From China

It has been a while since my last post. I am in China and it is not always that easy to get to the internet. I have spent the last week at Mission Hills golf club,12 golf courses in 1 location, amazing the size of this place. I am here looking to see about getting some equipment made to help teach golf, I have come to the conclusion that to learn this game faster and better we need more than clubs a ball and a range. I look forwards over the next year of laying out a new plan of how we are going to excellerate your learning.

Ouch

That had to hurt. I was so routing for Kenny Perry. At 48 he is playing the best golf of his life. I truly hope he shakes it off and gets another shot at a Major. 

 

The lesson this week on my academy is on fixing the hook and the slice, the cool thing is somewhere in the middle is straight.

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It was Gary’s moment

With all due respect to Fuzzy it was Gary Player’s  moment. It was disappointing to see that they did not interview Mr Player by himself.

There must be an easier way

The  fastest way to get better is to not get going down the wrong roads. In this game there are so many  theories that it is extremely easy to get side tracked from the truth,if you had the correct information you would not have your time wasted by trying things that will not work.

The Trick.  Physically doing the right things are not that difficult. Obtaining the correct information is incredible tough due the reason that everyone is able to throw out there opinions.

My Suggestion. Go to my website www.evershedgolf.com . Try to find contradictions in what you see and read. I believe what you find their will be different from what you have seen and heard, the more you read and watch the more you will find it all fits.

I hate pretty little tips.

I was listening to the golf on channel 146 today when a gentleman suggested that Tiger is ths greatest clutch putter of all time, I don’t have to much of a problem with that, but he credited his great putting with Tigers ability to hold his finish and to keep his head still.

First off , keeping your head still is not that tough and it has little to do with making putts, let me run this past you, could it be possible that being lined up perfectly causes the player to subconiously recognize that there is know need for the head to prematurely move. Let me say it another way, the reason the head incorrectly moves is because the brain knows when the player is either not lined up correctly or the player is going to make a stroke that is not going to match the line necissary to get the ball to go were it needs to.  

I believe the subconscious mind already knows what correct is, your head does not all of a sudden deside to move , especially after you practising not moving it.

If you think about it, what I just said makes a lot of sense, the reason you seldom ever see one of your friends all of a sudden become a great putter is because they continually work on their putting strokes but they never change their balance centers/alignments/ or and especially their eye line.

They change Putters and theories but never their eye line.

Some day soon your going to see a major article written on the importants of getting your eyes on the correct line.

Thats Not Anywhere Close To Normal

Okay its confirmed. He’s an Alien. I used to kid that Tiger is not human, that he is an Alien. I don’t think I am joking anymore, and the interesting thing is that I believe a lot of you out there are thinking the samething. 

I remember the TV show the outer limits,weird things would happen to normal human beings or someone would make a deal with the Devil to buy something, lets say like a dozen putts to be made at the discretion of the human.

One of these days they are going to make a documentary on all the timely putts Tiger has made going back to his 3 US junior Ams and his 3 US Ams  and or the putts the other guys missed and then they should ask the Los Vegas odds makers the odds of this happening to a normal human being.Answer (not possible)

Just review this pasts weeks event. The 16 th & 18 th holes for example, what he did there on Saturday would be a career for most tour players. He makes that putt on 18 and then Jason Gore makes double to let Tiger play in the last group on Sunday with Sean OHare,(give me a break).

Sunday. Those up and downs,WoW, did you see that putt he made on the par 3 on the back 9, that putt was going all over the place until the last 2 inches .

The man is amazing. But one of these days he is going to hit a golf shot that is going to be so impossible that it totally confirms my suspicion that he just isn’t from this planet.

I still say that chip he made on 16 at The Masters didnt really happen, it was actually staged in a Holly Wood Studio and paid for by Nike.

Results Follow Form

Results Follow Form

I could see how this could seem to be inaccurate. Many golfers have what looks like great form, but constantly hit bad shots. I suggest to you that they should keep their form but sharpen up on impact. The chances are really good that these golfers have a good eye for the big picture, but not so good for the little picture – impact. This is very common. I think maybe that many have used these people to then suggest that form doesn’t matter. As the tour players improve, and they will improve, you will start to notice their swings getting more uniformed. We will surely comment that they’re all robots and we no longer have any individuals, but remember as we say this they are getting better. I think the game may suffer because seeing individuals is more interesting than seeing a bunch of extremely fit athletes knocking the pin down all day, kind of like they are now doing with their wedges. Wait 10 years and they will be doing it with their 3 woods.

What is going to happen is the golfers who care to get really good are going to have access to very accurate information guided by top notch training ideas, and although they may not enter the project trying to immolate a known player’s swing, the finished products will resemble one another. At some point they are not immolating, they are duplicating.

For more on Form follows function / results follow form:

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Learning The Golf Swing

The most effective way to learn almost anything is to break it down into smaller sections , learn that section and then move onto the next section until the total is learned.

 

Golf 

Maybe it is because it is only a game it is not treated as it should be if the true intent is to get good at it. We the golf profession continue to produce golf professionals that are good at the finances of running a golf course, but when it comes to what I believe to be the most important job of a golf professional (teaching) they are trained to give fast fixes, not how to build a golf swing. Therefore we have created a learning coultier of failure.

 

The golf swing is science and therefore can be broken into pieces, each piece can be given a responsibility , under this concept the player can improve on the piece or the section of the motion that is not functioning at the level that is wanting.

Let it be understood that what was just stated makes getting good easier not tougher.

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Putting

I just finished watching a few minutes of a putter infomercial. What erks me the most is that we must be buying these things , or they wouldn’t keep airing the commercial. If you are a bad putter the chances are great that it is not the putter but the putty (you). If this is the case what needs to change is either your stroke or your alignments or both. The truth is that what is needed is the combination of a great explanation of what correct is and a training system that matches the explanation. Here’s the problem. If it is your stroke, it is impossible to fix it if your alignments (eyes) are out of wak. Step #1 Get your eyes on straight. Step#2 Practice with something that guantees the line is correct. Step #3 Be patient, it is going to take time to change what you have become comfortable with. You will need to conform to the new.

I apologize to you for leaving this without a better answer. We have created such a system but I have to waite for the patend to go thru. You know , somebody might steel the idea . Nice.

Rory who

The kid looks like he may be the real deal, however he is so young and so many things can happen between now and manhood. It is interesting to hear what some of the players have to say about him , Geoff Ogilvy was raving about him and we need to realize that these tour players are not in the habit of throwing around compliments without good reason. 

It is going to be fun watching this very young man , especially the first time he gets paired with Tiger .