{"id":5604,"date":"2021-04-18T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:37:00","slug":"manuel-de-la-torre-golf-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/manuel-de-la-torre-golf-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel de la Torre Golf Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though thousands of golf instruction books have been written, going back well into the 19th century, on how to swing a golf cub effectively, no one has come up with the magic formula.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you lots of things that I do in my golf swing but how they get the clubface back to the ball square and on line to the target, I have no idea. It might as well be magic for all I know.<\/p>\n<p>Or for all anyone knows.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to tell you what to do to get a conception of the golf swing into your head that doesn&#8217;t involve yet another opinion on what the right set of moves are. <\/p>\n<p>From there, it&#8217;s up to you to figure out how to build that conception into your swing, but I guarantee approaching the task this way will be a lot easier than trying more well-intentioned instructions that bear little relation to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video. It takes 45 minutes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXJQGLHRXIE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After you have done that, watch this video of de la Torre hitting balls. <\/p>\n<p>It was shot in 1990, when de la Torre was 69 years old.<\/p>\n<p>It is so smooth and fluid&#8211;a model for you to follow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Syi9eLnE1X0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, it took me a few years of trying this, then going off on a wild goose chase, coming back to this, going off on another tangent, until I finally settled into this conception of the swing.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know how to swing a golf club, here it is. And that&#8217;s the last thing I&#8217;m going to say about how to swing a golf club.<\/p>\n<p>Want more? Read de la Torre&#8217;s has a book, <em>Understanding the Golf Swing<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though thousands of golf instruction books have been written, going back well into the 19th century, on how to swing a golf cub effectively, no one has come up with the magic formula. I can tell you lots of things that I do in my golf swing but how they get the clubface back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/manuel-de-la-torre-golf-swing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manuel de la Torre Golf Swing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1so","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}