Conference 7.286::golf

    Ray Floyd, Bobby Locke, Mark James, Isao Aoki, Hubert Green...
    
    All good players with repeatable swings (that's the key), but not to be
    copied!
    
    Paul

    
    
    	Calvin Peete and Ray Floyd... :-{

    
    Without a doubt, Tommy Armour II.
    
    I'm suprised the freaking guy can even hit a golf ball. He should stick
    to cutting down marsh weeds or something....
    
    great white north golf fanatic

    the worst swing on tour has to be leonard thompson.

    swings are like faces...they are all different...BUT with a golf swing
    it's what they look like AT IMPACT that counts.
    
    Only reason I mention this is because of .5 selecting TREVINO.
    
    Some of the players mentioned have ugly swings, some are just bad to
    look at but I've heard Nicklaus and others say many times in interviews
    that TREVINO is the best pure ball striker since Hogan. His swing isn't
    classic or free flowing but AT IMPACT he's the best since Hogan.
    
    I think every player selected so far may not have good swings to the
    person selecting them (in my case Pavin) but in the where it counts
    department I guess they still deserve alot of credit, THEY CAN PLAY
    THE GAME VERY WELL WITH WHAT THEY HAVE....
    
    

>    I'll cast my vote for Miller Barber, who's got more loops
>    than a badly-written BASIC program.

     I agree with most of the players mentioned already.  At this year's
     Digital Seniors I watched Miller Barber at the range.  It hurt when
     I tried to put my right arm in the position that he gets it at the top 
     of the swing, let alone imagine how I could get it back for impact.

     The interesting thing about all the guys mentioned is that though they
     may do all sorts of funny stuff with the club on the way back if you
     look at a stop action sequence they are back to the classic position
     at impact!

	Larry

    re: .8
    
    we have a player at my club who swings exactly like Barber...
    we call this guy Mr. X (Barbers alias) yet he's always between
    8-12 on his handicap and is considered one of our better players.
    
    Funny thing is this guy looks like Stadler (the walrus) and swings
    like Barber...but when he's off on a given day he has no
    idea where the ball may end up...

    Am I the only one who thinks that Arnie's swing looks pretty ugly?  Am
    I bordering on blasphemy here?  It's just that his swing always looks
    to me like he's mostly using just his arms and always trying to kill
    the ball.  Definitely not "smooth and easy".
    
    Just my opinion,
    -Tom
    
    PS.  If I could play that well, I wouldn't really care what anybody
    else thought of my swing.

    
    
    Well, I'll cast another vote for Arnie,  I think he has the ugliest
    swing I've ever seen.  I keep waiting for him to fall down or screw
    himself into the ground everytime he swings.  The results speak
    for themselves but to watch...he is UGLY!!!!!
    
    	Mike
    

    Have a look at Eamon Darcy on the eurpean circuit positively ugly.

    Even though he's my all-time favorite, I'd certainly put Arnie's swing
    among the five ugliest...

Wasn't it Arnie who - when criticised for a shot - replied:

	"Madam! This is a game of 'how many', not 'how'."

Peter

    No one could say that "Darcy is Classy".
    
    How he gets it square at impact beats me.
    
    Phil.
    

    Eamonn Darcy sure does have a flying right elbow and looks ugly
    (just like my swing). 
    
    But he is effective - always in the top 10-15 in Europe and who
    can forget his great victory over Ben Crensahw in the second last
    Ryder Cup.
    
    His flying right elbow never stopped him from sinking that putt
    to bring another Ryder Cup victory to the real golfers of this world !!!
    

    
    Quite agree with .16. I'm just glad he doesn't put with the same
    ugly "flying elbow" otherwise we could have lost the Ryder cup.
    
    Who says that the swing has to look good anyway. I wish I could
    be as good as those who have "ugly" swings. Surely the objective
    of the game is to go round in as few shots as possible. Now if your
    asking who the best dressed golfer is my vote goes to Payne Stewart
    "love those plus fours".
    
    Steve.

    
    I'm afraid I have to put in another vote for Arnie.  It does look like
    he's trying to kill the ball, But I'd give anything to have that swing
    consistently.
    
    	Steve
    

    For pure ugly-
    	1. Leonard Thompson
    	2. Miller Barber
    	3. Larry Mowery (Sr. Tour)
    
    And how about Andy North, who comes straight over the top, yet always
    played his best golf in the majors!

    here goes
    
    1. Chi chi Rodriquez
    2.Leonard Thompson
    3. Lee Trevino
    
    Ted

    I've got to agree about Arnold Palmer.  I have some video of him on his
    instruction.  I like to hear what he has to say, but I don't want to
    copy his swing.  He seems to jerk and rush his arms through the swing.
    
    -dwight
    
    PS:  Of course, if I could win as he did, I could over-look someone
    putting my swing down...

    Miller Barber Arnie Chi Chi Lee Trevino
    
    BG

    Gay Brewer & Miller Barber.
    
    --Jack

    George Bush
    

    Re .25: Nah, Spiro by 6 furlongs !
    
    --Jack

    Doug Sanders takes a pretty good slash at it.
    

    
    Bob Thomas
    
    
    
    
    big :-)
    
    jim 
    
    

    Thompson hands down. You can run to the fridge and grab a beer during
    that hesitation at the top. 
    
    A close second has to be Corey Pavin. I think he learned golf at the
    batting cage. If his swing gets any flatter he'll need a tee ball tee.
    
    Honorable Mention:
    
    Deane Bemon
    Chi Chi
    The guy that was runner at the US Amateur in '89. Can't remember his
    name. But I do remember that swing.

re-1
    
      His name was Danny Green and your right he did have an awful looking
    swing. His worst thing though was the stance he played his left
    foot way in front of the right in a wicked slice posture. He must
    have an awful one.
    
    ted

    Went out to the Sunwest,Charlie Pride Tournament this week end at
    the Four Hills Country Club, Chi Chi's swing is the ugliest I've
    ever seen, but my God, does he hit the ball, but Jim Dent is just
    the opposite, beautiful swing, I've never seen anyone longer than
    him. Chi Chi, ugly swing and all, is laughing on his way to the
    bank with  $52,500.00 for three days work.
    

    Re. -1 and a few others...right! As the clich� says, "It isn't how,
    it's how many." Esthetics won't put the ball in the hole.
    
    	Frank
    

    Have to agree with the Arnold Palmer "swing" in that he doesn't
    really swing in the true sense of what we would consider the
    'pro swing" , all his power is from arms rather than leg and hip drive,
    terrible finish, which means his right arm is not driving after
    impact, can't see any hand action, lousy balance, no "late hit"
    and I wish I had it!!
    
    Ang
    
    
    

    re-1
    
         Wish I had it too and his 9,000,000 in endorsement money every
    year. 

    Just ask Gene
    

    
    Without doubt, the worst swing I have seen belongs to fellow
    Irishman....
    Eamonn D'arcy. No contest !!
    
    Pat