Your Golf Swing; Remember What it is Like To ………. How many times have you asked yourself “Why I am hitting the golf ball like that?” or “Why can’t I play the way I used to play?” The answer to those and similar questions you ask about yourself and your golf swing are actually at your finger tips, if only you can remember what you can do versus what you used to do. Like riding a bike, you can remember your good golf swing if you allow yourself an opportunity to remember what t is like to make a good balanced golf swing. So many times I’ll see a client’s golf swing out of balance, which results in their body making compensations to stay upright and not fall over. A classic example of this is “Coach,” a very accomplished golfer I recently assisted, who during his prime won many amateur events in New England and was a university coach to many great players. It was obvious from his first golf swing that Coach was a player, but time had caught up with him. Due two injuries and subsequent surgeries, Coach had lost some range of motion and some flexibility, limiting his ability to make a good golf swing. Knowing he had a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience, it was essential in my mind that Coach remember what it was like to make a golf swing that enabled him to experience his past, so he could mimic the positions he…
