Charles Barkley Golf Swing - YouTube 2014-15. Charles Barkley: Talking golf, Tahoe celebrity event, NBA - Golfweek If you haven't watched my push versus pull video, that will enlighten you to understand why you're struggling with your golf swing. That drive was a missile right down the middle. If you've noticed lately, Barkley has changed and tried pretty much everything under the sun with trying to fix this nasty hitch in his golf swing and I'm going to show you today how even you, not being a golf instructor but knowing the RotarySwing mechanics, can fix Charles' swing in no time flat and he could stop chasing all these crazy, crazy different things that he's attempted. I just want to play and have fun. We grab dinner and talk about where we are in life, how everybody's life is going. The setup is straight out of the Matt Kuchar playbook -- let the driver head rest just above the ground a little bit behind the ball. And the next couple of rounds, man, he was smoking it. I'm just going to play this here for a second because I don't think you guys would believe me if you didn't see the whole thing that this is what's actually happening in his golf swing. For more than 20 years, Barkley hit almost every full shot with the golf equivalent of a stutter step. The NBA legend was in the middle of taking questions from a handful of local media outlets at a news conference just behind the range when he halted things. This makes it virtually impossible to use your core to initiate the down swing like every good ball striker does. Which celeb golfer is the longest of them all? But I want it perfectly clear, I'm rooting against those guys. This pro got Chuck to make a slight pause at the top, Green says. But I'm not a fan of super teams. Charles Barkley's New Golf Swing Is Shockingly Good - UPROXX Utley said thats a misperception. This 2011 video of Charles Barkley's swing has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times on YouTube. But is he really playing to a single digit? I started taking lessons from every Tom, Dick and Harry, Barkley told the Subpar hosts. Charles Barkley has perhaps the most critiquedand criticized and laughed atswing in golf, but he does love the game and thats all good by us. It wasnt for lack of trying: An unauthorized history of Charles Barkleys tortured golf swing, 'It's f----- hard': Jon Rahm comes back to Earth at brutal Bay Hill, Is Jon Rahm now chasing Tiger Woods? GOLF personality Paige Spiranac has hailed former NBA star Charles Barkley's improved swing as one of the 'most surprising turns' of 2020. Heres who could be on it. Charles Barkley put in some serious work on that golf swing. Charles Barkley's radically transformed golf swing is inspiring By: Dylan Dethier During their last range session together, Utley asked Barkley to come over and meet a handful of mini-tour. (Mickelson hitting from where Barkley's tee shot went and . Watch: The hitch is gone! Charles Barkley smashes ball - Golf Channel He knows that its not about changing the mechanics, Detsch says. Thats just crazy.. Mostly Utley said, he just sat back and enjoyed the sight of a man enjoying the game again. KD is a great player. Ah yes, the golf swing of Charles Barkley. I just gotta keep working harder. 18 years ago, Charles Barkley threw a ball at Shaq's head. [mm-video type=playlist id=01es6rjnsp3c84zkm6 player_id=01evcfxp4q8949fs1e image=https://golfweek.usatoday.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png], Reports: 3 children dead, 2 wounded in attack at Texas home, Kellyanne Conway, George Conway To Divorce After Decadeslong Marriage: Report, School punished teen girl for working out in sports bra in 100-degree Texas heat, ACLU says, U.S. court won't require FAA to make airplane seat size, spacing rules, 'Extremely dangerous': Spike in illegal crossings at Canada-Vermont border has feds sounding alarm, As Turkey's earthquake death toll grows, so does anger at government, Suspect in hospital after shooting himself during traffic stop in Boynton Beach. I said the other day if I would have known you guys were going to make fun of me for not winning the championship I would have joined a super team back in my day. Recent word from Camp Barkley is that the big man may have finally exorcised his demons. Until the pause became a stall, which morphed into a stutter. A golf, food and travel writer, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Magazine contributor since 2004 and now contributes across all of GOLFs platforms. Chucks never had a big full turn, but his hand placement is good and high and hes getting some lower body action going which is important. Now let's contrast that with me here on the right. Charles Barkley hits from the 18th fairway at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course during the final round of the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship on Sunday, July 15, 2007, in Stateline, Nev . I ain't got time to be analyzing down grain, up grain. Send me email updates and offers from TMZ and its Affiliates. I told Tim I like his swing. He was unable to make a five on the 18th hole at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida, but he did show off an improved swing. Barkley had heard that pitch before. Paige Spiranac calls Charles Barkley's new golf swing 'most surprising His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. I dont mind sucking for charity. No amount of statistical camouflage could hide what had become golfs greatest tragicomedy, heartbreaking but hilarious, as difficult to watch as it was to look away. At Fridays micd-up Match, Barkley will have a chance to talk and talk. at the American Century Championship, an annual celebrity event in Lake Tahoe. "This the ugliest ball in the world right here.". section: | slug: watch-michael-jordans-golf-swing-is-nearly-as-bizarre-as-charles-barkleys | sport: golf | route: article_single.us | I think you just have to keep trying things and sometimes it clicks. Well start at the top of the backswing, where you can see that Chucks head moves a touch back, but not nearly as dramatically as he used to. For now, the more interesting question is how he got from there to here. The massive distance has left DeChambeau just 149.2 yards to the hole on average for his approach shots this season. Charles Barkley plays a shot during Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change at Stone Canyon Golf Club on November 27, 2020 in Oro Valley, Arizona. Barkley?! Over the years, Barkley has heard it all friendly heckling, hostile hazing weathering the comments with apparent good humor while redoubling his efforts to get well again. So, Barkleys got that going for him, which is nice. I can't watch it anymore. You can see in Charles' swing, if you go on YouTube, you'll search for his cross handed grip, you'll see he got rid of his hitch completely and of course, he went on to try something else because that's what golfers do. What kept you motivated to keep playing golf? Ive always liked his swing, even when he was playing on the regular TOUR. Kun kytt sivustojamme ja sovelluksiamme, kytmme, tarjotaksemme sivustomme ja sovelluksemme sinulle, todentaaksemme kyttjt, estksemme roskapostia ja vrinkytksi sek toteuttaaksemme tietoturvatoimia. This is odd, too. Then the club never gets extended on his backswing. Im talking about missing the ball totally. The only thing I really asked him was, When youre playing with your buddies, Are you winning any money? Utley said. And to stand there and not be able to hit something thats not moving. And then the next day he said, 'Let's think about another thing today.' Thats the one thing you miss when you dont play your sport anymore -- how you all ride each other every day. Or maybe its simply the Stan Utley effect. Stewart Cink is doing his best Benjamin Button. So it's pretty special to me in that aspect. It was just Barkley and his friends. It was all downhill from there, Green says. Barkley did just shank one though so ya gotta think Shaq's still got a good chance at getting the last laugh. Suffice it to say he was hooked (and would go on to hit many hooks, too). His head has gotten almost back to square with the golf ball and the stability on his lead leg is incredible, as hes driving that weight through but keeping that leg stable rather than waving through the ball. The reporter has no trouble believing him after watching on social media what transpired prior to a pro-am at the PGA TOUR Champions first major of the season, the Regions Tradition, in Barkleys home state of Alabama in May. Barkley has been trying to fix his swing for years, working with various coaches and trying to get through the mental block that caused the hitch and it appears he has finally unlocked whatever he needed to swing a club normally. He's using his upper trunk, his upper torso and this is going to lead to a swing that is forced to be very, very arms-y and he continues that motion with that big left arm push across the chest and now, look how off balance he is. He senses that he's so crowded that if he did bring the club down and of course, it's horribly off plane by when you start to use your right arm and right shoulder like this, this is what changes the pitch and attitude of the shaft. I love watching it. WATCH: Tom Brady silences haters, Charles Barkley with incredible hole I followed John for 18 holes in Birmingham and he hit only one bad shot the whole damn day. Charles Barkley Uses Golf Balls with Shaq's Face on Them at 'The - TMZ Hes in great balance, hands finish nice and high and his head has barely moved at all. I get to do it for four days. His putting stroke is mediocre at best but he gets good results because he has such great hands, Utley said. Notice how his hips open without getting his back hip outside his back foot. But then the power would come back on with just enough time for a desperate late lurch at the ball. Much like the visual proof of his abandoned hitch, we're going to need to see that to believe it. But, you know, he's such an awesome dude. The week before last, Jim Murphy played a practice round with Barkley at Stone Canyon and says that Sir Charles was back or at least closer to his early 1990s self, splitting the fairway with his opening drive and recording a routine par en route to a solid round. And hes working hard to get better. He felt pressure to improve. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook. Sir Charles says he's down to a single-digit handicap after working with coach @stanutley. Instead of sticking with something, they just keep trying a bunch of random things and then that's kind of the nature of the beast. I never been asked that before.' Critics say new PGA Tour events copy LIV. How can I not hit something thats standing still. The parallel might apply in Barkleys case. It is almost unrecognizable, as he showed it off at a PGA Tour Champions pro-am day with some fellow Auburn legends, causing Bo Jackson to be in such disbelief he had to run up and hug Chuck after the swing. He enjoyed the banter, the distraction it provided. Critics say new PGA Tour events copy LIV. For decades, Charles Barkleys golf swing has been the butt of jokes. Where the golf ball should be positioned at setup. GOLF.com and GOLF Magazine are published by EB GOLF MEDIA LLC, a division of 8AM GOLF, How Charles Barkley rebuilt his golf swing, according to the instructor who led the charge, Its f hard: Jon Rahm comes back to Earth at brutal Bay Hill. The setup is straight out of the Matt Kuchar playbook -- let the driver head rest just above the ground a little bit behind the ball. Barkleys problem, Utley says, boiled down to a misunderstanding of lag, a lost-in-translation lesson that led to Barkley loading the club and then never unloading it, which in turn forced him to dip in order to reach the ball. Then as I start down, notice how the right shoulder stays back whereas, what you'll notice in Charles' swing is that his right shoulder immediately moves this way and down and so, he has no room. He and Roy were as thick as thieves, always giving each other lip and just about the funniest people you could ever be around, Murphy says. Its no fun. And he said, Well, you got nothing to lose. Im probably playing better than I ever have in my life with Stan.. @RegionsTrad @aldotcomSports pic.twitter.com/SO1Kxofzad, LaurenSisler (@LaurenSisler) May 5, 2021, The new swing of Charles Barkley pic.twitter.com/Ubn4gpKoSB, Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) May 5, 2021. The next-largest increase belongs to Tiger Woods, who increased his driving distance by 14.2 yards from 2004 to 2005. 'Something crazy. I'm going to talk about, of all things, Charles Barkley's golf swing. This time it features 4 NFL stars, Manningcast may be coming to golf. In his first Tahoe appearance, Barkley posted rounds of 84, 89 and 91, respectable scores that he mostly kept up until 1999, when those numbers ballooned into the triple digits and stayed that way. If you're this far off balance, if I came and just tapped him on the shoulder, I'd knock him over forward on his butt or backwards on his butt because his heel is so firmly planted, he's so far back on his heel that he's way, way off balance. Are they right? 'Something crazy. Hes the kind of guy who goes to the grocery store, and on the way out, hes asking the butcher for a swing tip, Green says. No, man, I just want the damn weather. Perhaps the most frustrating part puzzling to non-golfers but perfectly relatable to anyone who plays is that Barkley can pure it on the range; his swing only palsies when hes in performance mode. PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are registered trademarks. And then the follow through, where that left leg is still locked down, perfectly vertical, his back leg has turned through, the hips have fired all the way around and his belt buckle is facing the target. The swing that launched a thousand memes. Watch his right shoulder. (Ed. The tournament is a 54-hole modified Stableford format. On Wednesday at the Regions Tradition, during a pro-am atGreystone Golf & Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama, Barkley hit a drive like a normal person. I like walking. Unfortunately, Charles didn't follow up with a hole-in-one, but didn't hit a bad shot either which has been the story of the day so far. The only question is if he can back it up. I dont enjoy it. If I had went with my right shoulder and right arm from the top, I would be in the exact same position that Charles' is in, that the shaft gets steep, that my arms get buried and all of a sudden I'm hunched into the ball where if I swung down, I would stick the ball in the dirt and that's why Charles has this hitch in his swing. Really, it's this, my core is what's initiating the downswing.
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