Here’s a thing,
What do these skills all have in common?
- Riding a bike
- Walking
- Talking
- Throwing a ball
- Driving a car
- Using a knife and fork
- Swimming
For most people, you learn them once and you never need learn how to do them again, you can just do it.
Take riding a bike, probably the best example I can give, no doubt you’ve heard the phrase many times “just like riding a bike” and there is a reason for that, it’s the ultimate skill you learn, usually at a young age and retain for the rest of your life.
Now unless you’re an avid cyclist, or use a bike as a daily mode of transport, if you’re like me, it’s probably been some time since you got in the saddle.
Do you doubt your ability to get on board a bike and start pedalling and go from point A to point B? No of course you don’t, you learnt and mastered that skill a long time ago and filed it away, ready to use whenever.
Now why is the golf swing any different?
Yes the ball is small and the implements to hit the ball are even smaller, yes the action of a golf swing is, when you break it down, an incredibly complex physical action, but no more so than any of the skills listed above.
Come to think about it, if someone gave me a biomechanical break down of walking, I doubt I could ever walk in a straight line again!
The point being, as humans we are capable of learning complex actions and skills and have the ability to memorise them and do them whenever we wish.
Just like riding a bike.
So why is the golf swing any different?
Why is it that people can play this game for years and not be any good, struggling to break 100 or 90, which if you have a the merest hint of physical ability you should be able to do no problems.
My opinion on this, the game is made way more complicated than it needs to be.
Golfers have been trying to make a swing or technique fit their bodies rather than using their bodies as nature intended and using natural movements in order to swing a club.
It literally is the very definition of trying to push water up hill.
Anyways that said, if you’re looking for simple easy to implement hints and tips to take a few strokes of your game, you could do a lot worse than download a copy of my free e-book “9 Ways to Lower Your Handicap and Shoot Your Best Round Ever”.
Leave the water pushing to others, play the game on easy mode. Get in on the action and get your copy here.
Play easy.
Bob James PGA