The swing move I'm working on

I didn’t want it to happen, I really didn’t. But it happened anyway.

I got sucked into watching the Internet Invitational.

If you’re not familiar, the Internet Invitational is a YouTube video series and competition between a wide swath of popular content creators competing for $4 million.

It’s part trashy reality TV show, and part golf tournament. You’ll quickly get annoyed by about half the field and their various schticks, then root passionately for the other half—Roger Steele and Pete Finch, in my case.

But as the resident golf nerd at Golf Digest, I think the thing I like the most is that it’s a fascinating snapshot of the games of amateur golfers under some pretty intense pressure.

You see what they’re good at (the quality of their good shots).

What they’re bad at (bunker shots, read this if that's you, too)

And in the case of The Duke below, their use of utterly bizarre golf swings...

The strangest golf swing on the internet, explained

By Luke Kerr-Dineen

What You Need to Know

These two lines are parallel.

I know they don't look like it—that's the point. But as Golf Digest Best in State teacher Adam Young explains here, trying to judge your alignment using a picture can be wildly deceiving. 

The issue here is that the camera is aligned to the target line, which makes the line along the golfer's feet appear as though it's pointed to the right. It's a trick of the eye.

In short, work on your alignment. Just use an alignment stick to do it—not a camera.

Jackson Koivan hits draws. 

And there's one big reason why.

On the downswing, he tilts his upper body away from the target. This is such an important move, and amateur golfers on the whole don't have enough of it. Turning on the downswing isn't enough if you dream of hitting draws. You need to tilt and turn. That combination is the key.

Winter is coming in the northeast. 

Which means golf's offseason is quickly approaching, which means it's time to work on my golf swing.

A persistent issue for me, and lots of other golfers, is that I tend to cheat my backswing turn. My right arm bends too much, and gets narrow. That causes me to get steep, stuck, and flippy to compensate.

That's what I'm working on here. Keeping my right arm wider, and less bent. It shallows me out slightly, and helps me rotate more.

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