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Why, Oh Why, Is The Golf Swing SO Hard?!

Why do we find a move that seems so easy toAmateur golfers think you need to start the
the professionals so incredibly difficult togolf swing powerfully BUT the pro golfers
perform?know that you put the effort in at the bottom
of  the  swing.
Recently I discovered that psychologists
believe that we learn differently as adultsIf you try and take this point on board this
than we do when we were children. And Iwill start the process of adjusting your
believe this may be the key to explaining whymind.
we  have  such  a  difficult  time  of  it.
Over the next few pages I'm going to OPEN
The large majority of professional golfersyour EYES to how the golf swing actually
will have taken up golf when they were kids -works - much of which us amateurs don't
Tiger  Woods  was  swinging a club well at 3!appreciate.
But, I would imagine the majority of amateurUnderstanding is the 1st key to unlocking
golfers took golf up when either in theiryour  golfing  potential.
late teens, early twenties or even later in
life  -  as  adults.Towards the end of my book I'll show you
where to get a piece of software that will
The psychologists believe that as children weby-pass your conscious mind and reprogram
learn from repeating the model that we see -your sub-conscious mind to believe what you
we know that kids are very trusting of whatwill see and start to understand about how
they are told. Yes, they ask lots ofthe pro golf swing works. How YOU can swing
questions but they trust the answers given.powerfully  without  effort.
They  see,  and  are  told,  and  DO.
EYE-OPENER  No.  2
Now as adults we learn differently. We have
already formed opinions about how the worldWhat part of the body contributes the most to
is and how things operate. So when we learngenerating the maximum speed of the club
something new we actually test it against thehead?
rules that we have already built up in our
heads  as  to  what  is  right  and  wrong.This single answer allowed me to make a huge
leap in my understanding of the golf swing,
Unfortunately for us, the golf swing isand in everything I had seen and read about
actually illogical. That's where the problemthe golf swing none of it emphasised it
stems from. In our heads we can't actuallyenough.
accept or believe that that is how the golf
swing works. We then trust our instinct andI carried out a survey on the Internet over
test it against our rules and go back to whatseveral weeks and asked visitors to my web
we  believe  is  logical.site the question:- What part of the body
contributes the most to generating the
Here is what is illogical about the golfmaximum  speed  of  the  club  head?
swing:
Only 20% got the answer correct - That's only
A Golf Swing without Effort = A Powerful 3001 in every 5 golfers! And these golfers had a
yard  drivewide range of handicaps down to single
figures.
It's been said before that the secret to the
pros swing is that it achieves 'Power WITHOUTInterestingly this figure corresponds to
Effort  -  how  illogical  is  that!another golfing statistic - Did you know that
only around 20% of golfers have a handicap of
It's a bit like saying we're going on a 200less than 18? It made me wonder whether the
mile car journey, but we're not going to turnmisunderstanding of the fundamental aspect
the  engine on! No ones going to believe you.could be the one thing that is holding so
many  golfers  back.
That's how our brains interpret it - we think
there's no way you can hit a golf ball 300Which part of the body do you think creates
yards  without  LOTS  of  effort.the  maximum  speed  of  the  club  head?
So next time we coil up on the backswing ourIs it: Shoulders Arms Hands Hips Legs Torso
brain tells our muscles 'right guys we needwrists
plenty of effort if we're going to send this
ball  long  and  straight'.(Graphics  and  explanations  omitted  here)
Pro's do actually put effort into their....So the answer to the question that I
swings to get the ball to go that far (lookposed above is that it is the hands (or
at Tiger Woods face just before impact andwrists) that contribute the most to
you'll see what I mean) BUT they put it in atgenerating the maximum club head speed. The
a completely different point in the swing toclub is moved through over 180 degrees whilst
amateur golfers. They also know the techniquethe arms move through less than 60 degrees -
that allows them to produce such greatall of the rest of the movement of the head
results - and it doesn't involve power,of the golf club is generated by the movement
certainly not how the amateur golferof the hands. Unfortunately the large
understands  it.majority of golfers think that it is with the
shoulders and arms.



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