{"id":44772,"date":"2025-07-07T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44772\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:31:08","slug":"the-swing-tip-fred-couples-gave-out-that-every-amateur-golfer-can-easily-work-on-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44772\/","title":{"rendered":"The swing tip Fred Couples gave out that every amateur golfer can easily work on at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fred Couples is known for having one of the very smoothest and easy on the eye swings in golf so if he\u2019s giving out tips on how to be just like him, it\u2019s worth a listen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Couples has won more than 60 times around the world and has 15 PGA Tour wins to his name in that period, including the 1992 Masters.<\/p>\n<p>For many, within golf and from outside, Couples\u2019 swing epitomises what a good swing should look like.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, executing it just like Couples is a different matter but given he\u2019s now 65 and things look relatively the same, it\u2019s safe to say the American has been doing something right over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully for us mere mortals though, Couples has previously opened up about just what he does to swing it as he does.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2219110346-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"American Family Insurance Championship 2025 - Round Two\" \/>Photo by David Berding\/Getty ImagesHow to swing a golf club like Fred Couples<\/p>\n<p>If every player in the world at any level swung it like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/fred-couples\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Couples<\/a>, then everyone would improve. It\u2019s just a fact.<\/p>\n<p>His swing is so effortless and smooth that it\u2019s the envy of many, even on TOUR.<\/p>\n<p>Still, over a decade ago, Couples was generous enough with his time for Golf Digest to explain just what he\u2019s trying to feel for when hitting a golf ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can try and make a couple of key points, I think for me\u2026.if I make a full shoulder turn, I think every good player or every good amateur wants to do that. But once I get the shoulder turn right I don\u2019t think about the change in direction and once I start coming, my hips will come this way but my club does not follow my hips, therefore getting no power,\u201d Couples explained.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo get the club up here, and I release as it comes down. And when I say release, I don\u2019t mean this way or you\u2019re going to hit it a mile right but if you can learn to clear your hips and release the club down the line towards the ball, not back here, then there\u2019s a point I think about when I make contact, I release the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what I call past the ball. So my point of release is right at the ball, not back here so when I get there, I pretty much go after it with everything I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why Tiger Woods mocked Fred Couples in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Everyone on the PGA Tour knows that Fred Couples and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegolfinggazette.com\/tag\/tiger-woods\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> have a great relationship and over the years they\u2019ve very much formed a brilliant friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Woods is never shy at missing a moment to mock his old friend and that was on display in 2024 as Woods looked at Couples\u2019 new set up.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip shared by the PGA Tour, Woods is seen mocking Couples for having six woods in his bag.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Couples will care little. At 65 he\u2019s still more than capable of competing and if that means using a few more clubs for more distance, so be it. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fred Couples is known for having one of the very smoothest and easy on the eye swings in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[34672,1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-44772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-fred-couples","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114809371844717554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}