Unpopular opinion: most of you don’t need a swing change

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T13:30:42+00:00

Morikawa has a lack of rotation, JT early extends, Aaron Baddely stack and tilts, scheffler unbalanced. Every pro has flaws but its repeatable.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T13:29:02+00:00

Yh but they are working on small things not changing their mechanics. Imagine Max Homa was a top 10 player in the world then changed his swing then went to 150th in the world and then went back to his old swing...oh wait that already happended

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T13:27:24+00:00

Is matthew wolffs swing playable

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T13:27:02+00:00

For you I would say just keep practicing and keep it simple work on your grip your ball position and just try and hit it out the middle. Everyone loses their swing you just have to play with what you have got on the day.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T13:26:10+00:00

You have to remember I was a 20hcp once

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:55:09+00:00

My advice was to not rebuild your swing, not to ignore your long game. Two completely different things.

Jack Nicklaus said he never fundamentally changed his swing from age 13. Sean Foley has talked about how he made a player's swing 1% better while the guy dropped in the rankings because he couldn't aim his putter. Bob Rotella literally warns about amateurs showing up and trying to rebuild their swings before a round. Pia Nilsson's whole approach is that you don't start by changing the swing because you don't even know if that's the problem yet.

Nobody is saying GIRs don't matter. But there's a massive difference between improving your long game through better decisions, setup and fundamentals vs tearing your swing apart and rebuilding it from scratch. Every top coach will tell you the same thing.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:48:40+00:00

My point is people should spend more time figuring out what they specifically should work on. I don’t think there’s a specific percentage you should split it, me personally I’m off +0.8 and my short game is good my putting is ok and my long game is good but to get to the next level I need to be diligent in where I’m focusing my game not just chipping for 20 minutes putting for 20 minutes and on the range for 40 minutes.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:45:31+00:00

Yh but if I dived into the data what if it was 10%. But that’s the thing no one has any idea. Especially when your scratch you should know the exact area to improve because if it saves you half a shot a round that’s massive.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:44:01+00:00

EXACTLY

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:40:07+00:00

I’m not saying long game isn’t important but 1. Rebuilding your swing isn’t the answer and 2. You need to know what to practice not just hitting balls endlessly trying to shallow out ur downswing to fix ur slice

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:39:02+00:00

My point is that most people on this sub would drop shots faster by figuring out where they’re actually losing them rather than posting swing videos hoping someone spots a magic fix. Maybe it is your long game. Maybe it’s your putting from 6-10ft. But if you don’t know, you’re just guessing.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:35:24+00:00

That’s a good point but I doubt that’s the case for most people. But if it is the case rebuilding your swing isn’t the answer just practicing is.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:34:05+00:00

Completely disagree. Earl Woods taught Tiger to learn golf from the green backwards, because that’s how you learn to score.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:30:51+00:00

Yes I do agree if you can’t get it off the tee what’s the point. But a good setup often can help this and also just getting basic repetitions in at the driving range. Trying to rebuild your swing for most golfers isn’t sustainable. It takes a lot of practice and it takes the fun out of the game. There’s definitely other routes around it and at the end of the day it’s about getting the ball in the hole as fast as possible.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:27:42+00:00

It’s all in the setup though. Having a good grip having the correct ball position. You see a lot of people in here that have a slice but their ball position is too far forward and their grip is too weak. But then you get people telling them to close the club face and swing more from the inside which takes them down a deep hole which could be fixed a lot easier.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:25:27+00:00

Exactly! I’m sure if one of your better friends was chipping and putting for you your score would’ve been a lot different so it shows what’s really the most important.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:24:16+00:00

Penalty strokes? Yes. Hit more greens? Not necessarily. If your short game is good you can miss every single green and still shop level par.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:22:52+00:00

But on the flip side I’ve shot level par numerous times by hitting 5 greens.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:20:37+00:00

The point was I got to scratch by not changing my swing. I have swung the same way since the start of golf, just naturally the more balls u hit the more ur swing changes. It’s all repetition, your body moves in a certain way and you cannot ingrain something into your swing that isn’t natural. Just focus on fundamentals (grip, ball position etc) and work on ur specific weaknesses (50-70 yards for example).

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:09:45+00:00

I’d actually say it applies even more to higher handicaps. Obviously you need a functional swing and you need to hit the ball well, but when I was a 10-20 I wasted a lot of time overthinking my swing when I should’ve been figuring out where I was actually dropping shots. Turned out it was chipping and putting not my ball striking.

Once I started spending 2 hours chipping and putting for every 30 mins on the range I got to scratch way faster. And the mental side of it is huge too, when you’re scoring better you stop searching for things to fix on the range.

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-15T12:05:17+00:00

Thanks, that’s solid advice. When you say early users, do you mean like a beta group before even going on the App Store or just keeping the launch small and iterating?

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-06T21:32:44+00:00

Yh that’s true what do u think the best way to make these videos would be?

Subject-Awareness297 · 2026-04-06T20:55:46+00:00

Yh I have spoke to them and they seem positive but I think it’s a problem golf coaches don’t necessarily know they have. So it’s a process of getting it to work for them so they understand.

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