One for the oldies

[Oddsocks]

Just had this email through from chucktheputter, bellow text copied from the email.

A BIG component of the golf swing is balance, rhythm, and tempo. Watch
how fluid and effortlessly powerful Fred is. Watch how he moves the
lower body through the ball and bombs his drives without even swinging
hard...

Beautiful!

http://www.chucktheputter.com/off-the-wall-golf/fred-astaire/

 

[JustOne]

http://www.chucktheputter.com/off-the-wall-golf/fred-astaire/

Isn't that Homer's pre-shot routine?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Hardly. My dancing is worse than my golf

 

[Tommo21]

Hardly. My dancing is worse than my golf

No, your dancing is better than your golf.

 

[Oddsocks]

Just noticed freddy's got pings lol

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Blimey, he looks pretty good to me ( but then what do I know)

Anyone know if he played and to what standard?

Fragger

 

[haplesshacker]

I actually quite enjoyed that to my surprise. It did look like he knew what he was doing.

 

[goldenbare]

http://www.kewego.co.uk/video/iLyROoaftYE1.html

Here's Fred again, I think Homer should try the move for his pre shot routine. Beats tweaking the left sleeve!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Hardly. My dancing is worse than my golf

No, your dancing is better than your golf.

Trust me it isn't. I'd make John Sargent look polished but I take comfort from the fact that both my golf and dancing are still better than my karaoke

 

[MashieNiblick]

Thanks for posting.

My wife and I love the old Fred and Ginger movies.

Swing looks fantastic. With his flexibility, balance, co-ordination and timing I reckon he was, or could have been, very very good.

 

[goldenbare]

I was very bored while the wife watched the X factor so googled Fred, I wish I could have as relaxed a swing has his films show he has. I am not surprised looking at his hand/eye coordination that he was a 10 handicap.
1. Fred Astaire | 1899-1987
The multi-talented dancer, singer and actor learned to play golf as a boy during a 1914 vacation in Delaware Water Gap, Pa. "I was so crazy about golf I couldn't sleep nights," he later wrote in material for his autobiography. "I had a terrific desire to be a golf pro." In his 1938 movie "Carefree" -- with fellow golfer Ginger Rogers -- Astaire hit balls while tap-dancing, an incredible routine (it's on YouTube, click here to view) that he devised on the first tee at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, where he played to a 10-handicap, and where he made an ace at the 13th.

Read More http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2010-03/60-most-famous-golfers#ixzz15CQJYcYo