Current best swing in golf

[Barfolomew]

Its like asking which race car looks the coolest... ijs

[bowilbury8]

Why don't we get a little more specific. Who has the smoothest and what appears to be effortless swing?

[ChemE in the OP]

For me the answer's always pretty easy, Adam Scott.

[md_mueller]

It's probably the obvious Rory/Scott/Louis as those are the swings other pros seem to envy.

Also, someone earlier in the thread claiming Rory isn't an excellent driver of the golf ball. That's a pretty harsh judgement on someone who is in top 3 drivers of the ball in the last quarter century. This site is wild.

[bowilbury8]

I'm not a big fan of Rory's swing, too much torque and too violent. Louis I like a lot. Seems effortless and he gets a lot out of it, same with Goosen, kind of lazy power.

[Jifmoli]

Smooth and little effort? Ingee Chun...

[Joelsim]

Clearly it’s Rory.

[milesgiles]

Why not ask that in the first place...

[Fuscinator]

I sure do like Charley Hull's swing

[Strategery]

That's a beautiful swing.

[Fuscinator]

Seems like a fun person, too.

[Iggypop]

It’s Rory and Tiger for me. There is a reason they are the most successful players. Everything is pretty textbook. Both can play any shape or trajectory and it filters through to the short game.

There are several side by side comparisons of the two greats and they are very similar. Tigers current - late 2018 to now is as good as it’s ever been.

[1puttTUT]

Yeah, exactly! You're going to get 100 different answers because it's pure personal preference.

[bowilbury8]

Ok nothing wrong with that, what's your personal preference?

[Barfolomew]

Its always been Furyk..... cause he represents it don't matter WTF what your swing looks like as long as it doesn't hurt the body

[1puttTUT]

I commented earlier that I like Rory and Rahm. I also find the unique swings like Wolffe captivating. It really shows that you just need to get into position in time for impact.

[mocokid]

Cholly Hoffman and dufner, great swings for the common man.

[Philomathesq]

I guess I'm the only one that gets pure joy out of watching Matsuyama swing. I don't know what it is, but I love watching him hit the ball.

[2over]

Surely it's Rory? So fluid, so un-mechanical and natural and just incredibly efficient and powerful.

[tdog3]

All time: Anthony Kim

from a pure technical standpoint (perfectly on plane, perfect at the top of swing, perfect release mechanics, etc), he has had no equal. So much so, Tiger used to say Kim had the perfect swing on tour and would invite him to golf clinics to teach and tutor.

 

[williamsnrb]

I really loved Payne Stewart. I've told this story on WRX before, but when I was in my teens, he played the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis and I was waiting near the driving range hoping for players' autographs. I asked him to sign a hat and he asked my name, so he signed it "To Nathan, All The Best! Payne Stewart". So, that was cool, but I got other signatures that day and didn't think much about it. Until a couple of days later, I saw him again and said hello. He said, "Hey, Nathan, how are you?" I was so impressed that he remembered my name that he automatically became my favorite player after that. Ha That and his swing was amazing. :)

[williamsnrb]

To me, aesthetically speaking, head level is important during the swing. That's why Adam Scott's swing is more appealing to me than, say, Fleetwood's. Full disclosure, though: I have some head drop in my swing. Maybe that's why I can appreciate head level in a powerful swing. Lol

[3whacker]

IMO one of the reasons people like Adam Scott's swing is that it is the Butch Harmon swing that TW HAD but left when he went to Hank and his body transformed into the bulked up version that we saw for a couple of years. AS meanwhile has not changed much physically as he has gotten older, he is still the same slender guy with excellent flexibility and able to make the same shoulder turn. His motion hasn't changed all that much...If you look at some of the all time greats like Snead, Tom Watson, and even a younger Jack N. the reason they had such great careers is that their bodies didnt change all that much so consequently neither did their swing..That is one of the things I admire about Tiger, his body has gone thru all sorts of changes, from being a skinny kid to a bulked up TW and then today's version. Its a shame that his body is not allowing him to execute the type of swing that used to come to him quite naturally on demand. It shows up rom time to time, but except for the Masters win and the Tour Championship it has deserted him

[stingerfade]

Jack nicklaus’ body changed a lot from when he was young and fat to 30 pounds lighter and athletic in the 70s

[MK7Golf21]

Adam Scott’s swing and tiger has changed from Butch’s early swing. They had very outside takeaways and pretty much every instructor knows that’s not a good thing nowadays. Scott’s takeaway is way less outside and his chin isn’t so up.

[Christosterone]

These are my favorites the stick out of my head and I could go on forever but don’t wanna bore y’all…

Reverse C Category

jack

johnny miller

seve(Jack and johnny copy)

tony jacklin

weiskopf

tom watson

norman(wow, his swing was just wow)

vijay singh(jack copy)

colin Montgomerie(Jack copy)

Robert streb(Monty copy)

Jeff sluman

joaquin niemman(Johnny Miller copy)

Yo(not pronoun ishikawa

sean o hair(till he changed it to more upright then saw his game leave him)

crenshaw

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modern textbook category

lord Byron(shuttle notwithstanding it was the first modern)

tiger

rory

dL3

CH3

scott

morikawa

day

els

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how the heck do they do it category

bobby jones(buy how to play gold or how to break 90 on Amazon...dude was insanely good)

arnie

player

trevino/rah/JB (same swing imho)

sergio

westwood

daly

phil(very 70s move which rocks)

bubba

mathew wolf

ryan moore

hideki

baddeley

allen doyle

raymond floyd

Willet(Johnny Miller pick up takeaway then all bets are off)

cabrerra

DJ

Furyk(technically was a reverse c for much of his career)

Couples(that swing path is remarkable...and gorgeous)

kite(former reverse c)

doug Sanders (wow, just wow that is weird)

 

And as always, here’s the closest will ever get to a tiger and Jack side-by-side as Vijay’s swing was a position-by-position copy of jack...

And it should be noted That he became the best player in the world with Jack swing… The tiger was going through swing change at the time Vijay still one over $10 million in a single season with JackS swing…

 

[Jay28]

Rory and Adam Scott.

[buckethat72]

Agree with this. It's becoming clear that being easy on the eye doesn't equate to the most effective swing. Louis swing looks great but he is not very consistent.

I like Rory's but I think Colin Morikawa has the best of the new generation.

 

 

[bsuwara]

Great video comparing new school swing to old school swing ...

[naval2006]

That's a hard one these days with so many pure swings. Technically speaking, Adam Scott must be the swing for the books. Even though I love Rory's, his power and natural move through the ball. And present day Tiger is a joy to see, too.

Since some have gone down memory lane, guys like Seve, Tom Watson and Sam Snead are in the sanctuary of golf swings. And Nicklaus, oh, Nicklaus was as lethal as Tiger save the beauty.