How to Improve Your Total Golf Game
To improve your golf, you have to eliminate your errors.
But golf is a unified sport, and you don't eliminate errors by fixing them.
Instead, spend your time learning how to do it right.
That is what will turn you loose.
Every stroke you make at the golf ball has the same basis.
Start with a putt.
It is a gentle rocking back and forth of the shoulders.
Enlarge it and it becomes a chip.
Enlarge the chip and you have a pitch, and now the wrists are breaking as they move away from the ball and back into it.
Additional movements are coming into play, but they don't depart from what came before.
As you enlarge the pitch into your full swing, more and more movement takes place.
Different parts of your body that were dormant begin to move, little movements become great ones.
The larger shot is an extension of the smaller one, with new movements added only to enable the size of the stroke to increase.
To put the two ends together, we can say the drive is a fully extended putt, and the putt is the encapsulated drive.
So when there's a flaw in one part of your game, it is likely that the same flaw shows up in and affects every other shot you it.
Eliminate that one flaw and your whole game will be uplifted.
Assuming you know what the flaws are in your shotmaking, how to you know where to start? The good news is that you don't have to, and shouldn't have to, find out.
A repaired flaw will still have the flaw as the basis of the new movement.
Better than trying to repair a flaw, start over and learn what the right movements are in the first place.
With golf, the place to start over and learn to do it right is on the putting green.
Get a putting lesson to learn how to set up to the ball and make a good putting stroke.
Then get another lesson on how to make a 20-yard chip.
Connect the two lessons.
They will have much in common.
Take another lesson in how to hit a 70-yard pitch.
Then one on hitting irons, and another on how to hit a driver.
Connect all the lessons that came before with the one you most lately took.
Once you've pulled it all together, you will find you can practice any shot and all the others will improve, too.
You will find golf easier to play, because with each shot you're doing the same things, just more or less of them.
You will enjoy golf more because it will be more effortless and your results will be much better.
But golf is a unified sport, and you don't eliminate errors by fixing them.
Instead, spend your time learning how to do it right.
That is what will turn you loose.
Every stroke you make at the golf ball has the same basis.
Start with a putt.
It is a gentle rocking back and forth of the shoulders.
Enlarge it and it becomes a chip.
Enlarge the chip and you have a pitch, and now the wrists are breaking as they move away from the ball and back into it.
Additional movements are coming into play, but they don't depart from what came before.
As you enlarge the pitch into your full swing, more and more movement takes place.
Different parts of your body that were dormant begin to move, little movements become great ones.
The larger shot is an extension of the smaller one, with new movements added only to enable the size of the stroke to increase.
To put the two ends together, we can say the drive is a fully extended putt, and the putt is the encapsulated drive.
So when there's a flaw in one part of your game, it is likely that the same flaw shows up in and affects every other shot you it.
Eliminate that one flaw and your whole game will be uplifted.
Assuming you know what the flaws are in your shotmaking, how to you know where to start? The good news is that you don't have to, and shouldn't have to, find out.
A repaired flaw will still have the flaw as the basis of the new movement.
Better than trying to repair a flaw, start over and learn what the right movements are in the first place.
With golf, the place to start over and learn to do it right is on the putting green.
Get a putting lesson to learn how to set up to the ball and make a good putting stroke.
Then get another lesson on how to make a 20-yard chip.
Connect the two lessons.
They will have much in common.
Take another lesson in how to hit a 70-yard pitch.
Then one on hitting irons, and another on how to hit a driver.
Connect all the lessons that came before with the one you most lately took.
Once you've pulled it all together, you will find you can practice any shot and all the others will improve, too.
You will find golf easier to play, because with each shot you're doing the same things, just more or less of them.
You will enjoy golf more because it will be more effortless and your results will be much better.