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Which Golf Tips Should You Listen To?
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: Recreation and Sports |
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: 05 February. 2008 20:42 |
by: David Ferrers
There are good golf tips and bad golf tips. The question is, how do you decide which golf tips to listen to?
This question has been brought home to me recently because a good friend took up golf about two years ago. He has really caught the bug and plays several times a week. He also has lessons and practices frequently. Whenever we play together he is constantly asking for tips and advice about his swing.
It is my belief that you should only give a player a golf tip if you are sure that it will fit in with the rest of his swing. I have seen far too many players lose their swings when trying to adopt a golf tip which simply does not fit in with everything else that goes on when they swing the club.
OK, I know, there are certain golf tips which are universally sound, like, keep your head still. But equally there are plenty of other golf tips that can be ruinous even when given with the best of intentions.
In particular I recall a good player with whom Id played many rounds who always drew the ball right to left, usually with good control. One day when his draw was a bit exaggerated, his partner suggested this perfectly sound golf tip: You know, if you were to keep your right elbow well tucked in on the downswing you would lose that nasty hook.
The suggestion was well meant. However, for a player who had a well grooved habit of swinging slightly over the top of the ball, as Arnold Palmer was wont to do, it proved to be one golf tip too much. He became so conscious of his right elbow that it threw the whole of the rest of his swing out of shape and it took him months to get it back again.
The point is that the golf tip didnt fit in with the rest of his swing.
This is a mistake that many golfers make. They listen to all the golf tips out there and try to adopt them all in their desperate search for a good swing. It is my belief that your aim should be to groove a golf swing that will give you streams of straight and long golf shots by modelling your swing on one set of advice. Then you should develop a mind movie of that swing so that you can reproduce it whenever you play a shot.
Think how long some of the most famous partnerships between players and their swing coaches have lasted. Think of Jack Nicklaus and Jack Grout, Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon, Nick Faldo and David Leadbetter to name but a few. All these great players relied on one coachs vision of their swing to keep their mind movie in shape. They did not go asking for golf tips from other players.
About The Author
David Ferrers wrote The Golf Swing Mind-Movies Power Pack one of ClickBanks top selling publications - read more here: http://www.Thegolfbandit.com/golf-tip-Golf-Mind-Movies.htm He researches and writes quick, easy-to-use ways to play golf well.
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