It’s Saturday afternoon at the driving range of your local muni. People are lined up, buckets at their feet, hacking away at their latest swing flaws.
Whack. Whack. Whack.
Nineteen out of 20 people on that range have no idea what they’re doing wrong. (Or right.) They’re not addressing the real problem, they’re just reacting to the ball flight and compensating with each hit. So when one goes left, the next goes right. They hit one thin, then hit one fat. They’re just replacing one problem with another.
Forget-About-It! You’ll never see tangible improvement if you keep playing driving range Whack-a-Mole. That game is based on guesswork. Good golf instruction is based on fact.
Most people don’t know the facts of their golf swing. They just guess… They see a tip in a magazine or on the golf channel and they think, “Hey, maybe that’s my problem. I’ll try that.” So they go to the driving range and start experimenting.
Whack. Whack. Whack.
The only way to get the facts is with a trained eye on your swing. An experienced teaching pro or coach will provide the perspective you need to get at the root of your problem. Not the symptoms, but the true, fundamental flaw that you’ve probably never addressed.
Video can be helpful, but without a trained eye, you won’t know what you’re looking at. You gotta have someone else take a look. That’s what the tour pros do. Even Tiger… he knows how hard it is to assess his own swing. That’s what he pays Hank Haney to do.
So hire a golf pro to help you out. It’s better than guessing. Better than whacking moles.
