Effortless golf swing pro#

Effortless golf swing pro#

I'm now regularly shooting in the seventies from the pro tees and focusing more on the short game to start beating old man par. Feeling the ball compress against the face of the club each time was sublime. So I took to the range after reading this book with yet another tip to experiment on like I've been doing on and off almost all my life low and behold, once I relaxed my arms and shoulders throughout the swing and hit the ball in a much more free flowing fashion, I swear to God I felt like the incarnation of Ben Hogan. Think Vijay Singh, Fred Couples, Ernie Els. Like most men I thought muscle strength was the key to distance and I would try to over power everything without knowing it. At the top of my backswing my arms, shoulders and torso were tied in one big connected KNOT. I mistook power for the 'coiling of the spring', (bad metaphor!). My inherent problem was with excess tension THROUGHOUT the swing. I knew it was important to be in a relaxed and 'athletic position' at address. Mechanically everything always looked copasetic, but yet I was never consistent in ball striking. I read all the books, took all the lessons and beat balls on the range until my hands bled. I'd hit the ball OK some days, but usually I always put too much pressure on my short game to score. I was 15 years old and 35 years later I was still struggling to break 80. The very first time I played golf I got a hole-in-one.