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Swing Compilation: Hagen, Jones and Sarazen- the First Great American Triumvirate

By Wayne | Videos: From The Vault

I know that all the members of the website enjoy watching the swings of the great players from the past as well as the present, so I decided to put together videos of the swings of the best players of different eras starting with Walter Hagen, who won his first major championship in 1914 and his last in 1929. Included here with Hagen are Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen, who together were known as the first great American triumvirate. Jones won all his majors (7 professional and 6 amateur, which in these years were considered majors) between 1923 and 1930.…

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As Seen on TV: Brandel and Bobby Jones on Swing Thoughts

By Wayne | Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras

Here we have Brandel making his predictable comments on the benefit of having “no technical swing thoughts” while watching Angel Cabrera warm up on the range at Augusta. My point here, and one that Bobby Jones makes as well in his article “Day to Day Adjustments”, is that all golfers need to come up with a few swing thoughts (call them swing “keys” for lack of a better term) in order to quantify the feelings that work and that the golfer would like to remember and repeat. Chamblee is at his over-simplistic worst here, suggesting that the average golfer, with…

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Bobby Jones Golf Swing Analyzed

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

Bobby Jones, one of the all-time greatest golfers. He is the only player to win all four major championships in one calendar year and co-founded the Masters. In this swing analysis, we see how Bobby’s golf swing differs from the modern day golf swing, yet still displays some of the same characteristics of all great ball-strikers. Head lowering, hips in the box, right arm action, forward lean and more, a lot of the same factors you see in all great players you see in Jones as well.

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