Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Your swing and mine.

The best swing you can make is uniquely yours. It will resemble other golfers' actions to an extent, but you can't really expect to copy any other golfer exactly.
Great golfers -- and I'm not one of them -- have swings that they have built up over years of experimentation and practice. Every great golfer has made all the compensations to produce reliable shots: shots that are reliable in how fast the clubhead moves, the trajectory of each club, and the tendency to move to the right or left. All great golfers can hit shots with more or less than normal clubhead speed, high, low, or in between, straight, draw, hook, fade, slice, and any combination. They may have a preference for one sort of trajectory, but the great ones can hit any shot.
The real unspoken secret of golf is this: the better one gets, the harder it is to play the game! The reason this is true is that getting better means you become more aware of each little facet of the golf stroke, and that awareness can unbalance the complex action of the swing. So, if you want to have fun playing golf, great! But don't try to score, because then golf becomes work, and the lower you want to score, the harder you have to work.

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