Jeffrey Jenkins left a comment on my put up approximately Manuel de l. A. Torre's dying asking if de los angeles Torre (and Ernest Jones, who was a big have an impact on on him) taught a swing technique just like a British instructor named Leslie King. I idea a number of you is probably interested to learn a chunk approximately him.
King taught a method known as the Swing Factory, which he developed back in the 1920s. It's based around a free arm swing -- that is, the arms swing independently of the body and thus pull the body around, rather than the body pulling the arms around. King taught a large number of people, but his most famous student was probably Sean Connery. King taught him how to play for the James Bond movie Goldfinger. King also helped Gary Player and Juli Inkster, among others.
Here's an vintage Golfweek article that tells you a bit about King and the those who preserve to teach his swing technique. (The school is Knightsbridge Golf School, in London.) In solution to Jeffrey, this newsletter absolutely says that:
He changed into very much at the same page as Ernest Jones, who ran a comparable indoor faculty in New York. Both guys believed in the importance of the fingers inside the swing.And here's a link I found to a 12-chapter how-to booklet on King's swing technique. I've only browsed it but it looks very interesting. And since it appears that none of King's original instruction manuals are available here in America -- at least, all of Amazon's listings were for out-of-print editions -- this may be the best way to learn about what he taught. (There are some books by Steve Gould and DJ Wilkinson, however. You can find the list at the Knightsbridge site.)
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