Why is the Golf Swing so Unpredictable?

When it comes to improving the golf swing, especially in amateur golf, it makes no difference if you are playing with the very best Callaway irons or some other top of the range custom golf clubs, a more consistent or better golf game seem mystically elusive.

There is a very good reason for this.

Golfers try to learn this game with mere milliseconds of feedback and they seldom learn the most important skill for all sports - BALANCE!

On the last page I mentioned three other sports; tennis, snooker and darts. Let's use how we learn and improve in tennis as a comparison to the way we learn golf.

Tennis is a game that is played using many gross motor skills that have already been learned and improved throughout our normal lives: running, turning, stopping, jumping, squatting, slapping or swinging and many more.

In fact, these are movements that we carry out to a rather advanced level with near perfect balance. Occasionally, when we encounter an opponent with defter skills, he can force us into losing our normal balanced composure and our game, in effect, suffers because of this.

There is however another and perhaps more important reason why tennis players don't drastically err from their playing level. An average three set match takes around one and a half hours and during this time each player hits anything from 500 to 1000 shots.

In effect, a tennis player will hit anything from 6 to 12 shots and more per minute in a normal game. He will also perform this in a comparitively flowing and balanced manner.

Lets now compare these conditions with those that a golfer faces...

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