Andcould it really be? Charles Barkley is playing to a single digit. And I met Stan Utley and he said, Chuck, let me work with you a little bit. Something from which even a trainwreck would avert its eyes. Ive always liked his swing, even when he was playing on the regular TOUR. Beginning Golfers Learn the fundamentals of the swing, grip and setup, Golf Hints to Fix Your Takeaway and Backswing, Golf Instruction Tips and Tricks For Longer, Straighter Drives, How to Achieve a Tour Pro Golf Impact Position, How to Have a Perfect Golf Swing Plane w/ ONE Feeling, How to Prevent and Fix the Most Common Golf Injuries, How to Quickly Develop Insane Lag In the Golf Swing. Halfway down, it was like he ran on electricity and everything went unplugged. All Utley did, he insists, was help clear up a muddle in Barkleys fundamentals that prevented him from properly loading and unloading the club. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook. I'm rooting against those guys. 1, a loaded LPGA field and more to watch in golf this week, Here's everything you missed this week in professional golf, Jin Young Ko up by 2 in Singapore title defense, Quigley fires 65 for early lead in PGA Champions, Kitayama handles windy Bay Hill as Rahm falters, Tiger not part of field for next week's Players, Young stretches lead to 4 in Puerto Rico Open, Rahm stays hot, finishes strong for Bay Hill lead, Rookie Young captures Puerto Rico lead with 63. Sir Charles says he's down to a single-digit handicap after working with coach @stanutley. Start the Golf Season off right with InsideGOLF ($100 value - just $20). Chris Detsch, a Nevada pro who has caddied for Barkley in Tahoe for the past 14 years, says that he and his boss have tried a range of tricks to overcome the mental blockleft-handed, cross-handed, one-handed, eyes closed with varying degrees of success. This is 18th hole at Augusta and I'm trying to hit a little bit of a cut here around the corner, which I did. He's loaded up that right arm and right shoulder in the backswing by pushing the arms across his chest and now they feel stretched and loaded because they are so he wants to use them. He was flabbergasted even when recalling the meeting with the Hall of Fame forward. Others in Barkleys circle have seen him do the same. Youre like, Somethings going on here. Like most any first-timer, he stunk. Copyright 1996 - Forced to play Mickelson's ball, Barkley shows nice touch to knock it to kick-in range for a par to tie the hole. Its no fun. And he said, Well, you got nothing to lose. Im probably playing better than I ever have in my life with Stan.. Suffice it to say he was hooked (and would go on to hit many hooks, too). Chuck -- who's known to have a notoriously bad hitch in his swing -- has been swinging pretty smoothly and he and Phil are currently up 3 through 9 holes of the 18-hole showdown. He and Roy were as thick as thieves, always giving each other lip and just about the funniest people you could ever be around, Murphy says. The next-largest increase belongs to Tiger Woods, who increased his driving distance by 14.2 yards from 2004 to 2005. 1:05 pm ET. Critics say new PGA Tour events copy LIV. This makes it virtually impossible to use your core to initiate the down swing like every good ball striker does. You can see that as he starts down, his head drops a mile and that's because he's lunging at the ball with the right side of his body. Hes working hard at it, and hes making progress. I watch a lot of PGA TOUR Champions, Barkley, 58, said. A video posted by Bryan Bros Golf (@bryanbrosgolf) on Dec 20, 2016 at 8:30am PST. Some years ago, Detsch says he learned from a member of Barkleys inner circle, Barkley was playing in a non-Tahoe pro-am when he struck a boy in the gallery with an errant shot. They go to the back nine with a 3-up lead over Curry/Manning. Ive never met anyone who loves golf more than Chuck, Green says. So says the man himself, anyway, and evidence suggests that he might be right. Mickelson told Barkley he's tired of his "NBA on TNT" colleagues disrespecting him -- most notably Shaq -- so it was time for a little payback. Behold, the new and improved swing of Charles Barkley. I followed John for 18 holes in Birmingham and he hit only one bad shot the whole damn day. I said, Stan, I only play for charity. Barkley?! Watch his right shoulder. Barkley didn't take up golf until the relatively old age of 26. The low-key Utley waited for a quiet moment and then casually asked if the two Phoenix-area residents could get together so he could watch Barkley hit a few balls. Nasty. I said, Stan, I've worked with everybody in the world. Hes keeping his head down and behind the ball. Golf Channel, All Rights Reserved. Phil Mickelson and Charles Barkley talk on the eighth green during Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change at Stone Canyon Golf Club on November 27, 2020 in Oro Valley, Arizona. Barkley with Jim Murphy (and Murphys infant son, Kevin) in 1994. but didn't hit a bad shot either . The year is 2021, and Charles Barkley can golf?! Why? It's so funny, he calls me the day before the match and says, hey, I'm flying up, I want you to drive up and play a practice round with me. Stewart Cink is doing his best Benjamin Button. He's setup pretty athletic and he's a big boy, of course, you can see obviously he's not quite to scale on the right but I look like an infant next to him. It wasnt for lack of trying.. Yes! His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. There are few things more infamous in golf than the hitch in Charles Barkley's swing. On Friday, when Barkley takes the tee alongside Phil Mickelson, Steph Curry and Peyton Manning in the latest edition of Capital Ones The Match, a televised charitable event at Stone Canyon Golf Club, in Oro Valley, Ariz., he will do so as the worlds most famously bad golfer, notorious for the hitch make that, hitches in his swing. Nowadays, if theres a voice rattling in Barkleys head, it might just be razzing from Roy Green. Among swing gurus and armchair shrinks alike, the yips have been compared to post-traumatic stress disorder. The tournament is a 54-hole modified Stableford format. First, let's talk about Charles' normal move. If you taught Charles Barkley to use his core to bring the club down instead of trying to use his right arm and right shoulder like everybody wants to do, he wouldn't struggle with this anymore. One year, Detsch taped two of his own business cards inside Barkleys sunglasses and had him play some shots, like a thoroughbred with blinders. I'm playing really, really well. Busted After Ariana Found Sexual Texts to Raquel. He remembers when Charles Barkley had a buttery swing. With the NBA playoffs heating up, Barkley and his co-hosts are busy on the set of the hit TV show Inside the NBA on TNT. And hes working hard to get better. This time it features 4 NFL stars, Manningcast may be coming to golf. My friends call him Mr. Miyagi. No amount of statistical camouflage could hide what had become golfs greatest tragicomedy, heartbreaking but hilarious, as difficult to watch as it was to look away. note: The original clip we used to break down Barkleys swing has been deleted.). Charles Barkley put in some serious work on that golf swing. How to Swing a Golf Club Like a Pro FAST! Kun kytt sivustojamme ja sovelluksiamme, kytmme, tarjotaksemme sivustomme ja sovelluksemme sinulle, todentaaksemme kyttjt, estksemme roskapostia ja vrinkytksi sek toteuttaaksemme tietoturvatoimia. I agree to receive the "CBS Sports HQ Newsletter" and marketing communications, updates, special offers (including partner offers), and other information from CBS Sports and the Paramount family of companies. To break the habit, Utley says he told Barkley to feel like his wrists were throwing the club head backward to start the downswing. Where the golf ball should be positioned at setup. Nobody wants to suck. He walked the first round at the Regions Tradition following his pal John Daly, with whom he played in the pro-am a week later at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic outside Atlanta. Szokol opens with 64, up 3 shots in Singapore, More PGA Tour changes: No cuts, smaller fields, Rahm sought Tiger's advice on staying No. He was looking as good as Ive seen him in a long time, Murphy says. I like walking. Woods finished second in driving distance in four different seasons, but he never led the field. Sir Charles says he's down to a single-digit handicap after working with coach @stanutley. Nov. 27 at Stone Canyon Golf Club in Oro Valley, Arizona. Barkley even told a local news outlet that he's down to a single-digit handicap. It is truly an incredible swing transformation and it should provide some hope to everyone out there that if Charles Barkley can fix his golf swing, you too can can put the work in to fix something in your life. DeChambeau was not always this long off the tee. Jos et halua meidn ja kumppaneidemme kyttvn evsteit ja henkiltietoja nihin listarkoituksiin, napsauta Hylk kaikki. 18 years ago, Charles Barkley threw a ball at Shaq's head. Percentage of distance covered by tee shot. Oh man. We all got a good laugh out of it, Murphy says. like, if you said, 'Hey, what's the weather like?' We grab dinner and talk about where we are in life, how everybody's life is going. Hes done some remarkable things, Barkley said. His head has gotten almost back to square with the golf ball and the stability on his lead leg is incredible, as hes driving that weight through but keeping that leg stable rather than waving through the ball. That's (again) on pace to pass Bubba Watson's mark from back in 2014-15. Now, where the swing really changes is in the downswing. Unfortunately, Charles didn't follow up with a hole-in-one, but didn't hit a bad shot either which has been the story of the day so far. I meet a bunch of same friends. Its crazy how hard golf is. It hasn't been fun for me for 25 years to play golf. Playing with John and David Toms and Ive played with some other PGA TOUR Champions players playing with a pro its just crazy how good they are, Barkley said. What are some of your goals this time around? Now I mentioned earlier in the video that he's made a change that he stuck with for a while and it actually completely got rid of this hitch and it was, he actually switched to left hand low or a cross handed grip. Two guys from different parts of the world and different professions but both being pro athletes. The NBA legend was in the middle of taking questions from a handful of local media outlets at a news conference just behind the range when he halted things. I said the other day if I would have known you guys were going to make fun of me for not winning the championship I would have joined a super team back in my day. The Hall of Famer had a disastrous hitch in his swing that made it look like he was trying to pump fake mid-downswing and led to him being abjectly awful at the game he loves so much. I love being out there and nobody wants pictures and autographs. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook. The setup is straight out of the Matt Kuchar playbook -- let the driver head rest just above the ground a little bit behind the ball. The cross handed grip forces you to pull with the left side of the body instead of pushing with the right side. I don't know him that well. I think you just have to keep trying things and sometimes it clicks. Heres who could be on it. At Gainey Ranch Golf Club, one of Green and Barkleys favorite Scottsdale-area courses, then director of golf Jim Murphy, who is now the clubs general manager, became part of the hit-and-giggle-at-the-other-guy gaggle. All Rights Reserved. . You must love something dearly to make it your wedding theme; thats exactly what one couple did in honor of the Masters. (Ed. "Again," deadpans Hank Haney from . No, man, I just want the damn weather.