[6Rexw51X]

Well I did some research on Foley.. I kinda like his swing thoughts. However I'm not so sure I like him. He seems to come off like a used car salesman.

[sandyphoebetvmaa]

Well I did some research on Foley.. I kinda like his swing thoughts. However I'm not so sure I like him. He seems to come off like a used car salesman.

[wbeachcomber]

I think he dresses funny.

[entaifsfets]

He reminds me of the guy that was down at the University of Miami paying those players and ratted on everybody when he got caught.

[6Rexw51X]

He reminds me of the guy that was down at the University of Miami paying those players and ratted on everybody when he got caught.

Exactly.

[Tinasblue]

Your path through the ball gives you the curvature of the ball. Swinging from the inside to the outside helps you draw the ball. Swinging outside to inside (aka cutting across the ball, or what usually happens when you come over the top) makes you slice the ball.

Your clubface at impact determines the initial direction of the ball. For a right-handed golfer, open clubface at impact = ball starts right of target. Closed clubface at impact = ball starts left of target.

Actually the curvature of the ball is determined by the how open or closed the face of the club is relative to the path. You can have an inside path and hit a fade or even slice if the face is open relative to the path. It would be a push fade instead of an over the top pull fade. May seem like minutia, but you can have a club face open to the target, but closed to the path of the club and hit a push draw.

[ANCETPYNCTEXT]

Actually the curvature of the ball is determined by the how open or closed the face of the club is relative to the path. You can have an inside path and hit a fade or even slice if the face is open relative to the path. It would be a push fade instead of an over the top pull fade. May seem like minutia, but you can have a club face open to the target, but closed to the path of the club and hit a push draw.

This is 100% true, I was just trying to not complicate things at the start. It's easier said than done, but if you have the face square to the target at the start of the swing and then you keep it square throughout the swing, it will be square to the path and then your path will determine the curvature.

[Tinasblue]

Yeah I hate to even bring it up because it can make you look like one of those Internet know it alls. But it something that I have had to fight thru. I am working on a swing that is similar to what Foley teaches. I was hitting pulls and thought I was over the top. But my instructor told me I actually had too inside a swing path and shut the face down.

[amimabremiBit]

Personally, I love the way Hunter's swing looks. In person, watching him hit a golf ball is so fluid and effortless. Also, he keeps the club square at impact so well you almost feel like he is kind of propelling the ball as opposed to just smacking it. I don't know how else to describe it, but it is a thing of beauty.

[poulaMahmah]

Personally, I love the way Hunter's swing looks. In person, watching him hit a golf ball is so fluid and effortless. Also, he keeps the club square at impact so well you almost feel like he is kind of propelling the ball as opposed to just smacking it. I don't know how else to describe it, but it is a thing of beauty.

Do any of the swings at that level not keep it square?

[amimabremiBit]

Do any of the swings at that level not keep it square?

I wrote that and posted it and thought how dumb it was but decided to leave it hahahaha. You are correct sir as usual. I guess what I was trying to say was it is almost like you can see the lag with his swing. I'm not really sure how to put it into words. Last year when I followed his group, it was him, Adam Scott and Charles Howell III. Hunter and Adam's swing were just so pretty compared to Charles. Obviously not to say that his is bad, just different looking. I felt like Hunter's was even a step above Adams - at least visually.

[6Rexw51X]

Is it just me or does the way his students swing the club look awkward? To me they seem to bent over and there hands seem so low. Now granted there better than me, It just doesn't look right. What do you guys think?

[sandyphoebetvmaa]

[6Rexw51X]

LOL. Did I just start something bad?

[poulaMahmah]

Nothing is ever bad when debated in a friendly way. There are those that like his thoughts and those that dont. Then there are those that like his thoughts because he started working with Tiger and those that dont because he started working with Tiger.

[JetePlentuara]

LOL. Did I just start something bad?

...just kidding, man. It'll be a good discussion to read. I am pretty much impartial on the subject.

I think Tiger has a perfect swing (was probably more perfect before), but I'm really not for or against Foley.

[6Rexw51X]

Nothing is ever bad when debated in a friendly way. There are those that like his thoughts and those that dont. Then there are those that like his thoughts because he started working with Tiger and those that dont because he started working with Tiger.

I don't know his thoughts on ball flight and what not. I just think it looks a bit weird.

[WebDocMan]

Foley addresses the golf swing from a very bio-mechanical view point. It works for some players.

Hunter has won twice this year. Justin Rose has won once this year. And tiger has won twice.

I have been incorporating a lot of Foley swing thoughts into my swing this year. I am not a "feel" player and his thoughts work for me.

[6Rexw51X]

I should read up on his swing thoughts. I'm just going off of what it looks like to me.

[WebDocMan]

In general the idea is to get your hands low through impact. That way it is easier to come through the inside of the ball.