The Perfect Golf Swing:
Are You Trying Too Hard To Get It Right?
The perfect golf swing is the pinnacle of sporting and human achievement. Science, art and skill combine to achieve what logically appears almost impossible. A thought creates a chemical reaction, translates into a billion electrical pulses, activates around 700 muscles and 206 bones to perform a miracle of coordination, organisation and implementation to achieve an expectation.
 Recommended | However, your swing is influenced heavily by habits that could be preventing your perfect swing seeing the light of day. Before you swing you'll prepare yourself in a way that feels right.
Where you place your feet, how you hold your club and even how you breathe will be based on how you’ve done it many times before. But does practice make perfect? Is your swing anywhere near perfect? To appreciate just how influential your habits are, try folding your arms and note which way you’ve folded them. Then try and fold them the opposite way. How does it feel? A little strange? There is nothing wrong with folding your arms the opposite way but it feels completely wrong simply because it’s not your habit. Would you prepare to take your swing in a way that felt wrong? It would throw you completely off your stride if you suddenly felt something unusual or out of the ordinary when doing something you’ve done one hundred thousand times before. Yet, while you continue to do things in the ‘right’ way, you’re severely limiting your potential to improve your game because you’re at the mercy of your habits. If you always do something in the same habitual way, you have nothing to compare your present technique against. I don’t know if Einstein played golf but he sums it up with his famous saying, ‘insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ |
So maybe once in a while be prepared to try something different and don’t worry about the consequences. You never know, you might find a perfect swing that has been there along – it’s just never been given the chance to emerge!
Perhaps Ben Hogan wasn't being flippant when he suggested that we "..reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing".
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