If you watch the Golf Channel or read any of the magazines and publications on golf, it will be very hard for you to skip the fundamental theme that “There is a ideal swing and you will do the most for your game by attempting to get it”. Even when you watch a tournament on Television, you see the commentators participate in this conspiracy by showing us frame-by-frame evaluation of the professional and critiquing his/her every move. Now, maybe we can give the Television guys a break simply because they are just attempting for some enjoyment worth and let us encounter it, most of us are interested in the particulars of the swing simply because we have been brainwashed by years of this theme.

For many years, I too was a “swing zombie” in my quest to improve my golf game. I even participated with a group of golfers that all had our swings videotaped and then we critiqued each other in a classroom setting. The feedback I received from all of us watching my swing ran from “very smooth” to “way off-kilter”. Everyone had a differing viewpoint of many of the swings that we watched and at least for me, it only baffled me more.

In my youthful years, I had a typical novice slice swing that clearly arrived out of my years of playing baseball and softball. In these days, I would just intention for the left edge of any fairway and I could count on the ball relocating left to right, at worst ending up in the right rough but generally hitting the fairway. I enjoyed playing golf these days but I usually felt that some thing was missing. So when I could finally afford it,I decided to take a set of lessons from a professional. Of program I informed him that I wanted to get rid of my slice swing and he asked me back “are you certain?”. This answer kind of shocked me but he was a very good instructor and by the finish of the lessons, I was able to hit the ball out of bounds each ways, left and right. I figured that it would just be a matter of time until I “dialed” in to hitting it directly. To make the story short, 5 years later and I was still “dialing” and getting incorrect numbers (ob, jail, water,no score improvement, and so on.).

Searching back, I honestly believe now that if I had stuck with my aged left to right swing and just used the rest of what I learned from the professional, that I would have improved significantly. Why? Simply because I was a typical golfer and not a 12 handicapper attempting to become a single-digiter (a good golfer attempting to become a great 1). Studies have proven that the overwhelming majority of novice golfers shoot in the 90′s or over for men and it’s more than 100 for ladies. If you are in that group, then you truly ought to be working on parts of your game that will give you far more efficient score improvement for the time and work invested. This would primarily be in the region of the short game and the psychological game.

This is absolutely accurate for the typical golfer but it may be accurate for all golfers as well. There is loads of evidence on the professional tours that the ones generating the money are these greatest at chipping and putting. The golf research guru himself, Dave Pelz, actually followed tour gamers around for years taking comprehensive statistics and he proved it (see his book, My Brief Game Bible). In addition to that, there are too many pros to checklist that confess that their swing is not “technically right” or maybe not even very good…BUT THEY WIN TOURNAMENTS! Appear at Jim Furyk, 2003 U.S. Open winner. He actually has a large loop in his backswing. Lee Trevino usually informed people that they ought to not duplicate his swing. Even Jack Nicklaus says in his publications that he wasn’t a very good ball striker. Bruce Lietzke has won tournaments on the PGA and Senior tours playing his left-to-right shot his entire profession – And he says he rarely practices! On top of that, the tours are littered with previous champions that totally lost their game After they tried to change it for the much better. And now they are begging their sports activities psychologist to help them “find” their aged swing.

I have talked to PGA golf instructors that say it’s their clients that want the swing guidance (just like I did) even when they suggest working some other part of their game first. So maybe it’s our own fault in making the current scenario exactly where typical scores of amateurs have not dropped 1 stroke in the last 50 years regardless of the improvements in equipment technology. Now don’t get me incorrect, if you are a complete newbie, maybe you ought to begin out with learning the basics of the golf swing with a lesson. But if you are hitting it strong most of the time, you are good to go for a real scoring quest as more swing guidance is not the quickest way for you to drop your score. There is just so much more that you can do, on and off the program, that will spend you back in saved strokes for far less time invested than “repairing” your swing. Most of us have precious little totally free time that we can work to improve our video games so why not work on that which will give us the best bang for our (time) buck?

And so, let me be the first to make a pledge to the golf spirit within me (I usually thought that golf is like religion): “I for 1, do solemnly swear that I will not spend interest to any swing guidance of any type until I can score in the 70′s consistently with the swing I have (and maybe not even then)”.

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