Always loved his swing. He stated he just played golf, but he was quite the technician of the swing. Pair that with a winning personality and sense of humor, and you have a legend.

Lee is one of the most knowledgeable golfers in the world and also able to communicate well. I would also recommend his book "Groove Your Swing My Way" if you can find a copy. It's a real treasure that requires reading several times. But it is perhaps the best instructional books on the golf swing there is. I know I'll get a lot of replies telling me I'm wrong. But consider that Ben Hogan used to send Lee prototype clubs to test. And didn't do that with any other golfer.

Lee Trevino is my favorite golfer

you can't see any daylight between his legs because he's setting up in a closed stance. there's not a huge difference in his hips at impact. if he'd set up open, i'd say it would have been almost identical

He took it more outside on the backswing in his later years no doubt to get more of a draw. As you said, he didn’t have the rotation of his younger days when he just rotated that left forearm on that very flat plane on his backswing and turned his ass off in the downswing. Thanks for this comparison. It’s the only one I’ve seen

Very strong athletic man, underrated for his strength and athletic ability. Great hitter

He won't rotate open at impact as much with a closed stance as with an open stance. No-one could no matter how old!

It seems like his original swing was very right hand dominant but with low rotation of the arms that would cause a draw / hook. It is like he is chopping wood very hard. But, he adjusted it to get the best low flying push / cut that would always stay in the fairway. It would not run off at the end into the edge of the rough. I wonder what his fairways hit stat looked like.

If he was 35 on the swing on the left that would mean it was 1974 and his driver is a metal wood which really did not appear on the tour until the early 80’s, So I would say he was probably around 44 years old.

I did the opposite as I got older, I went with the open stance. I never could hit a consistent draw anyway. Now I hit it pretty much straight or with a bit of fade. If Lee hadn't been struck by lightning, he might still be using the old set-up. Plus he had a steel plate inserted in his neck, to fuse the vertebrae.

I agree with most of what you say. I would suggest that Trevino didn't actually rotate his hips much as he really pre-cleared his hips with his open stance. That created the strong lateral leg drive move he had that kept the face on the target line longer. The opposite is Rory in that the sets up square and rotates so much the is clubface is not square very long and subesequently is a very average short iron player.

Great analysis!

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I came here after looking at Wolff swing it. To me Wolff owes something to Lee. What interested me was Wolff kicking his left heel up high at the top. That reminds me of couples. Will never forget the footage of Lee being interviewed in the commentary box, round 2 of the 1987 us open at Olympic. Couples comes on the screen and Dave marr(?) asks Lee about him. And he says "ow yeah, this is my maaan, I call him cup-cakes!"

very clever man must try this draw set up

The only thing Lee Trevino changed was his ball flight. Any difference you see in his action is direct Reflection of that as well as his body wearing down.

at 2:50 he has a closed stance in order to make more of a shoulder turn. With a closed stance, he can no longer turn around his right hip. As we get old and lose flexibility a closed stance is going to help to get a full shoulder turn on the back swing. It has NOTHING to do with a draw. Lee always said "Play a fade. Hogan won five Opens with a fade, so did Nicklaus and so did I. A HOOK won't listen to you , but a fade will."

his swing path is a little flatter on the left (younger) when he brings it back on the right watch the club head is a little outside the line coming back gives him a little bit more speed when he is older, club head at parallel on the right is right at his head on the left the club head at parallel is behind his head. I would take both of them.

best body rotation maybe ever

Can't see daylight between his knees because of the closed stance, which also accounts for the alteration in hip rotation.

Does Lee swing his arms on the way back and turn his body on the way down ? (swing right and turn left)

One other thing, Lee told me he changed from his famous strong lead hand grip to an interlock, to get a tad more action/rotation through the ball, no holding on for him anymore

70s maybe but Im in my 50s and getting longer on more powerful!

Moe Norman is the only golfer who's swing improved with time, until his health deteriorated. He hit it further and straighter.

Sorry to say you missed the biggest difference. His earlier swing at address Was like Moe Norman Shaft line was straight up the right and left arm

No 👎 ⛔ 📵 The camera was set up wrong. On the left he was instructing how to hit a draw on the left as well.....Your camera angles are totally different.

As countless numbers of videos and films show, Lee Trevino is fifty-years famous for squirreling back and forth around the ball before finally setting his feet in a position he found acceptable. Therefore, a video of his stance which has been edited to show his stance only after he has completed all his squirreling around can be greatly misleading and generate a lot of false conclusions. To paraphrase Lee: 'I just could never hit a ball straight if it was forward in my stance, so on the tee I moved around a lot to get the ball more in the middle of my stance, you know what I'm sayin'?'' He also famously said that to hit a draw, he opened his stance, instead of closing it. And finally, Lee was famed for his ability to hit a controlled fade--the preferred shot of both Hogan and Nicklaus, both of whom hit their fade off the tee using a closed stance. In short, Lee's stance--whether we 'see' it as being open or closed, whether at age 35 or 65, whether it is with or without an observable space between the knees, was the result of trying many different stances on the tee box in his consistent plan to strike the ball in the middle of his stance relative to his target line, usually in a controlled fade toward the right side of the fairway. If we watch Lee in old film and videos, we can easily observe that Lee repeatedly changed his stance multiple times before every tee shot in his career. Changing his stance in this edited video has nothing to do with his increased age. We can easily find these two videos in reverse: Lee using a closed stance when he was 35 and using an open stance when he was 65.

Mate , he himself says he never played a fade. Open stance with a push that says statement you can find it if you do the research.

His feet appear to have shrunk LOL

someone already did a video on this exact thing a few years ago

Awful, awful analysis. 1. Trevino's open stance wasn't a "setup for a fade". Trevino explained, repeatedly, why it was easier to hit a draw with that open stance. 2. The majority of the difference in hip angle at impact is due to the difference in setup. He's set up 20 degrees+ more closed in the video at right.

Looks like a baseball swing… As flat as I’ve ever seen…