46. A lot of the awkward movements we see in poor swings are instinctive "corrective" movements as our instincts try to make the most of a bad job in an attempt to get the club to the ball

Did you know that going for quick golf swing fixes may sometimes give "Short term pleasure" but generally compound the golfer’s misery with "Long term pain". To see why this is lets take a player of say 3 years duration who has developed a quick fix mentality. Every other round sees yet another theory put into practice as our golfer reacts to nearly every bad shot he hits. After 3 years of this approach the resulting swing has become an amalgamation of  theories, many of them contradicting, and it is loaded with a lot of excessive movement.

Result; the more complex the swing, the more there is to go wrong. Inconsistency now becomes the poor soul’s companion. If his quick fix mentality is not corrected after 5 years say, he may well be of the opinion that he is now going backwards. His poor swing action has become the product of reaction rather than sticking to a simple correct direction.

Let’s pursue a philosophical angle to the golfing problem from which you can draw your own conclusions. Let’s wipe the slate clean and start afresh. On a table is two sheets of written instructions relating to two swings which are available to us, all we have to do is choose the one we want.

• Option "A" has few details listed and it appears very simplistic by comparison to Option "B". 
• Option "B" reads like legal small print, very difficult to grasp, and there is lots of it.
  

Obviously you would rightly pick option "A” because it looks the easier option. Isn't it bizarre though that many in fact end up with the harder impossible option "B" caused by our failure to stick with simple basics because they are tempted by the misguided belief that there is a quick, magical short cut.

The simple swing "A" is lost somewhere in the confusion that is "B" and a lot of the awkward movement  we see in this swing is instinctive "corrective" movement as our reflexes try to make the most of a bad job in an attempt to get the club to the ball. The correct swing option "A" is in fact far easier to learn on paper, and would be in reality if players stayed committed to the simple basic fundamentals within a realistic time frame. The tragedy is that many players end up with the mess that is swing "B" because they do not stay committed to the simple basic fundamentals and make things harder by trying to quick fix it.

It is the above scenario that prompted a famous coach to quote the following, "The game is easy, it is us that makes it difficult".