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Chamblee on McIlroy: “Insufficient”, or Less Than Stellar Lower Body Movement

By on Jun 14, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 4 }

  I happened to be flipping through channels when I caught this short piece, and when I heard Brandel ripping Rory and comparing him to Byron Nelson I knew I had another video in the can. Chamblee is mind-boggling: he takes the best players in the world, waits for them to have a bad round or a bad tournament, picks their worst shot, and does an analysis showing how poor their technique is and states that this is why they missed the cut, or lost the tournament, or hit the odd bad shot. Of course, he knows beforehand that the shot is bad and that they played poorly, but just wait a week or two when the player plays well [...]

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As Seen on TV: Kratzert on Woods: Head Steady? I Don’t Think So

By on Apr 26, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 3 }

  I find it hard to believe that a guy who fancies himself as a golf “expert” would put such wrongheaded nonsense out for public consumption. Bill Kratzert is proving himself to right in there with Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo, Brandel Chamblee, and the rest of the bunch when he steadfastly maintains that Tiger’s head is “steady”, not moving to the right or up and down when in fact the very video he is analyzing proves him to be totally wrong. I mean, the video is playing, Kratzert is commentating, and what he is saying has nothing to do with what Tiger is doing. When Kratzert says that Tiger’s head doesn’t move to the right, the video shows that it [...]

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Chamblee Changes his Tune on Tiger

By on Mar 15, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 0 }

  If it wasn’t obvious before, it certainly should be now: Brandel Chamblee, like the finest politicians, will say whatever fits the situation, paying no mind to anything he has said in the past. I suppose that is the nature of television. You are required to fill up space and do it in an interesting fashion in order to keep your job. If you can make it look like you are an authority and can conjure up a little controversy as well you might even become a star. Chamblee has smartly chosen Tiger Woods as the main subject for his analysis, and seeks to be somewhat of an “authority” on Tiger’s swing and the changes that he has been going [...]

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Chamblee on Tiger’s Hand Path: Borrowing from a Great Source

By on Mar 15, 2013 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 13 }

  There is very little original thought on display in golf instruction, and the truth is that every morsel of such originality is eventually taken by those who are looking for ideas and used for their own benefit. In some cases the ideas are paraphrased to make it seem that they weren’t borrowed, and in other cases the owner of the original thought is credited for the information, which is, of course, the more honest way to do things. There are other instances in which information is blatantly plagiarized and no credit is given, which is what I believe is on display in this video. The irony here is that Chamblee took great pains to disparage me and my teaching [...]

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Sir Nick Faldo Still Seeing Things That Aren’t There

By on Aug 31, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 0 }

  This video doesn’t need much explanation. Rory McIlroy is hitting an iron shot from a fairway bunker, and luckily the camera is stable so we can accurately assess any elevation change in his body by drawing a line on top of his head. In his swing analysis Faldo remarks about Rory’s “steady head” and how he “maintains his level”, but the swing itself shows otherwise. Remarkably enough, it’s not even close: McIlroy’s head drops 2-3 inches in the backswing and another 4-5 inches in the forward swing, which goes to show you that when these announcers want to see something and make a remark about it they just do it without even bothering to make sure that they are [...]

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Swing Analysis: Tiger at the Memorial 2012

By on Jun 6, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 1 }

  So you tell me: how cool is it to hear Peter Kostis and Gary McCord talking about “compressing into the ground” during both the backswing and the forward swing? I have to think that there’s no way they are not watching my videos. I know Peter is for sure, because my head pro told me Peter was pissed at me for calling him out in a few of my previous videos. If that’s the case then I say OK, because that bit on Tiger on Sunday was the best thing Kostis has done maybe ever. My goal all along is to have these announcers do good work. How could I make any of these videos if the stuff they [...]

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Kratzert and Foltz Showcase the Deficiencies of Empirical Analysis

By on May 18, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 2 }

When I use the words “empirical analysis” here it is not to make me look smart: rather, it is a jab at Brandel Chamblee (imagine that), who, in our Facebook debate, rambled on about the beauty of “observational” teaching as opposed to anything having to do with science or using technology such as video cameras and line and angle drawing software.

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Peter Kostis Outdoes Himself Analyzing Rory McIlroy’s Swing

By on May 15, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 2 }

Who in their right mind would ever claim that McIlroy’s arms drive his pivot, and that the evidence is a video of Rory when he was 3 years old?

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Kostis Gets One Right, (Then One Wrong)

By on Mar 5, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 1 }

Just to show everyone I’m not picking on the TV announcers, here I commend Peter Kostis on an insightful biz hub swing analysis of a Tiger Woods drive at Pebble Beach.

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Peter Kostis Reports in on Phil Mickelson’s Swing

By on Mar 5, 2012 in Videos: As Seen On TV and Extras - Comments { 7 }

So Phil flies in Butch, and Butch suggests that Phil keep the flex in his left knee, and suddenly Phil is a world beater. Nonsense.

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