I am sure you all can remember a round of golf with a friend where he was trying to fix your swing on every hole. And every time you try what he is telling you your game gets worse. You are thinking to yourself where does he get all this stuff from. He shoots 120, and he is telling me how to swing'

Well this is one of the mistakes many golfers make. But generally it does not come from friends. It comes from reading every golf publication out there from cover to cover or watching the Golf Channel for hours on end. No, there is nothing wrong with either but when you start taking the mountain of information they provide you to the course that is where you get yourself in trouble.

I always refer back to my father coming of the golf course smile in hand and saying, Man I shot 78 today and found my new swing. I would say Congratulations. But what I was really thinking was man if I only had a nickel for every time I heard that. Because I knew the next round he would come in and not want to tell me what he shot. And I would know that he had put up a monsterous number, all because he had changed swings once again. The saying goes Don't fix what ain't broke. Why when people find something that works want to change it? Well they think there other idea might even be better then their first.

We Americans are famous for this. We will invent something and then already be working on its replacement before it is even seen by the public. In other countries it is different and I would use their philosophy if I was The Man with 500 Swings. They find something that works and just keep improving on it.

Think about it. Say you have been playing golf for 15 years, do you think that totally changing your swing to fit what Golf Digest says will work? The answer is NO!! Golf is a simple game, no it really is. Golfers are the ones that make it so complicated. Go back to the basics. Remember there are about 5 basic components to a swing. And they all replicate the motion of that Pendulem you used to see on corporate desks. The one with five silver balls. Physics don't lie (Gravitational pull, weight, force, etc) are very similar when comparing the two. Every golfer should have one of these good luck J Take a second and visualize the swinging motion of that pendulem. If you pull it straight back where does the ball on the other end go' DEAD STRAIGHT!! Pull the ball slightly in the wrong direction and you get the slice or hook depending on which way you pulled it back.

I know this is over simplifying the game but I am just writing it to remind you all that these Golf Magazine lessons that are written are for a purpose. Yes, they are there to help, but remember that the magazine publisher has a lot of space to fill every week. And if it were not for these types of articles they would not sell many magazines.