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Tommy Armour 1931 #golf #golfswing #history youtube.com/shorts/ui7VRhD… a través de @YouTube

I agree. I come across my posts all over the place but when it’s in batches it really gets under my skin. Then another level again when they ignore you bringing it to their attention in the comments of the posts. The cheesy guy with “the miracle swing” was doing it a while back too.

@GolfLibrary Had no idea he was doing that. I had to call out @CaddieNetwork for doing the same. Stealing content is never the way to run accounts.

Ian Ellis aka Fairway Flashbacks is currently the biggest thief on golf social media. People like him are why a lot of the people that actually spend time and money digitising this old footage don’t do it as much now. All of the hundreds of posts he has made on Facebook and YouTube over the past few months are stolen from other accounts. I asked months ago in the comments for him to take them down as some of the more special ones not only have sentimental value as films that are one of one but also cost a lot of time and money to digitise. That he is now crediting my YouTube channel on X posts for films that he knows are on X is taking it to another level. I blocked him on here months ago when I saw the first large batch he had taken. At that time he would occasionally credit this X account. I haven’t blocked him on YouTube because on there he didn’t once credit any of my accounts and so I have been waiting months for a reply to the comments I left. Instead of replying he has in the last 48 hours stolen another large batch of my work from there. Imagine the mess golf social media would be in if everyone decided “oh I’ve got an idea, I’m going to pinch everything I like from everyone else and post it under my own name, brilliant”. There would be thousands and thousands of posts to trawl through and it would be more and more difficult to find anyone breaking new ground. There are a lot of these aggregators but thank you to everyone not doing that. There is one account here on X who steals very old vintage golf films from other platforms, mainly YouTube, and instead of crediting them puts his watermark over the top! A friend told me a while back that bigger accounts like KVV are actually supporting Ian Ellis by making a post about him being a great archivist. If that’s what it takes to get some recognition in this game then I shouldn’t have spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars and enormous amounts of time that I have sourcing this material and then taking it from the original reels through to digital. More efficient to just steal it. It would be much easier to cherry pick from everyone else. If you watch some of the videos Ian Ellis posts he has notifications popping up while he is screen recording from the other pages! The unfortunate thing is a lot of people are seeing these videos for the first time and don’t realise that more than 99% of the accounts are just on a merry go round of posting from others and justifying the theft by mentioning the account in the description. There is no actual permission having been granted and the viewer doesn’t open up the description and read it til the end anyway.

@golf_difusion @necky_fade It’s touching that you are uniting after my post. As I’ve said before I’d love to see a clip of some of your reels. @jbay, myself and other golf nerds love that sort of thing.

@GolfLibrary @necky_fade

Denny Shute won The Open in 1933 and the PGA Championship in 1936 and 1937. He had a beautiful golf swing.

@golf_difusion Have you seen a watermark on any of my posts?

@GolfLibrary Denny Shute won The Open in 1933 Yes same one. They have their own unique “watermarks”.

@golf_difusion @necky_fade You missed my point. 1947, 1953, 1955, 1963 and 1965 are already online. I have 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969. They are not online. I have been trying to fill the gaps. I’ve reached out to Canadians like @cdngolftraveler but haven’t had any luck.

@GolfLibrary @necky_fade

Charlie Sifford with his trademark swagger, and a spin move.

@jbayzzz Love it

@GolfLibrary I agree. Us golf sickos, elbow deep in our collections are sick and tired of being ripped off.

It didn’t take long.

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The centered (or left) pivot lobby has tried to both USE Ben Hogan as a model, AND not properly show his early rightward shift. Not only does Hogan shift right DRAMATICALLY early, but he turns his shoulders relatively flat. Not for everyone, but definitely for a lot of people!!

Seve Ballesteros loved to practice on sand. When it was raining at the beach in Pedrena he would hit off sand under covered hitting bays at the local golf course. The opposite of the much more forgiving artificial turf we use today.

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Ben Hogan told Ken Venturi he played his best in 1948 and 1949 just before his car accident. In another interview he said he couldn’t get in on his left leg as much as before. Here is some beautiful vision of his golf swing from October, 1948.

Seve

Seve

Arnold Palmer

@GolfLibrary Dad?

If your coach doesn’t have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth is he really a good coach?

@nutsncolts A special place @RoyalAdelaideGC

Royal Adelaide A course and club that glistens pure class

@HertsTimelord @PGATOUR There were a lot of these types of TV matches going on. There was also World Series Golf and World Championship Golf. And All Star Golf then Shells Wonderful World of Golf and CBS Golf Classic.

@GolfLibrary Yes the "World Series" was initially an unofficial 36 holes event, involving the 4 Major winners that was played alongside a regular @PGATOUR event, with huge guaranteed (though unofficial) money for the time.

It’s 1963 and the PGA aren’t happy about players skipping tournaments to play exhibition golf.

@Patrick87892410 I’m glad one person got it.

@GolfLibrary The Florida Department of Highway and Motor Vehicles is going to want him to install a new style of interlock.

17 year old Tiger with the interlock installed.