Calvin played on mini tours in Florida with some guys who played at our local muni in Baltimore where arnold won a toony long ago. Peete showed up one day and played a money match. We all followed. I became a peete fan for life and follwed every tournament he played. I had my black peete golf glove....polyester slacks...wide collar shirts....but what amazed me was he kept his right arm bend throughout his entire swing. Just tucked right into his torso and just rotated his entire right side into the shot. Love it!!
I watched Calvin hit balls on the range at the US Open at Shinnecock in 86 I think it was. He was just down range from Greg Norman who was also at the peak of his powers. Calvin was hitting a mid iron and it looked like every shot went through the same tube in space. The trajectory was exactly the same, I've never seen anything like it before or since. Thanks for the Great video and commentary!
He was such an underrated player who was so good. 10 years as the straightest hitter on tour is absolutely amazing. Only one OB hit in his entire career, mind boggling. Nearly 85% of fairways hit, unbelievable. 12 PGA wins is nothing to sneeze at. Cheers.
Thanks Christo. Kind of off topic from his great golf swing, but to show you how great of a man he was, I had just gotten into golf in my early twenties and had taken my 9 yr old nephew to the USF&G in New Orleans (approx 1984-85) at Lakewood CC. I had never been to a professional tournament, but watched every weekend on tv and Calvin was in his peak years. Stupid me, I approached Calvin for his autograph for my nephew, DURING HIS ROUND! It was his 2nd or 3rd hole and he politely came over and while he was singing our hat instructed me on the etiquette of waiting until after the round to seek autographs. I didn’t get it at the time and actually thought he was being kind of tough on us. Ha! It took me a few years to understand how great of a guy he was for doing this. I always liked his game and learned to respect and admire what he did for the game of golf.
I think one of the advantages of a bent the left arm is that it allows a little bit of give through impact. So if the left arm is slightly straighter at the top of the swing and then bends a little more through the hitting zone it can shallow out the bottom of the arc and lead to less of a descending blow.
I followed Calvin at JC Goosie's mini tour in the early 70's. Tom Kite, Steve Melnick, and Tommy Bolt were there too. Calvin was focused then, and he had a diamond in his tooth and played in leather half boots in dark maroon with side zippers and thick 2 inch heels. What I love is how his right elbow is brushing his right hip at impact consistently.
I will share a brief story... some 35 years ago, at high school age, I was out watching the final round of the Houston Open. One of their signature holes is a par 5 on the back 9 which was surrounded by water on the front and both sides. His drive was right down the middle. He and his caddy debated and debated about going for it in 2. He pulled out a 3 or 5 wood and let it rip. By the flight, you could tell it was gonna be super close. His ball hit the top of the piling protecting the green from the water and bounced like a bean bag to 10-20 feet away!!! He finished runner up to Curtis Strange in a playoff that year. Great memories!!!!
That weight shift is amazing. I think that's the most movement (especially head movement) I've ever seen. His wrist bow at the top is pretty crazy. He just rolls right into position.
What i like about Cal more than anything - his game plan and his repetitive perfection. Of course, it's not just about hitting fairways - he had a great short game. Cal was fab!
Christo: You talk about what you call the "Power Shift" of Calvin Peete. I want to identify 1 segment of it which you do and Hogan did. You and Hogan do this before the downswing. Peete seemed to do it "during" the downswing. And that is the "angling of the back leg toward the target or down the foot line". This angling is approximately 30 degrees. And for you and Hogan it is almost a straight back leg. When players angle it before the downswing... it looks like "stack and tilt". And nothing wrong with that... keeps you centered over the ball. Just pointing this out because I bet a lot of people don't do this or notice it.
Bradley Hughes advocates this type of down swing. This also allows these types of players to pin the shaft to the strike at impact just like you see here with Peete & Hogan. Many of the best ball strikers started their back swings inside, and then the hands would came over & the shaft would Shallow out on the way down, ala Ben Hogan, Calvin Peete, George Knudson, Sam Snead, yet these swing models are considered incorrect in today's teaching methods.
Just proves again there are so many ways to arrive at impact. My swing has always started inside ala Knudson, Hogan and Floyd, and so called good teachers (except Craig Harmon) tried to make my swing look like Calvins. It never suited me, and almost ruined my game (3 cap aged 65) trying to change. I still hit straight 80% of the time with my inside takeaway. But love to have that lateral shift like his and Hogan and Knudson. But I'm no them. Continue the great videos!
He had the Bobby Jones at the top where he weakens his grip, Jones rotated the handle more though into his fingers to create more of a buggy whip to his shaft, sir Pete was a little more rotational
Using Snead as an ( inside up/over the top ) example does not fully explain that Snead aimed well right of the target so had to come slightly over the top. Jones again like Locke had the club pointing way right at the top so again had to rotate outwards / over the top to get back on plane to hit the ball. Peete's hands do move in a shade but the clubhead doesn't and he is across the line at the top which results in the hands moving outwards with the pull on the club from the top facilitating a so called over the top downward path. Actually Peete is a great example of David Leadbetter's A Swing technique which is a good swing model for most golfers.
I think he has a big shift to the left not a fall. One of the keys, I think, to his swing is his head does NOT move up or down which makes it a shift. I have tried to emulate this recently and am more prone to hit straight shots.
I believe Peete did not hit a ball until he was in his mid 20's, by then the likes of jack and Woods had hit millions of balls,one wonders how good he may have been if coming from a position of privilege that allowed him to start very early,and his swing is a thing of beauty,as with Hogan and many other great golfers of that era.And as for Miracle swing, I now believe, that for older,less talented, part time and new golfers, all would benefit from adapting these classic old swings, the newer swings are technically designed to win at the top end of the game, with players that spend as much time in the Gym and practice range as social players spends at home or in the bar.
that's why golf was changed to the novelty sport it is today... you can't have the greatest golfers as the ones who simply hit the ball STRAIGHT...or else people would have practiced their golf swings and mastery of their shot making ability. instead, in order to sell overpriced novelty equipment, you create a game where ONLY those who hit the ball FAR can compete. simple as that. and you will notice that accuracy is no longer important...not when 'bomb and gouge' allows a few gorillas, with high tech equipment designed for high handicap golfers, to MISS every fairway and still have only wedges to every green. the modern pros simply don't score unless they are hitting wedges to the green, or middle irons to par 5's it's a travesty and offense to the real masters of the sport.
Calvin Pete had a broken left arm that would not straighten. This forced him to use the right elbow as the swing center with the plane being the right elbow plane. A very simple hitting technique. You wanna swing like him? Go break your arm! 😂😂😂
So I can't remember who it was....another RUclips golf channel... but their assertion was that there is a "hidden" source of power in the swing... Think of all the body joints that move and straighten for power. What is the one joint that for 99.99% of people doesn't "intentionally" bend and straighten for power? Yes, it's the lead arm elbow joint! So "theoretically" if the lead arm bent on the backswing and straightened on the downswing, that "snapping" should lead to more power in the shot. Would it be easy? Probably not. Would it be as accurate? Maybe ,maybe not. But from a biomechanics/sport science point of view, the potential for greater power is there. As a young university student in Human Kinetics in the 1980's, I studied human movement in sports. And one of the theories of the National Coaching Association of Canada (they didn't make this up) was "the more joints you use, the greater the application of power". For example... try swinging a club only from the shoulder, no body movement, no shoulder turn, no wrist action etc. You will be limited in what you can achieve in distance. Add all the other "joints" and body movement and you can hit it much farther. So this principle of biomechanics applies here....even if people don't "agree" with it for reasonable reasons (the speed/accuracy tradeoff for example). Your thoughts.... one cannot argue with the theory and principle that the more joints used the greater the chance of more power. Calvin Peete bent his lead arm in the backswing. I'll bet you it wasn't bent at impact!
I couldn't get my hands that close to my body after impact with a gun at my head. I'm starting to think the guy making these Amateur Golfer's Dillema vids is right - standing close like the pros is useless without dynamic , athletic rotation. He advocates standing farther away and the EE gets eliminated. Also points out copying most pro moves is a waste - I can't triple head drop like Woods used to and neither can anybody reading this. I've worked on EE for 20 years. It does get reduced or eliminated when you move back. Check out those videos if you get a chance and please comment on this. Thanks.
Thanks, Tom. If you pull down towards the ball it pulls your hips in like a seesaw. You have to feel like you are swinging away and out to get it right. I'm still working on it but it's a big, big difference.
I laugh at swing lesson videos from john daly or fred couples because no real golfers can get to those positions. Couples and Daly were born with ability that we dont have and it cant be taught. However Calvin Peete has a swing that is built around a fault that most of us have. We can do what he does, with practice.
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Calvin played on mini tours in Florida with some guys who played at our local muni in Baltimore where arnold won a toony long ago. Peete showed up one day and played a money match. We all followed. I became a peete fan for life and follwed every tournament he played. I had my black peete golf glove....polyester slacks...wide collar shirts....but what amazed me was he kept his right arm bend throughout his entire swing. Just tucked right into his torso and just rotated his entire right side into the shot. Love it!!
I watched Calvin hit balls on the range at the US Open at Shinnecock in 86 I think it was. He was just down range from Greg Norman who was also at the peak of his powers. Calvin was hitting a mid iron and it looked like every shot went through the same tube in space. The trajectory was exactly the same, I've never seen anything like it before or since. Thanks for the Great video and commentary!
He was such an underrated player who was so good. 10 years as the straightest hitter on tour is absolutely amazing. Only one OB hit in his entire career, mind boggling. Nearly 85% of fairways hit, unbelievable. 12 PGA wins is nothing to sneeze at. Cheers.
Thanks Christo. Kind of off topic from his great golf swing, but to show you how great of a man he was, I had just gotten into golf in my early twenties and had taken my 9 yr old nephew to the USF&G in New Orleans (approx 1984-85) at Lakewood CC. I had never been to a professional tournament, but watched every weekend on tv and Calvin was in his peak years. Stupid me, I approached Calvin for his autograph for my nephew, DURING HIS ROUND! It was his 2nd or 3rd hole and he politely came over and while he was singing our hat instructed me on the etiquette of waiting until after the round to seek autographs. I didn’t get it at the time and actually thought he was being kind of tough on us. Ha! It took me a few years to understand how great of a guy he was for doing this. I always liked his game and learned to respect and admire what he did for the game of golf.
I think one of the advantages of a bent the left arm is that it allows a little bit of give through impact. So if the left arm is slightly straighter at the top of the swing and then bends a little more through the hitting zone it can shallow out the bottom of the arc and lead to less of a descending blow.
I followed Calvin at JC Goosie's mini tour in the early 70's. Tom Kite, Steve Melnick, and Tommy Bolt were there too. Calvin was focused then, and he had a diamond in his tooth and played in leather half boots in dark maroon with side zippers and thick 2 inch heels. What I love is how his right elbow is brushing his right hip at impact consistently.
You nailed it. It's the A swing.
I will share a brief story... some 35 years ago, at high school age, I was out watching the final round of the Houston Open. One of their signature holes is a par 5 on the back 9 which was surrounded by water on the front and both sides. His drive was right down the middle. He and his caddy debated and debated about going for it in 2. He pulled out a 3 or 5 wood and let it rip. By the flight, you could tell it was gonna be super close. His ball hit the top of the piling protecting the green from the water and bounced like a bean bag to 10-20 feet away!!! He finished runner up to Curtis Strange in a playoff that year. Great memories!!!!
That weight shift is amazing. I think that's the most movement (especially head movement) I've ever seen. His wrist bow at the top is pretty crazy. He just rolls right into position.
It's worth taking a good look at for sure! Thanks for watching!
WoW 🤯 Why am I just hearing about this great brotha!? As a Black American man, I am moved and inspired by this hero.
Good stuff Christo!
Thanks a lot my friend.
What i like about Cal more than anything - his game plan and his repetitive perfection. Of course, it's not just about hitting fairways - he had a great short game. Cal was fab!
Calvin the GREAT! Yessir!
Met him, key to all these swings is the reset of the left wrist at the top of the swing, watch the left wrist roll under and shallow the plane.
Personally own his driver. Thing of beauty!
Are you kidding me???
Christo: You talk about what you call the "Power Shift" of Calvin Peete. I want to identify 1 segment of it which you do and Hogan did. You and Hogan do this before the downswing. Peete seemed to do it "during" the downswing. And that is the "angling of the back leg toward the target or down the foot line". This angling is approximately 30 degrees. And for you and Hogan it is almost a straight back leg. When players angle it before the downswing... it looks like "stack and tilt". And nothing wrong with that... keeps you centered over the ball. Just pointing this out because I bet a lot of people don't do this or notice it.
縦振りや膝のラテラルムーブメントや反返るようなハイフィニッシュに時代を感じる。
Can’t compare Moe to Peete. Peete actually won on the PGA tour. Moe driving range GOAT.
I kind of feel the same way!
55 Canadian tour wins though. That's 55 more wins than me!
@@aaajjworm Canadian tour In 50s 60’s 70’s was not very competitive…
Why do we have to “compare” them at all?
@@rodneydowd4739 because that’s what the video about? 😂😂😂
Awsome thank you.
You are very welcome!!!
Bradley Hughes advocates this type of down swing. This also allows these types of players to pin the shaft to the strike at impact just like you see here with Peete & Hogan. Many of the best ball strikers started their back swings inside, and then the hands would came over & the shaft would Shallow out on the way down, ala Ben Hogan, Calvin Peete, George Knudson, Sam Snead, yet these swing models are considered incorrect in today's teaching methods.
Great video, unbelievable accuracy. One question…where did you get the hat?😁
When he "pulls it around the corner" its crazy he doesnt put any side spin on the ball 😮
Just proves again there are so many ways to arrive at impact. My swing has always started inside ala Knudson, Hogan and Floyd, and so called good teachers (except Craig Harmon) tried to make my swing look like Calvins. It never suited me, and almost ruined my game (3 cap aged 65) trying to change. I still hit straight 80% of the time with my inside takeaway. But love to have that lateral shift like his and Hogan and Knudson. But I'm no them. Continue the great videos!
Thank you very much for watching!
Awesome weight transfer!
For real, right?
He had the Bobby Jones at the top where he weakens his grip, Jones rotated the handle more though into his fingers to create more of a buggy whip to his shaft, sir Pete was a little more rotational
Very similar to Jim Furyk's move. It's very accurate that's for sure.
It is very close.
Using Snead as an ( inside up/over the top ) example does not fully explain that Snead aimed well right of the target so had to come slightly over the top. Jones again like Locke had the club pointing way right at the top so again had to rotate outwards / over the top to get back on plane to hit the ball. Peete's hands do move in a shade but the clubhead doesn't and he is across the line at the top which results in the hands moving outwards with the pull on the club from the top facilitating a so called over the top downward path. Actually Peete is a great example of David Leadbetter's A Swing technique which is a good swing model for most golfers.
He scoops it it up with that bent right arm and side bend.
What do you mean across the line at 8:10
He also has a great Hogan roll: cupped at the top then bowed on the way down.
Big bow and roll!
Only one OB with real woods and balata balls. That really is amazing.
I think he has a big shift to the left not a fall. One of the keys, I think, to his swing is his head does NOT move up or down which makes it a shift. I have tried to emulate this recently and am more prone to hit straight shots.
As you said A swing.
Another ott miracle example: Larry Nelson, also picked up the game very late
I made a video about him. I need to do another!!!
ビリヤードの腕前が凄いと聞いた事がある🎱
Plays the ball back in stance
I believe Peete did not hit a ball until he was in his mid 20's, by then the likes of jack and Woods had hit millions of balls,one wonders how good he may have been if coming from a position of privilege that allowed him to start very early,and his swing is a thing of beauty,as with Hogan and many other great golfers of that era.And as for Miracle swing, I now believe, that for older,less talented, part time and new golfers, all would benefit from adapting these classic old swings, the newer swings are technically designed to win at the top end of the game, with players that spend as much time in the Gym and practice range as social players spends at home or in the bar.
that's why golf was changed to the novelty sport it is today...
you can't have the greatest golfers as the ones who simply hit the ball STRAIGHT...or else people would have practiced their golf swings and mastery of their shot making ability.
instead, in order to sell overpriced novelty equipment, you create a game where ONLY those who hit the ball FAR can compete.
simple as that. and you will notice that accuracy is no longer important...not when 'bomb and gouge' allows a few gorillas, with high tech equipment designed for high handicap golfers, to MISS every fairway and still have only wedges to every green.
the modern pros simply don't score unless they are hitting wedges to the green, or middle irons to par 5's
it's a travesty and offense to the real masters of the sport.
What’s funny is they don’t understand that the hands dictate the club head/face position!
He bends his left arm but it doesn't seem To affect his momentum.
Calvin Pete had a broken left arm that would not straighten. This forced him to use the right elbow as the swing center with the plane being the right elbow plane. A very simple hitting technique. You wanna swing like him? Go break your arm! 😂😂😂
Maybe I can wear a cast?
omg.
So I can't remember who it was....another RUclips golf channel... but their assertion was that there is a "hidden" source of power in the swing... Think of all the body joints that move and straighten for power. What is the one joint that for 99.99% of people doesn't "intentionally" bend and straighten for power? Yes, it's the lead arm elbow joint! So "theoretically" if the lead arm bent on the backswing and straightened on the downswing, that "snapping" should lead to more power in the shot. Would it be easy? Probably not. Would it be as accurate? Maybe ,maybe not. But from a biomechanics/sport science point of view, the potential for greater power is there. As a young university student in Human Kinetics in the 1980's, I studied human movement in sports. And one of the theories of the National Coaching Association of Canada (they didn't make this up) was "the more joints you use, the greater the application of power". For example... try swinging a club only from the shoulder, no body movement, no shoulder turn, no wrist action etc. You will be limited in what you can achieve in distance. Add all the other "joints" and body movement and you can hit it much farther. So this principle of biomechanics applies here....even if people don't "agree" with it for reasonable reasons (the speed/accuracy tradeoff for example). Your thoughts.... one cannot argue with the theory and principle that the more joints used the greater the chance of more power. Calvin Peete bent his lead arm in the backswing. I'll bet you it wasn't bent at impact!
It was still bent at impact. Due to an injury he couldn't straighten it.
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Sorry Chris but Calvin drops it down on the inside not over the top.
I couldn't get my hands that close to my body after impact with a gun at my head. I'm starting to think the guy making these Amateur Golfer's Dillema vids is right - standing close like the pros is useless without dynamic , athletic rotation. He advocates standing farther away and the EE gets eliminated. Also points out copying most pro moves is a waste - I can't triple head drop like Woods used to and neither can anybody reading this. I've worked on EE for 20 years. It does get reduced or eliminated when you move back. Check out those videos if you get a chance and please comment on this. Thanks.
Thanks, Tom. If you pull down towards the ball it pulls your hips in like a seesaw. You have to feel like you are swinging away and out to get it right. I'm still working on it but it's a big, big difference.
I laugh at swing lesson videos from john daly or fred couples because no real golfers can get to those positions. Couples and Daly were born with ability that we dont have and it cant be taught.
However Calvin Peete has a swing that is built around a fault that most of us have. We can do what he does, with practice.
Why would I kid you?