Mac O'Grady in His Prime Swing Vids

Public Forum—Concepts in Advanced Ball Striking
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Thought some may want to see these. They are from 1990 and he’s using a 3-wood.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTI97ayoJmM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os0HGo1WGlM[/youtube]

3JACK

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Thanks for sharing Richie. Carl Welty should eventually set up a paid site to view his entire swing library.

Great swing IMHO. Is it me, or do you think Mac is going a bit to right field in this vid?

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I don’t see Mac having a dump it out right intention going on there at all.

You have to remember that Mac at this time was one of the longest hitters on tour, and there is a tremendous force acting upon the club trying to move it away from his body. I think he is doing a really good job of resisting that considering the kind of CF he is generating.

Also, Mac is not really as flat as some. I think he was playing off pretty standard lie angles within a degree or two. If he was swinging my 48 degree lie angle persimmon, it would look much more left and around.

There is some nice module #2 work there for those who know the finer points of it.

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I’m not sure if people know this or not here. But from what I’ve been told by a few people is that Mac has a lot of different type of swings for different shots. For instance, he has a different type of swing for a low, medium and high trajectory driver. Same with wedge shots. All different.

I see him swinging a little out to the right here which is usually prevalent if he’s trying to hit a shot higher and perhaps with a draw. I’ve also seen him swing very left with a modern driver, presumably for a lower trajectory.

3JACK

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Mac can stripe the ball also hitting left handed. I saw him hitting with left handed clubs at a San Jose, CA course several years ago.

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Heard once that Mac attempted to enter a tournament using 2 names. Mac as the R-handed player, and some other name as the L-handed player. Anyone know the L sided name he attempted to use- or is this folklore? :slight_smile: RR

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Here you go.

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3JACK

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I believe he wanted to enter something under the same name…right handed as a professional…left handed as an amateur… but they believed him to be one and the same person no matter what side he struck it from and would only accept one entry

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Either way you look at it…
Mac has a tremendous golf swing…