Thanks for featuring me!  After watching your video I have to say you aren’t fully understanding the whole idea.  As with many other instructors you think you do, so you’re basing your viewpoint on an incomplete understanding.  You’re missing the key and fundamental part or the missing piece of the puzzle.  Also, it’s not actually a “secret” it’s a simple fact of physics that the golf world has somehow missed - and I can’t believe it myself.  

I haven’t bothered to prove again and again why Youtube shadow banned me because frankly no one cares.  They just want to play golf well and I want to help them do that.  

Thank you for you honesty and professionalism, but I have no idea what “samples” were sent to you so I can’t comment on that other than to say no one is supposed to be copying or sharing my copyrighted content as per my terms of service.  

The golf club is a completely unique tool and works like nothing else we're familiar with.  Adults have what is called “illusory knowledge,” or an incorrect belief of how the golf club works and no one has any idea they have it.  We know this to be true by looking at any 5 year old who has a great swing 15 minutes after picking up a club - because the kid doesn’t have this “illusory knowledge.”  Also, kids know nothing about “swing plane” or lag or any of these other ideas but they all somehow perform them perfectly.

I don’t teach a “feel.”  That’s just a silly idea that people use who can’t actually explain true physics.  No one can ever know that your “feel” is the same as theirs.  I teach an actual singular linear intent based on the physics of what is called “phase lag,” and it’s how the golf club is designed to be used.  

Swing plane, as Ben Hogan described it is correct but that’s not what I teach, because when you have the proper intent, like a 5 year old, you end up with a proper swing plane without ever thinking about it.  So, you’re kind of assuming that my method is similar but it’s not - it’s actually far, far more simple.  

Also, you’re assuming that you understand the physics of the design of the golf club, but again your understanding is incomplete because the golf club is NOT a weightless stick that we can manipulate in real time.  There’s a reason most of the mass is located in the clubhead because that imparts a force known as “inverse kinematics” on the player and it’s the force that creates what we all know as lag tension.  

You’re correct in that “none of this is new” … as far as physics goes, but oddly, and to my amazement, it’s never been applied to golf.  

You have a good point about working out, but you’re missing a fundamental piece of the puzzle there too.  You can work out for years and never see any results if you aren’t doing it correctly and I learned this the hard way.  Not until I trained with proper form did I ever see any results and that’s oddly similar to golf - you can do it wrong and it kinda works but not great - but when you do it properly it works amazingly well … AND IT’S EASIER!

My channel began before “click through” was an algorithm.  Before they tracked it, my channel was exploding but once YouTube started tracking it, my channel tanked.  

Unfortunately I had to take down the original videos and move them to my website, because they were too inspirational.  There were literally tons of comments of people saying stuff like, “It’s 1 am and I have to go outside and try this.”  Then they’d come back a half hour later and say, “I can feel it!  I can’t wait to go to the range tomorrow and try it for real!”  

I began my channel originally to inspire people and that’s exactly what happened and then YT started tracking click through and then suddenly it was like I’d shot myself in the foot.  

When you say there are hundreds of methods of teaching golf isn’t that evidence that something is fundamentally wrong.  There’s not hundreds of ways to teach math, science, physics or even how to use basic tools like a saw, drill or hammer.  Each discipline or tool has a specific use and although you can make a hole by hammering a drill bit that isn’t how it’s designed to be used.  

Traditional golf instruction is all “swing based” or what I call the “Genie Effect” or the belief that if you can mimic this or that body motion the golf club will magically agree to perform.  I teach “club centric” instruction or understanding how and why the golf club works and why it’s designed the way it is and that changes everything.  

Literally every good player does perform the same move otherwise they wouldn’t be good.  They may not look the same but they are doing the same thing … Well, most of them, there are a few pros who are doing it the hard way and they are actually the more impressive athletes because they still get it done but it requires a lot more effort and they tend to be streaky players.  What I mean by this is all good players are sending their force in the proper direction.  If we look at only the part of the swing that actually matters - from the top down to impact - they’re all doing the same thing.  You can wind-up or backswing however you like as we see from someone like Matt Wolff v Jim Furyk or Raymond Floyd but they all create the optimal position at the top where they have the maximum or optimal mechanical ability to apply force.  

What I teach, as I said, isn’t a new golf swing it’s simply the missing piece of the puzzle that makes the golf swing make sense.  Everyone seems to almost inherently know there is a missing piece and once you understand it - literally everything else about the golf swing suddenly makes sense.

golf instruction on youtube has more gimmicks than pro wrestling.

i think the biggest takeaway for me from the overhand golf swing, was finally learning difference between “striking” and “hitting/slapping” the ball. After 13 years of golfing, i finally felt/understood that difference. after 1 range session, (35-40 balls) my distances went up, (driver went from maybe 210yards with roll to 240yards and even for a 26year old male it’s still low haha). ball flight was more piercing, early extension is mostly gone, on my first round my contact was more consistent, and i shot my lowest score in years. I’m not sure if I just understood the way he explained it better than 99% of golf “instruction” i watch, but this genuinely clicked something in my brain for me.

The one thing I like about Overhand golf is that he presented numerous ideas to get the same results. For some it was swing at the invisible  ball, some it was swinging the club head at a point behind you and the one that completely changed my swing was the screwing the light bulb with the right hand.  As an older bodybuilder with a tight back I am absolutely crushing the ball and it feels like I am barely swinging.  He has tons of videos, at least he isn’t trying to say”it’s this way and only this way” , I went to the range and figured out which one of his ideas worked for me.

Thank you. What a nice evening treat, the temp is below 100 and you're on a roll. Great stuff. In my experience there are seemingly infinite ways to swing a club, hit a baseball, hit a slapshot or play the blues.. but somewhere in all of those, we all strike the similar chords every now and then. Pointing out the obvious and rhetoric of how your sport is taught and marketed, by pros and amateurs alike is why we are here. Your individual thought out opinions are valued especially in the YT universe, keep them coming. When you want to venture into comedy I'll send you a video of my swing.....Cheers!

The Scorecard Couldn’t Process My Greatness…
-Michael Scott
Dunder Mifflin
…better Trademark/copyright that one 🤣

Watched the videos from the time before pay requirement.  The value of them was he had a unifying simple swing thought which was valid for me. By the way these videos are still available to watch for free. Try the concept out and make up your own mind.

I found the Overhand Golf vids a few years back. They were helpful to me I would say in terms of moving my focus away from "hitting the ball" and shifting it to an intention that produces a result that is desirable. I haven't given thousands of lessons, but I've given thousands for lessons. 😆  My opinion is that nobody can explain to you how to hit a golf ball, and the more elaborate the explanation, the more complicated it becomes, and the worse the result. I've had around 6 or 7 different instructors, and I would say only 2 of them really helped in any way. The others meant well, but largely made me worse by delivering informational overload. The 2 good ones were both adept at explaining an intention or "feel", often in many variations, and finding one that resonated with me personally, that then produced what was ultimately an unintended side effect to me initially.

I knew there was a huckster element about that guy but I couldn’t place what it was UNTIL I SAW THE SHADOWBAN PART. He’s like the informercial guy who used to sell the “things they don’t want you to know about!” books and videos stuff (and I believe that guy went to jail for financial crimes) 😅 …..thanks for covering this Tony

I signed up his website. Took me a while to figure out the concept but once I did he’s bang on. The bad shots I hit now aren’t too far offline. I’m hitting the ball a lot straighter with less effort. It might not be anything new but it works.

This guys theory helped me out of a rut. But it was one out of a bunch of stuff i plucked from other youtube channels.

IMPO, from, Scott's OLDER FREE VIDEOS he is teaching an intention of where to swing. He is giving his feel of how to sequence the swing. He is explaining that you do not initially swing at the ball, but you swing the arms down and forward with lag and let the clubhead free wheel around with the body rotation and releasing the lag into the ball with athletic motion. Just look at his swing. It is not new, but it is an explanation that may help some that are intent on swinging at the ball from the top.

What may be new is the idea of hitting the top of a stick angled on the swing plane, with the shaft of the club. This is how he feels it. You may or may not have that feel work for you.

Congratulations Tony!! 10k views on only a few hours.  I just started the video, but you earned a fan in me from the 2nd or 3rd video.

Another brilliant video. Thank you sir. There is literally nothing like this on YouTube or anywhere for that matter.

"Search for the Perfect Swing" has been one of my go to books whenever I want to go back and review the swing fundamentals. I keep it in my bed stand drawer. The one practical thing I would like to recommend to be incorporated into Cohran and Stobbs' swing model is that we should emphasize maintaining the connection between the lead arm and the upper chest wall or pec when performing the swing. Without paying close enough attention to this detail, I find my swing accuracy suffering. Of course many of us are aware that Hogan emphasized this detail quite a bit and Gary Player does as well. Thanks for your reviews.

https://youtu.be/gchaKsh4emM?is=S2naKiBU-W3UVGbj

This video kind of outlines his basic idea visually. The way I seem to remember him explaining it is the forces directed straight ahead into the ground,
And as the club turns the corner, you impact the ball.

Fair review. I agree: the clips of his ideas in the old YT vids focus on perception and intention. And actually,  his approach was quite different and sort of refreshing. He's an accomplished golfer and just started out to promote his ideas on the web. I spotted he was roasted on fora (why...) so it makes sense to put his stuff behind a paywall.  Will it change golfers forever? Is it a real breakthrough? Probably not. Put it this way: real golfers struggle learning a swing (no matter how good!). Missing one element (eg. perception) can move the player forward. Incorporating ideas and bridge these  into a holistic complete and artful motion that also serves a purpose is a vexing activity. ;-) -I like your clips Tony!

i appreciate the interaction between the two of you.  keep it up.

Will never get over how he thinks butch harmon stole his ideas 💀

Another great video Tony.  For me recently, I decided to copy something Scottie Scheffler does.  I put a training grip on a driver, seven iron and wedge, and use them at the driving range.  I’ve been terrible over the years at gripping a club in a consistent way. Sometimes I hit the jackpot and play great for a few rounds and then my grip wanders and so do my scores.  So far I’m pleased with the results.  My grip may not feel exactly like I would like and it may still wander some during a round but I now have a known standard to go back to.