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Given the complexity of the movements of the golf swing and the precision required for success, it would seem self-evident that every golfer needs a clearly defined and established set of golf swing fundamentals from which to learn. Most everything else we’ve learned in life was based on some industry-wide accepted set of fundamentals. When learning to play a musical instrument, we never feared that if we took a lesson from someone other than our normal instructor that he or she might teach us something completely different or even opposite from our previous instructor. When learning to drive a car, there were a common set of fundamentals. If you learned how to drive a stick shift, you were taught to slowly ease out the clutch while gently pressing in the accelerator. I doubt that anyone tried to teach you to slowly let out the gas while gently pushing in the clutch! However, you can take ten different golf lessons from ten different instructors and be taught ten completely different things. How on earth could anyone learn this way? Certainly, golf instruction is long overdue for a research-driven set of fundamentals so that all golfers can learn how to hit the ball consistently well enough to start shooting in the 70's. That is my personal goal for all my students and I believe it should be the goal for all golfers.
History has proven that golfers don't learn effectively with a "golf tips" based approach. Getting a golf tip and expecting to start shooting scores in the 70s is as realistic as being given a stock tip and expecting to become rich.
It’s a well-known fact that golfers’ handicaps haven’t changed much over the last 50 years, and I believe that golf instruction is at the root of this trend. The most significant problem with golf instruction since its inception is the fact that it has never been taught on a common set of swing fundamentals for the simple reason that no one seems to be able to agree on any.
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This is to be expected given how each instructor has come up with his own set of “golf swing fundamentals” that he or she teaches, often based on the hacked-together band-aids they've gotten to work in their own swings.
Most golf instruction material published in the past has been based on how the top player of that era swings the golf club. That’s it. No underlying explanation for why or how, just “this works for me so you should do it too.” When Bobby Jones was the greatest golfer in the world, everyone wanted to learn to swing like Jones. When Ben Hogan became the next world beater, he became the most sought-after golf swing guru and published a book that is still a favorite amongst golfers today.
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