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Originally Posted by larryrsf

I started that post with, "it is mental." Most of the golf swing is created by a mental image we endeavor to execute. Admittedly we don't actually do what we try to do, so what? Even Hogan's mental image, what he "thought" and wrote that he was doing was quite different than what he actually did. But what he actually did was consistently better than any golfer of his time.

Hale Irwin famously refuses to watch videos of his golf swing. He knows it is likely that what he actually does is different from what he "tries to do." Watching his swing could change his mental approach--so he doesn't risk it. Hale Irwin is smart--and accordingly the winningest player EVER on the Champion's Tour.

Good golfers have found a mental approach that produces consistent results. They never vary from that same swing thought. They have learned what they must "try" to do in order to create the ball strike and flight pattern that consistently works. And that is what we should be searching for on the range.

Poor golfers are still experimenting, even on the golf course. Each swing is different, each swing thought is different.

A consistent mental approach to every swing is the primary difference between the two groups.

Gene Littler said his "secret" is a single simple swing thought he discovered 55+ years ago. That consistency lifted him from a club golfer to the US Open and 30+ PGA wins. He never looked back. He doesn't read golf books, magazines, or any "golf tips" and he never took a lesson. He just prepares himself mentally the same way for every swing of his golf club.

So if a great golfer thinks he "traps" the ball between clubhead and turf, and makes crisp contact and a consistent straight or patterned ball flight, then he traps the ball. No smart golfer tinkers with a successful swing thought. "If it ain't broke--"

Larry

I completely agree, again, I wasn't meaning to knock you, I'm just sayin'...