How do you swing a golf club?

If any golf learner shuffled their feet like Scottie Scheffler they would immediately be told to stop shuffling their feet.

You’ll never be a golfer if you keep shuffling your feet, I can imagine the learner being told.

So what do Scheffler’s advisors tell him? I would bet there would be no mention of his shuffling feet.

Scheffler is the world’s No 1 ranked player. He has won three major championships — The Masters in 2022 and 2024 and the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina last month,.

He has won 15 times on the PGA Tour, four times on the European Tour and last year won an Olympic gold medal. He is only 28 years old.

So how can some shuffle their feet like Scottie does and yet be so good?

I don’t have any answers but it perhaps underlines everybody has their own swing. There is no one way to swing a golf stick.

Scheffler’s shuffle is not minor. It’s a serious shuffle and you sometimes wonder how he, sometimes, doesn’t fall over.

I recently watched a comic video which mimicked Scheffler’s shuffle and the final image was that of the player’s feet having completely turned backwards.

It made me laugh but it also amplified that there is no such thing as a perfect swing. When you are watching the best golfers in the world on the television they all have their different swings.

One of the oddest swings of recent times was that of Jim Furyk. He won the 2003 US Open and has 17 wins on the PGA Tour but when he makes a swing it looks like he is casting a fishing rod.

It shouldn’t work. But it does. And what about Furyk's golf grip? Furyk overlaps two fingers of his right hand, and always has done. Astonishing.

What about Bryson DeChambeau? He is known for his outstanding power and the way he smashes the ball with all his might.

DeChambeau uses an extra thick grip which should make it well-nigh impossible to generate all that power. But the most notable thing about his swing is that there is hardly any wrist break. And that should also mitigate against him hitting the ball as far as he does.

Do you remember John Daly? Daly turned golf upside down when he arrived at Crooked Stick and won the 1991 PGA Championship with a display of driving the likes of which we had never witnessed before. And he also won The Open in 1995 at St Andrews in Scotland.

Yet his backswing was enormous, his driver passing way, way, way beyond parallel at the top of a never-ending backswing. But he always maintained perfect poise and balance.

There are many more examples of odd swings of the bests golfers in the world. So how can they be so good?