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 execs are proof against the draw of on-line golf instruction.
Properly, 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 all the time entertaining Clarke quips about how he discovered himself happening the darkish gap of Instagram golf suggestions. 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 suggestions
Admitting that the video was about “shallowing [the club] and coming down,” Clarke stated there was one main downside with the instruction — it may not work for a 56-year-old like himself.
“The issue with that’s, I’m 56, somewhat bit too outdated and my hips don’t transfer quick sufficient,” Clarke jokes. “All of the younger youngsters can do it, so, for some folks, it really works. However for lots of people, it doesn’t work.”
Clarke admits that attempting to imitate what he noticed on Instagram simply wasn’t going to work for him — but it surely did lead him to revisit the swing that’s best suited for his body.
“I’ve all the time bought on prime 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 arms — or, if something, exterior my arms [where the club’s parallel to the ground] so I can rotate, since I’ve all the time been a barrel-chested man.”
On account of this, Clarke tends to cowl the ball up by rotating arduous down in direction of the bottom — which will get the membership out in entrance of him as he comes by means of affect — relatively than how youthful, extra limber golfers may do it with extra hip motion.
Whereas each strategies are practical methods to hit a golf ball, Clarke makes use of some self-deprecation about listening to social media golfers for swing suggestions.
“I’m the fool for listening to all these so-called educated folks on Instagram — and numerous them are — however for me, it simply didn’t work, I’m too outdated,” he says.
Hey, with the quantity of golf suggestions out there on social media, Clarke’s admission is a reminder that not every thing you see on-line is appropriate in your sport.
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