I Modeled My Golf Swing After David Duval And Instantly Saw Better Ball Striking! (Here’s Why)

After my baseball days ended and I picked up golf, here’s how modeling my swing after David Duval helped improve my ball striking!

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In this video, we go back to 1999 when I was transitioning from my baseball playing career into golf. As part of this switch, I found myself fascinated by the great ball strikers of the past and present, and what they did so well. One person stood out to me and that was David Duval. I had the chance to watch him in person when he came to Phoenix that year and I was mesmerized by his game.

It was then I decided to further analyze David’s golf swing and started to notice aspects of his action that paralleled my baseball swing. I picked up on his strong left land grip, his rotational move, the stable club face, and how his eyes and head followed the ball. These patterns were familiar to me, and for that reason I began using David as my sort of model. I hope you enjoyed this special episode and look forward to hearing from you on what you learned, and what golf swings you most admire and model after!

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so the year was 1999 and I’d been playing golf for about a year and I had the opportunity to watch a great ball Striker David Duval here at the Phoenix Open and boy he put on a display of ball striking at that time he was number one in the world and for a reason and I decided to model much of what I was doing in my golf swing after that golf swing and doing so helped me become a very good ball Striker really fast hey everybody welcome back to beautiful Superstition Mountain today I want to talk to you a little bit about why I’m such a big David Duval golf swing fan and what elements of his golf swing I think can make us all much better ball Strikers so in 1999 I was one year into playing competitive Golf and my dad had kind of set up my Foundation of for golf along with my playing career as a baseball player kind of set in motion my athleticism but being able to use David Duval as somewhat of a Swing model really helped me and the reason it helped me is there were a lot of similarities between what he did and what I was intending to do as a baseball player I naturally was a big Rotator well David Duval was an awesome Rotator and some of the things that set him up to to be able to rotate so well were how he gripped the golf club and the face conditions that he had which necessitated some of the movement patterns we see with David So when David swing swing a golf club he set up with what was one of the more strong grips on tour at the time he had a nice strong grip he made a nice turn back and had the face in a strong almost shut position and then from there he played an awesome little bullet fade well in order to do that he really had to be efficient at getting his body out of the way well that was something that was natural for me but as I took up the game my ball wanted to go too far to the right because my club face was not in a strong enough position so I copied David’s grip a little stronger little more strong Club phase which allowed me to be able to turn through the strike better so let me let me just show you what that looks like so we’re going to be nice strong grip good setup something like that so you’ll see there that my body turned that Golf Club into the ball I didn’t throw the club at the ball and that’s what I really see in David’s swing is he has a very aggressive turn through the golf ball so I especially loved watching David from face on where I could see the grip relationship and I could see how he turned through and put speed out front out through the golf ball he wasn’t putting the speed back here behind the ball or at the ball he was he was putting the speed through the golf ball almost like he was throwing the golf club on a 45 degree angle up that direction so it looked something like this where he really went through it aggressively and David’s actually talked about that feel of really throwing the golf club that direction without too much twist in the face he doesn’t feel like he needs to twist it which matches up cuz the face is already in a nice position so all he has to do is just turn through it and get the energy out and he said all right now throw it directly behind you into the fence I’m like come on he goes no no trust me if you try to roll you’re not going to do it particularly successfully but if you get your hands going this way getting the right going under the left you can throw it behind you and see where my wrist is I bet you can again Watch where my wrist is okay and the face is still square and while for some the idea of or the feel he used of of unloading the wrist this way may look a little Scoopy when you’ve got a dynamic pivot like his is you’re not going to see those wrists actually unloading until out here in the front so another thing you’ll notice about Duval’s golf swing was his head and his eyes those famous sunglasses I wore these in honor of him today as he turned through it’s almost as if his head led the golf swing so he wasn’t ball bound he was going through the golf ball to the Target so that motion of the head going through the golf ball most likely it’s not for everyone eye dominance plays a role there I’m inclined to believe Duval was right ey dominant just based on his head motion The more I’ve watched Duval and The more I’ve studied his golf swing I see some things that I do a little differently by Nature just because of my baseball career hitters in baseball don’t have as much linear motion and Duval had a little bit he was a great Rotator but he definitely had a little bit more lateral motion which called for his Trail arm staying back behind him a little bit more so he he matched matched up that lateral motion with his Trail arm being a little more back in this way so like I was just describing so that you can see from down the line what that looks like his his right elbow was more riding back in here because of the linear motion of his pelvis another matchup there might have been the way he gripped it with his right hand was a little more under as well which required that to be a little more back so so some lessons we can take away from the awesome swing of David Duvall number one as strong as his grip was and as strong as those phas conditions are he was still able to play a controlled fade and we’re seeing more and more of that in today’s game we can see players with strong grips strong faces who are able to just unwind as fast as they want and hit these little hold Cuts it’s an awesome way to play golf you know I’ve heard a lot people say that in order to a fade you need a weaker grip and you need the face more open and I actually find that that’s not necessarily true most of the best faders actually have stronger Club faces and stronger grips okay so in honor of Deval let’s hit one more and see if I can really get around the corner left and hit that that nice little bullet cut something like that I’m not going to hit any better than that so I’m done thanks for watching hopefully you learned something if you did 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