The physics of the golf swing has not altered for over 125 years. Only the equipment has. And these equipment changes have not altered the physics; they have just allowed several more options to be included. But have these alterations and thoughts actually made golfers better?

Around the turn of the century, golfers had bent left arms and had more violent body lunges when swinging the club. Why? Because they played in jackets that restricted a lot of their range of motion and movement.

Steel shafts replaced hickory, and golfers began to use more leg drive in the swing to get down to the ball with a more reliable shaft that didn't flex as much as the wooden shafts did.

Steel spikes promoted heavy ground interaction, and golfers worked the club in a more rotary manner around their bodies as their grip on the turf was enhanced. Then rubber-soled shoes took over for comfort, but they afforded less grip, so golfers started getting more vertical in their swings and jumping away from the ball.

Graphite shafts took over in the big-headed drivers, so the overall club could be made longer and lighter, and this encouraged a less connected body and arm motion as the lighter and bigger clubhead could be swung more aggressively with the arms and hands.

Then golfers started staying more centered to avoid weight shift to match the more vertical swing and leg action. They stopped shifting weight and stopped lifting the left heel on the backswing as a result.

Today the new craze is to jump the left foot backwards and away from the ball to the point of lifting it in the air. This is an extra unnecessary move in an attempt to get the stalling body - from all the vertical planes and vertical foot pressure- to move again.

Bowed wrists and closed clubfaces are now created by bowing the wrist early on the top of the backswing or downswing rather than having the force of release flatten that left wrist out— supinating — like Hogan suggested he did. 

Rotate the body early is also a craze and a compensation to help the closed clubface hopefully be square at impact, rather than saving rotation for the release and beyond like the standard motion of the players who came before.

Got a hook or a slice occurring? Take out the wrench from your bag and adjust the setting on your wood.

The biggest change to golf has been the advent of the internet. If you have a camera and a software program or app, you can upload anything you want to the internet and have people access the content and believe the ideology, whether it is wrong or right.

And now we get data on everything and apps that try and pinpoint exactly what someone was supposedly doing with the club and the weight shift. And the more data that went into the system, the more "evidence" that ideology was granted. This method doesn't take into account any shot shaping variance or uneven lie the golfer is confronted with whilst playing on the course itself. It is a rinse and repeat attempt to do the same thing over and over without subtlety. 

Wedges became better in design with different bounces and different grinds and that afforded golfers the luxury of not having to aim left or swing across the ball on grass or in the sand.

Cavity back clubs were designed to shift weight to the sides of the club to manage mishits. Weight was distributed to the bottom of the club also to help players get the ball in the air. Lofts were dropped down in all clubs to make way for gap wedges and lob wedges and golfers were reprogrammed to think they were hitting the ball farther as a result.

The physics, however, has not changed. I teach original physics. The one that golf has adhered to for over a hundred years. Not physics distorted by all the equipment and logic changes. Original physics still holds true and in most cases is still far more effective than the new physics. It's just that it is never talked about any longer, as new-age instructors grasp onto ideas they see on the internet. They then copy those ideas and post them online as their own and reach another several hundred or a thousand people who now believe them as truth tellers.

Modern instruction is very troublesome to the body also. Many players are breaking down. Their decelerating wrists can't support a club that is flinging past them at over 120mph. Their elbows can't hold up against a thrusting right arm that is straightening for impact. Their backs can't hold up against the early rotation and side bend. Their ankles won't hold up to the twisting and non-support they are providing, and their knees can't hold up against the vertical jumping and leg straightening. And unfortunately,  this is going to continue more and more with tragic results for professionals and amateurs alike. 

Over the past 17 years as an instructor, I have often faced naysayers and individuals who taunt and disrespect my ideas as an instructor. Much of it comes from the adage that, "good players don't know how to teach." But nothing could be farther from the truth.

I have always tried to respond respectfully to all people who respond to my posts and I do so with good intentions, for knowledge is power. I always disliked removing posts also, because deleting them often ruins the nature of the conversation and the timeline of the answers.

I also believe that if just a few more people could look at and understand the swing from a slightly different point of view, they may be able to start on the journey to playing the best golf of their lives. That's my goal. To make golfers better. And it's why I respond to many posts the way I do. I don't want these golfers to continue to receive misinformation or be guided down the wrong path. 

I see this everyday with students of my own. They see me at a lesson and start telling me about a video they saw online, and they were trying it, and it messed them up — hence why they are back again for a lesson.

Recently, this online abuse has really made me kind of adjust my chair somewhat, and I recently decided not to even get involved with the people who consistently bash the ideals and get rude in their remarks. I found the block button on my page and jettisoned them off into the far blue yonder. 

As I said, I am all for back-and-forth, calm talk where both sides present their thoughts and their case. But vulgarity and constant assaults on me and my golf instruction are no longer sustainable.

I have far better things to do with my time than to headbutt back and forth with people who are unwilling to see things from a different perspective, or at least research them for themselves.

Data is fine, but most people take it as gospel and refuse to research other options to see if maybe what they believe could actually not be the full evidence.

I have experienced the physics of the golf swing for close to 50 years. I was recognized as one of the premier ballstrikers of my generation. And in more recent times, I have had amazing success in very short time periods with all kinds of golfers. PGA players. College players. Amateurs. Men & women. Kids and beginners. 

There is therefore a lot of truth in what I offer. If there wasn't, I wouldn't get the results I get.

There are hundreds of videos on my member's website that show the differences between the new age thinking and the trusted stood the test of time, physics that has worked for so long.

This video is in response to the subject of the discussion — "Can I increase the speed of the club by increasing hand speed and pivot speed through the release and post-impact"? All the replies from the online people said that I was wrong. That it cannot be done. Because all the data says the hands decelerate into impact to create clubhead speed. Quickening the hands up by forearm rotation to move the hands forwards and not backwards and making the body move faster as a result of that forward momentum was no factor in increasing clubhead speed— or so they believed!!

Well, this discussion really lifted the armchair golfers out of their chairs to yell, scream, berate and abuse me. I was called a lot of things — hence my decision to now block individuals from my social media in the future.

But the one great thing about this video response is this — it proves them absolutely wrong. What I was saying can and does in fact happen.  Even though they will never admit it even after seeing this, and being removed from viewing my social pages, they can't respond now anyhow.

This video, while made specifically for those spiteful people, really goes out to my true followers who watch and learn and actually want to get better. 

Here's the truth and not the fiction. Enjoy!!!