Don't copy my swing, Furyk warns wannabes
For the 33-year-old will always be more famous for possessing the most unconventional swing in golf than for winning a Major championship.
Former tour pro turned TV pundit David Ferherty once described the Furyk action as a man trying to kill a snake in a phone booth.
“I thought it was funny,” said Furyk. “I didn’t take it personally. If you can’t poke fun at yourself, it’s no fun.”
But when quizzed if he would recommend his swing to anyone he had no hesitation in replying, “I wouldn’t.”
Furyk said his swing was always considered strange, but no one ever tried to tell him when he was a teenager he had to change it if he ever wanted to make a life as a professional golfer.
“I never actually ever had anyone recommend that I make swing changes, probably for the reason you’d have to be a pretty cold person to walk-up to a 15-year-old and tell him his swing stinks. My dad was my teacher, so he heard it. He took some criticism, he took some blame that my swing was awkward and they didn’t feel it would hold up on Tour,” said Furyk.
Furyk admitted that if his father had not stood by his convictons his career could have been totally different.
“If I took my swing and made it look like the textbook perfect swing when I was a kid I may not be sitting here today. I may not have turned out to be a good player, because it wasn’t comfortable for me,” he said.
“If you can do it repetitively it doesn’t matter how it looks. That’s what's important.”
He set a new lowest 36-hole record and then added the lowest 54-holes record on Saturday. But it was Furyk’s ice cold performance on Sunday that impressed most, as he and Leaney went head-to-head.
