Fixing Charles Barkley's golf swing

[supercow]

[LeftysRule]

It's so much harder to fix a bad swing to to train a new one. But my hat's off to him for trying.

Tony

[georgep]

Well, it was a little better, though there was still a smaller hitch there. Personally, I think I'd tell him to buy a set of left-handed clubs and start over.

[Jarno]

He has a tournament every year for VCU out at the public course affillitated with my club. We asked him our Director of Instruction and I, where the hell did the hick-up come from? He said a pro once told him he should slow his swing down, the pros solution was a hitch at the top or somewhere around the top of the swing.

Well years later it has gravitated to the 3/4 part of the swing. He said last year he retired from golf except Celebrity Fundraisers and ofcourse the VCU Charity Scholarship fundraiser.

But on a lighter note this man is the funniest man I've ever met!

[gogolfing]

Getting world peace would probably be easier than fixing that swing

I can't even watch that thing, it gives me the chills. It's like watching the guy in front of you hit the dreaded shank, and then you have to hit; tough to get it out of your mind. To quote the Judge in Caddyshack " Oh Billy Billy Billy"

[Kellfire]

[Big Don]

Heavy hypnosis sessions for the old chugster followed by hitting the ball with a blindfold on. Then he'd sort out his odd pause.

Shame. I've seen video of his swing "pre pause" it wasn't perfect but it was a heck of a lot better than it is now. He went to an instructor who tried to get him to pause at the top to slow down the transition. Ended up disastrously?

[Big Don]

Looks like the chugster found a cure without hypnosis



This guys must be good?

[jm0715]

I think Charles Barkley's swing is a rare hopeless case. The "damage" had been done. He let bad habits developed & took him a long time to correct it to the point that his swing is irreparable.

Hypnosis, Acupuncture, Feng-Shui, & even the Dalai Lama will have no effect whatsoever in changing his golf swing. As the old saying goes: " You can not teach old dogs new tricks."

[Phil]

I wonder how much distance he was losing on his shots because of that hitch