till now.
Sam Sneed would have been called a flipper. As if its a sin. Youtube is clueless
YouTube's golf advice is enough to destroy anyone. Most of what I see isn't even true. These instructors say you need to do a certain move then you look at their swing and they do nothing of the sort. eg. tuck your right elbow, externally rotate your right arm, start the downswing with your shoulders… the list of b.s. instruction is endless – all so they can use these daft golf talk quotes like "shallow the shaft" in order to get views. 🤮
Couldn't agree more with this analysis. I was just looking at JJ's swing yesterday. The natural athleticism in Sam allowed him to be a top player. There is a huge difference between gifted knowledge and taught/instructed knowledge which shows here.
Great video!!
Hi There , love your content , love the way you think . Where are you based and how if possible could someone get a lesson with you ? Love the SA cap !
Snead said “anybody can hit a cigarette butt. But when you put a ball on the ground it does funny things to your brain”
I wonder if having less shoulder tilt was the secret to Sam’s longevity.
"Once in a while I imagine stepping into the mind of a hacker trying to figure out the game without any help from a good teaching pro. I don't stay long because it's like stumbling through the fun house at an amusement park – it's full of false paths and bumpy tracks and flashing signs and trick mirrors and muffled screams and all kinds of surprises popping out and attacking you. The more the mind breaks down the swing intellectually, the more often your nerves break down puting it into action. So my own first principle has always been to keep the game as simple as possible, both in understanding and application."
– Sam Snead
Can you do Stack&Tilt analysis?
I started playing in 71 so Slamming Sammy was a hero of mine. The swing I taught myself, was from a book 📕 called The Basics of golf ⛳️. That swing was pretty much Sammy’s swing. I see it now and I know why we hit the ball 🎱 that way. Golf in the New Modern era was still affected by Hickory golf ⛳️ on links 🔗. The game was played on the deck and was yet to see the Modern Golf ⛳️ era. So, to get the ball UP into the air, this is what needed to happen. The finish gives it away. Sammy finished higher, to get the ball higher. I did exactly the same thing back in the day. The Modern game uses equipment that launches 🚀 the ball. Those old clubs and balls were about roll-out.
I started playing back in the day of golf “tips” in magazines and the handful of books out. Being reasonably smart and analytical I began to see endless contradictions in most of it all muddled with inconsistent verbiage and definitions. It hasn’t got a whole lot better.
Another fantastic video Tony! I feel like a kid before Christmas waiting for the next video release…awesome work and thx for posting!