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Ho-sung Choi (and his electric golf swing) is back in the news, this time for winning a Japan Golf Tour event

The last time we heard from Ho-Sung Choi he was going viral in the middle of the night as all of golf Twitter had caught a glimpse of his absolutely electric swing. In the heart of the PGA Tour season, just a week after the U.S. Open and a few weeks before the Open Championship, a South Korean tour pro was the talk of golf, and for good reason.
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That video, which was one of many of Choi's “Fisherman swing,” has been viewed over 500,000 times. The guy is must-see stuff, but unfortunately we never really heard from him again after he narrowly missed out on qualifying for the British Open.
That was until the wee hours of Sunday morning, when more videos of Choi's wackiness began making the rounds. This time, he was closing out a golf tournament, the Japan Golf Tour's Casio World Open. Choi claimed his second career Japan Golf Tour victory by one stroke with a final-round 67 that included this virtuoso performance on th..

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Charles Barkley golf swing: Did golf’s most famously bad motion miraculously get cured?

Perhaps the most recognizably bad golf swing on the planet belongs to Charles Barkley. Renowned instructor Hank Haney worked with Barkley on a full season of “The Haney Project,” attempting to rectify the former NBA star's cringe-worthy motion. No such luck: “He's my life-long project,” Haney would famously say. “He's not much of a golfer.”
Is that a thing of the past? Barkley, captured on video by LPGA pro Alison Lee while at an after-party from The Match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at the Topgolf Las Vegas, looks like he might've ridden himself of that yippy, pause-and-then-dip swing. Take a look at this pure tempo from Sir Chales:
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And another LPGA pro, Bronte Law, captured a second swing of Barkley's:
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