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In the world of golf, technology now plays an enormous part
in helping golfers to learn, play and understand what they
need to do.
Whether it is measuring the golf ball, the player, the club or
some other element of performance, technology has a place
at the elite level, but what about the average golfer?
TO DATE WITH ALL THE ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY, CLUBS, COURSES AND
KNOWLEDGE THERE HAS BEEN NO IMPROVEMENT IN THE HANDICAP OF THE
AVERAGE GOLFER. SO WHY ARE WE BOTHERING WITH MORE TECHNOLOGY?
How about starting where the elite players know the game
is won and lost – the 5 inches between your ears - your brain?
The Tour Pro’s know what it’s like to succeed and Arnold
Palmer once said “Success in golf depends less on strength
of body than upon strength of mind and character”.
When it comes to our coaching at Mind Fit Golf, we trust
the very task the golfer is doing, ie hitting the ball, to tell us
what actually happened. We know we can measure it with
technology and sometimes we do, but we all have a brain
that can handle lots of information and is hungry for more,
so why not start giving it relevant information it can use?
The rush to use technology to do it can take the control
away from the golfer.
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The golf swing has been analysed from every angle, more
than any other movement, so surely by now we must know
how to do it? And there is the problem. We know every
movement in minute detail, but how is the golfer supposed
to consciously coordinate all those moving parts into no
more than two seconds of movement and create the shot
they want. They can’t!