Improve Your Golf Swing

So your swing isn’t perfect.  You’ve tried many things and know you could still never play on the tour.  You might break 90 but you’ll also break a few woods and at least one golf cart on the same day.  So?
Unless you’re thinking of playing professionally, there’s really no reason you should obsess about your [...]

Why are you rushing?  Why are you rushing through your instruction, your swing, and your entire game?
There are many sports out there where teams fight the clock.  This helps to add to the anticipation and excitement of the game, building tension as the minutes and seconds tick away.  However, this just isn’t the case in [...]

Imagine someone gives you a recipe for chocolate cake.  You try it, and think it’s the worst cake you’ve ever eaten in your life.  You’re not even sure you can call it cake – it’s more like mud on a plate!  As bad as that recipe is, would you ever try it again?
Of course you [...]

Focus!  This seems elementary but it’s surprising how often a player will approach the ball with their mind racing about so many things.
When you’re trying to improve your swing of course it’s easy to get distracted with the many elements of your grip and swing and follow-through, but it’s also good to choose one area [...]

As much as anything else you need to learn to improve your swing, it’s going to be patience.  Being impatient can cause you to tense up or to try to power through your swing rather than using a skilled stroke.  You may also give up in practicing the things you need to learn in order [...]

What?
No, this doesn’t mean you should put on a skirt and cry at sad golf movies.  Learning like a woman means being more open to instruction and to change.
Everyone has a certain amount of pride and many people are defensive about themselves, including both men and women.  But generally speaking, men are much more protective [...]

When it’s winter time, do you put your clubs away and forget about your game until next season?  Many hobbyists do.  However winter is a great time to keep up with your practice.
There is no substitute for actually hitting a golf ball but this doesn’t mean that practicing your swing with a club in your [...]

Have you ever seen your golf swing on video and thought that there must be some type of mistake?  What you see in front of you is not what you think is happening when you actually swing.  You think you have a good grip or that you’re holding your arms straight, but in reality you [...]

Have you ever reached for a glass and squeezed it so tight that it broke in your hand?  Or didn’t squeeze it hard enough and it slipped through your fingers?  It might happen occasionally but chances are these things are rare.  Why is that?  It’s called muscle memory; the muscles respond to the memories that [...]

This might sound like a strange statement, but oddly enough people that say that they want to improve their swing often fight everything they need to do in order to accomplish just that.  There’s a saying that doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results is the definition of insanity.  And yet [...]