he uses a hybrid off the tee here so he only outdrives his amateur partner by 40 and saves him some embarrassment, yet still stays just short of the bunker 265 out. it's the classy thing to do. his real play is driver 320 off the tee then 4 iron 225 in.
he can have such a bowed wrist like that because he has such a fast unwind of the hips, he also has a low ball flight because he holds off the release big time
That swing isn't timing dependant, he sets the club face perfectly square (yes - SQUARE!) at top, and then just pulls the arms package on plane through the ball.
This is a geometrically *sane* swing. Most PGA pro's have stupid clubface patterns (square-open-square-closed through swing) whichadd some more distance, but is also *very* timing dependant.
This is what Trevino and Palmer did. And very much what Duval makes today.
And yet, it wasn't at all what Nicklaus did. Or Jones, or Snead. As good as I know Trevino, Palmer, and Duval are or were, I think I'd take Nicklaus, Jones, Snead, Nelson, and Hogan. Which is not to say Johnson doesn't make it work really well, because obviously he does. Just a big raw-boned athlete with a lot of physical sense to him.
Monumental length, however I think the guy is a little dumb and lacks the sharpness of guy like Tiger, Kaymer or Donald. He definately has a LOT of talent but I'm not sure it will save him from future mishaps like the one at Whistling Straits, or being arrested on a DOI charge, or buying bullets for a friends older brother which that guy would use to shoot a rival 5 times in the head... I hope he's put all that past him and concentrates on being a great golfer.
You know, seriously...when did Hogan, or Nelson, or Snead, or Palmer, or Nicklaus, or Player, or Watson, etc., ever get arrested for DUI or get involved with crap they weren't supposed to be involved with?
And on top of that, the burglary thing that led to the gun that led to the bullets...I mean, are we gonna reach a point where _everybody_ in sports has one foot on the line of thug life, and the requisite number of apologists who tell the rest of us to get over it, that all a golfer has to do is to hit a ball and it doesn't matter what else he does?
@emncaity Well, isn't that all he has to do? I don't personally know Dustin. I don't know his hobbies, likes/dislikes, favorite foods...etc. All I know is that he's a professional golfer; which is why I only care about his golf game. Couldn't care less about his personal life. As long as he plays good golf, he has a fan. Seriously, athletes aren't role models. They're a bunch of ppl who play a sport well enough to get paid for it. I watch golf for the players golf talent, not their morals.
Isn't that all he has to do? As you know, opinions are split. But I guarantee you you don't care only about his golf game. If in his "personal life" he were a child molester, you'd care a lot. The truth is, you and others have simply come to accept adultery, promiscuity, low-level thuggery, etc., among professional athletes, and you don't want any consequences from those kinds of actions to end up a distraction from professional sports entertainment.
holy crap I thought you were joking until I just looked it up. Right after I posted my last comment I found out he had a DUI--and that there was footage of it, and that's what I figured you were talking about.
Then I read about him being involved in a murder!!
WOW!! how have I never heard any of this----absolutely crazy!!!!!!
No problem. Nobody seems to have any legitimate dispute over his version of it--that he was intimidated into it, was in the getaway car during the break-in, and had no real intention to participate in a killing. But still...can you even imagine a Nicklaus or a Watson being involved in crap like this? It's not like gangs and burglary and juvenile delinquency didn't exist then. It's just that it wasn't considered sort of mainstream fun to have one foot in the thug world.
@emncaity Nope. You're wrong. If he were the leader of the KKK I'd still say, "ya know, im not too thrilled about it, but he's still a good golfer". An so what if we have accepted these things? People change. What was once taboo is now the norm; so continues life. A pro athlete isn't....(i say again) ISN'T a role model. That's the PARENTS job. Who the hell are we to throw responsibility at athletes. They have enough stress just being the best at what they do.
At least it's an honest and consistent position. I just think it's completely the wrong one. "So what"? Your question presumes that standards of behavior come from nowhere other than the surrounding culture, so if the culture eventually approves the eating of babies, why, you can't blame a pro golfer for eating three of them.
As for "stress"...please. Stress is the married guy trying to keep his job at the factory so his family can stay above the poverty line.
You're also creating the typical false dichotomy between athletes as "role models" versus parents. I know of literally nobody who says athletes ought to take the place of parents in a kid's life, with regard to moral and ethical standards. There's a second, but implied, false dichotomy between an athlete being a "role model" in some pristine or holy manner, versus an athlete simply being a decent human being. And anyway, I'm not really talking about some direct "modeling" for kids.
However, having said that, he is clearly "a good golfer"--and not only a good one, but one who seems to be pounding on the door of the majors. It's not like I think he must be a terrible person. It's my impression that he's not, and I wish him well as a very talented player. But I do think it matters who you are, and for sure it matters in this game--maybe not for those who came to it as a pro sports fan, but for those who grew up in the best of its traditions, yeah.
@emncaity ...and thats what separates you and I; age. I never was one for tradition and "old school" habits. To you, it's a gentleman's game filled with preset behavioral norms/expectations. To me....it's just golf.
What the hell does "age" have to do with it? If you think there aren't younger players who are being brought up in the best traditions of the game--the ones that promote rigorous self-control, honesty, sportsmanship, dealing well with losses and imperfections, etc.--you're mistaken. You can call that stuff "preset behavioral norms/expectations" if you want, as if that's a bad thing, but it made for a lot of players with character who acted like adults.
Obviously it's your business how you take the game. I just think you're missing a lot of the value of it when you see it framed as just another pro sport, which is too bad. Tradition simply for tradition's sake is empty, but substantively, honesty, decency, sportsmanship, and self-discipline aren't such bad things in an age where the best player in the world can't manage to stop cursing on camera or have enough self-control to stop betraying and humiliating his wife and children.
Again, though, Johnson seems like a decent guy who's put all that garbage behind him, and I hope he has. I just think to accept that kind of background as some kind of new norm is a sad commentary, as sad as not caring whether Kobe Bryant was a rapist or merely an adulterer who bought off his wife--simply because he's a spectacular give-me-the-ball kind of player.
At the same age he was doing this crap, Jack Nicklaus was helping out his dad at the pharmacy, trying to do well in school and sports, and playing amateur golf. Just saying. I really do hope the whole incident was out of character for Johnson and that he continues to prove it--but the reason I hope so has to do not only with his talent, but with the fact that whether or not people outside the game want to think so, in golf it still matters who you are and how you act.
Speaking with Jim flick he said that jack would release the club head in the beginning of his downswing [pretty much like throwing the club] however he did use his lower body. good way to play
one of the longest players on tour and he gets all of his power in a unique way. instead of powering through the ball with his hips and lower body like paul casey or nick watney, dustin uses his long arms to almost throws the club from the top and then quickly re-hinges his wrists right after impact. thats why he has a different follow through and his hands reach head height so fast.
many people dont realize this but Dustin is a very conservative player, his driving average is only 309 because he hits so many 3 woods off the tee to keep it in play.
I love this dudes swing if he could control it under pressure he would be unbeatable. He does a lot of weird stuff with his hands at the top and through swing but over all he has a very power producing swing
god damn mother fucking cock sucking fucking ADS!!!!!!! I want to watch this video, I DO NOT give two shits about your 2day golf school at TPC scottsdale
buh-bang
MrGmacfan 1 day ago
that was raped
bensteeley 1 month ago
would be better if we could see the ball
MRCOOLIO5689 1 month ago
he uses a hybrid off the tee here so he only outdrives his amateur partner by 40 and saves him some embarrassment, yet still stays just short of the bunker 265 out. it's the classy thing to do. his real play is driver 320 off the tee then 4 iron 225 in.
dschultz6072 3 months ago
he can have such a bowed wrist like that because he has such a fast unwind of the hips, he also has a low ball flight because he holds off the release big time
bensteeley 4 months ago
@bensteeley He actually has one of the highest ball flights on tour.
ngatins24 4 months ago
@ngatins24 it is one of the flattest which is why he hits it so far
bensteeley 1 month ago
@bensteeley i wouldn't say that's why he hits it so far. i would say thats more to do with his strength, flexibility and speed of the hips
themothmanreturns 1 month ago
listen to that strike
bensteeley 4 months ago
sliced it
roycesboy 4 months ago
@roycesboy
lol dustin has probably never hit a slice in his life
WestBromSte 4 months ago
@WestBromSte For real. More like "duck hooked it", lol.
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001zach 3 months ago
@001zach I'm just saying that would most likely be his miss because of his wrist angle.
zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz 3 months ago
best sound ever
ddelehanty91 6 months ago
God, I love his swing
MrStamps10 7 months ago
Clobbered that hybrid! DAMN
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mralemelle 9 months ago
It's easy to throw stones from your glass houses. Dustin is just fine without the "critics".
eightohhthree 9 months ago
That swing isn't timing dependant, he sets the club face perfectly square (yes - SQUARE!) at top, and then just pulls the arms package on plane through the ball.
This is a geometrically *sane* swing. Most PGA pro's have stupid clubface patterns (square-open-square-closed through swing) whichadd some more distance, but is also *very* timing dependant.
This is what Trevino and Palmer did. And very much what Duval makes today.
4JRimmer 9 months ago
@4JRimmer
And yet, it wasn't at all what Nicklaus did. Or Jones, or Snead. As good as I know Trevino, Palmer, and Duval are or were, I think I'd take Nicklaus, Jones, Snead, Nelson, and Hogan. Which is not to say Johnson doesn't make it work really well, because obviously he does. Just a big raw-boned athlete with a lot of physical sense to him.
emncaity 8 months ago
That garbage swing has four wins
ThriceTea1 9 months ago
@ThriceTea1
Was just gonna say.
emncaity 9 months ago
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recordbreaker5 10 months ago
coolest swing ever
cheatdath 10 months ago
Monumental length, however I think the guy is a little dumb and lacks the sharpness of guy like Tiger, Kaymer or Donald. He definately has a LOT of talent but I'm not sure it will save him from future mishaps like the one at Whistling Straits, or being arrested on a DOI charge, or buying bullets for a friends older brother which that guy would use to shoot a rival 5 times in the head... I hope he's put all that past him and concentrates on being a great golfer.
DarthGoofy 11 months ago
@DarthGoofy
You know, seriously...when did Hogan, or Nelson, or Snead, or Palmer, or Nicklaus, or Player, or Watson, etc., ever get arrested for DUI or get involved with crap they weren't supposed to be involved with?
emncaity 9 months ago
@DarthGoofy
And on top of that, the burglary thing that led to the gun that led to the bullets...I mean, are we gonna reach a point where _everybody_ in sports has one foot on the line of thug life, and the requisite number of apologists who tell the rest of us to get over it, that all a golfer has to do is to hit a ball and it doesn't matter what else he does?
emncaity 9 months ago
@emncaity Well, isn't that all he has to do? I don't personally know Dustin. I don't know his hobbies, likes/dislikes, favorite foods...etc. All I know is that he's a professional golfer; which is why I only care about his golf game. Couldn't care less about his personal life. As long as he plays good golf, he has a fan. Seriously, athletes aren't role models. They're a bunch of ppl who play a sport well enough to get paid for it. I watch golf for the players golf talent, not their morals.
remmy100 9 months ago 2
@remmy100 amen man why do more people not understand this?
jimmyshitbags 9 months ago
@remmy100
Isn't that all he has to do? As you know, opinions are split. But I guarantee you you don't care only about his golf game. If in his "personal life" he were a child molester, you'd care a lot. The truth is, you and others have simply come to accept adultery, promiscuity, low-level thuggery, etc., among professional athletes, and you don't want any consequences from those kinds of actions to end up a distraction from professional sports entertainment.
emncaity 8 months ago
@emncaity
holy crap I thought you were joking until I just looked it up. Right after I posted my last comment I found out he had a DUI--and that there was footage of it, and that's what I figured you were talking about.
Then I read about him being involved in a murder!!
WOW!! how have I never heard any of this----absolutely crazy!!!!!!
thanks for the information though man!!!!!
tonybonez 8 months ago
@tonybonez
No problem. Nobody seems to have any legitimate dispute over his version of it--that he was intimidated into it, was in the getaway car during the break-in, and had no real intention to participate in a killing. But still...can you even imagine a Nicklaus or a Watson being involved in crap like this? It's not like gangs and burglary and juvenile delinquency didn't exist then. It's just that it wasn't considered sort of mainstream fun to have one foot in the thug world.
emncaity 8 months ago
@emncaity Nope. You're wrong. If he were the leader of the KKK I'd still say, "ya know, im not too thrilled about it, but he's still a good golfer". An so what if we have accepted these things? People change. What was once taboo is now the norm; so continues life. A pro athlete isn't....(i say again) ISN'T a role model. That's the PARENTS job. Who the hell are we to throw responsibility at athletes. They have enough stress just being the best at what they do.
remmy100 8 months ago
@remmy100
At least it's an honest and consistent position. I just think it's completely the wrong one. "So what"? Your question presumes that standards of behavior come from nowhere other than the surrounding culture, so if the culture eventually approves the eating of babies, why, you can't blame a pro golfer for eating three of them.
As for "stress"...please. Stress is the married guy trying to keep his job at the factory so his family can stay above the poverty line.
emncaity 8 months ago
@remmy100
You're also creating the typical false dichotomy between athletes as "role models" versus parents. I know of literally nobody who says athletes ought to take the place of parents in a kid's life, with regard to moral and ethical standards. There's a second, but implied, false dichotomy between an athlete being a "role model" in some pristine or holy manner, versus an athlete simply being a decent human being. And anyway, I'm not really talking about some direct "modeling" for kids.
emncaity 8 months ago
@remmy100
However, having said that, he is clearly "a good golfer"--and not only a good one, but one who seems to be pounding on the door of the majors. It's not like I think he must be a terrible person. It's my impression that he's not, and I wish him well as a very talented player. But I do think it matters who you are, and for sure it matters in this game--maybe not for those who came to it as a pro sports fan, but for those who grew up in the best of its traditions, yeah.
emncaity 8 months ago
@emncaity ...and thats what separates you and I; age. I never was one for tradition and "old school" habits. To you, it's a gentleman's game filled with preset behavioral norms/expectations. To me....it's just golf.
remmy100 8 months ago
@remmy100
What the hell does "age" have to do with it? If you think there aren't younger players who are being brought up in the best traditions of the game--the ones that promote rigorous self-control, honesty, sportsmanship, dealing well with losses and imperfections, etc.--you're mistaken. You can call that stuff "preset behavioral norms/expectations" if you want, as if that's a bad thing, but it made for a lot of players with character who acted like adults.
emncaity 8 months ago
@remmy100
Obviously it's your business how you take the game. I just think you're missing a lot of the value of it when you see it framed as just another pro sport, which is too bad. Tradition simply for tradition's sake is empty, but substantively, honesty, decency, sportsmanship, and self-discipline aren't such bad things in an age where the best player in the world can't manage to stop cursing on camera or have enough self-control to stop betraying and humiliating his wife and children.
emncaity 8 months ago
@remmy100
Again, though, Johnson seems like a decent guy who's put all that garbage behind him, and I hope he has. I just think to accept that kind of background as some kind of new norm is a sad commentary, as sad as not caring whether Kobe Bryant was a rapist or merely an adulterer who bought off his wife--simply because he's a spectacular give-me-the-ball kind of player.
emncaity 8 months ago
@DarthGoofy
At the same age he was doing this crap, Jack Nicklaus was helping out his dad at the pharmacy, trying to do well in school and sports, and playing amateur golf. Just saying. I really do hope the whole incident was out of character for Johnson and that he continues to prove it--but the reason I hope so has to do not only with his talent, but with the fact that whether or not people outside the game want to think so, in golf it still matters who you are and how you act.
emncaity 9 months ago
@emncaity
what are you talking about--I did not hear this story?
thanks in advance.
tonybonez 8 months ago
@tonybonez
Which story--the one about Johnson being involved with a burglar, the bullets, etc.?
emncaity 8 months ago
Speaking with Jim flick he said that jack would release the club head in the beginning of his downswing [pretty much like throwing the club] however he did use his lower body. good way to play
sifurick123 11 months ago
the announcer sounds like basil marceaux
tkenni 11 months ago
Watch this guy...he's going to do huge things on tour.
rushnut2112 1 year ago
one of the longest players on tour and he gets all of his power in a unique way. instead of powering through the ball with his hips and lower body like paul casey or nick watney, dustin uses his long arms to almost throws the club from the top and then quickly re-hinges his wrists right after impact. thats why he has a different follow through and his hands reach head height so fast.
dcdgolf1 1 year ago
he's my favorite golfer. sexxy :)
emma72400 1 year ago
Why does the practice swings always look better than the real one lol
Slammball 1 year ago
@Slammball because he has a follow through like a ballerina
johnnyjohnson42 1 year ago
@Slammball hahaha. why is he on tour and you are sitting on your ass?
bvhubbardSOA 1 year ago
Thats not a hybrid
JLTRAIN233 1 year ago
He is a very athletic guy. Strong and flexible.
MikePedersenGolfTips 1 year ago
many people dont realize this but Dustin is a very conservative player, his driving average is only 309 because he hits so many 3 woods off the tee to keep it in play.
TigerWoodsFanatic 1 year ago
@TigerWoodsFanatic he also grounds his clubs in bunkers and chokes in the us open
ellis505 1 year ago
wow that much loft on a 3W! Interesting..I thought he might use something like a 13 degree as far as he hits it
tillman40 1 year ago
he probably thought it was a ping hybrid cuz it kinda looks like one, but he plays a taylormade 16.5 degrees Fairway Wood with a red/orange shaft
JLTRAIN233 1 year ago
@JLTRAIN233 taylormade v-steel 3 wood with a matrix ozik shaft
analogboy17 1 year ago
@analogboy17 arent we a golf club pro
JLTRAIN233 1 year ago
very long
yutclubx 1 year ago
That dude pumps it out there. Why hasn't he won more it's anyones guess!
MrAzzatron 1 year ago
@MrAzzatron
Well bro he has 4 wins and has the most PGA Tour Wins for anyone under 30 bud
adamscott256 1 year ago
@adamscott256
I guees you are right there. He has done well...
MrAzzatron 1 year ago
@MrAzzatron its all good dude i know what you mean like the open at pebble and th PGA d-beast shouldve won
adamscott256 1 year ago
I love this dudes swing if he could control it under pressure he would be unbeatable. He does a lot of weird stuff with his hands at the top and through swing but over all he has a very power producing swing
connoristohot 1 year ago
future star in the making, but what an ugly ass swing - as if that mattered
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god damn mother fucking cock sucking fucking ADS!!!!!!! I want to watch this video, I DO NOT give two shits about your 2day golf school at TPC scottsdale
theRAMowns 1 year ago
watch my golf swing! :D
NigelSinnott 1 year ago
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pause the video at the top of his backswing. it's baffling how shut his clubface is.
Regulator1332 1 year ago
pause the video at the top of his backswing. it's baffling how shut his clubface is.
Regulator1332 1 year ago
What a beast this guy is. I just hope he will be able to control his swing under pressure. His hands are too quick
fade7foul 1 year ago
Dustin Johnson has been my favorite player for the past 3 years and it was heartbreaking to see him lose like that twice in one year
wweisbetterthantna1 1 year ago
hes so fucking quick through the ball..
helenathena 1 year ago
@helenathena Yeah I agree, it's unbelievable...
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+9 through 12 holes in the US Open....Mr. White Trash Choker
golf is a hobby not a sport....slow walking white trash dummies play this hobby
rrsrichardcheney 1 year ago
@rrsrichardcheney a comment like that shows what a moron you are. keep it up.
hutzman76 1 year ago 17
@rrsrichardcheney asshole
brandtsnedekerfan2 1 year ago
@rrsrichardcheney your mad that you cant play the fucking sport
TheZimmerer 1 year ago
@rrsrichardcheney go back to world of warcraft and stopping trolling.
ls1eater 7 months ago
@rrsrichardcheney then why are you watching a video about it
TheGolfGoof 5 months ago
bombed
thefightbeginswithu 1 year ago
wow that holes wide fucking open
sportsman214 1 year ago
@sportsman214 youre holes wide fucking open
anthonysmoshpadilla 1 year ago
I'm wondering the same thing, cuz the bowed wrist will add power according to Michael Breed
LacBk23 1 year ago
@LacBk23 youre bowed wrist will add power
anthonysmoshpadilla 1 year ago
CCU baby!
4x4RAM318 2 years ago
how do your bow your wrist like that
theferocious5 2 years ago
@theferocious5 how do YOU bow youre wrist like that?
anthonysmoshpadilla 1 year ago
A little like Tom Lehman, that dip and follow-through.
robertschelly 2 years ago
minging swing
keithols1993 2 years ago
the sound of impact was ferocious :)
tpage10 2 years ago
@tpage10 youre sound of impact was ferocious
anthonysmoshpadilla 1 year ago
wow he really gets through that ball
CDTC9377 2 years ago
@CDTC9377 you really get through the ball
anthonysmoshpadilla 1 year ago
look at the 0:15 at the position of his hands on the top fo the swing.....
str8II 2 years ago
thats ridiculous. so bowed. he's dirty, though.
bogeyhitter25 2 years ago
look like he hits itthe moved his hips
guitskate215 2 years ago
3 wood 290 , it can b done
justifieddamage88 2 years ago
thats a fairway wood, not a hybrid!
dionphaneufrules 2 years ago 47
@dionphaneufrules don't comment if you don't know what you are talking about.
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