Pete Finch – PGA Teaching Pro
A lot of people struggle with the concept of taking swing thoughts and taking the game that they’ve been using at a driving range out onto the course. Now the easiest way to make this transfer from the range to the course is to try keep your swing thought as simple as possible. Remember when you are on the course, you are not meant to be focusing on your technique. You are meant to be focusing on your target. If you take any of the sport, basketball for example, players are going to work on their technique during practice. But when they get out to the court, when they get out during a game, it’s moving far too fast for them to actually focus on technique. You will never see a player jump up and try and score a three pointer focusing on their right elbow position, exactly when to release, exactly how high to jump, the amount of degree of bend within their knees. There’s no time to think about any of that thing.
Unfortunately with golf, you’ve got all the time in the world to think about these things before you hit and therefore people get complicated swing thoughts running through their mind rather than being a little bit more like a basketball player and just focusing on the target. Therefore what we’re going to do within these video series is how to focus on very, very simple techniques, techniques which will not take your mind away from what you’re aiming at the target and which will free your brain up a little bit more because it’s not uncommon to see golfers out on the tee paralyzed by four or five different swing thoughts. Remember if you’re around the course and you’re thinking about five or six things within your swing, you are not thinking about what you were there to do and that is hitting the ball towards the target. So stay tuned, let’s take you through the swing thoughts that you can use and how you can use them to free yourself up on the course rather than get paralyzed over the ball. 2016-10-07A lot of people struggle with the concept of taking swing thoughts and taking the game that they’ve been using at a driving range out onto the course. Now the easiest way to make this transfer from the range to the course is to try keep your swing thought as simple as possible. Remember when you are on the course, you are not meant to be focusing on your technique. You are meant to be focusing on your target. If you take any of the sport, basketball for example, players are going to work on their technique during practice. But when they get out to the court, when they get out during a game, it’s moving far too fast for them to actually focus on technique. You will never see a player jump up and try and score a three pointer focusing on their right elbow position, exactly when to release, exactly how high to jump, the amount of degree of bend within their knees. There’s no time to think about any of that thing.
Unfortunately with golf, you’ve got all the time in the world to think about these things before you hit and therefore people get complicated swing thoughts running through their mind rather than being a little bit more like a basketball player and just focusing on the target. Therefore what we’re going to do within these video series is how to focus on very, very simple techniques, techniques which will not take your mind away from what you’re aiming at the target and which will free your brain up a little bit more because it’s not uncommon to see golfers out on the tee paralyzed by four or five different swing thoughts. Remember if you’re around the course and you’re thinking about five or six things within your swing, you are not thinking about what you were there to do and that is hitting the ball towards the target. So stay tuned, let’s take you through the swing thoughts that you can use and how you can use them to free yourself up on the course rather than get paralyzed over the ball.
