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A Good Golf Bag is important
Few things are more important to a golfer than a good golf bag.
First off, golf bags come in many styles and a wide variety of
colors. You can choose a bag for style, features or pick a color
to match your mood.
Some have legs that fold out...
Astonishing Victorian-Era Golf Book Predicted Bullet Trains and Television
Did you hear about the curious little book, first published in 1892, that predicted bullet trains, digital watches, television and women's liberation and other wonders decades before they came to pass?
It's a book that burst into the news in...
Golf Workouts Can Transform Your Game
I’m sure by now you’ve heard most of the professional players; both men and women actively participate in golf workouts. It’s no secret. But why then do most amateur golfers ignore this? Is it because it seems like work? Or, does the thought of...
The One Piece Takeaway In Your Golf Swing (pt. 2)
Pictures and video clips are shown for this part on my website at: http://basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com/onepiecetakeaway.html The One-Piece Takeaway Movement This is a brief outline of what is in my lesson modules. (Note: the references are...
What You Should Know About Plyometrics And How It Will Help You Get Longer Drives
One of the main problems for golfers is power. Yep, good old power. It seems simple enough but power can be elusive to most golfers. How could this be? simply everyone is unique in an anatomical sense. Everybody has different muscle tone, muscle...
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WHY CAN'T I PLAY LIKE TIGER?
Tiger Woods is absolutely the very best golfer on the planet
week in and week out. You would be hard pressed to find anyone
who would argue that point with you. He seems to be able to
focus and produce fantastic scores even when he's obviously not
at his best.
His drives fly so far that they really should serve food on them
or at the very least, drinks. His iron shots somehow manage to
finish around the hole from even the worst of situations. From
50 yards and in, he is unbelievable. He manufactures chips and
pitches from all sorts of lies and hazards that defy logic and
if I had to wager my life on someone dropping a side-hill ten
footer, you can bet that someone would be Tiger Woods.
So what's not to like? Why shouldn't golf instructors teach you
to swing like Tiger? Why shouldn't the average player attempt to
emulate the moves and mechanics of best player in the world?
Before we answer that question, I'd like to answer a different
question. What is an average golfer?
The National Golf Foundation (www.NGF.org) breaks golfers into
two separate categories. These categories are core golfers,
defined as those who play at least 8 times per year, and
occasional golfers who play 7 or less rounds yearly. In the
United States, there are 15.7 million core golfers and another
14.6 occasional golfers for a total of 30.3 million golfers.
Of these players, the average score for men in the core group is
97 and 106 is the average for women in the same group. We won't
even talk about the average score of the occasional group.
Percentage wise, the scoring numbers break out like this:
SCORE / PERCENTAGE OF PLAYERS WHO SHOOT IT Under 80 / 8%, 80 -
89 / 20% 90 - 99 / 31%, 100 - 119 / 30%, 120 and Up / 11%
Additionally, the average player in the core group plays 37
times per year. That's about 3 times a month or less than once
per week.
To summarize, an average player is defined as a man who plays
about 3 times monthly and averages a score of 97. For women the
number of rounds is consistent with their male counterparts but
their average score rises to 106.
Now that we've defined what an average player is, we can answer
the initial question which was... "Why shouldn't the average
player attempt to emulate the best player in the world?"
Tiger Woods is a world-class athlete. Most average players are
not. Most people period, are not.
Tiger Woods has incredible hand-eye coordination as is
referenced by his ability to square the club at impact and by
his uncanny short game. If you're average score is 97 +, you're
ability to square the club needs some work. Let's be realistic.
Tiger plays and practices daily. In contrast, we know the
average player plays less than 1 round per week and the list of
reasons
why you shouldn't emulate Tiger goes on and on. Now,
that's not to say that Tiger doesn't have a golf swing worth
emulating, because he absolutely does. What I'm trying to convey
to you is that if you fall into the average category, you are
probably not physically capable of emulating Tiger and even if
you are one of the very few of us who are capable physically,
you don't have the time necessary to hone and repeat the motion.
Instead of trying to teach people to play like Tiger, what I
think teachers should be doing is teaching Joe Average to simply
play like Joe Average. Every player has his or own set of assets
and also limitations and should play within those limitations.
If you want to improve your game, you should learn, within the
framework of your own limitations and assets, how to square the
club to the target line at impact. This is what golf is all
about. You should learn how to relax so that you can maximize
your own swing speed and hit the ball farther. You should
absolutely develop a good grip and set-up so that when you do
square the club, the ball will fly toward the target building
confidence in your swing and also developing your feel for the
swing.
Forget the right forearm, and the left hip. Forget pushing,
pulling, and rotating. Make your game as simple and repeatable
as possible. Focus solely on doing what is necessary for you to
square the club to the target line at impact. After all, you
only play 3 times per month. Why should you make your golf swing
more complicated than it has to be?
Structure your practice programs around a solid fundamental
set-up and then work steadfastly on learning the feel for
squaring the face of the club to the target line. Once you've
developed this feel for "square impact," now it's time to go to
work on your short game but that's an article for another day.
If you take this information to heart, in a short period of time
you will be playing more like Tiger...not necessarily in form
but as a result of lower scores. You will improve your swing and
the lower you score, the more you're playing like Tiger.
If you're average or worse and you want to play more like Tiger,
check out my golf instruction program at:
http://www.EasyGolfInstruction.com
Take my "Lower Your Score By 10 Shots in 4 Hours Challenge."
Give me one hour per week for 4 weeks and I guarantee you'll
improve your score by at least 10 strokes. Check it out....
Ben Throckmorton Http://www.EasyGolfInstruction.com
About the author:
Ben Throckmorton is a former Class A PGA Golf Professional with
20 years of teaching experience. He is the author of "How To
Break 90 In 3 Easy Lessons," an exciting new interactive golf
instruction program.
http://www.EasyGolfInstruction.com
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