The Ernest Jones Method

My golf swing, in case anyones interested.

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[keough82]

Manuel De La Torre. 88 years old, still teaching golf.

90 percent of golf instructors have no clue.

[Noallegiance18]

@keough82 Incredible, isn't it? How the golf instruction industry is allowed to feed itself with the utter turd that most golf instructors spout.

[Discodwill]

That's one of the best golf swings I've ever seen. And I've been playing for 18 years so I've seen A LOT!!!

[Noallegiance18]

Thank you.

[dmcdmc1238]

Awesome swing. Did you learn the swing just by reading Ernest Jones book "Golfs One Motion" or the Frankel Method which also teaches the Ernest Jones swing?

[Noallegiance18]

@dmcdmc1238 hey there. I just learned it by popping on to the Ernest Jones website and reading what was on there, then set about putting it into practice.

[emncaity]

@Noallegiance

Well, you certainly shouldn't let that good motion go to waste if you can help it. Not everybody can do that. ;-)

[Noallegiance]

@emncaity hello mate. I hardly play nowadays. Life's changed a lot for me. I'm hoping to get back on it a bit more now. Watching The Open is fuelling the golfing desire again! Thanks for the nice comment.

[emncaity]

As Seymour Dunn has been quoted so many times--never confuse something that happens in your swing (all those support mechanisms, when you're focusing on a true swinging motion) with something you have to "do," or try to do. I'll bet you didn't the last time you tried to throw a ball a long way.

[emncaity]

What so many "modern" theorists don't get is that without a true swinging motion, all the pushing and shoving and forced rotation, etc., are like (as Kostis said in his excellent Inside Path to Better Golf, before he became a TV announcer beholden to every guru) stomping on the accelerator without getting out of first gear--huge application of blind power, but nothing to translate it into the whole point of the motion.

[emncaity]

@Noallegiance18

Have you read his books yet? And I'm just wondering--how are you playing these days? It really is just a beautiful back-to-basics swing.

[emncaity]

@Noallegiance18

One hundred percent true.

[emncaity]

@sandwah9

De la Torre certainly thinks he's right down Jones's alley and cites him as a huge influence. You probably know this already, from what you say in your post, but the point of swinging the arms forward is so you don't throw the hands with the butt of the club moving backward at impact (what Jones called levering as opposed to swinging), and the thing that makes the swinging motion work while swingin arms forward is a light grip that lets the force be slung out into the clubhead.

[emncaity]

@silowhore

Try interlibrary loan at your local library. With the right person facilitating it, it's like magic. Seriously.

[silowhore]

I went to the website which sells the book for $27 but when I Google, it says the book is out of copyright and should be free? Also there are websites that have the entire book to view for free as it's out of copyright, so make sure you have a look around.

[sandwah9]

couple points: one, best way to learn Ernest Jones' method is to learn how to hit balls with the feet together, as close as possible, or even, as Jones discovered, hit balls on one leg. this forces you to swing the club centrifugally. two, de la Torre does not teach the Ernest Jones method - he teaches a swinging movement in the backswing, but says that the arms swing the entire club forward for the forward swing. this method may impede centrifugal force, unless you understand it.