Kerrod Gray Busts 5 Deadly Myths that are Ruining Your Golfswing

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Kerrod Gray says fixing casting starts in the backswing and transition, not by trying to hold lag on the way down.

1. On the Mark Golf Podcast frames Kerrod Gray Busts 5 Deadly Myths that are Ruining Your Golfswing as a lesson-driven golf instruction episode. 2. Mark Immelman hosts Kerrod Gray, a PGA coach from Perth, Western Australia, whose online instruction matters because he teaches drills and collaborates with coaches worldwide. 3. The episode asks how golfers can strip away confusing swing theories and replace them with simple drills that improve contact, rhythm, and ball flight. 4. Mark cites a student review saying the drills “stripped everything back one move at a time” and helped the golfer feel “easy” and hit “more fairways.” 5. Gray says golfers are surrounded by information from “every single feed” on social media and from “your buddies down at the driving range.” 6. He argues that players have never been more educated and “never been more confused,” which is why myth-busting instruction matters. 7. Gray’s first myth targets the idea that the backswing and downswing are two different motions with a pause in between. 8. He says a professional swing looks continuous, compares it to a playground swing, and uses Hideki Matsuyama as a visual example. 9. Gray warns that thinking of the swing as a two-piece motion creates tension, jerkiness, and bad sequencing. 10. He prescribes a step-through drill in which the golfer steps and swings to encourage natural lower-body lead. 11. Mark links that drill to Gary Player, who has long emphasized getting “through the ball completely.” 12. Gray says the same drill can be adapted into a step-swing rhythm that also helps recenter the body and improve patience at the top. 13. Mark and Gray then discuss practice swings versus shots with a ball, noting how the presence of the ball often produces a hit impulse. 14. Gray uses the image of a ball rolling toward you to explain that golfers should step, swing, and move toward a target rather than hit at a static ball. 15. He says elite players often train reactiveness and proprioception with drills that make them move around the ball and adjust to different lies. 16. Gray later contrasts this with the ego problem of practice, noting that players do not like drills that make them look bad in front of other people. 17. The tone stays practical and instructional, with Mark interrupting often to add personal teaching examples, named players, and his own launch-monitor testing. 18. Gray answers in a calm, technical style and repeatedly offers a drill for each myth, which keeps the format grounded in application. 19. Golfers who want simple drills for tempo, sequencing, and contact will get the most from this episode. 20. Golfers looking for a short theory talk without swing exercises may want to skip it.

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Myth-busting swing talk that stays grounded in contact, feel, and repeatable ball flight.

The episode keeps its focus on myth busting and practical swing work, picking up the thread from the earlier AMG Athletic Motion Golf conversation. Mark keeps circling back to drills, body rhythm, and the kind of feedback that can change skepticism into better contact.

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If your swing feels too theoretical, this brings it back to contact and feel.

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