WHY We Can’t IMPROVE at Golf

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Is there something wrong with golf instruction today or even in decades past or is there something wrong with us as golfers that we’re not getting it we just simply are not improving there has been a little bit of improvement I know that a lot of people say there’s been no

Improvement but there has been a slight Improvement in like the last 20 years I believe the last time I looked it up golfers had improved by almost two strokes regardless of where you stand on this issue there is no mistaking the fact that when it comes to average golfers amateur average golfers out

There we struggle to improve at the game we cannot drop Strokes we really don’t improve our handicaps that much why is that is it off the tea is it out of the Fairway is it just general ball striking what is it that’s costing us The Strokes and preventing us from getting down to

Low single-digit handicaps we’re going to dive into a little bit of that today let’s get Going Hey everybody welcome back to golf test dummy the channel where I use my game to help your game and I want to start off with a little something before we get too deep into this for any of you out there that follow my good friend Marcus edblad on his YouTube channel if you

Haven’t I suggest you go check him out he does a lot of great golf instruction and Marcus is not only a very good golfer but he’s also an excellent golf coach and Beyond even that he’s a supreme human being he’s a genuinely great guy he’s he’s a fantastic guy he’s

Been a really good friend to me and if you watch his channel you may have noticed in one of his recent videos he mentioned some health issues that he’s dealing with and I don’t presume to speak for Marcus however for the viewers of this channel that know Marcus or have

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Don’t tell him that I told you to come and do that just go take it upon yourselves for the guys that want to do that he can really use our help and support right now let’s put our thoughts with Marcus now onto the video I’ve got

A n99 in my hand and I’m I’m just warming up out here really the things that I think about to make these videos about the things that cross my mind I want to try and put out the things that are going to help beginning golfers people who are just now taking up the

Game then even the golf who are on an intermediate level to help them get down to low singled digigit figures now I’m no Pro I am not an elite golfer I wasn’t on any golf tour but I do feel like I can help some of the golfers out there a

Good many of them the vast majority of the golfing population sits above a 10 handicap so I feel like I can help so many of you out there because I’ve gone through a lot of things myself I’ve tried a lot of different conventional and unconventional methods and I feel

Like I can help a lot of us sort of navigate the murky Waters and I can tell you this I have come to believe through all of those trials and all of the reading and research and and listening and watching and experimentation I’ve done I’ve come to believe that what

People talk about often as being the fundamentals they may not be so fundamental to everybody what is a fundamental it could be something that just applies to you something personal to you specifically but when I use the term fundamental in these videos out here in my studio I’m referring to something that

Applies to everyone I know some people that play some really great golf with some not so conventional swings I even played golf before I know a guy who plays cross-handed to a professional level Snappy Gilmore I don’t know if you’ve seen him or not but he’s a guy

That makes a lot of Tik toks and Instagram re he’s pretty pretty famous by this point he was at the Waste Management Open he plays even though he has both hands by twirling his Club around and hitting shots with his right hand I don’t know if he would be nearly

As good at ball striking if he put both hands on the club but regardless regardless he hits all sorts of clubs and all sorts of shots onehanded so when you think about things like that I know a lot of people would argue that well that’s an outlier and

Certainly there’s not a lot of people playing one-handed golf they are outliers but it just goes to show that if there is a portion of the population out there that maybe they don’t have a choice they only have one hand or maybe combat veterans who have only one leg or

Sometimes even none or not even the use of the legs there’s paraplegics that come out and play golf there’s blind golfers when you think about those golfers and their ability to still play really good golf and probably beat a lot of us out here you start to realize that

What a lot of instructors talk about is fundamental is not really fundamental at all the grip for instance everybody starts with the grip Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons started with the grip look at Mo Norman’s grip he used a tin finger I I know he also used an interlock or an

Overlap or whatever that was for natural golf I get it you look at Jim furick he uses a double overlap you look at my friend who plays to a high level he’s an elite golfer plays cross-handed Snappy Gil who could probably out drive any one of us watching this video right now

Plays onehanded the grip is not a fundamental to everyone it may be something that is a fundamental to you your specific grip but it’s not a fundamental to everybody therefore I do not consider it to be a fundamental on this channel another thing A lot of

People are going to talk about is the setup you’ve got to set up with your your knees and your feet and your hips and your shoulders all square stacked on top of each other nice balanced setup 5050 weight maybe maybe some people even go 6040 toward the front but I’ve

Experimented with a lot of different swings and I’ve seen a lot of different golfers play a lot of great golf without the conventional setup and if it’s not Universal then it’s not a fundamental in my mind I see people who set up closed Jim vetto sits up way closed you want to

Go play Jim vetos for money you want to go take him want to see if you can beat him on course go ahead let’s see how that works out for you but he sets up way closed then you look at somebody like Mo Norman who had his feet spread

Really wide really wide and had his shoulders cocked back and set the club way behind the ball thises his setup does it resemble all of the stuff that’s being taught that to tour players nowadays no not even close Jim furick sets up a noxiously close to the ball

He’s got his grip basically in his belly button Jim Fury is going to go down in the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest golfers to ever walk the face of the planet that we are currently on he is unbelievably unbelievably Elite and skilled his setup looks nothing like

What they teach in the books so again a lot of people will say those are outliers you can’t look at them but outliers give us pieces of information to let us know that maybe what everybody is saying saying is a fundamental it’s not really a true

Fundamental in the sense of the word the only real fundamentals involve the club the golf ball the lie that the golf ball is on this is universal this is it this is what everybody has to play with this is a nine iron of course there’s all kinds of different clubs but basically

You get my point these clubs are all kind of designed the same from Callaway to Ping to Nike before they left all the way through the bag Cleveland everything they all are basically designed the same way they got a club face they got a soul they got the backside of the club

They’ve got the shaft they’ve got the hosle they’ve got the feral they’ve got the grip and this club when that Ball’s sitting on the turf has to interact within certain tolerances a certain way it has to act a fairly certain way in order to get consistent repeatable well struck golf shots that

Fly as intended so for me if I were to list out the fundamentals I usually talk about four one of them and this is for a ball sitting on the turf again from hybrids Three Wood all the way down to wedges if the ball is sitting on the

Turf even if you want to hit a driver off the deck you are going to have to contact the ball first then the Earth all right let me repeat that you have to contact the ball first before your low point anything that’s sitting on the ground

Now it can be a half an inch or it can be your low point is 6 or seven in after the golf ball that’s that’s getting into a whole realm of shot shaping and different types of lies and all that but to make it as basic as possible ball

Then turf or in another interpretation hit the little ball before you hit the big ball the Earth number two the grip of this club needs to make it to the golf ball before for the club head meaning shaftan you hear so many people talk about shaing now it doesn’t have to

Be extreme it doesn’t have to be out here leading even though some people do that with knockdown shots or or even people who seriously want to deal off the club but it does have to be winning the race to a certain extent the grip has to outrun the club head to the golf

Ball grip leading in to the shot that’s number two number three you got to have a little bit of speed you can’t step up here and just move with no speed and expect the ball to go anywhere so you got to have a little bit of speed now

This is a category that a lot of people sort of get lost in because everybody is trying to get more speed more clubhead speed more Club head speed means ball go further right equals better shots better yardage and if you can hit the ball further it automatically means you’re a better golfer

Right no not necessarily but you do have to have some kind of speed and then number four this is another biggie your Club face to swing path relationship the way they match up the difference between them Square not Square little bit open little bit closed

Little bit in to out a little bit out to end those combinations if you want to hear a ball fairly straight not perfectly straight but fairly straight you need to have the face and the path pretty close to square to each other and that path needs to be headed toward the

Target not out in the woods so why is it that we struggle so much to get this little ball that is just sitting still on the ground it’s not moving like in baseball it’s just sitting there why is it that we struggle so much to get this

Ball to go in the same general direction time and time again when it should be pretty simple it’s the same stick you’ve looked at a thousand times it’s the ball sitting on the the ground why is it that we struggle so much and honestly I think it’s golf

Instruction I think that they try to put everybody in this little box because for the most part okay for the most part not everybody but for the most part we’re all kind of built the same shoulders elbows arms legs head neck it’s all kind of connected there’s not too many people

With their head coming off of their foot you know what I mean so they think by that reason that we should be able to tell everybody to do the same type of stuff biomechanically and then it should be sort of a universal methodology of being able to teach somebody how to be

Somewhat competent at hitting a golf ball and maybe getting down and break 80 a few times here and there but it doesn’t work that way people have different proportions people have different timing people have different Mobility I mean maybe some of you your hips and knees work great I know for me

Personally and a lot of you guys out out there we need a little bit of axle grease on some of these joints they don’t work as well as they used to years of brick masonry has put me into basically a 75y old man’s body at 45

Years old it’s not the years it’s the mileage just like Indiana Jones said but that that’s I think maybe one of the original sins I think you’ve got to be looking at this club not us not us I I definitely you need a good setup that’s that’s that’s very similar but it

Doesn’t need to be somebody else’s setup it needs to be a setup that works for you that helps to create the conditions at impact and the swing motions that you need in order to play your best golf now of course you’re going to say well how

Do I find that really you’re not going to like the answer it’s kind of trial and error some people are going to do really well to set up closed setup closed and hit a golf ball from that position that’s going to help them other people they might need to set up more

Open other people Square some people the ball back some people the ball forward there’s a million different ways that you can find success but finding success a few times out of 10 or 100 versus finding success almost all the time out of 10 times or 100 they’re two very different things a

Lot of people can catch lightning in a bottle and have a bucket of balls or a round of golf or hell even a solid month of great golf but then it kind of goes away another thing that plays into this whole biomechanical stuff that they’re trying to teach us is that you’re

Different than you were yesterday and you’re going to be different tomorrow than you were today trying to manage your body is like trying to solve a puzzle every single time you put a club in your hand now granted you’re probably not going to wake up tomorrow vastly

Different than you are today but there’s going to be some differences you hear the long drivers talk about this all the time ah I’m just not having a fast day today I’m just not as fast happens all the time why why is that is it because

You know you were in a car accident in the middle of night no it’s because your body is constantly changing it’s growing or it’s shrinking it’s getting fatter or it’s getting skinnier the cells that you have on your body today are not going to be the cells that are there next week

And even though you might feel the same and think oh I’ve done the same thing for 40 years and I’ve been the same there are differences so trying to figure out with your conscious mind how to operate your body in a perfectly biomechanical way every single day well

It’s an exercise in futility and it’ll drive you crazy but this is the same this is the same it’s always the same focus on what this is doing you want that grip to to lead that club head into impact you want your low point to be after the golf ball or a slightly

Downward blow on anything sitting on the turf you got to have a little bit of speed and get your Club face to your swing path fairly Square for Fairly straight shots those four things they’re the real fundamentals that’s what I’ve been arguing the whole time after spending so much wasted time going

Through all of this other stuff like I said you’re probably not going to like the answer that you’re just going to have to figure it out but it’s true it’s the best way to learn think about how you learned how to drive a car you had some things

Explained to you some of the basics how the car functioned but ultimately you got to get behind the wheel and feel how the car moves when to turn the wheel how hard you have to push the gas of the brake how soon you have to start turning

The wheel to make the turn and not run over the curb you had to feel it for yourself you had to figure it out for yourself same way with walking same way with tying your shoes Basics can be explained to you but it’s trial and error and just being thrown into the

Deep end to learn how to swim that works the best guys I appreciate all the support be sure to go check out marcus’ channel remember to send him some love and some thoughts thanks so much for supporting this channel see you next week M