Who's swing do you like the most?

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Fred Couples as it looks so easy, Davis love III for the fact he only hits the ball 75% having wound back from being an animal in his formative years.
 
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Ernie Els by miles, his swing is a thing of grace, pity his mental fortitude isn't as good as his swing though.
 

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Ernie...of course.
Adam Scott....yes siree, hardly seen him in action but saw a slow-mo on youtube....great!
Glad to see Davis Love getting a mention, not well known these days. Always liked his swing and he also played with Tommy Armour Silver Scott 845s (irons) back in the day.
Somewhere in my house I have Leadbetter's book of swings....can't remember many of them now, but Woosie is in there, as is Nick F and Nick Price too.
I don't understand the modern swings like Sergio, but admire the power and incredible (in the literal sense) lag.

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ernie els makes the golf swing look so so easy and effortless, tiger's seems to be pure agression,two extremes but the same result, top drawer golf
 

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Gotta be Ernie Els for the ease that I want in my swing

Sergio Garcia for the whip i want to produce

Nick Faldo late 80`s for rotation and speed in the swing

Think i could live with a mixture of all three in my swing.

Almost impossible to pick my favourite but ill go for Ernie.
 

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It has to be Ernie Els, for a tall man there is so little aggression evident in the swing, it just seems to be all down to timing.

At the 2000 Open at St Andrews I spent quite a while watching Ernie and Vijay on the range. This was late in the day and both were working over osme of the little problems they had felt that day. Ernie just seemed to brush the ball away and it went for miles. Vijay was at it ful tilt trying to knock the skin off the ball. The amazing thing was that all the balls seemed to go the same distance.

I would live to see a slomo of Ernies hand action through the ball because that's got to be where he gets his speed from.

Anyway, If I cant have Ernies swing, anyone in the top 1000 would be better than what I've got!
 

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Woosman for me, although I do admire the way Monty keeps the clubhead on plane, a la the Hogan 'disc around the neck.'
 

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I love both ernies and Goosens swing-however it does not matter what you do with the swing once the clubhead is square at impact hence Eamon Darcy and Jim Furyk have prospered even with "non natural" swings.
 

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Atticus....what a find!

I don't know who he is :)......but how flat does he swing it!!!!

To think, Ben virtually dreamed up the idea of "swing plane", his is the flattest I have EVER seen, just look at the right elbow.....too many towel drills surely!

Respect to the grandad of modern technique.....

Dave
 
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