After winning last week on the PGA Tour, Jim Furyk is playing solid golf with two wins in 2010. With one of the most unique and original swings currently on Tour, Furyk is a bit of a throwback to days gone by when many players produced great results with different swings.
Now days, educational techniques and golf swing instructional tools have produced more fundamentally sound golfers. With the advent of modern teaching methods — better instruction via the use of video cameras, bio-mechanical studies – and golfers simply being better athletes than in any era, the golf swing has become more structured and consistent among the golfing elite.
Sure, there is the occasional “individual” swing such as John Daly or Jim Furyk, but for the most part players are being taught better fundamentals at a younger age which leads to them having more knowledge about their own game, and less “rough patches” or inconsistent play because of faulty technique.
One other benefit of learning sound fundamentals is that once you learn how to swing correctly, and more consistently, your golf swing will require less maintenance. Sure you can go out and practice, but instead of trying to put “band-aids” on your faulty technique, you can work on hitting shots to targets on the range, working on your pre-shot routine, and hitting specialty shots like low punch shots, or fades and draws.
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