The Golf Swing Blog - Golf Instruction and Golf Lessons for Golfers
A Golf Blog for Golfers that are frustrated with the endless stream of Golf Tips from the Golf Instruction Magazines. This is beneficial for Golfers that haven't improved their golf swing after investing in the typical 30 minute Golf Lesson. Golf Improvement Weekly is brought to you by Golf Schools by Golf Made Simple. So if you liked this article - there are many more like this on the website is http://www.GolfMadeSimple.comFriday, April 03, 2009
Two New GMS Locations!!
GMS has primarily been based in
Two New GMS Locations
Why have we chosen these two locations? You mean besides having the best practice facilities around, excellent golf courses and having a hotel either on property or within just 2 miles away (with free shuttle service)? Or that both are just 15 minutes from major airports or within just a few hours drive from areas with many Golfers?
Maybe the details below can answer some of these questions for you:
Washington DC - Lansdowne Resort
First - Accessibility: Lansdowne Resort is 15 minutes from Washington/Dulles Airport. Right on the edge of
Second - The Golf Courses: Lansdowne Resort has 45 holes of golf (27 holes by Greg Norman and 18 by Robert Trent Jones Jr.) and an excellent practice facility. And what's also great is that each hole is bordered by nature and the
Third - The Accommodations: Lansdowne Resort has been named a AAA 4 Diamond Resort with 296 rooms on property, 5 restaurants, a full service spa, 5 swimming pools, tennis courts and an excellent exercise facility, etc. So once you're there - there's no reason to step off property.
Fourth - Additional thoughts: If you're a Golfer, it's obvious why this is such a great facility to have a GMS program. However, an additional bonus is what's available if you want to bring a non-golfing spouse or children. With the fantastic pools on property, the historic sites of the nation’s capital just down the road, full service spa, wineries, Friday Night Concerts on property, etc., etc. The rest of the family will have plenty of activities to occupy their time.
Denver , Colorado - Green Valley Ranch Golf Club
First - Accessibility:
Second - The Golf Courses: Green Valley Ranch has 27 holes - an excellent 18 holes by Perry Dye (it’s the site of the Colorado Open), and it also has the coolest 9 hole short course I've ever seen, along with having the best practice facility out of all our GMS locations. First, to hold the State Open Championship tells you it's a great golf course. Second - you're in
The practice facility is as good as it gets. Private range area, an excellent private short game area and a dedicated instructional building. This really is a first rate facility - it's no wonder it was voted as the best practice facility in
Third - Accommodations: At Green Valley Ranch, we're using two hotels - the brand new
Fourth - Additional thoughts: Again, if you're a Golfer, it's obvious why this is such a great facility to have a GMS program. Plus, just look a few miles to the west and you're in the
More information and pictures:
http://www.golfmadesimple.com/Washington-DC-Golf-Lessons.html
http://www.golfmadesimple.com/Denver-Colorado-Golf-Lessons.html
And as part of the 10 Year Anniversary of GMS, along with the opening of these 2 new locations – we’re holding 2 Special Programs to celebrate. Do you want to be a part of the action – then read more in The Buzz.
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
http://www.GolfMadeSimple.com
GMS Bonus Material
For Anyone Considering Video Analysis - We have added our report on: "Using Video Analysis To Improve Your Golf Swing" to the Golf Made Simple website for you to download and view.
Just click here to be taken to the download page on the http://www.GolfMadeSimple.com website. It's easy, it's free and it's a pretty extensive report on our findings.
Indoor Putting Drill - If you'd like for us to email you a special Indoor Version of an excellent GMS Putting Drill that you could spend hours on - email us at IndoorPuttingDrill@GolfMadeSimple.com and put GIW in the subject line.
Tour Putting Square - Use the Tour Putting Square inside your home to improve your scores. Just send us an email at TourPuttingSquare@GolfMadeSimple.com with the subject: Tour Putting Square – and we'll email you how to use this game changing drill.
Swing Drills & Core Training - To view a segment that covers 2 swing drills you can practice inside, email us at: PushUp@GolfMadeSimple.com with the words 'Golf Improvement Weekly' in the subject line to receive a link and password to access the video segment from our DVD - 'How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors'
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
"How Many Golf Instructors Does It Take?"
How may Golf Instructors does it take to screw in a light bulb? If it’s the same amount that it took for me to get my golf swing consistent enough to think about becoming a PGA Professional – it’s a lot more than 1 and little less than 100.
In order to screw in the light bulb - one Instructor will tell you that first you need to position the ladder, then climb up to see what type of light bulb is already being used, then climb back down to get the replacement bulb, then climb back-up to take out the old bulb and put the new one in.
The second Instructor will have you position the ladder and carry up the new light bulb with you before you take out the old bulb – but before you do start to climb up another Instructor will stop you and tell you you’re doing it all wrong because you can’t bring up a new bulb before taking out the old bulb – “you might drop the new one while unscrewing the old bulb. And you DON’T want to drop a light bulb onto the kitchen floor!”
Now the next Instructor will tell you that you can’t replace the bulb yet, you need to go to the store because that incandescent bulb you’re going to put in is not very energy efficient – “you need to use a fluorescent bulb – it’ll save you money over the long haul. So stay in the dark a little longer until you can use the latest in technology."
And the next Instructor tells you that you shouldn’t evenhave a light fixture there. You need to move that light away from the center of the room. You should have it a little more near the corner of the kitchen where the table is. But that would require you to get an electrician to come in and rewire the kitchen – you tell the Instructor: ok that sounds great, but my light bulb is out today and I’d like to have light in the kitchen tonight so we could eat dinner and it might be days before you can get an electrician in to rewire.
Which prompts the Instructor to say – “Yeah, but don’t you want to do it the right way? Just switching the light bulb isn’t going to help – you’re wasting your time. What’s a little darkness for a week or so if you can have better light down the road?” (Kind of like the – ‘You have to get worse before you get better theory’).
While the next Instructor tells that you as you’re unscrewing the bulb that you need to use less wrist. “Bend your elbow at 90 degrees and turn your forearm like you’re using a screwdriver. I’ve never seen a successful light bulb changer use their wrist when changing a bulb!”
Light bulb changing of course isn’t the only activity on earth that people have varying opinions on how to accomplish simple tasks – yet at the same time having a perverse fascination of making it much more complicated than it needs to be so that they can appear intelligent in front of others.
I recently witnessed a poor lady at the driving range that was there to hit golf balls. I was forced to watch in shame as she was approached by what seemed like an endless stream of Instructors – (Professionals and Joe Pro Wannabes), that offered so much advice to her about what she was doing wrong that I thought I was back in 4th grade Art Class with my teacher Mrs. Older’ndirt. I can still remember how Older'ndirt was trying to teach me how to draw an abstract of an apple. ‘Abstract? Lady, I’m only 9 years old. I don’t care about abstract – let me draw a picture of my GI Joe action figures in hand to hand combat!'
And just as I was (and still am) completely turned off from drawings of apples – the lady at the driving range was getting more and more upset with her golf after each Instructor gave her their sage, magical, foolproof, you-have-to-do-it-this-way advice.
Here’s a question for you –
If you had to teach a newcomer to golf, what would be the most important thing they need to do to learn to hit the golf ball – what would you tell them? Which "tip" below is of the most importance and what would be the order you would place the other "tips" from most important to least important: A. grip; B. stance; C. weight shift; D. left arm straight; E. eye on the golf ball; F. keep your head still; G. ball position; H. turn your shoulders; I. turn your hips.
Did I miss something?
Ok, now that you told the Golfer one of the above is the most important and they start working on it - what will most likely be the adjustments you need to make: A. you’re holding the club too tight; B. your feet are too far apart; C. no, you can’t sway like that, feel like you’re swinging in a barrel; D. your left arm is too rigid – you can’t cock your wrist with it that straight; E. didn’t you hear me – you have to keep your eye on the ball, don’t peek till you finish your swing; F. don’t move your head on the backswing – it needs to stay over the ball or you’ll sway; G. your ball position is too far forward – it needs to be in the middle; H. your shoulders need to go 90 degrees on the backswing – you’re not turning enough; I. your hips are turning too much and causing you to reverse pivot.
And then the next Instructor this Golfer comes across will tell this person – A. you’re holding the club way too loose – you need to hold it tighter than that; B. your feet are much too close together; C. you’re not moving your weight enough – you have to shift your weight back, you can’t just turn side to side; D. you’re bending your left arm too much – you need more extension; E. your eyes are fixated on the golf ball too much – let your head move with your weight; G. your ball position is too far back in your stance – you need to move it forward closer to your left foot; H. you’re over-rotating your shoulders on the backswing – use more of your arms to swing the club back; I. your hips need to move – you’re not moving them at all, they need to turn 45 degrees in your backswing.
If you read the instructions on the light bulb box on how to change a light bulb – you’d know enough to effectively change the bulb. And if you followed those same instructions when the next light bulb goes out – you’ll improve your light bulb changing skills with this bulb over your performance with the first bulb. And then if you followed the instructions with the next bulb – what took you 3 minutes the first time will take you less than 30 seconds the third time.
Yet, if you got new instructions each time you changed the light bulb – by the third time it wouldn’t take you the 3 minutes it took you on the first bulb. It would probably take you a minimum of 5 minutes because you’d have to think about the new instructions you just received, in addition to the instructions you had from your 2nd light bulb screwing Instructor and on top of that - you'd also have to worry about breaking all those ‘bad habits’ that your 1st light bulb screwing Instructor told you that you absolutely needed to stop doing.
If you don’t believe me that in the past this is exactly what has happened in Golf Instruction and is still happening today – step into the shoes of one of my Instructors for a day. Because although we do have people that have never taken a golf lesson before – we have enough people that have spent enough money on golf lessons that they could’ve funded the U.S. Economic Stimulus themselves.
How good are our Instructors? Well, watch them work with Golfers that have 52 thoughts going on in their mind every shot because they’ve read too many Monkey Digest’s or spent too much time around light bulb screwing Instructors. Watch them work and you’ll be amazed at how talented they are. Because golf might be the most frustrating thing a person can experience – and people are spending a lot of money to come see us to see improvement and get answers. Come watch them work with a Golfer that's frustrated and confused and you’ll see why they're the best in the world (bar none) at helping Golfers brighten their light bulbs more efficiently and brighter than they have ever seen them before.
The Monkey never has the light come on because they're always changing light bulb screwing Instructors
The Player keeps their light bulb the brightest by staying consistent with what they're working on with their golf swing
Go ahead, be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
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New Bonus Material For Anyone Considering Video Analysis - We have added our report on: "Using Video Analysis To Improve Your Golf Swing" to the Golf Made Simple website for you to download and view.
Just click here to be taken to the download page on the http://www.golfmadesimple.com/ website. It's easy, it's free and it's a pretty extensive report on our findings.
Past Indoor Practice Drills
If you'd like for us to email you a special Indoor Version of an excellent GMS Putting Drill that you could spend hours on this Winter - email us at IndoorPuttingDrill@GolfMadeSimple.com and put GIW in the subject line.
To view a segment that covers 2 swing drills you can practice inside, email us at: PushUp@GolfMadeSimple.com with the words 'Golf Improvement Weekly' in the subject line to receive a link and password to access the video segment from our DVD - How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors.
This Week’s Poll - Avoiding Errant Golf Shots From The Fairway
Which club causes more penalty shots from the fairway; i.e. errant shots into the water, trees and any place considered to be a Danger Zone?
A) The 5 iron
B) The 3 wood
C) 4 hybrid
D) Sand Wedge
Results of this week's poll will appear in next week's Golf Improvement Weekly.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Golf Lessons & Grip Changes?
Doesn’t that often seem to be the case – almost every Golfer that goes to see an Instructor basically hears how their previous Instructor has told you all the wrong things. The story often goes down like this - “You’re taking the club too much inside on your backswing.” “Oh, I was doing that because my last Instructor told me I was taking it too far outside on my backswing and needed to come more inside.” “No way, I don’t know what they are talking about – you’re way too inside. I can’t believe they told you that!”
And what happens is that the Golfer that is just trying to hit the golf ball a little better gets caught up in hearing about how bad their last Instructor was. And now you’re stuck between trying to do what your last Instructor told you to do (the thing you’ve been practicing your butt off doing for the last 6 months) vs. doing something that this new Instructor insists you need to do (which in fact sounds like the polar opposite of what your previous Instructor said). So in a nutshell: what many Golfers experience while taking a golf lesson – isn’t the love and joy you were hoping to achieve with your golf swing. And that’s unfortunate.
It’s no wonder most Golfers get worse after a 30 minute golf lesson.
Now, why is it that whenever you go for a golf lesson, almost every Instructor has a different grip they like to see on all the Golfers they work with? Yet, while most Instructors are saying that the grip is the most important aspect of the golf swing – how can that be the case when there are so many different grips being used on the PGA Tour? And when I say this, I don’t just mean whether they have an interlocking grip or overlapping grip or a ten finger grip – I also mean that some have their left hand more on top of the grip, some more on the side, and many have their left hand somewhere in between.
Yet, your latest in a line of Instructors seems to think that you need to turn your left hand a few degrees to the right – “Your left hand is too weak. It needs to be more on top of the club. You need a stronger grip” “Ok, but my last Instructor said that my left hand was too strong and that it needed to be more on the side of the grip.” “No, it can’t be on the side – nobody has their left hand on the side!” “Well, he showed me a picture of Ben Hogan’s grip and said it needs to be weak and on the side like Hogan’s. Why was Hogan able to hit the golf ball so well with his left hand like that?”
It’s unfortunate that this has to happen – 1. because now you’re in an awkward position (do I change again or stay with what I have – I want to improve, but grip changes always set me back a few months). 2. although Golf Instructor after Golf Instructor says that the grip is the most important part of the golf swing – how can it be that important to have my hands set in this exact spot if so many of the Tour Pros have their hands in different spots and yet are successful. 3. you can bet everything you have in the bank that the grip this Instructor is teaching you is the same exact grip that Instructor uses him/herself. But does that make it right for you?
Yes, you do need to have a hold of the golf club which will allow you to have control over the golf club and club face. Yes, you need to worry about whether you’re holding it too tight or too loose (too tight can lead to tension and too loose can lead to losing control of the golf club). However, 7.999 out of every 8 Golfers that come to see us has a grip that’s fine and doesn’t need any changing at all. The number of Golfers that we have seen that have been through grip changes because an Instructor has told them to change - is embarrassing!
It’s like one of the Testimonials you’ll see in this Golf Improvement Weekly that’s from a Golfer that has come to see us twice. The First time she came to see us – she made significant improvement in her game. Yet, because she had another Instructor that she was working with back home before seeing GMS – she went back to that Instructor hoping to continue the improvement she made with GMS. Well, what do you think happened after seeing that other Instructor?
She got worse. Much worse. She was told that everything that GMS did (the stuff that helped her improve) wasn’t the right way to do it. And that Instructor tried to switch her golf swing back to his method. Why did see listen to this Instructor after improving so much with GMS? Lord only knows. Though she did and her game got worse. However, because she did see so much improvement with GMS the first time – she came back the next year to see us again. And now after going through the GMS Program again – she’s playing better than ever. Go ahead and read what she had to say. It’s not the first time we’ve heard a story like this.
The point is – too many Golf Instructors have egos that are too big. And unfortunately Golfers like you get caught up in the battle of who’s a better Instructor – “this is the correct way; that other Instructor was telling you all the wrong things.” So if anyone is going to get a Golf Lesson – maybe the first question you should ask the Golf Instructor is: “What percentage of Golfers that come to see you need a grip change?” Or “what percentage of Golfers that you see need to adjust their backswing?” Or better yet – ask them “will I have to get worse before I get better?”
Because if they give you a number that’s more than 10% for either of the first two questions or yes to the third question – walk away and don’t look back. Oh, and by the way; just as a FYI; if they use the word “most” instead of giving you a number - that means more than 10%.
If they answer with a number that’s more than 10%, you probably have an Instructor that has a swing method that’s based on everybody swinging the same way. It’s amazing how many Instructors we have run across that say each person should have there own individual golf swing – yet this same Instructor ends up teaching everybody the same swing. So if their answer is more than 10% - that probably means they have a picture of a golf swing in their head that they want everyone to look like when they swing.
If they say that you need to get worse before you get better – that just says that they’re not a talented enough Instructor to see what the Strengths in your golf swing are and what the Weaknesses in your golf swing are. And then be able to use your Strengths to improve your Weaknesses. Because a talented Instructor will be able to work with your Strengths to help you improve - without you having to get worse at all.
Yet, all a less talented Instructor can sense is that since you have never taken a lesson from them before – that you’re not using their swing method yet. So you’ll need to change your golf swing to conform to their swing method. And based on their experience of how many Golfers they have seen that have struggled trying to learn their swing method – they know that you’re going to get worse.
It all goes back to using a Results Based Approach versus using a Theories and Assumptions Based Approach.
The Monkey is stuck using Theories and Assumptions
The Player improves using Results
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New Bonus Material For Anyone Considering Video Analysis - We have added our report on: "Using Video Analysis To Improve Your Golf Swing" to Golf Made Simple website for you to download and view. Last Week we had over 500 Downloads!
Just click here to be taken to the download page on the www.GolfMadeSimple.com website. It's easy, it's free and it's a pretty extensive report on our findings.
Past Indoor Practice Drills
If you'd like for us to email you a special Indoor Version of an excellent GMS Putting Drill that you could spend hours on this Winter - email us at IndoorPuttingDrill@GolfMadeSimple.com and put GIW in the subject line.
To view a segment that covers 2 swing drills you can practice inside, email us at: PushUp@GolfMadeSimple.com with the words 'Golf Improvement Weekly' in the subject line to receive a link and password to access the video segment from our DVD - How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors.
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
Which grip will help you to hit a controllable Draw? A Draw is when a right handed Golfer has a golf ball flight that curves slightly to the left (and a left handed Golfer has a golf ball that slightly curves to the right).
A) Weak Golf Grip (seeing 1 knuckle of your top hand)
B) Neutral Golf Grip (seeing 2 knuckles of your top hand)
C) Strong Golf Grip (seeing 3 knuckles of your top hand)
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Why Henry Hates Golf!
"I hate this game! I hate it! Why do I play this stupid game? I quit - I'm never playing again!" Henry blasted himself.
I heard Henry as he was walking to his car and wondered why he was so down on himself. Henry is a hard worker, I see him at least once a week hitting balls on the practice range. I'll be going to the first tee with a Golf Made Simple class to do our on-course Instruction and there will be Henry banging balls on the practice range - one after another – "looking for the magic".
I approached Henry and asked -
"What is wrong? Why do you hate golf? The last time I saw you practicing on the range, you had a smile on your face and you gave me the thumbs up." Henry says, "Marc, I'm so frustrated with this game. I put everything I got into trying to play better. And just when I think I got it, I go out on the course, like I did today.
I...I...I...I go out and embarrass myself. I get so mad by the 7th or 8th hole that I can't even bring myself to play the back 9 holes."
"Henry those are the words of a frustrated golfer - or should I say - The words of a frustrated golfer that knows he could do better than he is doing. Do you really hate golf?
Or are your expectations too high for your present skill level? I find it extremely important to truly know what your skill level is and then understand – 'OK, this is what I score, at this point if I get upset at myself for every little mistake I make, I will never allow myself to get better!"
Henry usually scores between 92 and 102 (except for the occasional 'blow-up round' where he scores around 107, but he also has rounds where his 1 mulligan a side allows him to stay in the high 90's). Henry has a deep desire to break 90 for the first time. And on top of that, he has the desire to score in the low 80's every time he plays. These are very admirable goals.
So I said -
"Henry, these are fantastic goals. And I know you'll achieve them. First, we need to outline what aspects of your game you need to improve to reach these goals. Too many times Golfers feel as though if they go to the driving range once a week to hit golf balls, they should expect to get better."
"But Marc," Henry said, "Isn't hitting the ball better, the key to lower scores?" If I go to the range once a week, I should be able to hit one or two buckets and learn to hit the ball straight. This way I will soon be in the low 80's."
"Henry, how long have you been trying to score in the low 80's?"
"For about 5 years", Henry answered.
"Henry, how long have you had the routine of going to the range and trying to hit the ball straight?" I could tell Henry could see where I was going by the bashful smile on his face. "Well Marc, I've been doing this on and off for 2 or 3 years. Is this not enough? Do I need to go to the range more often?"
"Henry, before we say you need to go to the range more often, tell me what you do when you go to the range? What's your routine? What's your PLAN?" Henry looks at me and with a confused look in his eyes and says, "What do you mean by PLAN? I go out and hit golf balls and try to make them go straight down the middle. If I want to hit the ball better, I need to learn to hit the ball straight! If I can't do that, I'll never score in the low 80's."
"What I mean by PLAN is – what are you doing to learn to hit the ball straight? The key to playing better golf has many factors involved. And consistency is a factor."
"Yes, that's what I want – consistency! That's what I'm practicing – hitting the ball consistently straight. That's why I go to the range!" Henry interrupted.
"OK Henry, I understand. But, let's look at a way we can put some consistency into your practice time. Many Golfers feel that if they pound ball after ball after ball, they will get it. I wish it were that easy. I've been around many great Players in my life and if there's one thing they all have in common, it's that they come to the practice range with a PLAN in their head on what they want to accomplish.
"See most Golfers expect to go out to the range and learn to hit the ball straight in that one session. The better Players know that isn't going to happen. They go to work on one thing at a time. They go to the range with the thought of working on one small aspect of their swing only – and it isn't just trying to hit the ball straight."
I continued -
"And the most important part of this routine is they do not venture away from their PLAN for that day. Most regular Golfers will go out to work just on hitting the ball straight. They might magically find something that works for a few swings and softly say to themselves 'I got it, I got it', and then just as fast as it appeared, it disappears. Henry, what does this Golfer do next? He starts to tinker with other things to try and recapture those straight shots. Then after a half-hour of tinkering with diminishing results, he leaves the range in frustration hating the game."
"That's me! That's me! Have you seen me at the range practicing and getting frustrated?" Henry asked. "Each time I go out to practice, I get 'it' - for a few swings. Then it disappears. I hate that!"
"Well Henry, this happens to everybody - even the best Players. Though, you know why it doesn't happen to them as much? Because they come to the practice range with a PLAN and they don't venture from that PLAN. They stick with it and they don't expect miracles. They know if they get just a little better every time they practice, that after a few times to the practice range, they will be that much better. But the average Golfer goes to the practice range thinking and expecting to solve all their swing flaws within hitting a few buckets of balls. So they always leave frustrated.
How do the best Players leave each practice session? They leave like they accomplished something and can't wait to practice again. They feel so much more satisfied with themselves than the regular Golfer. And that satisfaction turns into confidence on the golf course!"
"I want to practice like that! I want to feel like I am getting better every time I'm on the practice range! I want to become more consistent!" Henry said with so much hope and energy.
"Well Henry, first you'll need to ..."
Look for the solution that will help Henry become more consistent in next week's Golf Made Simple – Golf Improvement Weekly – as we outline what it takes to become more consistent and confident.
What points were made in this Chapter of "Why Henry Hates Golf!"
Set realistic expectations:
If you're scoring between 95 and 105 - it's great to want to break into the 80's, but first you need score a 93 before you can score an 89.
If you put too much pressure on yourself to have to score 44 on the front nine, you'll end up with a 49 instead. And knowing that you scored a 49 on the front nine might lead to put too much pressure on yourself to score a 40 on the back. What will happen on the back? Well, by the 15th hole when that 40 is out of reach ... you'll be happy to be walking off the 18th green with a 50-something for the back nine.
Strive for small improvements week after week – rather than trying for huge improvements every time you play or practice.
Go ahead, be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
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This week we're giving you a link to watch a segment of the GMS DVD – How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors – which is now the "#1 Selling Golf Swing DVD on Amazon.com".
And as we know that many of you have already purchased this DVD – and some may have actually taken the plastic wrapper off the case and popped it into your DVD player – it would be a good refresher to watch this clip again. This clip shows two GMS Swing Drills – The Belly Swing Drill and the Modified Belly Swing Drill. Then, after the demonstration of the two swing drills, we go into the exercise that accompanies these Drills - push-ups for 3 different levels.
In fact – Dr. Z, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada (he's traveled to see GMS in Palm Springs twice), recommends the DVD to his patients even if they're not Golfers. He tells them – “Listen, since you don't play golf – just fast forward through the golf drills. The exercises are excellent and they will really strengthen your core and relieve a lot of your back pain."
To view a segment that covers the Belly Swing Drill and Modified Belly Swing Drill, along with 3 different levels of Push-ups, email us at: pushup@golfmadesimple.com with the words 'Golf Improvement Weekly' in the subject line to receive a link and password to access the video segment from our DVD.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
How To Make A Consistent Golf Swing With Your Driver
To put it bluntly – you need to hit your Driver well to have fun on the golf course. Yes, you can hit your Driver well and still not score well on the golf course. Though, it's very difficult to score well if you're hitting your Driver poor - tee shot after tee shot.
So saying that – let's talk about your Driver and how you can start experiencing the euphoria of great drives. Let's start out with a little quiz:
When hitting your Driver – should you try to:
A) Swing harder than you swing your pitching wedge
B) Swing easier than you swing your pitching wedge
C) Swing with the same amount of effort as you swing your pitching wedge
Answer C
So, if your Driver is holding you back – it could be caused by the effort you're putting into swinging your golf club. We often have many Golfers coming to see us either swinging way too hard with their Driver or (and this may surprise many of you) we see almost as many Golfers swinging way too easy with their Driver.
We see the greatest improvement from our Golfers when they learn and understand that if they put the same amount of effort into swinging your Driver as you do with your pitching wedge – that you'll see incredible improvement in a short time.
Why is this?
Well, let's start with the swinging too hard problem that many face tee shot after tee shot. Listen, everybody at one time or the other has been accused (or self-accused) of swinging too hard at the golf ball with your Driver. "Oh, dang it – I just tried to kill that golf ball!"
I'm sure Tiger has done the same – so you're in good company.
It's frustrating that you know that you shouldn't swing so hard at the golf ball, yet time after time, slice after slice – we continue to do it! Believe me, there isn't any way to guarantee that you'll never swing too hard ever again. Though, there are proven ways to make sure you swing smoother most of the time – or at least 9 out of 10 times.
Though, what about the swinging too easy issue you might be experiencing? There's a lot more of these type's of Golfers out there than you may have thought. You actually maybe doing this and not even know it because many times Golfers are swinging too easy – yet it appears to others that you're swinging too hard.
I guess a simpler way of saying it is these Golfers decelerate their swings when swinging their Driver. Which may come as a shock to many because deceleration is often pegged to other clubs such as wedges (around the green) and putting strokes. Many Golfers can't imagine that they're decelerating with their Driver – yet many of you are.
The question that is often asked when this subject is brought up is – "Why would anyone decelerate their Driver?" And the best answer I can give you is that it's probably because you've been accused of swinging too hard too many times. And we all know – it's been pounded into our heads – that swinging too hard with your Driver is one of the '7 Deadly Sins' we can commit on the golf course. What's another 'Deadly Sin' on the golf course – 'Thou shall not use your ball retriever to fish for more golf balls after you found yours!' Once you find it, drop it, hit it and move along. Amen.
So the affect of constantly being told that you're swinging too hard is that you end up standing over the golf ball wanting to hit a good tee shot, while at the same time you're convincing yourself to "swing nice 'n slow, swing nice 'n slow, swing nice ‘n slow". It's almost like you're trying to hypnotize yourself.
And using the philosophy of – if you hear the same thing over and over, you'll start believing it – you start to be more and more cautious about swinging too hard.
So to give you a better picture/understanding of what I'm speaking about: There are two ways to decelerate – you could be decelerating your body so that your arms are out racing your body to the golf ball (thus becoming disconnected) or you could be decelerating your arms and having your body out race your arms to the golf ball (also becoming disconnected). Either way – you're becoming disconnected and causing yourself to lose control of your club, your club face and thus ... your golf ball.
Either way – it'll appear to others that are watching you (and to yourself) that you're swinging too hard because you lost control. Yet, is it that you're swinging too hard? Or is it that since your arms are out racing your body (which had decelerated) – it just appears as if your arms are swinging too hard.
Think of it this way - if you're body didn't decelerate and was moving along with your arms – you'd hit a great shot and it would appear as if you had made a smooth, fluid, easy golf swing. Yet, because your body slowed down – it makes it appear as if you were swinging your arms too fast. When in reality, your arms were moving at the proper pace.
And the same is true vise versa: if your arms slow down and your body continues to move as it should – others will be telling you that you're swinging too hard and that "you're getting way too far ahead of the ball".
Yet, in reality, all that's happening is that your arms were decelerating. And because you looked so discombobulated – it appears as if you were swinging harder than you should.
Do you want to become more consistent with your Driver? Learn to control your Pace of Swing. GMS uses more than a few Drills to help Golfers to become more consistent with their Driver. The Golfers that continue to practice these Drills see tremendous improvement off the tee with their Driver. Tremendous Improvement!
Now, I obviously can't get into great detail here in this format – so I'll go through a few fairly quickly. The first is almost always mentioned in the Testimonials we receive and display on our website and in Golf Improvement Weekly – simply "Tick Tock". The Golfers that are serious about "Tick Tock" – improve dramatically. The Golfers that aren't committed about it still improve – though maybe not as much as the ones that are serious about it. So simply – get serious and stay committed to your "Tick Tock".
The second is the Half Swing Driver Drill. I can't think of a better way to warm-up than Half Swing Drivers. The control that you achieve over your Driver using the Half Swing Driver Drill when it's a part of the 29 Ball Warm-up is incredible. In fact, I know one Golfer that has improved dramatically that says that he attributes the 29 Ball Warm-up to being one of the main reasons he was so much more consistent in 2008 than ever before. And he maybe the world's biggest advocate for the Half Swing Driver Drill!
The third is the Alternating Clubs Drill. What we have found is that Golfer's that are constantly practicing with their lower number clubs and then gradually moving up to their longer clubs and eventually to their Driver – get into the habit of swinging each club harder and harder. And then after they discover they're swinging their Driver too hard – they move into the decelerating debacle I mentioned above.
The Alternating Clubs Drill allows the Golfer to feel as if every club is being swung with the same amount of effort. It's amazing how this Drill allows a Golfer to swing the club more controlled in a short period of time. And because of this, its fun to watch our Golfers smile again as they walk up to the 1st tee in anticipation of hitting a good Driver as opposed to glum and hesitant about hitting another you know what.
And it's even more fun watching that same Golfer hit a fantastic Driver, and then walk off the tee feeling great about their golf game, their golf swing and their Driver – as opposed to you know what.
Saying that – It's amazing to me that with the success that Golfers see with the GMS program – that people choose others methods. When other programs are struggling so badly that they are constantly lowering prices to get customers because they never have any returnees – GMS had a record 2008. And that record can be attributed to the hundreds of returning Golfers and the friends they brought back with them.
And there's nothing more rewarding than seeing a Golfer that comes back to see us and who says something along the lines of – "I had so much fun playing Golf this past year and I attribute it all to GMS, the Drills and the PLAN you gave me."
So if you come to see us in what remains of 2008 or in 2009 – we're continuing our commitment to helping Golfers continually improve their golf games. You can trust that in addition to all the GMS Drills (some mentioned above), we're still leading the Golf Instruction Industry in developing and improving our program so that our Golfers continue to improve at the fastest rate in the business.
Our belief at GMS is – 'When you succeed in Golf – we succeed in Golf!' Therefore we want to see you play your best golf ever!
The Monkey swings too hard, then swings too easy, then swings too hard, then …
The Player finds consistency with their Driver by swinging all clubs the same
Go ahead, be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Hit Your Driver Like A Top Tour Player
Here we go again with Driving Accuracy. As this may come as a shock for any Golfer that has been diligent in trying to keep their golf ball on the short grass – Driving Accuracy when it comes to simply hitting Fairways is the most overrated stat in all sports. Now, I know that reading this information probably upsets many Golfers whose battle cry on the links is simply – "if I could just hit more fairways I could …!"
And I know that I risk you canceling your subscription to GIW if you read this and say – "Marc, you're a complete idiot. Hitting Fairways is the most important thing in golf." But if you could just leave your preconceived notions in the next room for a few minutes – you might actually see something you've never thought of before.
When we're speaking about Driving Accuracy – yes, you need to keep your golf ball in play to have fun on the golf course. There's nothing worse than hitting your tee shots into the trees or water or losing golf balls. It's incredibly upsetting to always be taking penalties or having to chip out of the trees.
We all want to be in position to have our next shot have a chance of getting on the green – so being out of play with your tee-shot is down-right frustrating. And frankly – I've seen Golfers quit the game over the agony of not being able to keep their tee shots in play. I'm sure we're all in agreement that nothing causes more frustration than errant tee shots.
Though, as you'll see - the top Golfers aren't worried about hitting Fairways and if you watch their games and then look at their stats – this can be backed up. The top Golfers keep their golf balls in play, hit the golf ball far, are very good around the green and make putts. Whereas the average Golfer trying to break 90 or 100 is overwhelming consumed with hitting Fairways (and is often not happy hitting 8 out of 14) – the best Players in the world (that score in the 60's) hit the same 8 out of 14 Fairways you're not happy with.
We see it week after week, year after year, Tiger win after Tiger win. What do we see? We see that the winner is "almost never" the most accurate Driver. And the only reason I say "almost never" is because it will happen once a decade – so I can't just say "never" because someone will send me an email saying – "Well, Harvey Bufufneck won the 1998 Camden Society of Urologists Tournament and he led the field in Fairways Hit."
I'm not just saying this because it's my opinion. I'm stating the facts based on Results. GMS is a Results Based Program. Everything we do is based on having our Golfers see Results – as opposed to most Instruction that's built on Theories and Assumptions. We determine if a Golfer is doing better based on their Results and we have found that Golfer Results don't improve even 1 stroke solely based on hitting Fairways.
Yes, Golfers will improve dramatically by learning how to keep the golf ball in play – but they don't improve one stroke by hitting more Fairways. We have conducted tests with Golfers that have backed this up. For example: We have a test where we play the 220 Yard Game. We assume the Golfer hits a 220 yard drive on each Par 4. We put one ball 220 yards from the tee in the middle of the fairway and we put another golf ball the same distance, but to the side of the fairway.
The Golfer then plays each ball until they get it into the hole. The Results show that the scores stay the same regardless of whether the ball was hit from the Fairway or from the rough. Yes, sometimes the Golfer's score on one hole will be better from the Fairway vs. off the Fairway – but on the next hole it maybe the opposite. All in all – the scores after playing 12 Par 4's come out to be the same. Try it yourself.
Now let's go to the Pro's on Tour. Let's start with the Nationwide Tour – at the Nationwide Tour Championship a couple of weeks ago: The winner (1st) was ranked 39th out of 58 Golfers in Hitting Fairways. The guy in last place (58th) was ranked 6th in Hitting Fairways. The Winner was ranked 12th in Greens in Regulation. The guy ranked 6th in Hitting Fairways was ranked 45th in Greens in Regulation.
This goes against the beliefs of many struggling Golfers. The struggling Golfer wants to hit Fairways because they believe it will lead to more Greens. The Results show that's not the case. Read the above stats again to get an even clearer picture. This is happening week after week, year after year, Tiger win after Tiger win.
Which just shows that hitting Fairways has very little to do with hitting Greens. Though, to clarify – missing the Fairway and being in the rough is very different than hitting into the trees or water or losing golf balls. But, this is to show that the Golfer with the singular thought on the tee being Fairways, Fairways, Fairways – might be holding themselves back from better scores.
More proof? The guy leading the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy (Olin Browne hitting 80% of the Fairways) is ranked 165th in Scoring Average. While the guy leading in Scoring Average (Phil Mickelson) is ranked 181st in Fairways Hit (hitting just 55% - meaning Browne is hitting 25% more Fairways). The difference in the amount of Fairways hit is staggering, but so is the difference in their winnings (which tells the story of how well they score week after week).
We're not saying for you to be wild off the tee. You need to keep your golf ball in play. But, too many Golfers are so worried about hitting Fairways that they don't allow themselves to make a free flowing swing. The tension that you're creating (by feeling you need to hit your shot in the Fairway) is doing more damage than good. The tension you're creating is actually causing you to hit drives out of play. The worry you're creating about hitting your tee shots in the Fairway could be causing you to lose 20 to 50 yards off your tee shots!
On the other hand – take Mickelson – there's little regard in his game for hitting Fairways. His game is about keeping it in play (with the occasional ball out of play), getting good distance from his tee shots (to allow for easier clubs to the green), having a strong wedge game and then making putts. And as much as Golfers believe that Mickelson and Woods have different styles of play – they don't. They both use the same PLAN mentioned above!
I'm not saying that your style should be like Tiger's or Mickelson's style, but look at the top Players in the game according to best Scoring Average: Mickelson, Garcia, Singh, Harrington, Kim and Villegas. They're ranked: 181st, 153rd, 150th, 154th, 159th and 166th respectively as far as hitting Fairways. While all these phenomenal Players are averaging only hitting around 55% of the Fairways – they are still achieving better scores than other Golfers hitting 80% of the Fairways.
Yet, you're styling your game around 80% of Fairways. If so, you're playing golf like the bottom half of the Players on Tour. Golf Made Simple believes that your PLAN should be based on the Top Players on Tour – Keep your ball in play, improving the distance you hit the golf ball (without causing anymore inaccuracy), having a strong wedge game and then making putts. This formula works – we have the stats from our Golfers to prove this.
Why anyone would even consider taking any other Instruction is mind boggling to me!
GMS would like you to improve your scores by helping you to improve your golf swing to strike the golf ball better. This will help you to keep more golf balls in play as well as hit your Drives farther. Which will help you to have shorter clubs to the green. Which will allow you to be more accurate and have shorter putts. Which will allow you to have better scores.
That's how the top 6 Golfers mentioned above do it year after year. Oh, and that other guy seems to be doing the same thing – you know who I mean – some guy named Eldrick. Or better known as Tiger Woods – the guy that this year was ranked 169th in Driving Accuracy and 1st in Greens in Regulation.
Improve your golf swing so that you hit the golf ball more solid and keep it in play. Don't improve it just for the sake of hitting Fairways. The Results show that Fairways Hit is extremely overrated. The Results show that the stat of "Keeping Your Golf Ball In Play" is far more important for you if you want to play consistent golf.
The Monkey is so worried about hitting the Fairway that tension leads to inconsistent golf swings
The Player is too focused on their Tick Tock to worry about the Fairway
Go ahead, be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Wrists Or No Wrists When Chipping?
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Should your wrists be used when chipping around the green? Most Golfers advocate not using any wrists – though some Golfers do encourage a limited use of the hands and wrists. So the question that many Golfers often ask themselves –
"How should I do it? Wrists or no wrists?"
There are so many different Theories and Assumptions on how to play a shot when you're around the green such as 'wrists or no wrists'. For example, you have to make the choice whether to use 'multiple clubs depending on the shot' versus the idea of 'becoming a master of one club around the green'. Then we have the debate of whether you should 'get the ball rolling as soon as possible' versus if you should 'keep it in the air half the distance and let it roll the other half'.
Why do Golfers have such a hard time agreeing on techniques?
Regardless of the situation - everybody and their mother (or father in this politically correct era) is more than eager to enlighten you on how you should play your shots around the green. And as one fed-up PGA Professional said after he was schooled by a Golfer he was trying to help, that matter-of-factly told him that a friend taught him a better way to play the chip shot than the way the Professional was advising – ‘There are around 26,000 PGA Professionals in America, but unfortunately there are around 10 million Instructors.'
"The only way you should chip is the way I chip. I use a putting stroke and make sure I don't use any wrists at all. You need to keep your wrists completely out of the chip shot. That's the way I do it! Rock your shoulders, rock your shoulders, rock your shoulders. You don't want to use too much right hand – if you do, you'll start scooping. And never forget - DON'T MOVE YOUR HEAD!!! If you peek too early, you're going to take your eye off the ball. So keep your head still"
Listen, I can't even remember to take the recyclables out to the curb on Thursday morning and that's with constant reminding from my wife which includes (but isn't limited to) – reminders at dinner on Wednesday night and an under the breath "recyclables in the morning" after she gives me a kiss before turning out the lights; and if that isn't enough, she still lives me the infamous post-it note on my steering wheel every Thursday morning. So if that gives me trouble - how am I supposed to keep track of all these chipping tips?
So what's the true story about chipping around the green? How is it that the best Players in the world look so relaxed over the ball, make it look so easy and get just about everything into tap-in distance? While the Golfers at your local golf course set-up to the golf ball with a confused look on their face – almost as if they're going through my recycling checklist (newspapers in the green container, plastic in the blue container, do the cans go in the white container and glass in the yellow container or is it glass in the white and cans in the yellow?)
And I believe that a lot of the mechanical swing thoughts that many Golfers wrestle with every time they're around the green can be eliminated if you understood wrists or no wrists. If you watch a lot of great Players around the green – I believe that you'll see more hand and wrist movement than a lot of Golfers think should be employed. Because the philosophy of having Firm Wrists has morphed into Tight Wrists for the majority of Golfers you see at your local golf courses. And Tight Wrists translates into ‘No Feel'. And ‘No Feel' is the beginning of mass frustration.
Now, there always will be someone that writes to me saying – "I can't believe you're telling Golfers that they need to use their wrists! How can you call yourself a Golf Professional?" Now, I didn't exactly say that the Golfer needs to use their wrists, but I'm not saying that you shouldn't use them either. This is not an issue of it having to be "either black or white". There can be a skillful combination of your hands, arms and body combining to produce a nice stroke.
We have found that there are two types of Golfers that struggle around the green – if you struggle around the green, you probably fit into one these two groups below:
Golfer 1: has the problem of trying to scoop underneath the golf ball. Often times hitting the ground before the golf ball and chunking or catching the top of the ball (because they're scared of chunking) and skulling it across the green.
Golfer 2: used to have the problem of scooping under the golf ball, but was told they need to chip with no wrists. They were told that they need to keep their wrists locked as they make a pendulum stroke while being focused on making sure they swing the same distance back as they will swing forward.
Most Golfers start out as Golfer 1 and then are influenced into becoming Golfer 2. Though Golfer 2 will initially see success with this style of chipping - it may only be short-lived success. Because each time this technique works – Golfer 2 starts to focus more and more on locking their wrists tighter and tighter. And as tighter and tighter becomes the focus – the ‘Feel' of your stroke begins to deteriorate as each chip becomes worse and worse.
Though after each subsequent bad shot, Golfer 2 will stay adamant about having to lock their wrists more and more – "I need to keep my right hand out of this shot!" – as they believe "that it has to be the wrists that are screwing me up". So the next shot they'll put their complete focus on holding the club tighter than their last shot. And after a few more unsuccessful chips – this Golfer's grip on the golf club starts to resemble the hands of Hulk Hogan as he tightens his death grip around The Iron Sheik's throat as the crowd pumps up and encourages Hogan with chants of "USA, USA, USA!"
This is an unfortunate scenario because by getting your grip too tight and locking your arms to the point that ‘Feel' has nothing to do with the golf shot about to be played - you start to struggle more than you did when you were Golfer 1. Which then leads you down the path of no return. What's that path? It starts with going on Amazon.com and ordering the latest Dave Pelz book.
By the way – there are over 270 used Dave Pelz books available for purchase on Amazon.com in addition to the thousands more available every Saturday at garage sales across North America – which maybe the best illustration to how unvaluable (not invaluable – unvaluable) they were to their original purchasers.
And as I climb down from my soap box, I'd like to say ---
Let's go back to the beginning of your problems around the green. How did you become too wristy in the first place? It most likely has to do with thinking you need to get underneath the golf ball to make it go up in the air. So you resort to trying to scoop the golf ball off the ground with the finesse of a short order cook in a New Jersey diner flipping silver dollar pancakes.
But alas, someone sees you struggling and shuffles over to you to allow you to bask in their knowledge of the golf swing. "You know, you're using way too much wrists in that swing. You need to keep your wrists locked like I do and make a pendulum like swing."
If you watch some of the great Players that play this game, you won't see many use an excessive amount of wrist around the green, though at the same time – you won't see many that have their wrists locked. Watch the best Players in the world and you might see them using more of their hands and wrists than even they'd like to admit they do. No, you won't see them scooping under the golf ball where their wrists curl up after impact like many of the Golfer 1's you see at the local golf courses. Though, you also won't see the Hulk Hogan death grip, wrist lock, arms stiff as a 2x4 swing that you might see with many of your fellow Golfer 2's at the local golf courses.
The Monkey has a chipping stroke that has all the finesse of a battle for the World Wrestling Federation World Championship
The Player knows that there needs to be a blend of feel and mechanics
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
On The Golf Course – Winners and Whiners
I've noticed two types of Golfers on the golf course – Winners and Whiners. Now there's not much difference between the words if you look fast – the only difference is the 'h' in Whiner and an extra 'n' in Winner. What does the 'h' stand for?
It could stand for humility. Meaning, in order to play to your potential, you need to take the good with the bad. If you're too worried what others might be thinking about you after a bad shot, or two or three – you might fall into the trap that many Whiners do. The Golfer often defends themselves by Whining about their golf game – "I usually hit my irons so much better than this. I'm not playing very well today. I usually play better than this."
Everybody is going to have a round where they don't hit their irons well. Or a round that they hit their Drived bad. Or putt bad. This is just part of the game of golf. Though more importantly - other Golfers don't care if you're hitting your Irons bad – they're more concerned with their game and probably don't want to hear your negative talk about your golf game.
A Whiner tells everybody about their problems on the golf course. And what often happens is that their problems get worse and worse as the round goes on. Almost as if they're trying to convince themselves of the problem or prove it to the other Golfers they're playing with.
A Winner just makes their PLAN and plays.
Perhaps the 'h' stands for humble. Because as soon as you think you got it and don't make as thorough a PLAN as you need to make – boom: Triple Bogey, Double Bogey, Double Bogey. Seven over par in three holes.
You must never let your guard down to think – "oh, I just have an easy wedge to the green." Because more times than not, you don't make your best golf swing and the ball ends up in a tough spot around the green. Which often leads to the Triple Bogey that could've - no should've - been a Par or Birdie.
Often times we get on a good streak on the golf course where we start playing our best golf. The game seems easy. You start to hit your stride and play like you feel you should all the time. Birdie, Par, Par, Par – "I love this game!"
"Ok, I have 110 yards to the green. I can make Birdie here. The flags on the left side, there's plenty of room on the right side of the green to get on safely and two putt for another par. No, I know I can get the ball closer to the hole to make Birdie."
"Crap! I pulled it! In the left bunker." Then after taking 2 shots to get out. The second of which rolled over the green. 1 shot to get on the green (that you hit slightly behind the ball) and 2 putts – your decision to go away from the PLAN that was working has cost you big time. What could've (or should've) had a 5 hole stretch of Birdie, Par, Par, Par, Par – which turned into Birdie, Par, Par, Par, Triple Bogey.
"Triple Bogey from 110 yards away. I can't believe it. I stink!" Which may lead you into the aforementioned humility category above or the other 'h' below.
A Whiner forgets how hard they had to work for the easy Pars and Birdies. A Whiner abandons what has been working for them because they become greedy. As they say on Wall Street – 'Pigs get slaughtered!'
The Winner just makes their PLAN and plays.
The 'h' could also represent hot - as in hothead. Have you ever gotten upset over one or two bad shots only to allow those one or two shots to get you in such a mental funk that you lose conscious thought over the next 3 holes because you're so pissed at yourself?
I have witnessed this over and over on the golf course. Yes, everybody gets upset with themselves on the golf course. There's nothing wrong with that. The so called Mental Guru's that say that you shouldn't get upset are pretty much idiots that are selling you on nonsense and are not living in reality.
It's natural to get upset after a bad shot.
Though, the 'hothead' can't let it go. After missing a putt on the 2nd hole, they carry over the frustration to the 3rd tee. Which contributes to a bad tee shot. Then the bad tee shot added to the missed putt is directly involved with the next bad swing – which contributes to another bad swing after that and the one after that and the one...
And for the next 6 holes, the 'hothead' collects Double and Triple Bogeys like my junk mail folder collects worthless emails.
A Whiner is always thinking about their last bad shot. Sometimes it seems that the hothead thrives on getting mad at themselves. Almost as if they're out on the golf course more for the thrill of getting upset over their game – than for the actual enjoyment that golf can bring.
The Winner just makes a PLAN and plays.
How does one Golfer go from scoring in the 100's to scoring in the 80's within a year – while another Golfer stays stuck in the 100's after 3 years? It could be the 'h'.
Would you classify the Golfer that improved from well above Bogey Golf to well better than Bogey Golf as a Winner or a Whiner? It could be the 'h'.
The good news is that the Whiner can turn into a Winner in a short period of time. It's not easy – you really have to watch yourself because the old habits of the Whiner come back pretty fast if they're not watched. All you have to do is take the 3 'h's' above out of your game and add the 'n'.
What's the 'n' stand for? 'Nothing'. You really don't have to do anything else besides getting rid of the 'h' to go from a Whiner to a Winner.
How about you? Are you a Winner or a Whiner?
The Monkey spends more time on the golf course whining about their golf game then they do making a PLAN for their golf game
The Player always seems to be winning in their effort to improve because they focus their energy towards making a PLAN
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Golf's US Open Next Week - Watch and Learn
So we have one more tournament on the PGA Tour until everybody whips themselves into frenzy the following week at the US Open in San Diego, California. I associate the US Open with being in the heart of golf season – so that may mean that Golfers are starting to get into their weekly games and enjoying life.
I believe there a few things you should be observing when watching the US Open on television. One of which is the Players making their PLAN before each shot. I'd like for you to take notice and compare how you do it, versus how they do it.
The common Golfer walks (or drives their cart) down the fairway to their golf ball; once at the ball; they find their yardage, look at their clubs and say to themselves – 'I'm 185 yards to the green, that's my 3 iron' – and away they go.
The Player you'll see on television at the US Open will walk down the fairway to their golf ball; they'll get the yardage to the flag; the distance to front of the green; the distance to the back of the green; along with the distance the flag is to the left-side and right-side of the green. The Player will also observe where the trouble is around the green; take into account their predominant ball flight; along with taking into account which way their ball goes when they do hit a bad shot.
Then and only then will they select a club and aim for their shot. How close does that come to how you prepare for each shot?
And although, their golf swings are much better than the common Golfer's golf swing – the main reason the Player doesn't make a slew of Double Bogies and Triple Bogies is that they have a PLAN for every golf shot that's based on their Strengths and Weaknesses.
Yes, there will be people that debate me that the reason the Player has less Doubles and Triples is that they have better golf swings – I won't deny that that's part of the reason. But, it's not the whole reason.
And although the Player has more talent than the common Golfer, one reason they can make better, more confident golf swings for each shot is because they thoroughly PLAN each shot before they even select a club. And additionally, because their PLAN is so well made; that when they do make a bad golf swing; the ball doesn't end up in a position that will leave them the potential to make a Double or Triple Bogey.
The common Golfer just glances at the yardage to the center of the green and hits the club that pertains to that yardage based on making perfect contact with the golf ball. Though, unfortunately, this Golfer has decided the yardage they can hit their 3-iron based solely on a couple of pure hits that they had back in 1993. Yet, they stick with that yardage even though they usually hit the ball short of the green in the bunker or they'll try to get that extra yardage to the green by swinging too hard and ending up in areas of the golf course you rather not be.
Now the Golfer will often times say – 'Well, I don't have a caddie to give me those yardages and I can't take too long to decide what club to use because the other Golfers I play with will be waiting for me.'
Well, you can PLAN if you know when to PLAN and how to PLAN.
No, you don't need to know the exact yardage from the left-side of the green to the flag, but you could and should have a good estimate or even turn it into a fraction. For example: 'The flag appears to be 2/3's across the green'. Which means that 2/3's of the green is to the left of the flag and only 1/3 of the green is to the right of the flag.
If that's the case, which side of the flag should you aim towards?
And the answer isn't straight at the flag. If you do aim at the flag in this scenario, hit a good golf shot, yet the golf ball drifts a little to the right (has that ever happened to you), you'll end up missing the green to the right and possibly short siding yourself with a tough wedge shot. And this is the classic case of you hitting a really good golf shot to the green, but possibly ending up with a Double Bogey.
The Player won't let that happen. The Player in the scenario above would aim to the 2/3's side of the green so that if the ball drifts a little right, it would end up on the green. If it drifts a little to the left, it would also end up on the green.
So yes, there's a big difference in the way the Players in the US Open hit the golf ball versus how you hit the golf ball, but they do make bad golf swings during the course of a round of golf. And those bad swings could lead to disasters when you're playing a golf course set-up for the US Open. But, the top Players won't experience a lot of disasters with their bad shots because they'll have a PLAN to avoid them.
The common Golfer will aim at the flag like they think Tiger Woods would do – yet, in many of those situations Tiger wouldn't be aiming at the flag. Tiger has a PLAN that's based on more factors than just on how far he hits his 3-iron on his very best golf swing.
The Monkey selects their club and shot based solely on the distance to the center of the green
The Player selects their club and shot on a whole lot more
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
Here We Come Toronto, Canada
GMS is excited to announce that we'll be conducting GMS Programs in Toronto this summer! Along with hosting 2 and 3 day Level 2 GMS Programs that are open to returning GMS Golfers that have seen us in Florida, California and Arizona - we'll also be hosting Level 1 Programs for Golfers that haven't been to see us yet.
Why Toronto? Well the Toronto area is the 3rd biggest supplier of Golfers to Golf Made Simple's programs in Florida, California and Arizona. So when we received the opportunity to come ‘North of the Border' this summer – we jumped at the chance
We heard a lot of "You need to open up in Toronto because I'll be your #1 client" and "If you ever come to Toronto, I'm sure all my friends will sign-up!" Well Toronto, here we come!
For dates, rates and location of our facility in the Toronto area – just give us a telephone call at 1-888-580-3635 or email at IWantToBe@GolfMadeSimple.com.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Your Best Summer of Golf Ever!
Do you want to have your best summer of Golf ever? Then repeat after me – say it out loud so it means more than just it saying to yourself:
"Going ahead from this day forward – I solemnly swear to work on my golf game with the specific goal of improvement. Not a minute of my time will have anything to do with just mindlessly hitting golf ball after golf ball. My game is too important for me to fall into that bad habit.
"From now on, I'm committed to working specifically on the drills that will help me to improve the Weaknesses in my golf swing. I will not just see a golf tip in a golf magazine and decide that this is what I need to work on. I will have to make an honest decision on whether that tip really pertains to my golf swing as opposed to just trying it because it's in the magazine or on television.
"I realize that I need to hit the golf ball better to score better, but I also need to convince myself that 36 putts a round or more is too much. In the past, I've always had the philosophy that my putting is good enough and that I'll start working on it when I get my golf swing more consistent.
"Yet, I've been working on trying to become more consistent for the last 5 years and if I kept that same philosophy, it might be another 5 years before I get to my putting. I need to really stay adamant about this because 36 putts is at least 4 putts too many per round. And really, if I do have only 36 putts a round, it was good putting day for me – in reality I probably average 40 or more putts per round.
"And if I just spend 25% of the time I usually reserved for the driving range and used it for my putting – I could easily go from 40 putts to 32 putts in a short timeframe. Hey, an 8 stroke improvement isn't a bad thing! If you had asked me if I wanted to improve my full swing to improve 8 strokes – I'd be all over that as quick as you could flip a switch, but for some reason – it never meant as much when it came to putting.
"I wonder why Golfers aren't as enthused about improving their putting 8 strokes? Why is it that in the past that improving 8 strokes with my putter didn't seem as appealing as improving 8 strokes with my Driver?
"I mean, 8 strokes is 8 strokes regardless of what area you improve upon.
"My goal is to improve. And the way to see improvement and have it continue through the years is to have a PLAN - that'll allow me to stay focused on what I need to work on. In the past, I've jumped from drill to drill and swing thought to swing thought trying to find "The Magic". Yet, the only thing I found was that I was never happy with my game. From now on – I'm staying focused on the drills that I know are going to improve the Weaknesses in my golf swing!
"Golfers around the world often times become so distracted that they lose focus at the driving range. They fall prey to getting away from their PLAN of improving how they hit the golf ball and get into a ball bashing session that often includes alternating moments of exhilaration; followed closely by long periods of despair.
"Not me anymore – that's the old me. I want to be a Player. And you just can't call yourself a Player and expect to become one – You Need To Earn Player Status!!"
It's easy to read the above – it's a little more difficult to make sure you live by it. Though, if you want to earn Player Status – you need to stay committed as opposed to getting distracted by all the new swing tips that are put in your path each year.
The Monkey says they want to become a Player, yet doesn't commit to a PLAN
The Player reads this GIW over and over and lives it
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
By the way – Golf Made Simple has just completed our first DVD. After years and years and offers upon offers from people that wanted to produce a DVD for us – we decided we wanted to do it our own way. We've created a DVD to help you become a Player, as opposed to all the other Monkey stuff that's already out there.
Our DVD - How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors – is improvement GMS Style. What's GMS Style? It's a Results Based Approach as opposed to a Theories and Assumptions Based Approach.
Please Click here to purchase through our website or call us at 1 (888) 580 - 3635.
Click here to purchase on Amazon.com
and/or to read the reviews of Golfer's that have purchased the DVD
Labels: Driver, driving range, Florida, Golf, Golf DVD, Golf Instruction, Golf Lessons, Golf practice, Golf Schools, Golf Swing, Golf Travel, Golf Video, Marc Solomon
Thursday, May 01, 2008
What Causes Compensations in Your Golf Swing?
Click Here To Listen to The Audio Version of Golf Improvement Weekly 
The idea that golf needs to be as complicated as many Golfers are making it is a frustrating/confusing concept to me. Every week, I hear of a new, groundbreaking concept that someone has come up with that’ll help all Golfers to hit the golf ball farther and straighter. I’ve heard about new grips, swing plane concepts, weight transfer systems, along with stuff I don’t want to even mention that supposedly will make your swing automatic.
And the funny part is that there are Golfers out there that believe in this stuff because they feel as though – ‘the more complicated, the more better’. These Golfers don’t want to make their golf swing simple. This group of Golfers has a weird perversion towards making things more complicated. They feel as though they need to have 8 steps in their swing. They feel as though that in addition to keeping their head still, they also need to get their elbow tucked into their side as they shift their weight, keep their golf club on plane and use the X-Factor.
It’s not that these Golfer don’t want to make it simple – it’s more about that they get so involved with listening and reading all the golf information out there, that they start believing the golf swing has to be complicated. But I believe these Golfers are in denial because as much as they say that they want to think about all that stuff (and the hundreds of other things they’re thinking about every swing) – they truly wish that they could make it simpler.
They often say to themselves that they’re thinking too much and need to swing without so many thoughts - Yet, many of these aforementioned Golfers have a tendency of getting frightened if they’re not thinking of enough things every time they swing. And although they readily admit that their bad shots are brought about because they were thinking too much – as they approach the golf ball, regardless of how much they try, they go back to thinking about everything they need to do in their golf swing.
These Golfers are constantly telling themselves to swing with no thoughts – that is until they prepare to hit the golf ball when they automatically revert back to thinking too much before, during and after their golf swing.
New Golfers Improve Faster
How is it possible that using the GMS - Results Based Approach, we can get a Golfer that’s just learning to play to be able to break 90 in less than a year? While at the same time there are Golfers that have been playing for years and have taken 100’s of lessons, been through countless golf schools – and still aren’t able to break 90 and/or 100 with any consistency?
As one Golfer that had spent enough money on golf lessons to support a small country (without seeing much improvement); recently wrote to us: “I think the difference between GMS and the other schools that we have attended are that you don’t get students bogged down with mechanics. Your explanations are easy to understand, the drills are fun, and your focus is on one thing…impact.”
Impact – What An Interesting Concept!
Yet, when you hear frustrated Golfers talking about what they’re working on in their golf swing, it often has nothing to do with impact. Everything is about how they saw themselves on video, how they’re taking the club too far outside, how their head is moving too much, how they’re not turning enough on the backswing, how they don’t have the butt of the club pointing down the target line at a certain point of their golf swing or how they don’t get enough fiber in their diet.
Well maybe, just maybe the reason that all those above compensations are happening is because you don’t know impact. Maybe if you worked on being able to get the different parts of your body working together so you’re more in control of the golf club, and/or understood what the motion of impact felt like – maybe all these other so called problems would self correct.
As the majority of Golfers that are struggling with their golf swing are learning to fix compensations by being prescribed more compensations that are being masqueraded as swing fixes – we see Results with our Golfers because many bad swing compensations will be eliminated by simply working on impact.
Do you know that you can eliminate the “over the top, outside in, casting” problem by working on impact?
Yet, many Golfers that have a simple slicing problem are told that the reason for this slice is the above mentioned “over the top, outside in, casting” problem. They are then given another compensation being masqueraded as a swing fix such as learning to ‘tuck in your elbow on the down swing’. And although it’s very easy to tuck in your elbow (or use any other swing “improvement” compensation) on practice swing after practice swing – this Golfer can never do it when there’s a golf ball to hit.
Why?
Because trying to tuck in your elbow is a swing “improvement” compensation that is being used to fix another compensation already in your swing. And that compensation is being used to cover-up another compensation. And thus, you’ll have to learn another compensation to fix that compensation and then another compensation to fix another. And pretty soon you have a golf swing that’s built upon compensations.
And when all these compensations align – you hit a good shot - yet, this doesn’t happen the majority of the time. This is why some Golfers hit the golf ball straight sometimes, to the right sometimes and to the left sometimes; why you hit the golf ball solid sometimes, behind the ball sometimes and top it sometimes – any of these could happen on any swing because you never know which compensation in your swing is not going to work.
So golf becomes frustrating because you have so many compensations in your golf swing that you end up saying – “I’m so inconsistent, I have so many things wrong with my golf swing.” And out of desperation, this Golfer now seeks out someone that will give them a complete swing overhaul that has nothing to do with impact – and as this Golfer struggles worse than ever with this complete swing change, they hear the infamous phrase of “well, you have to get worse before you get better!’
Great, by hearing that, it should make you feel better about your struggle. And the funny thing is that all that could be avoided and good golf swings could be created by understanding impact.
The Monkey jumps from compensation to compensation because each compensation they add to their golf swing to fix another compensation leads to more bad swing habits that cause you to add more compensations
The Player understands the motion involved with impact
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
By the way – Golf Made Simple has just completed our first DVD. After years and years and offers upon offers from people that wanted to produce a DVD for us – we decided we wanted to do it our own way. We've created a DVD to help you become a Player, as opposed to all the other Monkey stuff that's already out there.
Our DVD - How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors – is improvement GMS Style. What's GMS Style? It's a Results Based Approach as opposed to a Theories and Assumptions Based Approach.
Please Click here to purchase through our website or call us at 1 (888) 580 - 3635.
Click here to purchase on Amazon.com
and/or to read the reviews of Golfer's that have purchased the DVD
Labels: California, Clubs, Driver, driving range, Florida, Golf, Golf DVD, Golf Instruction, Golf Lessons, Golf practice, Golf Schools, Golf Swing, Golf Travel, Golf Video, Lake Tahoe
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
How To Practice Your Golf Like A Player
Click Here To Listen to The Audio Version of Golf Improvement Weekly What would happen if you practiced your golf more this year than last year? Would you be a better Golfer? I guess it depends on what your definition of practice is.
To the mass majority of Golfers - practice is the science of banging golf ball after golf ball on the driving range; one after the other until every ball has been hit as far away from you as possible.
Practice is different things for different people.
For the majority of Golfers - it's about getting your bucket of balls, starting with your wedge, hitting a few balls with your 7 or 8 iron and then making the jump to your Driver. Which wouldn't be such a bad thing to do if you had a PLAN to practice as opposed to just hitting golf ball after golf ball trying to find a golf swing.
The above group is what we call Range Monkeys. Now before anybody that doesn't like it when we refer to some Golfers as Monkeys - before you get upset - you must understand what the term signifies. This term has nothing to do with ones skill level - nothing, nothing, nothing!
So as one Golfer wrote that he'd rather be called a Hacker than a Monkey - I find the term Hacker to be more offensive than being called a Monkey. A Hacker is a derogatory term to mean a terrible Golfer - Monkey has nothing to do with one's ability level. A Golfer that we term a Monkey is just a Golfer that has no PLAN. All they do is watch the other Golfers around them and do what they do - even though the Golfers around them might be as frustrated as you are.
It must be a case of Monkey See, Monkey Do.
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to watch a Player that has recently broken 90 and is progressing into the low 80's? Or watch a Player that was once scoring in the 100's, but is now into the 90's and progressing towards the 80's? Or a Golfer that has achieved the ultimate - going from the 100's to 90's to 80's and into the 70's? These are Players - Players are Golfers that are improving using a PLAN. Monkeys are Golfers that have been stuck for years without a PLAN.
Now, just because someone can score in the 70's occasionally, doesn't make them a Player. If the Player that improves from the 100's into 70's stops using their PLAN because they feel they've 'made it' - they may start losing their Player status!
A Player is a term for a Golfer that's using their PLAN to improve. It signifies a Golfer that's learning something that'll help them improve every practice session and every time on the golf course. I've seen Golfers that score in the high 90's that I believe are Players. Why? Because they're improving from the 100's and have a PLAN laid out to continue improving.
Though I've seen Golfers that score in the high 70's and low 80's that I'd call Monkeys because they've been stuck there for years - yet continue to do the same things over and over again - instead of making a PLAN based on their Strengths and Weaknesses to get where they want to be - down into the 70's consistently.
The terms Monkey and Player have nothing to do with skill level!!!!
The Monkey is the Golfer that goes from one tip in Golf Digest to the next tip that's handed out on the Golf Channel to the next one that they've read on an Internet Chat Room Discussion Board by someone that has a nickname such as 'swing guru'. Yet at the same time - none of these Golf Tips has ever helped you to break 100 or 90 or 80 or 70 - like they were advertised to do. So it's on to the next swing tip.
Trust me - there's nothing offensive about the term Monkey - it's more of a term that you could use the next time you go to the practice range to hit golf balls. After you set your bucket of balls down and before you take your first swing - look around, look at the other Golfers. And study them. Can you pick out any Range Monkeys?
Who's the Range Monkey?
It's the Golfer that has hit more than 2 balls without stepping back to make a PLAN. Why is this important? Because on the golf course you don't have the luxury of hitting multiple golf balls in a row. Each time you walk up to the golf ball on the golf course - you need to make a PLAN for your shot. Shouldn't you 'practice like you play'?
It's the Golfer that's just hitting to the middle of the range. They don't have a target, they're just hitting to nowhere - especially with their Driver. But in their mind, they're practicing their swing. They feel as though practicing to targets isn't important at this point - it's more about their swing than where they're hitting the golf ball. They believe that they'll start to practice hitting to a target after they get their swing correct.
It's the Golfer that doesn't have a Warm-up PLAN. Their way of warming up is to hit 5 or 6 wedges and a few 7 irons because they have the fear of wasting golf balls. They need to conserve as many balls as they can for their Driver. 'I mean, if I hit more than 5 or 6 wedges and a few 7 irons - I'd only have about 50 golf balls left to practice my Driver.'
It's the Golfer that'll hit one good shot and say to themselves - 'That's it!' Then try to repeat that swing on their next shot. And if that shot is good - they try to repeat that same swing on their next shot and so on. But, whenever they try to repeat that same swing and hit a bad shot - they're off to another vine (or I should say another swing tip) trying to find 'it' again. And if that tip works for a few swings and then leaves them - it's on to another tip.
And for many Golfers, this routine goes on for years upon years. Maybe that's why GMS sees over 1,000 Golfers a year that have been stuck in the 100's, 90's and 80's for 3, 5, 10 or 20 years. Why? Because they get into one of the above Monkey Routines - or because they haven't improved in such a long time, they end up not practicing at all. Now, that's not to say that they haven't tried hard to improve or break those barriers. I'm sure the majority of Golfers have tried. My belief is that many Golfers just aren't trained or taught how to have a Practice PLAN.
Who's the Player?
It's the Golfer that uses their Strengths and Weaknesses to formulate a PLAN. The Player's PLAN is to have a Warm-up PLAN. The Player's Warm-up PLAN about knowing how to get your golf mind working so that you're ready to get the most out of your Practice PLAN. The Player's Practice PLAN is about incorporating your Swing Drills in between the shots that you're hitting to targets. And by target, I don't just mean to a green. The Player divides the green into multiple targets, just like they should when they're on the golf course.
Are you a Player?
The Monkey practices based on nothing more than just going from one swing tip to another while they hit ball after ball
The Player has a PLAN to improve by using a Results Based Approach
Go ahead, Be a Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
www.GolfMadeSimple.com
By the way – Golf Made Simple has just completed our first DVD. After years and years and offers upon offers from people that wanted to produce a DVD for us – we decided we wanted to do it our own way. We've created a DVD to help you become a Player, as opposed to all the other Monkey stuff that's already out there.
Our DVD - How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors – is improvement GMS Style. What's GMS Style? It's a Results Based Approach as opposed to a Theories and Assumptions Based Approach.
Please Click here to purchase through our website or call us at 1 (888) 580 - 3635.
Click here to purchase on Amazon.com
and/or to read the reviews of Golfer's that have purchased the DVD
Labels: driving range, Golf DVD, Golf Instruction, Golf Lessons, Golf practice, Golf Schools, Golf Swing, Golf Video
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