Nick Faldos Golf Swing Shows Compact Control (Video) - by Pete Styles
Nick Faldos Golf Swing Shows Compact Control (Video) - by Pete Styles

Growing up at the time I grew up, getting interested in golf and certainly coming from Britain, one of the main icons that I was watching on the TV growing up was Nick Faldo. Sir Nick Faldo was actually with his golf. And I'm sure you’re now watching him in the commentary booth quite regularly commentating on a lot of key events. But as the sixth-time major champion, 41 victories overall worldwide, he was certainly one of the best golfers of a generation and certainly the most successful British golfer to date.

Now, one of the key things that you can notice when you look at Faldo’s technique is he was meticulous. His attention to detail was fantastic. And the work he did with David Leadbetter on pretty much rebuilding what was already quite a successful swing but rebuilding a swing at the time he did was considered to be quite a big gamble but it paid off and he went on to win multiple more times as a major champion. Now, the key focus that we’re going to look at in terms of Nick Faldo’s swing is the compact nature, the simple nature, the fact that it had very few extra moving parts, no wasted energy, and that’s really the focus of a compact golf swing. Just so you understand what a compact golf swing is and what a non-compact golf swing is. If you look at somebody like Jim Furyk, that golf swing definitely isn't compact. You’ve probably all seen Jim Furyk’s golf swing. If you haven’t, look it up on YouTube, you’ll see the clubs that are going to all sorts of different positions in his swing, it comes out here, goes out really steep, drops [Indiscernible] [00:01:32] inside and then flips the hand. And the concept of that is also very not compact golf swing. Faldo’s golf swing is very much the opposite really. Just turns it back very simple, clean lines, quite short and back down again. And when you watch his swing either from front on from down the line, you see very few quirky twiddly bits, very few bits that are moving when they shouldn’t be moving. Golf swing just looks very simple, very clean. And I think for a lot of golfers, they’re going to feel that if they can involve a more compact nature, less twiddly bits, less moving parts, less off to go wrong in their own technique, surely that’s going to be more consistent in terms of how they can actually hit the golf ball. So in this next little miniseries, we are going to look at Nick Faldo’s compact golf swing and how you can learn the benefits of that technique into your own game. 2016-08-18

Growing up at the time I grew up, getting interested in golf and certainly coming from Britain, one of the main icons that I was watching on the TV growing up was Nick Faldo. Sir Nick Faldo was actually with his golf. And I'm sure you’re now watching him in the commentary booth quite regularly commentating on a lot of key events. But as the sixth-time major champion, 41 victories overall worldwide, he was certainly one of the best golfers of a generation and certainly the most successful British golfer to date.

Now, one of the key things that you can notice when you look at Faldo’s technique is he was meticulous. His attention to detail was fantastic. And the work he did with David Leadbetter on pretty much rebuilding what was already quite a successful swing but rebuilding a swing at the time he did was considered to be quite a big gamble but it paid off and he went on to win multiple more times as a major champion.

Now, the key focus that we’re going to look at in terms of Nick Faldo’s swing is the compact nature, the simple nature, the fact that it had very few extra moving parts, no wasted energy, and that’s really the focus of a compact golf swing. Just so you understand what a compact golf swing is and what a non-compact golf swing is. If you look at somebody like Jim Furyk, that golf swing definitely isn't compact. You’ve probably all seen Jim Furyk’s golf swing.

If you haven’t, look it up on YouTube, you’ll see the clubs that are going to all sorts of different positions in his swing, it comes out here, goes out really steep, drops [Indiscernible] [00:01:32] inside and then flips the hand. And the concept of that is also very not compact golf swing. Faldo’s golf swing is very much the opposite really. Just turns it back very simple, clean lines, quite short and back down again.

And when you watch his swing either from front on from down the line, you see very few quirky twiddly bits, very few bits that are moving when they shouldn’t be moving. Golf swing just looks very simple, very clean. And I think for a lot of golfers, they’re going to feel that if they can involve a more compact nature, less twiddly bits, less moving parts, less off to go wrong in their own technique, surely that’s going to be more consistent in terms of how they can actually hit the golf ball.

So in this next little miniseries, we are going to look at Nick Faldo’s compact golf swing and how you can learn the benefits of that technique into your own game.