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He is called the modern golfswing's father.
In what way?
Is that a good thing - TGM wise?
Interesting question. All these years later we seem to be looking more at the swing of his old caddy yard stable mate, Ben Hogan. Who to my mind is 10-19-C's father or the inspiration there of .
Perhaps the fact that Mr Nelson dominated golf in the era immediately after the introduction of steel shafts lead to the title? Hogan didn't really come along until a bit later ...after Nelson had retired to the horse farm.
Byron in experimenting with steel shafts developed his "rocking chair" set of knees , his "caddy dip". Despite the fact it wasn't universally adopted by other golfers of his era it certainly was in vogue once Jack came along.... That and the higher plane angle .
In fact I found some old video of a young Bear Cub looking quite Byron Nelson ish to my eye anyways , some may disagree. Jack eventually took out some of the float loading seen here. Interesting! Wonder why, how , when etc? Anybody know?
Why he was named the Golden Bear beats me. The Golden Beast seems to fit better. It is simply incredible to see such a union of control and brute force as he held for quite some time.
While I love Ben Hogan's swing, Nicklaus' seems to be highly underrated among the experts.
Why he was named the Golden Bear beats me. The Golden Beast seems to fit better. It is simply incredible to see such a union of control and brute force as he held for quite some time.
While I love Ben Hogan's swing, Nicklaus' seems to be highly underrated among the experts.
Maybe he could have made golf clubs named Golden Beast?
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