Post by imperfectgolfer on May 3, 2023 9:31:55 GMT -5
Watch this Milo Lines video where he is teaching a low handicap golfer (Spencer) how to change his full golf swing action.
Milo Lines is a superb golfer, but he unfortunately tries to base his golf instructional teaching on his personal golf swing biomechanical motions. Milo has an inordinate degree of hula hula flexibility that allows him to assertively rotate his pelvis/lumbar spine counterclockwise during his downswing action while simultaneously avoiding coming OTT due to excessive outward motion of the trail shoulder during the early downswing. Milo also likes the "idea" of looping the club away from the body during the backswing and then dropping the club (looping the club) into the "slot" between P4 => P6 thereby allowing for an in-to-out clubhead path motion - by assertively rotating his pelvis/lumbar spine counterclcokwise while keeping his upper torso held back temporarily. Milo's body motion during his pivot action is idiosyncratic involving an exaggerated degree of left-lateral bend during the backswing, an exaggerated degree of squatting motion and an exaggerated degree of rotary motion of his pelvis/lumbar spine during his early-mid downswing action (which he calls going into "right-lateral bend"). That "idiosyncratic" pattern of body motion works very well for him, but it is not achievable by the majority of middle-aged and senior golfers.
Milo Lines is a superb golfer, but he unfortunately tries to base his golf instructional teaching on his personal golf swing biomechanical motions. Milo has an inordinate degree of hula hula flexibility that allows him to assertively rotate his pelvis/lumbar spine counterclockwise during his downswing action while simultaneously avoiding coming OTT due to excessive outward motion of the trail shoulder during the early downswing. Milo also likes the "idea" of looping the club away from the body during the backswing and then dropping the club (looping the club) into the "slot" between P4 => P6 thereby allowing for an in-to-out clubhead path motion - by assertively rotating his pelvis/lumbar spine counterclcokwise while keeping his upper torso held back temporarily. Milo's body motion during his pivot action is idiosyncratic involving an exaggerated degree of left-lateral bend during the backswing, an exaggerated degree of squatting motion and an exaggerated degree of rotary motion of his pelvis/lumbar spine during his early-mid downswing action (which he calls going into "right-lateral bend"). That "idiosyncratic" pattern of body motion works very well for him, but it is not achievable by the majority of middle-aged and senior golfers.
If you look at Spencer's full golf swing action at the beginning of the video, one can immediately discern that he has a very poor ability to generate a lot of torso-pelvic separation due to a serious lack of hula hula flexibility. That explains why he uses a rightwards upper torso loading pattern in his backswing (which is even more exaggerated than a rightwards-centralised upper torso loading pattern because he cannot easily perform an arch-extension maneuver during his backswing action) and why he uses a lot of spine tilting motion during his downswing (rather than the more rotary body motion favored by Milo). When he performs the rotary body motion favored by Milo at the end of the video (between the 13:15 - 14:50 minute time points), he looks very "stiff" (non-fluid) and I would be very surprised if he could ever make this swing pattern work in his full golf swing action when playing recreational golf.
Jeff.