85. Your current swing is the end result of the thoughts and impressions you have created from day one of your golf experience

Have you ever had a lesson and had confirmed by the Pro what you already knew? Are you like many others suffering the same experience and have become frustrated why you cannot make the changes that the videos have highlighted, the magazines have repeated and the Pro has backed up? The usual response at this point is to declare with a sense of finality that" I cannot do it" and end up going back to your old game. What a sad scenario. It need not be this way. I can assure you, the ability to make the change is there but first, you need to address what it is that holds you back and the answer is usually at a deeper level than the technique. Your current swing is the end result of the thoughts and impressions you have created from day one of your golf experience. There are even the remnants of early "wrong" ideas lurking deep down in the Top players psyche that on occasions rise to create havoc in even their level of performance.

These faulty concepts you hold are so central to your golfing profile that they stamp what becomes your own personal identity on your swing making it as unique to you as a fingerprint. Sadly in a lot of cases, these deep rooted home grown ideas are not only damaging to your game today but hinder your chances of making changes in the future. A solid action cannot grow from wrongly held ideas. They are simply incompatible. You wouldn’t expect to grow an oak tree from the seed of Beech Tree.

Poor golf is the result of applying logic to a flawed concept! A good solid game naturally springs from a foundation of correct principles.  It follows the laws of cause and effect and to get the effect you want, you need to have in place a whole new cause from which it is created. Any real lasting change must have the right seed planted to start it.

So what you need to do is ask questions. Why does the club have to be swung this way? Why is this better than what I am doing"? How is it better, what will it feel like, what difference can I expect, will it happen straight away, if not, why not? The deeper and clearer you understand the "Why's" of the correct principles, then the easier it becomes to make changes. A better understanding gives rise to a better action; they are ultimately both one and the same.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it in himself - Galileo