Learning How to Golf | One of The Most Important Articles You’ll Ever Read

One of the first concepts you need to understand as you are learning how to golf or rebuilding your golf swing is neuromuscular reeducation.

Your brain, or more precisely your nervous system, develops neural pathways over time as you learn and repeat specific movement patterns. These pathways allow you to perform frequently practiced patterns with greater efficiency and less conscious effort.

As far as your brain is concerned, these pathways are neither right nor wrong — they are simply movement patterns you have repeated so frequently that your brain has learned and reinforced them.

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Your golf swing may be fundamentally flawed. You may look, as David Feherty once quipped, "like an octopus falling out of a tree," but the neural pathway defining that golf swing is all your brain knows. Your nervous system constructed that pathway because you trained it to execute those specific movements through repetition.

Whether you intended to or not, each time you repeated that faulty movement — that inefficient golf swing — your brain reinforced that pathway to make it more efficient. This biological process is called myelination or myelinization.

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