Darren Clarke joked about tapping into the abundance of golf recommendations on Instagram.
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There most likely isn’t a golfer on the planet who hasn’t been sucked into watching some random piece of golf recommendation on social media. And whereas mid-handicap gamers such as you or I could also be responsible of it, many people assume that professionals are resistant to the draw of on-line golf instruction.
Nicely, that isn’t essentially the case — at the least for main champ Darren Clarke.
Within the video beneath (courtesy of the PGA Tour Champions’ Twitter account), the at all times entertaining Clarke quips about how he discovered himself taking place the darkish gap of Instagram golf ideas. As any golfer does, he didn’t simply digest the recommendation, he then questioned how actionable it truly is for himself — main Clarke to a hysterical admission.
Darren Clarke jokes about getting Instagram golf ideas
Admitting that the video was about “shallowing [the club] and coming down,” Clarke stated there was one main downside with the instruction — it won’t work for a 56-year-old like himself.
“The issue with that’s, I’m 56, somewhat bit too previous and my hips don’t transfer quick sufficient,” Clarke jokes. “All of the younger youngsters can do it, so, for some individuals, it really works. However for lots of people, it doesn’t work.”
Clarke admits that making an attempt to imitate what he noticed on Instagram simply wasn’t going to work for him — nevertheless it did lead him to revisit the swing that’s best suited for his body.
This simple repair would clear up professional golf’s slow-play downside in every week, in keeping with Darren Clarke
“I’ve at all times bought on high of the golf ball, so when the younger youngsters rotate their hips and [shallow the club], I can’t do this. I simply can’t,” he provides. “For me, it’s extra about getting the membership up and getting it extra on my palms — or, if something, outdoors my palms [where the club’s parallel to the ground] so I can rotate, since I’ve at all times been a barrel-chested man.”
As a result of this, Clarke tends to cowl the ball up by rotating laborious down in the direction of the bottom — which will get the membership out in entrance of him as he comes by impression — relatively than how youthful, extra limber golfers would possibly do it with extra hip motion.
Whereas each strategies are purposeful methods to hit a golf ball, Clarke makes use of some self-deprecation about listening to social media golfers for swing ideas.
“I’m the fool for listening to all these so-called educated individuals on Instagram — and a number of them are — however for me, it simply didn’t work, I’m too previous,” he says.
Hey, with the quantity of golf ideas accessible on social media, Clarke’s admission is a reminder that not all the pieces you see on-line is appropriate in your sport.
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