| You and I are part of a worldwide golfing community | | | | us players muddle through our golfing lives. |
| of approximately 27 million golfers. We have an | | | | Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's terrible. There's |
| average score around 107, and three big problems | | | | that inconsistency thing again. |
| plague our golf games - inconsistency, lack of | | | | Sometimes we buy new clubs. All those commercials |
| distance, and the inability to straighten out our slice. | | | | on TV seem to be saying that, yes indeed, we can |
| Most of us have one or more of these problems. | | | | buy a good golf game. Maybe we change to a better |
| Some of us have all three. | | | | golf ball that might fly farther and straighter. There |
| Sound familiar? You can go to any driving range, | | | | are lots of golf ball manufacturers making a killing at |
| anywhere, and observe these three fundamental | | | | our expense. But this is just more duct tape. It's our |
| problems on display day after day. | | | | golf swing that determines our score, not our clubs |
| So, how do we deal with these three common | | | | or the ball we play. |
| problems - inconsistency, lack of distance, and slicing | | | | So, what do we do now, after years of frustration, |
| the ball? What kind of golf swing help do we really | | | | to develop a consistent golf swing that will give us |
| need? Do we need three different remedies, or is | | | | more distance and keep us from slicing the ball off |
| there some specific method that we can employ | | | | the planet? My 40 years of experience playing this |
| that will give us a solution to all? | | | | great game tells me that we need a systematic, |
| The great majority of us golfers try to fix our own | | | | step-by-step approach. Not some gimmick, not more |
| golf swing each and every time it breaks. Sometimes | | | | duct tape, but a swing "system" that we can master. |
| we rely on a teaching professional to get some help, | | | | A system that can be the foundation of our golf |
| but in a few days or weeks we are ailing again with | | | | swing. A system that will allow us to methodically |
| some other swing flaw. We fix one problem with our | | | | address the ball and swing the club with the same |
| golf swing, life is good, and then something else | | | | thought processes every time. And when we have |
| breaks. | | | | problems, a system that will allow us to identify |
| This is what I call the "duct tape" approach to curing | | | | solutions. A system that enables us to know what |
| golf swing issues. We slap on some duct tape to fix | | | | we did wrong, and (just as important) what we did |
| whatever's broken now, never knowing what might | | | | right. A system that develops a very repeatable |
| go wrong next. This is the way the vast majority of | | | | swing that will stand up under pressure. |