{"id":401808,"date":"2026-01-09T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401808\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:50:11","slug":"two-golf-legends-both-trusted-this-same-unusual-swing-move-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401808\/","title":{"rendered":"Two golf legends both trusted this same unusual swing move \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

My ears always perk up when I hear legends of the game talk about their golf swing\u2014especially when one of the legends won more majors than anybody else in history, and the other is considered one of the best ball strikers ever.<\/p>\n

The players we\u2019re talking about are Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, and what\u2019s interesting is how both of these players gravitated towards an unusual swing tip. They worked on it with their own swings. And they recommended it to others, too.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what it is, and why each of them liked it.<\/p>\n

The Tip: Take the club outside on the backswing <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve no doubt heard about the importance of avoiding an inside takeaway, but Nicklaus and Trevino went a step further. They didn\u2019t just want you to avoid an inside takeaway: They wanted you to try to take the club away more on the outside on the takeaway.<\/p>\n

Nicklaus said exactly that in this 1963 edition of Golf Digest:<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to take the club back along the initial line of flight for as long as the turning of my hips and shoulders will allow\u2026in fact, I normally would prefer to take the club back outside the initial line of flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trevino said something similar throughout his career, including in this 1992 edition of Golf Digest.<\/p>\n

But they both had slightly different reasons for recommending it.<\/p>\n

Nicklaus: It helps you get power \"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2022\/gettyimages-1212202696-594x594.jpg\"\/ <\/p>\n

Leonard Kamsler\/Popperfoto<\/p>\n

Nicklaus\u2019 theory was that extending the club back down the target line\u2014and slightly outside\u2014helps create a longer swing arc. It builds a big stretch in your upper body, which helps golfers create more power.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not try to take the club back inside the [target] line because I feel that this restricts a long swing arc which is so vital in producing clubhead speed\u2026I want to delay breaking, or cocking, my wrists as long as possible. Sometimes the clubhead is 4 to 5 feet away from the ball before there is any noticeable movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trevino: It stops you coming over the top \"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2022\/trevino8.jpg\"\/ <\/p>\n

Trevino\u2019s theory was that taking the clubhead away on the outside on the backswing encourages you to loop the club back to the inside on the downswing. He called this a figure eight golf swing; when you don\u2019t take the club away on the outside on the way back, it\u2019ll go inside\u2014then come outside on the downswing. That\u2019s the opposite of what golfers want.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best mental image to produce a draw is thinking of the swing as a figure 8, I\u2019ve used this image throughout my career. The swing of most slicers resembles a figure 8, but they run the race backward.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My ears always perk up when I hear legends of the game talk about their golf swing\u2014especially when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,36416,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-golf-digest","13":"tag-how-to","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}