| If there's one thing that haunts most golfers more | | | | hit the golf ball better and to eliminate your Slice Off |
| than missing a 3-foot putt, it has to be slicing the ball | | | | The Tee (we have 100's of Testimonials, Returning |
| off the tee. So this week I have written 2-different | | | | Golfers and Referrals to prove it) - but we don't use |
| articles - the first being 52 Ways to Stop Your Slice | | | | the ineffective approach that is employed by 9.9 out |
| and the second being If You Understand What | | | | of 10 Instructors out there. While they're teaching |
| Causes A Slice You Wouldn't Need 52 Ways To Stop | | | | you what Positions you need to be in along with |
| A Slice! So consider this a bonus section to Golf | | | | overwhelming you with their "Theories and |
| Improvement Weekly. | | | | Assumptions" about swing path, swing plane, grip, |
| Part 1 - Fixing your slice can be a complicated task or | | | | etc, etc, etc - |
| it can be a Simple solution - the choice is up to you. | | | | We're allowing you to Feel the motion of your golf |
| Now the average person reading this will say - "Well | | | | swing in a way you've never felt it before. |
| Marc, I want the Simple Solution." Yet, when we go | | | | As Graham Nicholson recently said at one of our |
| to work on getting rid of your slice using these | | | | classes - "Usually when you go to a Golf School |
| Simple Solutions, the average Golfer says - "Yeah | | | | you're worried about pounding 1000's of golf balls and |
| but, what about working on an inside to out swing | | | | tearing up your hands. On our 2nd day at Golf Made |
| path, what about turning my wrist over at impact, | | | | Simple we hit maybe 80 to 90 golf balls and I got |
| isn't my swing too flat, shouldn't I work on getting | | | | more out of that session than I could've dreamed of. |
| my elbow down to my side to get the club in the | | | | And that translated into hitting the golf ball better |
| correct position on the downswing?" Because of the | | | | than I ever have before. It was truly more about |
| Golf Instruction Experts or Guru's that we hear from | | | | quality than quantity!" |
| each week on Television or Magazines or Internet | | | | To Stop A Slice Off The Tee - everything in your |
| Chat Rooms - we assume that the solutions to | | | | swing has to be moving together to produce a |
| simple things such as Slicing the Ball Off The Tee | | | | straight club face at impact. That's it! That's the |
| have to have complicated corrections and that there | | | | answer! Yet, to get your body to do that, you need |
| always has to be swing changes made to your | | | | to learn to get everything moving together using drills |
| swings. | | | | like - The Symetrical Drill, Parallel Hands, Riding Hands, |
| And I actually enjoy hearing how complicated you | | | | The Stepping Drill, The Swoosh Drill, The Belly Swing, |
| think it is to fix your golf swing because to see your | | | | The Modified Belly Swing (MBS), The Toliet Paper Drill, |
| faces when you're able to Stop Slicing the Ball by just | | | | Eyes Closed, The Grass Cutter and Tire Drill, The |
| using some of our drills is fascinating. | | | | Ace Bandage Drill, The Baseball Drill, etc, etc, etc. |
| Fascinating? Why Fascintating? | | | | Which Drill is best for you? |
| Because for most Golfers we see, there is so much | | | | We won't know till we work with you to see which |
| going on in your heads during each swing you make - | | | | fits your Golf Swing. But you can be assured that |
| I'm surprised your still playing golf. Too many Golfers | | | | these Drills will give you a feel for your Golf Swing - |
| make this game hard work. It's like the Monkey said - | | | | and that is critical because 7 out of 10 Golfers can't |
| "A bad day on the golf course is better than a good | | | | feel their golf swing and 9 out of 10 Golfers don't |
| day at work!" I'll believe that one when I see it. I | | | | know what they should be feeling. Yet, although |
| guess I haven't worked in an office enviroment | | | | most Golfers are having trouble feeling their swing, all |
| enough, but I can't imagine people banging their | | | | the Golf Instruction you hear about is trying to get |
| mouse's on the ground and yelling the expletives | | | | the club in this Position or that Position. Getting the |
| they do on the golf course in the middle of the | | | | club in certain Positions is not about Feel - it's more |
| office. Or telling everybody in earshot how bad they | | | | about giving you more to think about on every golf |
| messed up on getting an important assignment done | | | | swing and turning you into a Robot over the golf ball. |
| - you'd get fired right on the spot if you acted that | | | | Who wants more to think about when you're hitting |
| way in the office. | | | | off the 1st Tee with 16-other Golfers watching you? |
| Yet on the golf course we see clubs banged against | | | | The Golf Tips that you're hearing from the Monkeys |
| the ground - I learn more "salty" language than I did | | | | (other Golfers and Golf Professionals) are all |
| during High School - and I constantly hear how badly | | | | Compensations to try to fix other Compensations |
| everyone's playing, even after they've just played | | | | you've developed because you were told to use |
| 2-holes. "Oh man, this is the worst golf I've ever | | | | those Compensations to fix other Compensations. So |
| played!" Hey don't get down on yourself, you've only | | | | pretty soon there is no way you can have |
| played 2-holes. "Yeah but I've never played this bad | | | | Confidence in your Golf Swing when you have |
| in my entire life." I don't understand, you've never | | | | 52-Compensations To Stop Your Slice on your mind |
| double bogied 2-holes in a row in all the years you've | | | | everytime you walk-up to the Tee to hit your Driver. |
| played golf? "Well yes, I have. But, I just don't feel | | | | Why is it that Kids have the smoothest, best looking |
| comfortable right now with my swing. I just feel off | | | | swings in the world? What do you think they're |
| and I'm not having fun!" Didn't you just tell me that A | | | | thinking about on every golf swing? Probably - "I |
| bad day on the golf course is better than a good | | | | hope that Adult doesn't come over here and try to |
| day at work? | | | | teach me what they're struggling to do!" |
| If that's the case, your job must really stink! | | | | The Kids are Feeling their golf swings and are truly |
| So the first way to Stop a Slice is to not get so | | | | having Fun and hitting the ball more Consistent than |
| upset at yourself that you start to hold the club as if | | | | you are because they're just swinging the club. The |
| it were a $1,000,000 bill. You must realize that when | | | | average Golfer isn't happy with their Golf swing and |
| you hold the club so tightly the tightness doesn't | | | | they get less happy everytime they go to the |
| stop at your hands - it works its way up your arms | | | | Driving Range to practice because they're practicing |
| through your shoulders, right up your neck and into | | | | Positions as opposed to Feeling their swing! |
| your brain. And when all this tension is pulsating | | | | I'd believe the Kid that says "A bad day on the golf |
| through your body - your swing gets "Stuck" and | | | | course is better than a good day at School!" |
| when you're "Stuck", you need to find a way to | | | | 9 out of 10 Golfers aren't happy with their Golf |
| become "Unstuck" and that usually means you're | | | | Game - yet you say "A bad day on the golf course |
| going to have to Compensate some where in your | | | | is better than a good day at work!" Man, your job |
| swing to make up for being "Stuck" and that | | | | must really stink! Yet, those 9 out of 10 Golfers that |
| Compensation will lead to some act of Inconsistency | | | | aren't happy with their Golf Game continue to use |
| which includes Slicing the Ball off the Tee. (How's that | | | | Golf Tips (or I should say "Theories and |
| for a run-on sentence Robert Z?) | | | | Assumptions" that are really nothing more than |
| The Monkey says "I read that if I Slice Off The Tee | | | | Compensations) to improve your game. Please realize |
| that I should tee my ball up on the right-side of the | | | | that all those Golf Tips that you've tried in the past |
| tee box (for a righty Golfer - left side for a lefty | | | | and might try in the future aren't going to just |
| Golfer) and aim to the left to allow my ball to have | | | | suddenly leave your swing when you realize they |
| more room to Slice." I don't know about that one - | | | | didn't work. Like it or not, those Swing Tips are |
| Why is that going to help you to not Slice Off The | | | | etched in your golf swing forever - even after you |
| Tee? "Well, it won't stop me from Slicing Off The | | | | say you're not going to think about that Tip anymore |
| Tee, but it'll allow me more room to allow the ball to | | | | - that swing thought will be there forever. Your |
| Slice." I guess you're correct, it would give you more | | | | swing is made up of everything you've thought of in |
| room to play the Slice Off The Tee and if you know | | | | the past - even the things you tried during just one |
| you're going to Slice - that would be a good PLAN to | | | | practice session in the past. |
| have. Yet I believe that the reason that most | | | | So basically your swing is made up of one |
| Golfers Slice Off The Tee is caused by bad Aim and | | | | Compensating Manuever piled on top of another and |
| having your Aim so far to the left, can't be helping. | | | | another and another. |
| If your Aim is off, you'll have to Compensate | | | | And the good news is that when all those |
| somewhere in your swing to make up for that fact. | | | | Compensations work together - you hit a good golf |
| The reason that you'll need to Compensate is that if | | | | shot. Yet, when they're not working - you hit |
| your Aim is bad and you do make a good swing, the | | | | Inconsistent shots. So my question to you is - "Are |
| ball won't go where you think it should be go. Yet | | | | your Compensations usually working together to |
| the majority of Monkeys will start trying to figure | | | | produce Consistent shots? |
| out what went wrong with their golf swing as | | | | Part 2 - What causes a Slice? For a Righty - Side Spin |
| opposed to fixing their Aim. So then on your next | | | | to the right. For a Lefty - Side Spin to the left. |
| swing, instead of fixing the Aim, you feel as though | | | | What causes a Golfer to say I need to read an |
| you need to fix your swing instead - so in the middle | | | | article that's going to give me 52-Reasons How To |
| of your swing you Compensate for the bad Aim and | | | | Stop A Slice? Listening to the Monkeys and so called |
| that Compensation will lead to some act of | | | | Guru's handing Tip after Tip after Tip to you. Or |
| Inconsistency which includes Slicing the Ball off the | | | | should I say Compensation after Compensation after |
| Tee. | | | | Compensation to you. And you know what |
| Oh my goodness, I have 50-more Ways To Stop | | | | Compensation equates to? Inconsistency! If you built |
| Your Slice to go. | | | | your home like you built your golf swing - The Big |
| Ok, the next 50 Ways To Stop Your Slice - if you're | | | | Bad Wolf would be able to "Huff and Puff and blow |
| looking for Golf Tips that you think will improve your | | | | your house down!" Though if you start with a solid |
| Score, this isn't the place to be looking for them. We | | | | foundation and continue to use that foundation to |
| don't work with Golf Tips, Golf Made Simple works | | | | build your golf swing based on Feeling your swing, |
| with Reality! Please don't think of us like you think of | | | | you won't have to rely on Golf Tips or should I say |
| other Golf Instructors you've worked with or heard | | | | Compensations to stop your Slice. |
| talking or read about. Our approach is totally different | | | | It's not too late to get away from a swing that is |
| than what is already out there. Yes, we help you to | | | | built on Compensations! What Do You Think? |