The Problems With Using A Lee Travino Fade Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
The Problems With Using A Lee Travino Fade Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

So we’ve had a look at what are the positives about Lee Trevino swing and how he was able to make it work. But what are the negatives? Why can’t you, for example, take that swing and implement it straight away? The key to that and the answer to that lies in the complex way that he uses his body lines.

So as we’ve already spoken about, his body is aiming left, which would normally encourage a path which moves in this direction, but because of the way his shoulders are set and the body moves in this – and the club moves from an inside position in relation to his body, but is still pretty straight or slightly out to in in relation to the target line, there is a lot of different moving directions that this takes, this swing takes. Now, if you are all schooled in the more orthodox method, so parallel alignment, this is something which will be very hard to integrate because you will feel so strange aiming such a long way off to the left-hand side and still feeling that that club is dropping on the inside in relation to the body and producing a left to right ball flight. There is so much going on. The thing people have to realize about Trevino is his early years as an amateur, in his early years as a pro, they wouldn’t spend smashing up the PGA Tour, they wouldn’t spend grooving a perfect technical swing in a high-state academy, a hi-tech academy. His early years were grooved on the golf course playing for money. He was desperate for cash, he managed to groove a swing not by going to an expert coach, not by spending hours and hours poring over lots of manuals, although he did that a little bit. He was able to groove a swing that was able to win him money. And all he did, he just carried on with that swing, carried on using it despite what other people were trying to tell him. So other people were trying to move him to different positions, trying to get him to change his technique, but he trusted it, he knew that it worked. He stumbled across his technique by using it in competition and by using it under a competitive situation. He was able to trust it and if you go from what your current swing technique is to more of that technique, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will be able to use it in the same way. So by all means, give it a go, use these different techniques, give it a try. But Trevino really is a one-off, but it might be worth trying to groove your own technique rather than trying to copy his. 2016-09-01

So we’ve had a look at what are the positives about Lee Trevino swing and how he was able to make it work. But what are the negatives? Why can’t you, for example, take that swing and implement it straight away? The key to that and the answer to that lies in the complex way that he uses his body lines.

So as we’ve already spoken about, his body is aiming left, which would normally encourage a path which moves in this direction, but because of the way his shoulders are set and the body moves in this – and the club moves from an inside position in relation to his body, but is still pretty straight or slightly out to in in relation to the target line, there is a lot of different moving directions that this takes, this swing takes.

Now, if you are all schooled in the more orthodox method, so parallel alignment, this is something which will be very hard to integrate because you will feel so strange aiming such a long way off to the left-hand side and still feeling that that club is dropping on the inside in relation to the body and producing a left to right ball flight. There is so much going on. The thing people have to realize about Trevino is his early years as an amateur, in his early years as a pro, they wouldn’t spend smashing up the PGA Tour, they wouldn’t spend grooving a perfect technical swing in a high-state academy, a hi-tech academy.

His early years were grooved on the golf course playing for money. He was desperate for cash, he managed to groove a swing not by going to an expert coach, not by spending hours and hours poring over lots of manuals, although he did that a little bit. He was able to groove a swing that was able to win him money. And all he did, he just carried on with that swing, carried on using it despite what other people were trying to tell him.

So other people were trying to move him to different positions, trying to get him to change his technique, but he trusted it, he knew that it worked. He stumbled across his technique by using it in competition and by using it under a competitive situation. He was able to trust it and if you go from what your current swing technique is to more of that technique, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will be able to use it in the same way.

So by all means, give it a go, use these different techniques, give it a try. But Trevino really is a one-off, but it might be worth trying to groove your own technique rather than trying to copy his.