July 19th, 2010 
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There are befitting golf tips and bad golf tips. The question is, “how do you decide which golf tips to listen to?”
This question has been brought home to me recently because a right and proper friend took up golf about two years ago. He has really caught the bug and plays several periods a week. He also has lessons and practices frequently. Whenever we play together he is constantly asking for tips and a recommendation about his swing.
It is my belief that you should only give a player a golf tip if you are sure that it will fit in with the rest of his swing. I have seen far too many players lose their swings when trying to adopt a golf tip which simply does not fit in with everything else that goes on when they swing the club.
OK, I know, there are particular golf tips which are universally sound, like, “keep your head still.” But equally there are plenty of different golf tips that can be ruinous even when given with the best of intentions.
In specific I recall a right and proper player with whom I’d played many rounds who always drew the ball favorable to left, usually with appropriate control. One day when his draw was a bit exaggerated, his partner suggested this perfectly sound golf tip: “You know, if you were to keep your appropriate elbow well tucked in on the downswing you would lose that nasty hook.”
The suggestion was well meant. However, for a player who had a well grooved habit of swinging slightly over the top of the ball, as Arnold Palmer was wont to do, it proved to be one golf tip too much. He became so conscious of his favorable elbow that it threw the whole of the rest of his swing out of shape and it took him months to get it back again.
The weak point is that the golf tip didn’t fit in with the rest of his swing.
This is a mistake that many golfers make. They listen to all the golf tips out there and try to adopt them all in their desperate search for a proper swing. It is my belief that your aim should be to groove a golf swing that will give you streams of straight and long golf shots by modeling your swing on one set of a belief. Then you should perk up a mind movie of that swing so that you can reproduce it whenever you play a shot.
Think in what manner long some of the most famous partnerships between players and their swing coaches have lasted. Think of Jack Nicklaus and Jack Grout, Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon, Nick Faldo and David Leadbetter to name but a few. All these great players relied on one enlightens vision of their swing to keep their mind movie in shape. They did not go asking for golf tips from inharmonious players.
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