The secret to golf: Lessons from Jim Furyk

[johnclayton1982]

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Moral:  Having solid fundamentals will allow you to trust your swing. You can't trust fundamentals that will continue to deliver bad results.  Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

So, if you are good, you should trust your swing, but if you are bad you can't "trust it", so you should change to something good?

I used to play with a messed up grip and an insanely open stance, because I played serious college tennis.  I did it for about 9 months.  I actually broke 100 with a very strange, almost tennis grip, that scooped the ball with the irons and hit the driver like a topspin forehand.  I am athletic, and I thought it was "good".  Thank god I went to a pro and didn't just "work on it", because I could have practiced that for months and months and months and gotten nowhere.  Five lessons with a pro, about another 9 months, and a ton of practice, and I can shoot in the 90s again.  However, this time, I feel like I can progress beyond this.

If you stink but your swing feels natural, don't "work on it naturally".  Go see a pro.

[nevets88]

I agree with John Clayton, I played tennis in high school and college and my topspin grip influenced my golf in a bad way, namely the western grip encouraged a cupped wrist at impact. And I also agree with iacas. When your low point is behind the ball versus 4 inches ahead of the ball, the feeling at impact is totally different, it is almost two different games, one is golf, one is sort of something like golf but not quite. Where your hands are at impact when you flip vs flat or bowed is night and day.