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There are six immortals in the game of golf. All the analytics tell you is the further you hit it.

Right. The better you are. And, you know, that's become the modern golf swing, a kind of bludgeoning.

If you play golf, you know the deal. You take lessons. You take a tip from YouTube, you practice, you integrate, and then it works until it doesn't.

And you're back in square one.

Simply put, you've joined the quest for the perfect swing.

So if you're obsessed with breaking 80 or 90, blasting at 280, or hitting it down the middle, you've come to the right

place.

This is Golf Smart is Correct the Mistakes.

And now, here's your host, Josh Car.

Today, I'm lucky enough to have Stephen Proctor, who is a golf historian here with us, to talk

about the history of the golf swing.

Stephen, thank you for taking the time to do this.

I'm delighted to be on. I really appreciate the opportunity. It's always fun to talk about

the history of golf for me. Yeah, well, you've written several great books about it. So where do we

start? The St. Andrews swing? Yes, no, that's the beginning. I would say that you have to think

about the swing as something that evolves with the

course conditions that you played in, with the technology that was available to you, in particular

the evolution of the ball.

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