Paul Azinger - "The One True Fundamental" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Paul Azinger 0:13

Then it started to just a great game, but I do, you know, since you're archiving this stuff and it's it's for the for me, basically, as we're doing this and whoever wants to hear me out and hear this out. I I think golf is um instruction. I don't know what I I think there's only really one fundamental, truthfully. And you can turn it into maybe two or three. But what I was taught were fundamentals are not fundamentals at all. They're opinions. So because to me, I was taught grip stance position at the top. That is opinion. Uh but I was it was driven in my head that grip was a fundamental. I said, But I hold it here and my fingers and my hands here, and my right hand matches. And Johnny Miller's over there and his right hand's on top, and Corey Paven, and then you got all the people in between us Langer, Freddie, Daly, all these they're all going in the Hall of Fame. And the grips are all different. Position at the top, I mean, just look at Dustin Johnson with his wrist the way it is, and then just look where Sergio's going and Justin Tom. Uh position at the top can't be a fundamental. The Hall of Fame's full of different positions at the top. Stance certainly, they're all different. I I really believe that I have put my finger on Blackmar, Phil Blackmar and I, both of us, have really we feel we knocked us out of the park. We don't know how to communicate the simplicity of it. But that the golf swing is simply to do it correctly, is the transition of motion that is in the proper sequence, and the sequence is turn, turn, swish. It's not turn, swish, turn. So the you turn to the right, you turn back, your lower body must start to downswing. Thank you. Inevitably, what you'll have is one click where maybe your knee, your foot, your hips, something's gonna go left as the club's still going up. That's the key. 100%. I agree with you. If so it's you hey, look, the great I asked Hal Sutton one time, I said, Did I say, what did Jackie Burke say to you? What was his b best biggest thing? And it turns out to be the same thing Redmond used to say to me. Son, you can only get speed one time. It damn sure better be the right time. When is that? Well, it's not from the top, I'll tell you that. So if that upper body starts first, then you've lost your sequence of motion. It would be really hard for someone to swing an axe head to a tree and not have their lower body start first. Absolutely. There's something about that golf ball that wrecks it for us, and we sling that, there's that second result. You know, that ball's gonna move in the air. But bottom line, if you watch these guys on tour, it's two turns and a swish. Every single player, if you watch down the line from behind and watch the ball leave out, if they had a scorecard in their back pocket or a yardage book, almost 100% of them, that right back pocket will disappear. And when it comes back into view, the left back pocket comes into view. So two turns and a swish, man.

Mike Gonzalez 3:26

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Intro Music 3:46

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started to split just pitch off line. My cat is as long as you're still in the state, you're okay. It went straight down the middle by the way.