Funny golf swings

[Capella]

I played a few holes on my own today to try out my new irons and got stuck behind a couple. He played okay-ish and his swing looked normal, but his wife had the most unusual swing I have ever seen in real life. I mean, we all know the occasional really funny swing that somebody posts on YouTube, but this really wasn't far from any of those.

She set up to the ball relatively normal, then in the backswings raised her arms and her upper body until she was really standing as tall as she could, arms vertical up in the air, then kind of swung the club around her lasso-style in the downswing. How she managed to make contact with the ball at all that way remains a mystery to me, she has to be really well coordinated. (It did not work all the time, but hey ... my swing does not work all the time either)

And as weird as the motion was, she was doing it really consistently, even in her practice swings and with all clubs through her bag (even on very short pitch shots). I was so in awe that I did not even mind being stuck behind them for the complete 9 holes.

What's the funniest swing you have ever seen on the course?

 

[patricks148]

we were all sitting watching some visitors go out a couple of weeks ago. 3 of them tee'd off all good swings all hit good shots, the last guy takes a couple of practice swings... he had the best swing by far, the actual swing was terrible and all the guys sitting around watching burst out laughing, never have i seen two swings so different from the same guy.... hard to describe how bad it was.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Plenty of funny swings out there, and some of them belong to professionals and single figure golfers (one off 9 at my place makes Furyk look textbook). We have a chap that takes it back to waist height, pauses and then goes to the top of the swing. That takes some getting use to when you watch him

 

[Slime]

This;

[video=youtube_share;Q-_Oji3mLV4]https://youtu.be/Q-_Oji3mLV4[/video]

 

[clubchamp98]

Plenty of funny swings out there, and some of them belong to professionals and single figure golfers (one off 9 at my place makes Furyk look textbook). We have a chap that takes it back to waist height, pauses and then goes to the top of the swing. That takes some getting use to when you watch him

Thats a ball striking drill.
He must have decided it worked so stuck with it.

 

[inc0gnito]

This;

[video=youtube_share;Q-_Oji3mLV4]https://youtu.be/Q-_Oji3mLV4[/video]

what it the sweet lord’s sandwich is that?

 

[ScienceBoy]

[video=youtube_share;SwVullI7EKk]https://youtu.be/SwVullI7EKk[/video]

The captain of the club I was at in 2013/14 before it closed.

Really nice guy who drank a lot of a certain Italian spirit...

I wonder what he is up to these days.

 

[HowlingGale]

I played a few holes on my own today to try out my new irons and got stuck behind a couple. He played okay-ish and his swing looked normal, but his wife had the most unusual swing I have ever seen in real life. I mean, we all know the occasional really funny swing that somebody posts on YouTube, but this really wasn't far from any of those.

She set up to the ball relatively normal, then in the backswings raised her arms and her upper body until she was really standing as tall as she could, arms vertical up in the air, then kind of swung the club around her lasso-style in the downswing. How she managed to make contact with the ball at all that way remains a mystery to me, she has to be really well coordinated. (It did not work all the time, but hey ... my swing does not work all the time either)

And as weird as the motion was, she was doing it really consistently, even in her practice swings and with all clubs through her bag (even on very short pitch shots). I was so in awe that I did not even mind being stuck behind them for the complete 9 holes.

What's the funniest swing you have ever seen on the course?

Ha. I saw almost exactly the same swing about 6 years ago in Turkey. There were 3 German women in front and one of them did almost exactly what you said.

How she got the club to the ball was beyond me.

She hit the pin on one of the Par 3s. 😎

 

[Deleted member 23270]

[video=youtube_share;SwVullI7EKk]https://youtu.be/SwVullI7EKk[/video]

The captain of the club I was at in 2013/14 before it closed.

Really nice guy who drank a lot of a certain Italian spirit...

I wonder what he is up to these days.

That seems like a lot of club to reach that green 😂

 

[Orikoru]

Sorry to bump this but I couldn't find it at the time and just stumbled across it again. This has to be the weirdest swing I've seen:

https://twitter.com/wheatiePGA/status/908146996329902081

 

[Capella]

Sorry to bump this but I couldn't find it at the time and just stumbled across it again. This has to be the weirdest swing I've seen:

https://twitter.com/wheatiePGA/status/908146996329902081

I am totally in awe that she finds the ball that way. I would miss it by a mile. I wonder if she played any other sport before she became a golfer? Maybe she did hammer throwing, she looks a bit like it.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I've posted this one before, sadly the guy died a few years back but I remember everyone used to rush to the clubhouse window to watch him going down the 1st.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MBRd834_Q

 

[Orikoru]

I am totally in awe that she finds the ball that way. I would miss it by a mile. I wonder if she played any other sport before she became a golfer? Maybe she did hammer throwing, she looks a bit like it.

Almost looks like a mighty topspin forehand from tennis. :lol:

 

[Orikoru]

I've posted this one before, sadly the guy died a few years back but I remember everyone used to rush to the clubhouse window to watch him going down the 1st.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MBRd834_Q

He swings it like the club weighs 70kg!

 

[Capella]

Almost looks like a mighty topspin forehand from tennis. :lol:

Yeah, I considered that. But I do play with quite a few female tennis players, and they tend to have a rather short backswig and just genrate a lot of speed by accelerating through the ball with the arms. Never saw any of them using her legs like that.

 

[USER1999]

Looks more like a gaelic thing to me.

 

[Orikoru]

Yeah, I considered that. But I do play with quite a few female tennis players, and they tend to have a rather short backswig and just genrate a lot of speed by accelerating through the ball with the arms. Never saw any of them using her legs like that.

Maybe hockey or ice hockey actually! It looks a bit like someone hitting an ice hockey puck, the way her right leg goes behind her. Touch of Happy Gilmore about it..

 

[Wilson]

Maybe hockey or ice hockey actually! It looks a bit like someone hitting an ice hockey puck, the way her right leg goes behind her. Touch of Happy Gilmore about it..

That’s not how you shoot a puck! There was a good one on Facebook the other day, which had a bizarre pre-shot routine, and then a bizarre swing - I’ll see if I can find it.