Three month project to get my game together

sticky

hello

I don't know what kind of response you will get, you could get a number of people offering you different ways to go as it appears you may be looking for a basic swing theory to try out and see if it works for you.

I'm going to introduce you to a book and swing theory that has for the first time in my life given me consistency in hitting my iron shots, especially my long irons. It also has improved my pitching and chipping 1000 percent and great for driving the ball too.

It is a swing that was developed by a player by the name of George Knudson who played on the tour in the 60's and 70's, mostly in the late 60's though. During the time he played he won 8 pga tournaments and came in 2nd in the Masters in 1969. Won alot of other tournaments in Canada, where he is from, and other countries.

Here is a quick link to short video about him.

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=14255

What really makes him unusual is his swing method is totally different from anyone else's I have ever known, but it is unbelievable how this works and is very easy to do.

The power of the swing is controlled completely by your leg and body movement. The arms and hands are completely passive and only consciously do one thing, that is to hold onto the club.

The complete swing arc is generated by the centrifugal force created in a weight shift of the legs and body turn, in the backswing and downswing.

If you are to look at the link to the video I gave above, it would be impossible to detect this though, since it looks like someone swinging a club in a way you might expect to see.

Jack Nicklaus called George Knudson the man with the "million dollar swing". Other people said he looked more like Ben Hogan than Ben Hogan did himself.

The book George Knudson wrote is called "The Natural Golf Swing". It was published in 1988.

The book has a great personal story of his life and how over the years he gradually developed his swing ideas.

What is kind of amazing also is after he finally put together what he felt was the best swing he could from everything he had come to understand about golf, along with the laws of nature and physics related to the golf swing and had his greatest successes' in the late 60's, because of his family and having three young children, he left the tour.

He started teaching in Canada in the 70's and writing his book in the late 80's. Unfortuneately because of smoking he passed away in 1989, a year after his book came out.

Here is a link to his book on amazon were you can read the reviews of the people who got it.

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Golf-Swing-G...n/dp/0771045344

If you want to give this a try, I believe it could really help you out.

Ive got a great drill for putting for you at home.

Grab ur putter, do strokes up and down the skirten board with ur head up agaisnt the wall. This will A/ groove a great putting stroke B/ eyes will be perfectly over the ball because ur head is agaisnt the wall and C/ ur head will be still.

I would start out by defining "workable condition"...

Be specific...Avoid vague goals...

Ive got a great drill for putting for you at home.

 

Grab ur putter, do strokes up and down the skirten board with ur head up agaisnt the wall. This will A/ groove a great putting stroke B/ eyes will be perfectly over the ball because ur head is agaisnt the wall and C/ ur head will be still.

Actually that's incorrect. Your eyes should be 1 ball below exactly over the ball. I read it and saw it on tv. If your eyes are over the ball, you will tend to pull the putts.

Thank you all for your suggestions and will try my best to improve through using them.

Mikpga is absolutely right that goals must be defined and measureable to be attained. By June I would like my game to be consistently under triple digits and establish my handicap (honestly) at or below 20 by 6/1 and at or below 16 by 9/1. I know these are ambitious goals and will require practice and willingness to listen.

My more abstract goal, but no less important, is to have fun on the course. I want to approach golf seriously, but I also want to be able to laugh at my mistakes and then work on fixing them.

Thanks again.

Consistently under triple digits, now we have something to measure!

1. A swing motion which will keep the ball in play a high percentage of the time.

2. An increasing ability to average 36 putts or less.

You may want to play a couple of 9 hole 'rounds' with just your 7 iron, wedge, and putter and examine the results...See what you can learn from this experience...

You say you have that schoolyard? Take full advantage of that. Get a 5 gallon plastic bucket and a dozen old balls. Use a pw and whatever above it you have for pitch shots. Vary trajectories with the clubs. Hit some high and soft and some lower and running. You will be missing a whole lot more greens than you are hitting, pitching and chipping will be the difference between bogies and triples.

Two more great pieces of advice. Thanks a lot. I'm the head football coach and it's a small town, so I can hit some shots on the practice field as long as I don't make our groundskeeper mad. He is capable of serious damage to one's body. A bottle here and there keeps me on his good side.