Favorite Pros?

I think of the STS more as a framework for understanding how the swing works, so lots of players do a good job of maximizing their swings to get a really powerful swing with great flat spot and club fact control. So I like most swings that perform well.

Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas a few years back, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, and yes, Xander and Scottie Scheffler.

But I also like the non-traditional versions. I used to really like Joe Durant and Jim Furyk.

For me it's like looking at someone's posture. I can respect people with really good posture, but I also love seeing people with an injured area who still move really well because they've reintegrated as best they can.

Happy Golfing,
Tyler

That’s appropriately wise while also being appropriately inscrutable.
In terms of a naked transmission of power, what some might term a “vanilla” swing, Xander stands out to me in terms of his downswing sequence and his release as a model of STS philosophy.

Alas, just when I’m starting to feel like I understand where you’re coming from, I come to understand I don’t understand where you’re coming from.

Still, I try!
Dogged determination is a quality I possess.

Your student,
Zach

I'm not trying to dodge the question. Maybe it'll help if I share what I use in lessons. I have a few clips redily available to show students. This videos have swings of

Xander
Scottie
Jon Rahm
Rory
Adam Scott
Nelly Korda
Lydia Ko
Justin Thomas (pre steepening slump)
Victor Hovland
Dustin Johnson
Tiger
Brooks Koepka

I use different clips to highlight different aspects of the swing as well as to explain relationships.

Does that help?
Tyler

It does, although most helpful would be what you like best from each of them.

I don’t expect that level of your time though; that’s unreasonable. And I’m just ribbing you about being inscrutable - you wouldn’t quite be doing your job if some of your students didn’t lightly mythologize you!

I keep climbing

Z

I use this picture in a lot of my presentations for coaches, with the question, "Who is doing the best stretch?" The trick with the golf swing is that "multiple" stretches are going on simultaneously. So usually when I'm showing a student a swing, it's to highlight one part of the movement. How a golfer achieves a good pivot, how they control low point, how they control the club face etc.

Going back to the stretch analogy, that means two people could be in the same position and not have the same stretch, or they could be in slightly different positions and have the same stretch. In golf, I think the latter is more important. So the swings I like look like they are distributing the stretch over a long chain with good timing. All the names listed, and many more, satisfy that goal and play great :)

Tyler

That’s terrifically helpful, actually.

Thank you. I’m endlessly intrigued by the mind that

A) wrote the unified equation and
B) knew when it was complete

I don’t know if it’s complete, but it seems to get simpler for me rather than more complex. So it makes me feel like I’m on the right track :)