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"Are You A Harmless Fiddler Of The Golf Swing or A Compulsive Hoarder Of Golf Tips?"
Actually, the above is a trick title for this article because there’s no such thing as a “Harmless Fiddler”. The seemingly innocent act of fiddling with your golf swing has caused more people to say “I have lost my golf swing. I can’t hit the golf ball anymore.”
A golf swing doesn’t disappear … and no, you don’t lose your golf swing. Your swing is still with you, although you may have a few bad habits or compensations that you have picked up that maybe throwing your swing off a little. Yet, your golf swing is still there … it’s just buried under a few bad habits.
These bad habits and compensations happen to everyone. So if this has happened to you – you’re not alone. I can say without fear that one of the major causes of a Golfer losing their swing is because you’re often trying quick fixes (band-aides) to fix your golf swing.
This fiddling process that leads you to ‘losing your golf swing’ could start as innocently as slightly changing your grip. Some might say: “how can a slight grip change cause me to lose my golf swing?”
Easy – let’s say that you’re a right handed Golfer that has the tendency to hit your golf ball anywhere from a fade (golf ball drifts to the right) to a slice (ball drifts a lot more to the right). So you read that you need to strengthen your grip (left hand more on top of the club and right hand more under) so that you promote a draw.
You now hit a few shots and your golf ball starts going a little to the left. You continue hitting golf balls because it’s nice to see your ball not going to the right. However, after a few more shots your golf ball starts going farther and farther to the left. So you say to yourself that you better weaken your grip just a little.
You hit a few more shots and things start to straighten. So now you’re thinking – “That was too easy. All it was this whole time was that I just needed to adjust my grip.”
So what happens next? The same thing that always happens – once you think you got it … the magic disappears just as fast.
After the golf tip worked for a few swings … you start to hit behind the golf ball. So you think to yourself: “well, I’m probably coming over the top and getting too steep coming into the golf ball. I’ll try to make this next swing come more from the inside.”
After a couple more shots you start finding that you’re now shanking the golf ball. So you say to yourself: “Ok, I might be coming too far from the inside and too shallow into the golf ball. I’ve probably become too flat.”
So what are you going to do now? Another grip adjustment? More tweaking of your swing plane? Maybe trying to turn your forearms through impact? What’s the next compensation that you’re going to add to your growing collection of compensations?
The key is this: As innocent as most people think the above scenario is … it has lasting negative effects on your golf swing. Going through that scenario just once has added unnecessary compensations to your golf swing. By adjusting your grip that first time … you’re making a compensation to fix the golf ball from flying to the right. By swinging more inside … you’re compensating for hitting behind the golf ball.
The question you need to ask yourself: is changing your grip and swing plane or whatever else you do – on every other swing a correction or a compensation?
In the above scenario, there are at least 3 compensations that you have added. Then the next time you practice, you probably have a similar session … meaning you added another 3 or 4 compensations to your golf swing. So now you have over 6 compensations in your golf swing. And then the next time you practice you add more.
Which means each time you go practice – instead of getting closer to consistency … you’re getting farther and farther away.
Then one day you’re on the golf course and find that you have completely lost your golf swing. Because your golf swing has collapsed under the weight of all those compensations and is buried under a mountain of bad habits that you unknowingly have collected in your golf swing.
Basically, you’re a Hoarder!
A Hoarder of Golf Swing Compensations and all these compensations are piling on top of each other until one day … you’re not able to handle having all those compensations trying to work together. It just gets to the point where you have too many conflicting things in your golf swing … and your golf swing just becomes terrible.
Is your golf swing lost? No it is not. Is it still there? Yes, it’s just buried under so many compensations that you can no longer see it or feel it or do it.
If this is you, what should you do?
The key is to find what was causing the inconsistency in your golf swing before you started adding all those compensations. Only an exceptional Golf Instructor will be able to see through all those compensations and find the Root Cause. However, a less than exceptional Golf Instructor will tell you they know what is wrong with your golf swing and just add more compensation and make things worse.
For a real life example of this: let’s look at Tiger Woods. The greatest, most talented Golfer that ever played the game … was just beaten by a kid in High School this past week. Has Tiger lost his golf swing? Absolutely not. It’s still there. It’s just buried under a few compensations that were brought about by a less than exceptional Instructor.
If it can happen to the worlds best Player … it can happen to you. The key with Tiger, as with you, is to find an exceptional Instructor that can find the Root Cause as opposed to trying to fix the Effect.
The Monkey is a Hoarder of Golf Swing Compensations that will eventually ‘lose their golf swing’
The Player sticks with their PLAN and works on the drills that promote solid ball strikes
Go ahead, Be A Player!
Regards,
Marc Solomon - Your Instructor For Life
http://www.GolfMadeSimple.com
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“From Averaging Around 90 To Scoring A 75!”
Marc – It’s Danny from April of 2010. I had to let you know I had a 75, on January 30th. I beat my best score (before attending GMS) by 10 strokes. You sure helped my game!
Hope you are fine, and I am sure you’re helping a lot of people like me. Talk to you later, thanks again,
Danny M
Boiling Springs, South Carolina
Sent January 30th, 2011
Attended St. Augustine location on April 9th to 11th, 2010
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“I Shot A 42 For 9 Holes!”
Matty,
Just a quick note to thank you for all your hard work, energy, patience and professionalism last week. I had a great time and learned a lot about my swing and game and how I have to uncover it. I will continue to work on it and remember your gentle reminders.
On Sunday, I went out after our 9 holes of On-course Instruction, played the back 9 holes and shot a 42! The next day I also had a beautiful round at World Woods. I enjoyed it immensely, which is the important part!
You are a great guy with a great attitude that will take you far in your professional and personal life. You are a true gentleman and a credit to your profession. Not many pros would run down the middle of the fairway to catch each student’s shot and offer a compliment or reminder what they could do to improve. I will not soon forget that energy and helpfulness.
Sincerely,
Mark K
Hamlin, New York
Sent January 26th, 2011
Attended Tampa location on January 21st to 23rd, 2011
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Pick The Winner -- Win The DVD!
This is our 3rd week hosting this contest. Nobody has chosen the winner in the first 2 weeks! Can you choose the winner this week?
If you pick the winner of this week's PGA Tour event in Arizona ... you will win the GMS DVD – How To Improve Your Golf Swing Indoors … the #1 Selling Golf Swing DVD on Amazon.com!
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Good luck … pick the winner and win the DVD!
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“GMS Will Continue In Spain This Summer!”
There has been a lot of good buzz coming from GMS lately and I want to add to it. For all our friends in Europe, things have been going so well at our location in Sotogrande, Spain, that we’re extending our season there. Last year, our first year in Spain, we held GMS programs from December through the end of May.
For 2011, we’ve decided to go through the end of November. So this year we’re not stopping in May – as we’re adding June, July, August, September, October and November. We can’t tell you how excited we are to be adding these dates!
Just think – June at Almenara Resort on the Mediterranean Sea – playing the best golf of your life!
For dates and information on all of our GMS locations – go to our Rates and Dates web page by clicking here or give us a call.
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Alexandria - Director, Golf Made Simple, Inc.
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IWantToBe@GolfMadeSimple.com
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