In golf, everything you do matters. Whether it’s the clubs you choose to play or the clothes you wear, they can all affect how you perform on the golf course.
That’s for a different time; I am talking about what you do, from fundamentals to how you swing the club.
If you choose to be mentally lazy
on the golf course, your score will suffer.
I recently was instructing a Lever Golf student at our local golf course.
After he hit a fantastic drive some 297 yards, he put himself in position for his approach shot.
As I watched him address the ball,
he was going to hit the ball some thirty yards left of target, maybe.
That’s if he contorted his body even to make contact with the ball.
The fact is this ball could end up anywhere.
It would take less time to walk behind the ball, pick a spot about twelve inches in front of the ball,
and then set your feet parallel to that line. A simple process to produce a good shot.
Once you have a good golf swing, most bad shots will result from an improper setup for a particular golf shot.
Either you don’t know how to set it up correctly, or you are lazy.
To consistently set up correctly, you should develop a process just as you have done for putting.
It will save you time, and more importantly, strokes off your score.
I have given you a few ideas of very different things that matter on the golf course.
Now let me get into more detail about what matters.
What I am referring to is the swing itself.
If every golfer started trying to learn the relationship of their body positions related to the swing, they would be on their way to a more consistent swing.
As I make the statement above, I realize it seems hopeless. With so many moving, twisting, and turning parts in the traditional swing, your fixes to a bad shot will always be a guess or an excuse: “I looked up.”
Within weeks of changing to the Lever Golf technique, students tell me precisely what they do wrong when they make a lousy shot.
Not repeating a lousy shot is made possible because there is not much movement in the Lever Golf Swing.
As Lever golfers progress, they start paying more attention to body and hand positions related to particular Lever Golf striking techniques. Within six months, Lever Golfers are hitting golf shots that make me proud to be the inventor of such an effortless golf swing.
Everything from the way you position your feet, grip the club, or delicate finger movements during impact can be the difference between a great strike or a lousy shot.
The more you try to learn the positioning of your body as you stand at the address position, the movement during the swing, and the things you see and feel at impact will make you a better player.
You cannot change something that you don’t acknowledge.
Every movement made during the swing will affect your shot.
The more swings you make with the purpose being to learn something about the relationship between your body position and the clubface, the more you will understand what this means.
If you don’t try to learn, you will never accomplish this understated part of the golf swing.
Hitting balls only to make contact
“banging balls” should not be your main objective. Attempt to learn something from every swing.
Looking at your divot after each shot will give you some feedback.
Looking at your clubface is another way to learn something about your swing.
Stop just banging balls and start learning.
Remember: If you are not doing Lever Golf, you will get beat by someone who is.