WATCH: Tom Watson reveals the amazing secret move that made Jack Nicklaus great and everyone can replicate it

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If you’re going to take advice about golf, what better way than to listen to an eight-time major champion explain the secret of an 18-time major champion?!

That’s what happens in this great little video where Tom Watson explains a key move made by Jack Nicklaus.

“The old adage is to keep your eye on the ball,” Watson begins. “It really has to do with keeping your shoulder down like it was at address.”

In his classic nodding fashion Watson adds: “That’s keeping your eye on the ball.”

“But a few more things,” he adds, ready to introduce his old enemy and now best friend.

“I like to go back to what Jack Nicklaus did with his head before he put the club back.”

Watson shows off a classic move by the average golfer when he does the likes of Nicklaus – and Nick Faldo has done the same thing – but how many of us have included it in our pre-shot routine?!

“You’ll look like this,” Watson shows us. “When he turns his head like this, it’s like he’s looking with his left eye.

“What you are doing is stopping his shoulder.

“That’s a good move to start swinging back.

“It also keeps its head behind the ball as you start to hit it.

“The thing you don’t want to happen to your head is to hold it upside down and pull it down, especially punch it and pull it back before it has an impact.

“I think it is right for the head to move away from the ball and slide to the ball

“It’s like Annika Sorenstam, when you get into football your head starts spinning. You don’t have to look at the ball as your head starts spinning. That’s right.

“But what I don’t want to see in my head is that Bob goes down and then goes up and up.

“That is killing consistency.

“That captain can’t hit the ball every time you do that.”

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