Why,
oh why, is the Golf Swing SO hard?!
An
excerpt from the book
Golf Swing Eureka by
Jon Barrett
I’ve inserted this section in as I believe
it may help you understand why we find the
golf swing so hard.
Why do we find a move that seems so easy to
the professionals so incredibly difficult to
perform?
Recently I discovered that psychologists
believe that we learn differently as adults
than we do when we were children. And I
believe this may be the key to explaining
why we have such a difficult time of it.
The large majority of professional golfers
will have taken up golf when they were kids
– Tiger Woods was swinging a club well at 3!
But, I would imagine the majority of amateur
golfers took golf up when either in their
late teens, early twenties or even later in
life – as adults.
The psychologists believe that as children
we learn from repeating the model that we
see – we know that kids are very trusting of
what they are told. Yes, they ask lots of
questions but they trust the answers given.
They see, and are told, and DO.
Now as adults we learn differently. We have
already formed opinions about how the world
is and how things operate. So when we learn
something new we actually test it against
the rules that we have already built up in
our heads as to what is right and wrong.
Unfortunately for us, the golf swing is
actually illogical. That’s where the problem
stems from. In our heads we can’t actually
accept or believe that that is how the golf
swing works. We then trust our instinct and
test it against our rules and go back to
what we believe is logical.
Here is what is illogical about the golf
swing:
A Golf Swing without Effort = A Powerful 300
yard drive
It’s been said before that the secret to the
pros swing is that it achieves ‘Power
WITHOUT Effort – how illogical is that!
It’s a bit like saying we’re going on a 200
mile car journey, but we’re not going to
turn the engine on! No ones going to believe
you.
That’s how our brains interpret it – we
think there’s no way you can hit a golf ball
300 yards without LOTS of effort.
So next time we coil up on the backswing our
brain tells our muscles ‘right guys we need
plenty of effort if we’re going to send this
ball long and straight’.
Pro’s do actually put effort into their
swings to get the ball to go that far (look
at Tiger Woods face just before impact and
you’ll see what I mean) BUT they put it in
at a completely different point in the swing
to amateur golfers. They also know the
technique that allows them to produce such
great results – and it doesn’t involve
power, certainly not how the amateur golfer
understands it.
Amateur golfers think you need to start the
golf swing powerfully BUT the pro golfers
know that you put the effort in at the
bottom of the swing.
If you try and take this point on board this
will start the process of adjusting your
mind.
Over the next few pages I’m going to OPEN
your EYES to how the golf swing actually
works – much of which us amateurs don’t
appreciate.
Understanding is the 1st key to unlocking
your golfing potential.
Towards the end of my book I’ll show you
where to get a piece of software that will
by-pass your conscious mind and reprogram
your sub-conscious mind to believe what you
will see and start to understand about how
the pro golf swing works. How YOU can swing
powerfully without effort.
EYE-OPENER No. 2
What part of the body contributes the most
to generating the maximum speed of the club
head?
This single answer allowed me to make a huge
leap in my understanding of the golf swing,
and in everything I had seen and read about
the golf swing none of it emphasised it
enough.
I carried out a survey on the Internet over
several weeks and asked visitors to my web
site the question:- What part of the body
contributes the most to generating the
maximum speed of the club head?
Only 20% got the answer correct – That’s
only 1 in every 5 golfers! And these golfers
had a wide range of handicaps down to single
figures.
Interestingly this figure corresponds to
another golfing statistic - Did you know
that only around 20% of golfers have a
handicap of less than 18? It made me wonder
whether the misunderstanding of the
fundamental aspect could be the one thing
that is holding so many golfers back.
Which part of the body do you think creates
the maximum speed of the club head?
Is it:
Shoulders
Arms
Hands
Hips
Legs
Torso
wrists
(Graphics and explanations omitted here)
....So the answer to
the question that I posed above is that it
is the hands (or wrists) that contribute the
most to generating the maximum club head
speed. The club is moved through over 180
degrees whilst the arms move through less
than 60 degrees – all of the rest of the
movement of the head of the golf club is
generated by the movement of the hands.
Unfortunately the large majority of golfers
think that it is with the shoulders and
arms. I’ll come back to this point later as
even when you get everything else right in
your swing this can be a real good swing
killer!
Find out the details
and much more in Jon's Eye Opening ebook:
Golf Swing Eureka
Jon
Barrett WAS a frustrated golfer and has
studied the golf swing for 5 years in search
of the information that would make his
scores tumble but without success... UNTIL
he discovered what only 1% of amateur
golfers know about the Pro's golf swing...
Read all about his eye opening concepts you
won't find in standard swing advice now...
Golf Swing Eureka
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