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Which Golf Tips Should You Listen To?
By: David Ferrers
There are good golf tips and bad golf tips.
The question is, “how do you decide which golf tips to listen
to?”
This question has been brought home to me recently because a
good friend took up golf about two years ago. He has really
caught the bug and plays several times a week. He also has
lessons and practices frequently. Whenever we play together he
is constantly asking for tips and advice about his swing.
It is my belief that you should only give a player a golf tip if
you are sure that it will fit in with the rest of his swing. I
have seen far too many players lose their swings when trying to
adopt a golf tip which simply does not fit in with everything
else that goes on when they swing the club.
OK, I know, there are certain golf tips which are universally
sound, like, “keep your head still.” But equally there are
plenty of other golf tips that can be ruinous even when given
with the best of intentions.
In particular I recall a good player with whom I'd played many
rounds who always drew the ball right to left, usually with good
control. One day when his draw was a bit exaggerated, his
partner suggested this perfectly sound golf tip: “You know, if
you were to keep your right elbow well tucked in on the
downswing you would lose that nasty hook.”
The suggestion was well meant. However, for a player who had a
well grooved habit of swinging slightly over the top of the
ball, as Arnold Palmer was wont to do, it proved to be one golf
tip too much. He became so conscious of his right elbow that it
threw the whole of the rest of his swing out of shape and it
took him months to get it back again.
The point is that the golf tip didn't fit in with the rest of
his swing.
This is a mistake that many golfers make. They listen to all the
golf tips out there and try to adopt them all in their desperate
search for a good swing. It is my belief that your aim should be
to groove a golf swing that will give you streams of straight
and long golf shots by modelling your swing on one set of
advice. Then you should develop a mind movie of that swing so
that you can reproduce it whenever you play a shot.
Think how long some of the most famous partnerships between
players and their swing coaches have lasted. Think of Jack
Nicklaus and Jack Grout, Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon, Nick
Faldo and David Leadbetter to name but a few. All these great
players relied on one coach's vision of their swing to keep
their mind movie in shape. They did not go asking for golf tips
from other players.
About the author: David Ferrers wrote The
Golf Swing Mind-Movies Power Pack one of ClickBank's top selling
publications - read more here:
http://www.Thegolfbandit.com/golf-tip-Golf-Mind-Movies.htm
He researches and writes quick, easy-to-use ways to play golf
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