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Where should you look for the best golf tips?
It seems like everywhere you look you find golf tips. If you search Google for the words "golf tips" it will yield about 79 million results. Not to mention The Golf Channel and all the magazines.
Many of the web sites are done by PGA professionals. Others are done by the average golfer who just loves the game and wants to share their ideas.
The fact is, any golf tip that helps you play better golf is a good golf tip.
Probably the worst way for the average golfer to learn a better golf swing for themselves is to copy an extremely gifted player. What works for them will probably not work for you.
For instance, when average players are told to turn their shoulders 90 degrees or more the vast majority of them will swing well past the point they are able to control in effort to get there.
The guys on TV with extraordinary hand eye coordination and flexibility can swing that far back with control. The average guy has no chance.
And then you hear things like swinging back to parallel. Again, the average golfer will have to go well past the point of control to do that. They will either swing the arms to a point that forces the head and shoulders out of position or use so much "wrist cock" on the backswing that it is nearly impossible for an average guy to make the compensations needed for solid contact and a square club face.
The PGA has written "The Manual" showing exactly how the greatest players in the game have swung the club. Yet, in spite of all the effort by the PGA the average golf score hasn't improved at all.
Even with all of the new technology developed in recent years, and the proliferation of written and video instruction the scores continue to stagnate.
I suggest the reason for this is that the professionals are trying to teach the average guy the same things that appear through photography to work for the gifted player.
By doing so they encourage a swing that is too long for the average golfer to control. Any method that requires the student to do more than their body can do is destined to fail.
So if the pros are going to continue to fail you, where do you find the best golf tips?
They are already there in your brain. Forget about making a big shoulder turn and swinging the club so far back. Swing the club in a way you can control. You should be able to comfortably freeze at any position in the swing.
Once you can do that, you will come up with your own golf tips based upon what works for you. But as long as you continue to swing the club into positions you cannot control those tips will elude you in favor of golf tips on how the gifted athlete does it.
And your scores will continue to stagnate...
