Rebuild Your Golf Swing 1 Change At A Time (Video) - by Pete Styles
Rebuild Your Golf Swing 1 Change At A Time (Video) - by Pete Styles

From time to time as a golfer you might feel your progress is slowed or plateaued or even you have started to go backwards, your scores were improving let’s say 110 down to 100 to get down to 90, you are expecting to come down to eighty shots and then suddenly you stay at 90 for a year. Then you go back to 95 and you start to go up to 100 and you think well, I have plateaued and now I am getting worse, how can I get beyond this plateau?

And that might happen to any golfer any time, really any level, you might get a tall player that goes on tall, wins a couple of events, expects to win more, may be progress on to majors, may be improve the world rankings, then suddenly they start going backwards and they suddenly start to struggling to make a living. Question is at that point, how can I turn around this slump, how can I turn around this plateau? And for a lot of golfers at any level, be it whether you are 100 shooter or whether you are out on tall winning money, it might be time for a swing rebuild. Now when we use this word, this term, rebuild, this isn’t just the odd lesson in a little tweak of the grip or a little slight change. This is a fundamental taking apart and rebuilding of the golf swing. Think about your house, we are not just decorating the house, we are knocking the house down and starting again or the bare minimum, we are putting a fair size extension on the back of the house. This is some fairly fundamental changes to the way you play. Now it might be that you have had a particular shape of shot that you have always faded the ball. But now you feel that the fade is your Achilles heel, it is getting you in to trouble. So you decide you want to start changing the way you play and you want to start to drawing the ball or you have always been a relatively straight shot hitter but now you decide you need a lot more distance so you are going to sacrifice a bit of your accuracy and go for lot more power. These full swing rebuilds are not simple taking of lessons that pretty big fundamental changes and therefore they require a different level of commitment, it might be a commitment of your time, it might be a commitment of your money, it will definitely be a commitment of your patience. And I think choosing the opportune moment and the right time to do this is important. And if any clients come to see me and say, “Right Pete, I have had enough of this, I love the game but I am not enjoying the way that I am playing. I want a full swing rebuild”, we always choose the right time of year. Now for Golfers in the UK, we generally can play all year around but we play a lot more in the summer. The competitions happen in the summer. The big handicap reductions happen in the summer, in the winter it is taking over, a lot of people playing on the driving range and getting out on the golf course very occasionally. So really for me the perfect time to start the swing rebuild is at the start of that dormant period where you are not going to play a lot of golf. So end of September, early October start the swing changes, make the swing changes, rebuild the golf swing, going in to the spring time, then a couple of months with the practice, then get back out at the start of the season, April, May back on the golf course and hopefully playing some good Golf. So you can see that I’m really allowing around about six months of changes for a golfer’s swing. This is not a, what I will rebuild on a Saturday and try and play well on a Sunday, doesn’t happen like that. So if you have got the mindset that you would like to rebuild your golf swing, that is fine but let us allow plenty of time and opportunity to make this change because when you first start making the change, the chances are your scores will be inconsistent, your game will be inconsistent. You might enjoy it less initially, you will certainly have your patience tested but hopefully the long term rewards are going to be ultimately better golf, more consistent golf and achieving your goals of playing the best golf of your life after your swing rebuild. 2016-08-23

From time to time as a golfer you might feel your progress is slowed or plateaued or even you have started to go backwards, your scores were improving let’s say 110 down to 100 to get down to 90, you are expecting to come down to eighty shots and then suddenly you stay at 90 for a year. Then you go back to 95 and you start to go up to 100 and you think well, I have plateaued and now I am getting worse, how can I get beyond this plateau?

And that might happen to any golfer any time, really any level, you might get a tall player that goes on tall, wins a couple of events, expects to win more, may be progress on to majors, may be improve the world rankings, then suddenly they start going backwards and they suddenly start to struggling to make a living. Question is at that point, how can I turn around this slump, how can I turn around this plateau? And for a lot of golfers at any level, be it whether you are 100 shooter or whether you are out on tall winning money, it might be time for a swing rebuild.

Now when we use this word, this term, rebuild, this isn’t just the odd lesson in a little tweak of the grip or a little slight change. This is a fundamental taking apart and rebuilding of the golf swing. Think about your house, we are not just decorating the house, we are knocking the house down and starting again or the bare minimum, we are putting a fair size extension on the back of the house. This is some fairly fundamental changes to the way you play.

Now it might be that you have had a particular shape of shot that you have always faded the ball. But now you feel that the fade is your Achilles heel, it is getting you in to trouble. So you decide you want to start changing the way you play and you want to start to drawing the ball or you have always been a relatively straight shot hitter but now you decide you need a lot more distance so you are going to sacrifice a bit of your accuracy and go for lot more power. These full swing rebuilds are not simple taking of lessons that pretty big fundamental changes and therefore they require a different level of commitment, it might be a commitment of your time, it might be a commitment of your money, it will definitely be a commitment of your patience.

And I think choosing the opportune moment and the right time to do this is important. And if any clients come to see me and say, “Right Pete, I have had enough of this, I love the game but I am not enjoying the way that I am playing. I want a full swing rebuild”, we always choose the right time of year. Now for Golfers in the UK, we generally can play all year around but we play a lot more in the summer. The competitions happen in the summer. The big handicap reductions happen in the summer, in the winter it is taking over, a lot of people playing on the driving range and getting out on the golf course very occasionally.

So really for me the perfect time to start the swing rebuild is at the start of that dormant period where you are not going to play a lot of golf. So end of September, early October start the swing changes, make the swing changes, rebuild the golf swing, going in to the spring time, then a couple of months with the practice, then get back out at the start of the season, April, May back on the golf course and hopefully playing some good Golf. So you can see that I’m really allowing around about six months of changes for a golfer’s swing.

This is not a, what I will rebuild on a Saturday and try and play well on a Sunday, doesn’t happen like that. So if you have got the mindset that you would like to rebuild your golf swing, that is fine but let us allow plenty of time and opportunity to make this change because when you first start making the change, the chances are your scores will be inconsistent, your game will be inconsistent. You might enjoy it less initially, you will certainly have your patience tested but hopefully the long term rewards are going to be ultimately better golf, more consistent golf and achieving your goals of playing the best golf of your life after your swing rebuild.