Minimalist Golf Swing

The Minimalist Golf Swing SYSTEM – what it encompasses The MGS SYSTEM (as presented at the World Scientific Congress of Golf 2012) is not merely a swing method or style or even a scientific yet unorthodox way to make a full-swing. It is the world’s only 100% objective golf swing system* which results in an […]

MGS and the Junior Golfer If you have a child/grandchild you’d like to casually introduce to golf without scaring them away for life, the ideal way to do it is introduce them to the Minimalist Golf Swing. Why MGS? Even a 5 year old understands success and can tell that hitting worm-burners while the doting […]

What is the pre-shot routine and why does it matter? It is different things to different people, and can be used as both a physical check-list to make sure none of the important steps of the set-up are unintentionally omitted, and as a mental routine to get from the planning stage to the playing stage […]

Please splurge on a copy of the May 2012 issue of Golf Digest Magazine. Why? See the section on ‘birdies and bogeys’!

The Chip Shot – a la MGS! What exactly is the chip shot? It has variously been defined as: A lofted shot in which the ball travels further along the ground than it does in the air. OR A short, low-trajectory shot played to the green or from trouble back into play – the shot […]

A great response from Bill. Have replied with useful TO DO thoughts in order to get into the positions suggested by Bill. And a picture from the new MGS-er himself: Test Your Understanding of MGS Calling all MGS Practitioners. Test YOUR understanding of MGS, and, at the same time, help a rookie MGS-er ‘get-it’. Tell […]

The Minimalist Golf Swing SYSTEM For those MGS followers who believe MGS is all about the full-swing, it is NOT. The Minimalist Golf Swing System basically assesses the body position which will deliver the club to the ball at impact, according to the type of shot the golfer wishes to make, (ie. straight-far-high or soft-high […]

Of Birdies and Bogies A new section in this blog, with tongue in cheek comments on the many birdies and bogies of golf – and life. Which, for most people who’d visit this blog mean the same thing!

The famed and dreaded OTT Never realized until I heard a ‘formal’ description of Over-the-Top by Greg Rose of Titleist Performance Institute at the March 2012 World Scientific Congress of Golf that there are at least 12 different definitions of the phenomenon! The typical OTT definition is of the clubshaft being over – in normal […]

Feeling nostalgic about Disney? No time to visit Coney Island? Never fear, MGS will give you all the ferris-wheel and merry-go-round rides you could ever want! The arms will go ferris-wheel and the body merry-go-round, and you’ll never be left in mid-air wondering if you’re suddenly on a ferris-go-round or a merry-wheel! How? All golf […]