Jack Nicklaus Swing Slow Motion

[dschultz6072]

wtf is that crap at the end nice move grandpa.

[drewster85]

Coil................and sweep. Lol!

[vidvivvid]

Guy at the end is crap!

[maxwells1987]

Man does that first swing look fast! Gotta wonder what a young Niklaus could have done to a golf course with a ProV1 and a modern driver...

[MrLuigiFercotti]

@maxwells1987

Just a huge rip at the ball. Those early 60s shot where he has the wide stance are just violent.

[SwingItLikeMoe]

"hit it here Ohio fats". Good thing Jack is white. Imagine if he was black or latino. It would have been much worse for him, lol.

[SwingItLikeMoe]

"A pretty good feeling when you can start 3 under par before you tee off, you understand what I'm tellin ya". Lee Trevino. No doubt about that Lee,lol, no doubt.

[bailinnumberguy]

If you analyze the swings of professional golfers closely they appear to be very different. The grip (apart from locking vs. overlap) is almost universally the same as is the body's overall position at impact.

[watertonrivers]

Jack Nicklaus; The greates player of all time!!  And remember he was cranking out drives of 300 yards with persimmon drivers!!!

[JAKEHARRIS281]

WAS JACK BETTER THAN HOGAN?

[BoHoVsGolf]

@JAKEHARRIS281 yes... 

[fs1natra]

@JAKEHARRIS281

7 majors more than bobby jones

11 majors more than hogan

a quantam leap forward from hogan and jones-taken from mark shaws book on nicklaus

but of course this is overlooked.but not by me

[gmoney5646]

@fs1natra bobby jones retired at 28

[Evestrough]

holee shit is this loud! blew my eardrums...thanks...not

[TheOneAndOnlycE]

If he was in his prime nowadays he´d hit it as far as Bubba, but a lot more accurate. He´d still overpower most golf courses.

[jr55ful]

averaged 270 plus with balata balls and persimmon woods. he would have to get a flightplan with today's equipment.

[rorikjunior]

@jr55ful True, and this is why I wonder why some people consistently claim that Tiger is much better than Jack, just because he appears more athletic and modern..but upgraded with today's clubs, I am quite sure Jack would easily have kept up with players of our times. Besides that, Jack's true strength was the mental game, staying calm even if things were going against him, unlike Woods...

[rw5791]

@rorikjunior nobody intimidated like tiger woods. Man,if tiger was in the last group of the final round the tournament was over when he showed up at the practice green.The competition turned to jelly.

[rorikjunior]

@rw5791 Perhaps, but will Tiger be able to pull that off when he is 46? Also, Nicklaus finished 6th place 58 years age in the 1998 Masters playing with hips he had replaced the year after...Tiger is now struggling to even play with his knee problems...

[rw5791]

@rorikjunior I thought tiger would get 19 majors by the time he was 40.Hell,the masters was like his own personal pitch n' putt course but now he's got bad knees and the other golfers have developed thier own power games.Plus,tiger can't intimidate anymore because everyone knows now what an asshole he is so he's not getting the gallery support like back in the 2000's.

[Orangebike666]

I just noticed how important golf cameramen are...

[grinchychristmas]

hit it heah you boob!

[wols0003]

who is the "coil and sweep" dipshit at the end of the video? he lost his balance big time. Just coil, lame and sweep and then loose your balance. fail!

[pinboyjorf]

in the early 60's he held the worlds longest drive record of 342 it stood for over 20 years. thats with small headed persimin woods antique equipment. just imagine if he was 30 with the stuff they have now? he would be untouchable tiger would be carrying his clubs.

[tim191219]

@pinboyjorf No one ever dominated his competition like Tiger in his prime. I would love to see them go head to head in their primes itd be pretty awesome

[brainysnaeha]

@pinboyjorf

I think he can hit more than 350 yds with the recent driver we have today!

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[rw5791]

I never realized he had such a loose left knee and heel.

[Deano1000000]

He had many injuries because his swing was shite!

[fs1natra]

@Deano1000000 j

top 10 finishes in majors

1/nicklaus with 73 majors

2/watson with something like 45

so much for a shite swing

jacks gir in 1968 not equalled for the next 40 years

[emncaity]

@fs1natra

So how close do you think _any_ current player could come to Jack's GIR percentage, given persimmon, blades, and balata, and hitting the same-number clubs into greens that he did?

[huntersingle]

.36 was the best swing, a swing that beat his opponents pretty easy. a swing that also beats tigger woods

[schwabichinn]

the first real power player: Jack Nicklaus. I swear he got that front leg kick from Bobby Jones,

[DFORCE8228305]

sure win swing...

[Charlie9046]

I've been watching a few swing from some of the old greats, and find it intersting how individual all their swings seem to be. So many of todays players could mould into one another. Too much 'overcoaching' goes on these days

[vsp3589]

I just can not believe how he lifted his left foot (heel) and the foot slides all around. You don't see that today. It goes to show you do not have to have such a solid base to be good!

[DeniedHealthCare]

@vsp3589 Path Plane, and Impact are the only things that matter in the golf swing. These heel list super mobile swings are great for bombing the ball long high and straight.

[teewoods]

they seemed to have ugly swing back then -

[petereuropa]

They who says that these Champs (like Jack N, Sam S, Tom W and other) golfswing are obsolete and out of date are wrong. This is a real powerful golfswing to challange every pro of today.

[jackhon]

@petereuropa They do have powerful golfswing, but put that swing into most people, the ball would be going EVERYWHERE and be extremely inconsistent. What they did have, was amazing athleticism and co-ordination to be able to repeat their motion exactly everytime.

Today's game revolve around having a swing with very little moving parts and we now understand the bio-mechanics of the swing better and is able to coach people to have a strong swing without bombing it by being more efficient.

[petereuropa]

@jackhon I will never be a master in golf, I just love the game. So can I advice? I don't know. But as Sam S., Phil M., Jack N and some other masters, for example lift their left foot heal on the backswing. Myself I have tried to copy Ben H.'s swing (see= Ben Hogan Golf Swing on YT). To start with the hip. That has helped me a lot. I trust Jack N.'s words. All swings are the same movement. I'm just a glad amateur who wants to improve my golf. And unfortunately I have only one eye to see with.

[petereuropa]

@jackhon I want to add: it is very important to take lessons from a pro. When I take lessons, I get the right feedback from a guy who is an expert of the game. That has helped me a lot! Looking at these videos is Ok, but it is sometimes difficult to know if you make mistakes. I did a lot of mistakes, but with the feedback from the pro I try to improve my game and avoid mistakes.

[DeniedHealthCare]

@jackhon You have to be joking! The modern swing, bio-mechanics, and 3d technology have NOT lowered golf scores. Handicaps have NOT decreased in over 50 years. What gives? The truth is that different golfers are able to accomplish different movements. Mike Austin was a kinesiologist that create a super efficient swing that BOMBED the ball with a highly mobile pivot, lifted heel, and a huge arc--- It also was easy on the body. He routinely launched ballata balls 330+ yard with a persimmon driver

[paulski5]

@jackhon No way in heck Jack. Are you kidding me?

[brainysnaeha]

@jackhon

Unfortunately that kind of modern swing mechanics didn't work for me and i ended up swing like jack nicklaus

a great swing for bombing a driver.

[paulski5]

@petereuropa Damn right Peter.

[Noallegiance]

Jeeze no wonder he had injuries! He KILLED it! Crank it back an WHAMMO! Surprising that such a violent looking action was so accurate.

[sretsam68]

Take that first swing and give today's driver / ball technology and the distance would be unbelievable.

[Goynes42]

Jack would make people faint. So would Sam Snead.

Jack once reached that 630-yard 16th hole at Firestone with, as he put it, "two well-hit 3-woods." There's a plaque on a par-5 in Arizona (I can't remember the course) saying "From this spot, Jack Nicklaus scored double eagle. Club: 8-iron." Think about that for a second.

[sretsam68]

You're exactly right on Nicklaus & Snead. I can't remember the Arizona par-5, but the comment on the 16th at Firestone, I do remember. Unreal. Also, in the 1964 Masters, Nicklaus hit driver, eight-iron slightly over the green on the 15th, then measuring 520 yards. Huge.

[sretsam68]

@Goynes42 - I forgot...the double eagle was during the 1996 Tradition.

[MFBueno63]

@Goynes42

know the course in AZ....not a ridiculous drive...its a 500 yd par 5 thats downhill and usually downwind.....340 yd drives are normal on that hole.....

[Goynes42]

Lots of laughs at the guy trying to emulate Jack there at the end...I don't recall ever seeing Jack lose his balance and fall back after the shot.

Jack was the Master.

[16penney]

Gotta have real strong legs to swing like Jack.

[kiwijohn01]

Wow amazing.. but he didn't really have what you'd call a flat back would you? you can see why he had neck issues later on with all that speed/whip at the bottom of the swing. SO much power!

[DimaSilchenko]

I like the guy trying to emulate his swing at the end of the video: FAIL. Only thing that looked somewhat resembling was the head twist.

[paulski5]

@DimaSilchenko I think he did a decent job...though Jack setup with his hands much more forward (more shaft lean at address) and obviously this guy way overdid the finish.

[wholebrainplanet]

Wow, what an athletic golfer. If Jack came along today teaching pros would change so many great things that he did with his swing. For starters they would tell him to keep the left heel on the ground. Watch most of young pros today. They are not free to let their lower body help launch the ball as Jack did. Back then woods were made from wood. Give the Persimmons driver to today's player and they would start being more athletic again. Thanks for posting. Hammer

[azbaldy5]

jack Nicklaus was POWER GOLF PERSONIFIED !

[paulski5]

Holy crap great video. How about that first swing...holy schmoly...speeeeeeed.

[tuchitochi]

the swing is almost a pre tiger. he coils just like tiger does...i won't be surprised if tiger learnt 80% from jack's swing.

[emncaity]

Thanks to the OP.

FWIW, the big move to the outside of the left foot was more of a mid-career thing; if you look at photos from his late teens and early 20s, he was much firmer in the left leg at impact, and later in his career he came to believe that was a better way to do it--that you could still release from the ground up with a strong move without sagging or bowing the left side so much. Grout never liked that move anyway--tried to get Jack to swing "from the insides of the feet."

[sretsam68]

Great video!

Intangibles that Jack has over Tiger IMO are swing tempo & distance control. The latter as a result of the former. When comparisons are made between Jack & Tiger, this rarely seems to come up. Hogan & Jones (obviously Snead) had super tempo as well, but Jack had more overall power.

When asked what Jack's greatest strength was, Tom Watson immediately said swing tempo.

[schauspieler23]

Coil (come get those legs in it). the shoot the legs ang SWEEP!!!! you´ll look like Jack

[gwhizzle25]

what an amazing golfer

[some29yearoldguy]

Wow thanks to whoever put all of this together.