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Golf Instructions are Confusing
Not all golf instructions are good for your game!
Right off the bat, I want to give you that as one of my
best secrets to releasing your scoring potential.
What? Yep, I'm not kidding. Once I fully realized this, it
freed me up to begin to start playing my best. Not Tiger
Woods best or Annika's best, but Craig's best. You see, I
was a fanatical golf magazine reader and I was always
asking for tips from playing partners to help me with parts
of my swing when I'd hit a bad shot.
I was so twisted up in knots about golf instructions that I
never had a chance. In fact, it was when I literally gave
up "trying" to improve that I made my biggest gains. I took
every tip I saw or heard, work on it at the range for
awhile, and then proclaim to myself that I have now found
the answer to my golf swing troubles!
That would last for all of about 2 holes before I would
give up on that idea as I continued to spray my shots. Were
these bad golf tips? No, top pros created them and used
them on their students in their lessons with much success.
The problem for me was, I wasn't in these lessons! (By the
way, if you have no idea how to swing a club, then a set of
lessons or ONE and only ONE instruction program should be
your first move).
You can't transplant a chicken leg to a one-legged human
patient and expect the person to then walk! There are so
many different theories on not only how to swing a golf
club, but also in how to TEACH how to swing a club. Much of
it actually contradicts or is completely opposite from one
teacher to another. On top of that, we have all sorts of
different body types, muscle strengths, flexibility levels
and on and on that make for many different (and now here's
the kicker) SUCCESSFUL golf swings!
I am here to tell you, right now, in print, that for most
of us: Your swing is good enough!
Even one of the greatest golf teachers of our time, David
Leadbetter stated that "there is no definitive method" to a
golf swing. This leads me to the heart of today's lesson.
And that is, The Pareto Principle.
If you've never heard of it, it has also been called the
80/20 rule (or 90/10 rule) and it basically means that if
you work on the 20% most important items first (for
whatever you are trying to achieve), you will be 80%
effective! In other words, you want to get the most results
from the least efforts. Especially if you're a busy person
with little time to work on your game.
You know that the whole golf industry is geared toward
selling you new equipment each year and teaching you how to
get "the perfect swing" (which doesn't exist anyway).
Don't get me wrong, improving your swing is not a bad
thing. But it is not necessary for you to get quick,
time-efficient score-lowering gains. The proof of this lies
in the fact that there are countless top professionals that
win at the highest levels with unorthodox swings! Look at
Jim Furyk, who won the U.S. Open. And he has a huge LOOP in
his swing. Look at Allen Doyle on the Champions Tour, he
looks like he's hitting a hockey puck! Lee Trevino always
said that students should NOT try to copy his swing and we
all know how successful he was. He was beating Jack
Nicklaus in his prime! Spend some time watching the
Champions Tour and you'll see all sorts of wacky swings.
Forget about the pros for a minute. How many times have you
seen a senior at your local course hit the ball straight
down the middle nearly every time without hardly making any
turn in his swing. While you blast drives 60 yards by him
he destroys you on the scorecard. Do I need to remind you
that it's only the final score that matters in this game?
Stop working on your swing and start working on SCORING!
There is no prize for the prettiest swing. Shoot, even
though I am still tempted, I now actually force myself to
ignore any swing instruction that I see in a magazine or
book and just keep on with the basics of what I learned
while striving for a REPEATING SWING, and not a perfect
one. You can always work on your swing later after you
tackle the 20% most important stuff.
I love teaching you exactly what the top golf researchers
have found to be that 20%, especially for us average
golfers.
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Craig Sigl, the Golf Anti-practice expert, is a Master and
Trainer of Hypnosis, NLP and Timeline techniques. He plays
to a 5 handicap and teaches his methods worldwide.
Visit http://www.break80golf.com to receive a free
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