It is said that only two golfers have ever owned their swing — Ben Hogan and Moe Norman. Actually, Lee Trevino had a pretty good idea what he was doing, as did Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Bruce Lieztke, and about a hundred other players I could name. <\/p>\n
You can own your swing, too. A – it\u2019s not that hard to do, and B – you need to do it to play consistent golf.<\/p>\n
By owning your swing, I don\u2019t mean you know what you\u2019re doing down to the gnat\u2019s eyelash. I do mean that when you\u2019re not striking the ball well, you have some checkpoints you can review to get back on track. <\/p>\n
The Six Fundamentals<\/a> are my checkpoints. They don\u2019t have to be yours, but you should know something about your swing along the order of, \u201cI forgot to do this,\u201d and when you get back to doing \u201cthis\u201d, the problem is solved.<\/p>\n The goal is to bring the club into the ball on a path toward the target, with the clubface square to that path, on the proper trajectory, and making contact on the center of the clubface. <\/p>\n Everything you do contributes to all that happening, or not. So you have to investigate how to do those four things, one at a time, and also what you do that gets in the way of doing those things.<\/p>\n This takes careful study. It means breaking down your swing into parts that move the club correctly and learning what the feeling of those correct movements are.<\/p>\n Then you develop your own keys — the checkpoints you have to hit to make it all work. <\/p>\n Don\u2019t expect to have this figured out in a few weeks. It might take a lot longer than that, and a few lessons along the way won\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s like this. If you hit a really good shot and you can\u2019t explain to yourself how it happened, you have some work to do. And I know you can do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is said that only two golfers have ever owned their swing — Ben Hogan and Moe Norman. Actually, Lee Trevino had a pretty good idea what he was doing, as did Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Bruce Lieztke, and about a hundred other players I could name. You can own your … Continue reading Owning Your Swing<\/span>