Having played and been around the game for 50 years, my take is that golfers deserve more from their golf lessons. The hard truth is that the golf teaching industry cannot take a single golfer from the 90s to the 70s. And this has been going on for far too long. It seems to me that anyone of average physical means ought to be able to swing a stick and hit a ball well, especially since the ball is not even moving.
And it also seems like the information on how to hit a golf ball should be standardized. Golf should not be taught a hundred different ways by a hundred different golf teachers. Each promising everything and guaranteeing nothing. And the story always ends the same. The golfer fails to improve, and the coach sums it up to a lack of talent. “Face it, you just don’t have it. Some were born to play this game. And you weren’t.” That has never been good enough for me.
Anyone who has struggled with golf lessons ought to come to the conclusion I have. Professional golfers do not do play golf the way golf teachers teach golf. How do I know? I sponsor tour players and I play golf with them regularly. I stand on tee boxes with the world’s best players and see up close how golf is played at the highest level. I promise you. It is different. Professional golfers do not do ANY of that stuff golf teachers claim they are doing when they hit a golf ball.
Modern golf instruction analyzes your swing and cajoles you to micro-manage the movement from within the movement, with the goal of mimicking a pro golfer’s swing. But the entire golf swing happens in one second. The notion that you can mimic and micro-manage a high-speed movement with repeatable proficiency and lower your golf scores defies logic. And data put out by the USGA suggests that golfers are getting worse, not better.
So how have the golf governing bodies responded to not being able to teach their own game? They live in a pretend bubble, where they believe in natural-born golf talent for a few and a burgeoning, self-enamored, self-praising golf lesson industry that keeps the masses placated with technology and hope. I read the bios of the “world’s greatest” golf teachers, and I see people who haven’t taken a single golfer from the 90s to the 70s. I see people who coach the world’s top pros, who were already top pros when they showed up on the teacher’s doorstep. I see people hawking slice fixes and training aids and golf lesson immersion retreats. It seems counter intuitive that if you’re a great golf teacher, you would be selling gimmicks. And that you wouldn’t have a two-year waiting list for your time. These people have only magazine articles and stories about how great they are at teaching golf. But nobody gets better at golf. And I always end up in the same place in my mind. “It’s a ball, and a stick, and the ball is not even moving. How hard can it be?”
I love golf. To me, it is the sport of kings and queens. It makes you feel amazing when you play it, and I would play it every single day if I had the time. I love golf because golf does not care. It does not care how old you are. It does not care how young you are. It does not care how tall you are. It does not care how short you are. It does not care how fast you can run. It does not care how high you can jump. It does not care how far you can throw a ball. It does not even care if you weigh 135, or 351. Golf welcomes you, and it welcomes you back no matter how long it has been since your last round. And it sure does not require a talent gene to play it well. I am pretty sure that when God was contemplating athletic talent, he didn’t make up a special talent for hitting a ball with a stick, when the ball is not even moving. Especially for a game that has only been around for about 600 years. When would that have even happened?
The time has come for golf to change. And I am going to change it. At Golf Blab, I have an online lesson called Swing Like a Pro. It is the world’s only golf lesson that teaches you how the professional golfer’s movements are actually made. Not because they are born talented. There is no such thing as golf talent. But because good golf found them early and they knew of no other way. And now it will find you later, and then you will know of no other way.
The information cannot be found on YouTube or with any golf teacher. It is DIFFERENT. It comes straight from people who play the game for a living. And we cover driving, chipping and putting in four minutes flat. Not with things you can go work on. But with things that work NOW. And it comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money no questions asked. Now that is a golf lesson and an offer that everyone can get behind. Take me there!
PS… It is EASY. Because if it were not easy, there would be no professional golfers.