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[Vida]

Food for thought when it comes to understanding your golf swing?

Mechanics determine the quality of the shot.

Feel allows the golfer to reproduce those mechanics over and over again.

Think about that for a second.

A golfer that can operate good mechanics but has no feel for them won’t be able to operate those good mechanics on a consistent basis.

A golfer that has poor mechanics, but has a feel for those mechanics will operate those poor mechanics consistently.

Most golfers fall in those two categories. Which one are you?

What the golfer should strive for is good mechanics and a feel for them so they can operate those good mechanics over and over and over again.

Of course, there are some issues with that as “feels” tend to “wear out” after awhile and that feel that was working for you may lose its luster after a time.

That’s why the “Basic, Acquired and Total Motion Curriculums” are so important to understand. These curriculums give the golfer a place to go where they can operate the proper mechanics and reestablish the feel for those mechanics. These curriculums are a gradient proceedure for you to reorganize your mind, eyes, hands, arms and body.

There is no question that the golf swing is complex. Treating the golf swing as simple will result in a swing that is incomplete and ineffective. The three motion curriculums above give us the chance to blend mind and body to such an extent that we can own and maintain our personal swing.

Feel free to PM me or make comments here on the forum.

Helping people find their own swing gives purpose to my life!

[OOB]

Well I think you are talking <deleted>.

The golf swing is fantastically simple. Those that successfully eradicate the basic flaws of us mere mortals swing the club in a beautifully simplistic manner. To talk it up as something complex and hard to achieve is irresponsible. Anyone can play good golf with sound instruction and a basic, flaw free swing.

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[Vida]

Well I think you are talking <deleted>.

The golf swing is fantastically simple. Those that successfully eradicate the basic flaws of us mere mortals swing the club in a beautifully simplistic manner. To talk it up as something complex and hard to achieve is irresponsible. Anyone can play good golf with sound instruction and a basic, flaw free swing.

The classifieds section is where you should post your advert.

Hi OOB,

I'm embarrassed. I certainly did not want to sound irresponsible with my comments and I hope others are not taking it that way.

But, I never said it is hard to acheive and certainly did not mean to convey as such. Although we must say, it does take some personal attention and work on our part.

And yes, OOB, I totally agree with you that anyone can play good golf with a flaw free swing. But how many of us have such a swing?

Without a doubt a non-compensating swing is the goal and when found it is a thing of pure joy with a sense of rythm, balance, accuracy and power. Once acheived then it merely becomes intention which is a powerful state of mind when out there on the golf course.

But, how do we go about building one? And how do we go about maintaining one?

Over the past 25 years of teaching golf I've found that there have been too many inaccurate and undefined terms that keep us in the dark our entire golfing life. For example, the popular phrase 'keep your head down'. This has probably caused more back and neck injuries than Soi Cowboy.

The intention to keep your head down can keep us from reaching follow-through (in a full swing), which is a condition where both arms are straight and the body has pivoted approximately 45 degrees to the target line, on its way to the finish. When follow-through is not reached then there is a break down of impact alignments and the forces that we loaded, stored and attempted to deliver into the ball are lost. Keeping the head down can stall the pivot/shoulder motion to the point of causing, just as one example, the "chicken wing" effect.

That being said, we can now infer that there is a distinction between follow-through and finish. This is huge for us because so much of a non-compensating swing requires this component.

So, if I offended in anyway, I truly apologise. My intention here was to get a thread going on the golf swing where everyone can ask questions, contribute answers and share.