THE "SIMPLE GOLF" SWING

Why read this book?

1.  You want to be a better player.
2.  It’s simple. Everyone can do it.
3.  You are playing golf for fun and recreation; not to become a touring Pro

Simple Golf is golf for the rest of us, the 99.9% of us who play golf for fun and relaxation.

After watching thousands of live and recorded golf swings, I’ve come to the conclusion that the problem with most amateur golf swings is that they are too complicated.  That is they have too many moving parts.  This makes it very difficult to hit the ball consistently well because the more things you have to do during that two seconds you’re swinging the club the harder it is to get it right every time.  So, if you are “off” just a little bit you won’t hit the ball very well.  If you are off more than a little bit you may not find your ball after you hit it!  Or worse, you may not hit the ball at all. That’s because the margins for error in golf are so small that even small variances in a swing can lead to ugly shots.

I’ve also studied the swings of the best players of our time.  What I see in their swings is simplicity.  There is no wasted motion.  There are no extra moves in their swings.  The best players seem to have the simplest swings.  From this came the idea for “Simple Golf”.  It is the idea that we should be looking for the simplest way to swing the club so we can do it the same way more of the time and, as a result, make more consistent contact with the ball leading to better shots and lower scores.

Does this mean we are all going to swing like the pros?  No, not at all.   Professionals do golf for a living like you do your job, at least 5 days a week, 8 hours a day.  Are you going to spend that kind of time working on your golf game?  No, of course not.  It does mean that it is even more important for you as a recreational player to develop as simple a swing as you can.  We do not have the time or desire to spend the hours it would take to try to perfect a complicated swing.  We need a simple swing we can work on a little and get some consistency and some lower scores.  That is “Simple Golf”.

I’ve stripped away all of the mumbo jumbo, all of the golf industry lingo and the mystique about golf and come up with the simplest most direct way of understanding and executing the golf swing.  It is golf for the rest of us, the 99.9% of golfers who play for fun and relaxation.

I came to golf at age 40 and was at first self-taught.  Only after I had ingrained some seriously bad habits did I take lessons from teaching professionals.  It seemed to me that all I received from them were bits and pieces, a tip for this and a tip for that with no real attempt to create an understanding of an overall swing concept.   What I didn’t get was how the golf swing works, what my own unique swing would feel like or how I could work toward developing it.

When I got into the golf business myself and began teaching others how to play, I remembered the frustration I felt as a new player and the confusion I often felt after taking golf lessons.  So, I began to develop a way of talking about the swing that has turned into “Simple Golf”.  As I worked with hundreds of players at different levels of ability and development, I looked for the words and images that best communicated what a golf swing is in its simplest sense.

I’ve refined  “Simple Golf” over the last few years and developed it in its present form through trial and error.  I know “Simple Golf” works because I see it work every day with new players and club champions, old and young players, serious and social players.  It is rooted in the physics of the ball flight laws and the biomechanics of the body itself.   It is easy to understand and simple to apply.  It is a complete system for developing a swing that consistently works.

If you read this book and practice the “Simple Golf” swing drills, your swing will be more consistent, your ball striking better and your scores lower.  Try it. You’ve got everything to gain and nothing to lose.