Brandel Chamblee praises Matt Wolff’s ‘game changing’ win and ‘pure genius’ swing

Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee is one of the most thought-provoking pundits in the game, and one of the guys who takes his time to study the history of the golf swing and formulate his own opinions about them, whether you agree with them or not. Recently, he’s been learning-up from George Gankas, a GOLF Top 100 Teacher and the coach of newly-minted PGA Tour winner Matt Wolff.

Here’s video of his lesson from a few weeks ago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYwxWpAyg8/

Ever since, the Golf Channel analyst has reserved high praise for Gankas. On Twitter last month, he said that Gankas was one of the few teachers who had “deciphered [Hogan’s] genius.”

Certain Hogan swing elements are only just now being accurately taught by a few teachers who have deciphered his genius. @LucasWald works with Viktor Hovland @GeorgeGankas works with Matt Wolff
Two-part documentary explaining his myth on @GolfChannel Monday&Tuesday this week. pic.twitter.com/pR0qa6emtn

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) June 18, 2019

And various other of Gankas’ swing principles have permeated Chamblee’s thinking, like setting up with a rounded back and upright posture, and rotating the shoulder internally on the backswing (you can read more about Gankas’ swing thoughts here)…

Setups don’t get much better than this, rounded back, tush in, standing tall a la Sam Snead… Fred Couples. pic.twitter.com/qbrqxZtzzN

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 5, 2019

The best example anyone could ever offer of the proper way to setup to a ball, from the man who authored golf’s greatest career, Jack Nicklaus. Rounded back, tush in, stand tall. pic.twitter.com/muNn8rDHKS

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 6, 2019

Want to swing like the legends? The left shlder internally rotates on the backswing, the left arm draws back across the body, not straight back, the rt arm/elbow stays high, the rt wrist pronated, setting up a stretch-shorten cycle to reverse the process and shallow out dn swing. pic.twitter.com/IUtbdjyaOa

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 6, 2019

Needless to say, with Chamblee being such a big fan of the work Gankas and Wolff are doing together, he was over the moon at the former Oklahoma State standout’s victory in Minnesota Sunday. He called it game-changing and said Wolff’s swing was “pure genius.”

We are watching the game change right before our eyes. Players find on @YouTube and #socialmedia the best swings/ideas of the past/present and educate themselves. Once armed, they can dispense with so much of the nonsense that was taught up until recent. His swing is pure genius. https://t.co/vE9jab03qP

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 8, 2019

Three players: Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods and Matthew Wolff. https://t.co/81h1ZPvYni

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 8, 2019

They are not reinventing the swing; merely playing with the same athletic freedom before drivel sent teaching into the dark ages of playing with a “stable base” of “swinging efficiently” of “keeping the club in front of them” & my favorite “maintaining the flex in the right leg.” https://t.co/f6jsyhY4pe

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 8, 2019

That works fine, as long as you have a world class swing with legendary moves and a fierce ambition to succeed. Otherwise not so much. https://t.co/0hGxZAagfM

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) July 8, 2019