Best Golf Swing

Before I discuss the best golf swing for the normal person, I would like to discuss the second reason why the present method of teaching golf is non-sensical.

Our bodies don't understand english, german or even japanese!

The next time you buy a golf magazine, book, video or indeed visit a golf pro, ignore all of the words you can read or can hear and just look at the pictures or movements.

As children/toddlers, we learned all of the gross and fine motor skills without words and most of them before we had a command of appropriate language skills.

Everyday skills like walking, running, jumping, climbing, throwing, catching, kicking, punching, cycling and many more. These skills are learned in early childhood and verbal instructions were basically not given.

I would bet that most of you would have great difficulty trying to verbally coach any of these basic skills. So why do we attempt to coach and learn golf with so many verbal commands?

It really is rather silly!

Take the golf grip for example, there are endless books, magazines, videos and golf teaching professionals taking your cash for showing you how to do this.

There are many ways of holding many different pieces of equipment, but when it comes to the simple task of holding a golf club, there is no other process that requires the hoards of instruction involved for this.

I used to help my father in the garden and he had a large variety of complicated tools for this. I can remember using a rake, a spade, a push lawnmower, hedge clippers and a sythe.

For all of 30 seconds or so he would show me what I had to do and then after watching me for another 30 seconds would then leave me to get on with it.

Occasionally he would re-demonstrate how he did it and then leave me once again. I was never given a video, or a book, or a magazine or an experienced coach (other than him) to show me how to hold these various tools.

There is also a rather intricate grip I use everyday which I have never studied or indeed bought a book showing me how. It's the grip I use to hold my toothbrush and it resembles the right hand grip in golf.

The main difference is... I never seem to do it wrong and I certainly never feel uncomfortable with it. I can't remember how I learned this grip and I can't think of a time when I felt I needed some kind of correction with it.

I could continue on this theme by discussing the stance or posture, or swing, or impact conditions, or the followthru. But I think you have got the idea from the first example regarding the grip.

Go to this page to read about what I consider to be the way to learn the best golf swing for the normal person.