Ogilvy: "I lost my golf swing."

After the Accenture World Golf Match Play Championship, Geoff Ogilvy said that he lost his golf swing during the first round, got it back, and lost it again during the second round of his match with Henrik Stenson.

WOW, I thought that only happened to amateurs! Actually, I know better, but how can it happen to golfers who practice every day and hit hundreds of balls? It's because of how they have the golf swing memorized in their minds. They are also relying on memory and slacking on focus.

Here's the dilemma with memorizing the golf swing. Most golfers hit golf balls and passively memorize their swing patterns. Once they feel they have their swing, they want to protect it like a newborn child. Modern golfers don't want to change anything or experiment with different shots because it might ruin their swing... Horse Puckey!

The fact that they want one swing is the problem. Ben Hogan was once playing in a pro-am where one of his partners asked him all day what club he was using. Finally, on the eighteenth hole, a long par 3, after hitting his regulation shot, Hogan proceeded to put a ball on the green with every club in his bag. He looked at his astonished amateur partner and told him that it didn't matter what club he used, but rather what the shot had to be in order to make club selection.

Why was Hogan so accurate? He wasn't worried about the swing, but rather the shot. Hogan's secret was focus. He focused on the variables that had to come together to make each shot. His body would make the swing he needed through his focus on picturing the variables coming together.
No, Ben Hogan's secret was not his swing... Get over it.

Do you want to play like Hogan? Learn to make shots using focus. Yes, you need a good golf swing, but you need to make it work for you and should be able to change it when needed. The swing should be a result of focusing on the elements that make the shot, not the other way around.

One more thing... Is everyone else as bothered by Johnny Miller's comments as I am? He was talking about how accurate the old "reverse C" swing was... Are you kidding me? Between that and the old "rock on the club face" out of the bunker comment, I think they need to make him listen to the inane things he says during a telecast for about 48 hours... But that could work against us.

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The Golf Swing is in the Mind

I just returned from a practice session with a student who plays the mini-tours. Like many golf professionals, his problem is keeping his mind out of the golf swing on the course. I was showing him ways to use his mind differently, but in conjunction with where it should be during the shot. We talked about mental pictures and getting in contact with the feedback the body generates.

After 40 minutes of experimenting with different ways to use the mind to benefit the process, he had an interesting comment. He noticed that in that 40 minutes he didn't hit one shot bad... not one. We never talked about the golf swing, but his was working flawlessly. What I didn't realize was that he expected to hit some bad shots. I know that since his conscious never came into play during that 40 minutes, there was no way to hit a bad shot, and now he knows it too.

Was it golf psychology? No way! That only comes into play between shots. No, I would have to say it was a matter of great focus. Not focus on thoughts but rather pictures created using the body's own feedback system. That feedback and those pictures did two things. They kept his mind from hurting his shots, and the kept his swing working flawlessly. What more can you ask for?

But have you ever heard of a golf teacher who doesn't teach the swing, and doesn't teach psychology?

So the question in your head should be; "Why is golf swing instruction and golf psychology such a big business if better result can be generated without them?"

Oh, it's just how the golf instruction marketing arm of the industry has worked to make you believe that that is what you need...

Feel used yet?

I want you to ponder this for a while. How can you learn the golf swing without golf swing instruction and keep your mind straight on the course without golf psychology?

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Duped by the Vast Golf Swing Instruction Industry?

There is a better way to learn and memorize the golf swing. It's not rocket science... Well not any more.

Of course, you'll disagree because you've probably been wondering how the pros make the golf swing look so easy while you try everything in sight and still can't get the results you want.

Are those guys gifted? Were they born with the golf swing gene? No.

But they have something you don't. It is the crucial information that makes the difference between a struggling amateur and the PGA Tour... And they don't want you to have it!

Have you ever heard the term, "Golf Instruction Industry?" Doesn't it make you wonder how it got that way?

Golf is like a drug that you get hooked on, except the drug is self improvement. That's the good news. The bad news is that once you get hooked, you spend an average of $1000 per year to support your habit... Which is why Golf Instruction is now an Industry!

As long as you keep searching for the secret, they know you'll keep buying... I think it's the biggest conspiracy since prohibition... or maybe the "New Coke" fiasco that eventually made Coca-Cola a bunch of money.

Every year, new gadgets come out to help you play better, new instruction "systems" (which by the way is a marketing "hook") come out to give you new hope that you may one day conquer the game and play par golf like the pros... And golfers buy in droves.

As long as golfers keep feeding the machine, there will be a Golf Instruction Industry! Such a travesty!

But I'm not done! You see, they aren't misleading you with bad information. (In most cases) The information they give you will work, but you need one more piece of information, which they leave out.

Worse yet, many golf teachers have no clue that they are doing it! This has been going on so long that the newer teachers are just repeating everything they were told without question as to whether there is a secret.

Feel used yet? You should. You're not off of the hook on this either. If you buy the magazines every month and run out to try the latest tips, you're feeding the machine too. I have an archive of over 20 years of golf magazines. I quit buying them years ago when I saw that they were recycling old tips from ten or so years prior. They are running out of "new discoveries" to sell magazines every month, so they simply give the old ones a new spin. They get away with it because golfers allow it.

Here are the facts: The golf swing has changed little in the last 200 years. Other than adjustments to allow for newer technology and better physical conditioning, they body still moves the same way and biomechanically there is still really one "best" way to swing the club.

So my question to you is: "Why do you keep feeding this giant money sucking golf instruction machine?"

Want to stop? You just need one bit of information. The famous Ben Hogan swing secret. But like everything else, you've been duped on this one too. Hogan did have a secret... But it WAS NOT a physical part of his golf swing!

Hogan's secret was in the mind. It was how he was able to REPEAT consistently his "special golf swing."

That's why until now, it has never been discovered. But as long as the story seems logical, golfers will continue to fall for every Ben Hogan secret that the gurus sell you.

Why can I say this? Because I was in your shoes! I made the journey, but with one difference...

I found the secret and I have demonstrated that it works by getting results from golfers in 35 countries. Yet, because it is not the easy tip that most golfers are looking for, this secret remains a secret to 99% of the golfing population... Because they don't have an open mind!

The secret is in the mind and it is a process your body is already using 24/7! It's right in front of you. It's almost too simple.

So what is it? It's not sports psychology...

Let me know your thoughts...

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The Weak Link in Golf Swing Instruction

What is the weak link in golf swing instruction?

Think about what aggravates you most on the golf course. For me, it's always been inconsistency with my golf swing. There's always one part of the game that isn't working, the irons, the woods, the putter, or the short game. Until I learned better, I always blamed my golf swing for every bad shot and I paid dearly in terms of shear aggravation for years.

Sometimes you learn a new technique during a golf lesson and days later, you can't hit the ball like you did when you learned the technique.

Do you blame the golf instruction or the golf teacher? You should!

Blame them because they really don't care about you! To them it's just an income...

The truth is it's not the golf teacher's fault unless he is a "guru." Why? Because gurus should know better than to give you average or worse instruction knowing you will not be able to recreate the same golf swing even a week later.

Your average golf teacher doesn't have time to do the research he needs to do to solve your problem. If your instructor doesn't realize his methods won't have a lasting effect, he either hasn't been teaching long, or his students don't come back.

Yeah, it's kind of harsh, but if you spent your time constantly re-teaching the same basics to the same students over and over again, wouldn't you look for a better way? If you cared about your students you would!

Well, let me explain what I discovered that leads me to these seemingly vicious accusations and then you tell me what you think...

First, why is it that your golf swing is a little different every time you swing the golf club? The way the swing is memorized is the very reason the swing is never the same. The reason is muscle memory. Every time you swing the golf club, the muscles send feedback to the brain. The idea is that the brain will remember the feedback and use it to recreate the next golf swing. There is one glaring flaw with this system.

Every time you use your muscles, their dynamics change. For example, swinging the club causes the muscles to react by growing, tiring, or getting stiff. As the dynamics change, so does the feedback that the muscles send the brain. So every swing sends different feedback, which means every swing looks different to the brain. Which swing does the brain remember?

Why is this so important? Because for the body to repeat any movement, it has to have some kind of internal map to follow. That map is created based on internal feedback from your body. With Muscle Memory, the internal feedback is never the same, so is there a better way?

Yes, but I'll let you in on it after I hear your thoughts...

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