Question:
I saw an infomercial this morning on ESPN2 for Dalton McCrary’s video to help eliminate slicing. Has anyone seen the tape? Is it worthwhile? Anyone interested in selling it? Contact me via email. Thanks… Grady
Response:
I saw an infomercial this morning on ESPN2 for Dalton McCrary’s video to help eliminate slicing. Has anyone seen the tape? Is it worthwhile? Anyone interested in selling it? Contact me via email. Thanks… Grady
Grady, this review was done by me just over a year ago. Hope it helps. I’m a study of the golf swing and REALLY enjoy new material on golf instruction. Please allow me to give you an amateur opinion this golfing system. Dalton’s System includes two tapes and a booklet that you get to keep even if you return everything. If the system is returned you get $25 more than you paid for the system originally. Rating (1 to 10 – 10 being outstanding): 2 QUALITY: The quality of the tape was horrible….. I mean it. It looked like someone copied a copy of a tape by someone (rank amateur) who was recording the session with a camcorder. (Really!) The sound quality was equally poor since this too was done from the camcorder source. Lighting didn’t allow you to see the clubhead many times and anything having to do with the ball flight (even if any attempt was made to follow it) was not visible. The lessons involved Dalton (a reputed golfing guru from Texas who now has skin cancer and cannot teach outdoors…hmmmmm) teaching a group of pathetically unathletic people how to swing a golf club his way. That sounds really cruel, but I don’t want to witness some extremely overweight guy from Chicago repeatedly shank the ball when I’m trying to learn something. (Yes, there is a guy repeatedly shanking in this video!) I expect to see Dalton hitting the ball or a similar teaching assistant. The two guys who were being given a group lesson couldn’t reproduce the correct motions and this was frustrating. Very little footage of Dalton hitting the ball was included and what was had such poor quality you couldn’t see where the ball landed. Was the shot really as straight as you can point? Heck, I couldn’t tell you. The booklet (that you get to keep btw) is a photocopied piece of garbage with absolutely no instruction in it. No wonder you get to keep it. CONTENT: The tape has very little to offer in the way of drills because you are watching a couple of hackers trying to learn to hit the ball – no kidding! Dalton is a charismatic teaching pro and has many firm ideas on why people do not improve with contemporary golf instruction – all given in a Texas drawl and with many colloquial terms thrown in. The swing is VERY upright and involves the right hand contorting way over the left early in the downswing (wristy motion) and a contrived movement that puts the right foot up on the toe, but offers nothing to the power of the golf swing. My left shoulder still hurts (3 mo.) from the upright swing. Some of the contact was good and fairly accurate, but certainly not as straight as you can point. You also lose 1 1/2 clubs distance. A second tape comes with the set that is basically the $$$ backer and a Chicago clubmaker peddling his wares. Very upright clubs to complement Dalton’s swing that come with grips of a uniform thickness (not a bad idea) instead of the normal grips that taper down the shaft. Btw, the tape really falls apart when Dalton finishes this "masterpiece" by thanking everyone for the chance to do this tape and make him a millionaire – NO KIDDING. Anyway, I got my money back plus $25. The choice is yours. If you have any other questions, e-mail me. Scott