When golf first began the golf courses were not in very good condition. The greens were slow and bumpy, the sand traps were not raked, the fairways were rolling and bumpy and the grass was long and not watered. Compared to then, the golf courses today are immaculate. The greens are fast and smooth, the sand traps have regular maintenance, the fairways are even better. Its obvious the technology was different; wooden shafts, feather golf balls. Now it's graphite shafts, surlyn golf balls and titanium, titanium and titanium. And, how about the education? Exercise and diet? And the list goes on.
We will have a tendency to say to ourselves that "all of this is relative to the times" and for the most part it is. But there are a couple of things that still remains. One of them is that we still want to play the game of golf by feel. Golf instruction has definitely become a little too detailed. Just get up and hit the ball! Do you think of every little move that your body makes when you make a right-hand turn with the car?......foot on the brake, foot on the gas peddle, hand over hand as you turn the steering wheel? You do it by feel. You react to the road.
They say that history will sometimes repeat itself. I wonder, will golf instruction lean more towards feel rather than analytical golf swing mechanics? And will the golfers themselves swing the way they feel rather than trying to achieve the perfect computer golf swing?
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TIP #1 - Play It The Way You Feel