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From Mike Witte:
A Cartoonist Draws New Insight
Blessed with three athletic sons, illustrator Mike Witte began coaching Little League, which eventually grew into a personal quest for the mechanical secret of hitting a baseball. He began an obsessive search of his own, spending htousands of hours freeze-framing videos. As an artist, he found what others had missed. So insightful were his findings that both the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals brought him on as a hitting consultant. He has since applied his discoveries to the golf swing, with dramatic results.
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As you swing through impact, think out "pinching" your left upper forearm forcefully back against your forward turning torso - this is the key move.
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From Andrew Mullin:
Take It From the Top
Surely there has never been a more outlandishly different swing theory than the one advanced by Andrew Mullin. For years, at his driving range in Columbus, Georgia, Mullin taught golfers to hit the ball without taking a backswing. "The backswing adds nothing to the power or accuracy of a golf shot." he reasoned, "it simply provides an opportunity for error". So he began starting his pupils from a position similar to the baseball batter's stance - fully coiled and ready to swing through. When GOLF Magazine featured his theory in 1975, it attracted enormous attention, and among those to give the idea verbal endorsement was Johnny Miller, then the game's hottest player. But it went no further. To take his method on the course, Mullins conceded, a player needed not only talent but lots of courage.
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Forget the backswing. Start your swing from a baseball batter's ready position, your body fully coiled, arms set
at the top.
Get comfortable in that position, then pull down
and through the ball.
(If you want to cheat a bit, start with a slight hitch of the arms and hands in the backswing direction - just a few inches - then pull down.)
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