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Swing to a balanced finish. Ha.
If you think there’s a perfect golf swing, does the finish look like the image above?
Here’s the video of that swing. That swing just won for the second week in a row on the PGA Tour. That swing defended THE PLAYERS Championship for the first time in the fifty-year history of the tournament. That swing belongs to Scottie Scheffler.
If you’re not a golfer or aware of Scottie Scheffler, he’s the best ball-striker in the world by far. Not since Tiger Woods in the early 2000s has a player hit the ball so much better than his competition. Despite suffering serious putting woes, Scheffler has been the number-one ranked player in the world for the past year.
In golf, the ball sits there motionless when you hit it. Golfers have access to not just video but 3D motion trackers, force plates, and the best biomechanics analysts in the world. If there’s a sport where getting the form “right” is possible, golf is it. Nobody teaches players to swing like Scottie Scheffler. Nobody.
If you judge by results, Scheffler’s swing is the best in the world. By far.
Lucky for Scottie Scheffler, his coach, Randy Smith, doesn’t believe in models or perfect swings.
Too bad for all the other professional golfers Scottie Scheffler didn’t go to a coach who insisted he swing correctly, with all the right positions and perfect balance. They may have had a chance.