Forgotten Great Swings : Tommy Armour
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024
- This vid belongs to the series of the Forgotten Great Swings that shows my personal choice of biokinetically sound motions that are worth learning from.
From Wikipedia:
Thomas Dickson Armour (September 24, 1894 -- September 11, 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot.
Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh.
During his service in World War I, Armour rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps. His conduct earned him an audience with George V. However, he lost his sight to a mustard gas explosion and surgeons had to add a metal plate to his head and left arm. During his convalescence, he regained the sight of his right eye and took to golfing.
Armour won the French Amateur tournament in 1920. He moved to the United States and met Walter Hagen, who gave him a job as secretary of the Westchester-Biltmore Club. He became a U.S. citizen at this time. In 1924 Armour became a professional golfer.
Armour won the 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA Championship, and the 1931 Open Championship. His 1930 campaign was overshadowed by Bobby Jones' Grand Slam, and Armour seems to have been overlooked.
At the Shawnee Open in 1927, Armour shot the first ever "Archaeopteryx" (15 or more over par) when he shot a 23 on a par 5, for 18-over par. This still stands as the highest score on one hole in PGA history. This historic performance happened just one week after winning the U.S. Open.
Armour retired from professional golf after the 1935 season and taught at the Boca Raton Club in Florida, for $50 a lesson. His pupils included Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Lawson Little.
During World War II, Armour played in exhibitions for USO and Red Cross.
Armour cowrote a book How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time (1953) with Herb Graffis. It became a best seller and for many years was the biggest-selling book ever authored on golf. A series of 8mm films based on the book were released by Castle Films including Short Game parts I and II, Long Hitting Clubs, Grip and Stance.
Armour died in Larchmont, New York, and was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, but is not interred there. Some modern golf equipment is still marketed in his name.
Armour is succeeded by his grandson, Tommy Armour III, who is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour and currently holds the record for the lowest total score on 72 holes (254), which he set in his second PGA Tour victory at the Valero Texas Open.
Armour was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1976.
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That Tommy Armour is one of the greatest golfers of all time is indisputable. Yet, he accomplished all this afflicted with grievous bodily wounds during service in World War 1. MIND BLOWING!! Armour inhaled mustard gas during a German tank attack and was permanently blinded in one eye. Before these injuries, he was a young man so powerful he strangled a German tank commander to death with his bare hands!! To the benefit of future golfers everywhere, Tommy Armour pursued golf as a coping mechanism. Forgetting his troubles, immersing himself in this singularly unique game. He was also one of the greatest NATURALS in the sports long history. Winning three major championships in an era that possessed such luminaries as Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones. Beyond any doubt, his accomplishments as a teacher DWARF anything he ever did on the links. His companion video to the book "Play your best golf all the Time" is the finest instruction video I've ever seen. PERIOD. Pay particular attention to his segment on the grip. It is the most detailed and easy to grasp description of the proper grip I've ever seen. As the narrator describes Tommy's principles, the master himself displays every shot with every club. From stance width to the alignment required for each club. If you watch one video in your golfing life, view this thirty minute gem. On this one video alone, I would place Tommy Armour at the very pinnacle of golf instructors. In my opinion, the best of all time.
I love seeing how golfers from Tommy's era swung it. I like this music too!
You are doing such a huge service by posting the swings of legendary pros like this.
Nice motion, great move from the top and he used the ground like the modern method that is being teached now to use legs to push up and with a firm left side at impact. I knew his grandson Tommy Armour the III through a friend, I watched him hit a 4 iron on the 3rd of what then was Irvine Coast Country Club but now is known as Newport Beach Country Club which they play on the Champions Tour, so 3rd hole is a par 5 and he missed his drive a little to the right just in the trees and hit such a big towering 4 iron from about 240 to 15 feet this was in around 1981 with balata golf balls on a cold February day in heavy air because the Pacific Ocean is only a few miles away, the shot was downhill but was still playing about 220 or 225 yards with zero wind, but in the conditions it blew my mind.
I just finished reading his book, "How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time." Great read and really no nonsense instruction. Its great to see his swing. He talks in his book about lashing at the ball with the right hand. You can see that in the face on view of the swings at 0:58 and 1:03. Great vid! Keep 'em coming! Tim
Cool video. Thanks! A very beautiful swing, and a sentimental video. Tommy Armour, RIP.
The old forward press. Quality
Reminds me of Sam Snead on the downswing - not from way inside, but more of a controlled pull.
Some years later he will author a book that sells millions - talk to you through the pages. Such simple and priceless instruction. The Silver Scot.
I didn't know anything about this professional golfer, until a friend of mine bought me a Tommy Armour Mens Axial Golf Set a long time ago. It's a pretty good set.
Forward press/trigger compression is essential. Obviously not enough for current invalid golf instruction.
2 things I noticed: first, at the takeaway, you can see the shaft flex and second, he keeps his right arm close to the body, no flying right elbow. From other videos here, the swings of Harry Vardon and Ted Ray were similar. I wonder what a modern pro would do with wood shafted clubs and the Bounding Billy type balls that were in use then?
You certainly have good eyes. Shaft flexing during the takeaway is a result of the clubhead momentum delay as it is put into motion as the last thing. As regards the second question -- IMO, modern pros would have to spent some time to adjust; I read somewhere that top pros as e.g. Ernie Els tried to play hicory clubs and were severely beaten by single digit amateurs who specialize in hickory golf.
Brilliant. And he had only one good eye, a plate in his left arm, which was weak - he always said he belted the ball with his right arm! - and also a plate in his head as a result of injuries in WW1.
i think the head moving into a position where it is directly over the ball at the top is quite important
fuzzy zoeller and armour are a matched set. sweet and simple.
I like that forward press. It has a reverse lag that is classic. I started doing that naturally when thinking about Ernest Jones' "[just] Swing the Clubhead" concept. And was hitting it well. I should go back to it.
Further, Tommy the First talks about keeping left fingers firm at top of swing which seems to anchor the the lag and set up a strong lag angle. YMMV.
I think these legends would kick the butts of today's PGA pros.
Even if they used their hickory shafted clubs.
On short courses with lots of rough they would have. Hogan would have destroyed them totally.
The game has always been easier for thin people, easier to make the turn that's so important.
Tell that to John Daly. It's actually the case that many pudgy guys are quite flexible.
He comes over the top-and not shallowing the club like all modern coaches stress. Could he hit draws that way?
Yes, especially pull draws. With OTT from inside without any problem. Vide Sam Snead and his pull draws.
His hip turn from behind reminds me of Bobby Jones RIP
@h1e2x3
Just wondering, too--have you thought about putting Jim Barnes's photos out here in sequence (I don't know if there is any existing film of his swing)? There's a rather well-known sequence in which you'll see the principles demonstrated that people should still be using today, and if I recall correctly it's another illustration of "low plane magic."
Nice post.
Liverpool UK.
@emncaity Doing my best, my friend. Thanks
All with a cig in his chops them were the days
Nice forward press... made for a rhythmic movement
A hint of a foward press...certainly a great swing to duplicate..I wonder how far these golfers will hit the golf ball with the tech we have today....
I am dealing with repeatability, not length, but I am certain some of them would have hit it pretty far.
I think the modern swing era is not that real.The fundamentals are basically the same.A 1964 Mustang is not faster than a 2016 Mustang,but is still a Mustang.The same mechanicals principles basically are the same that start the motor running of both machines.The golf swing fundamentals or basics are deeply rooted in the history of this game.Golf clubs,balls and golf courses can change a lot but those principles that we all see in the early swings are basically intact.The US CONSTITUTION is the same legal document,but the interpretation of is different because we have to live and face different circumstances than our founding fathers.The golf swing is not at the same evolution path that the equipment is.
Yesteryear, there was no need for ReMax. Today, they organize the tournaments the way long hitters are supposed to win them no matter how errant they are. Yet, if one wants to see real long hitters one goes to see LD champs whose swings are totally different.
Golf is no longer about touch..is more about power and howtechnology will improve ballstriking no matter how bad your golf swing is.The fundamentals are key.Always.
True.
Makes me regret thinking that TA III was a spare. Not at all.
I have a set of wooden Tommy Armour golf clubs
Silverscott
Peter Thompson...that was a swing.
Many acknowledge the great oldies like Snead Hogan Jones etc but overlook their competition. They consider them to be weak golfers who were easy prey for the above mentioned stars. That is a huge mistake. They had to do well to eat and pay bills. Nowadays just making it to the weekend assures you six figures. Modern players would struggle with their equipment and many would lose their cards if they were in that era. Armour like Hogan and many others had that cigarette in their mouth while they played. Most could have played today with more forgiving equipment and more yardage from longer balls.
Truer words have never been spoken.
love the cigarette too......
His cigarette didn’t move an inch
@emncaity Will look into it.
That take away and swing is so Greg Norman
Simplest swing ever
Aaron Baddely swing is a little similar.
I love the smokey treat that is on the lips of these fossils of golf, but there are things a complete butcher can learn by their ancient swings, so use the cancer stix as an axis and follow the stack n tilt n smoke technique....nice...!!
I swing Like Bobby Jones😄
me too! i hold the club by the handle and am right handed.
Love the cigarette in his mouth at adress and impact!
Too bad the company that has his name makes crap clubs for sports authority
Sadly, that's what happens in today's world. It's all marketing.