6 February 2008
Golf Technique – The Value of a Crib Sheet
Posted by BQ Browning under: Golf Techniques .
At the end of a bad round do you just throw your clubs down or do you think what golf technique might help you. Most of us throw the clubs in the back of the car rather than thinking about how we hold them, or other small things of that nature.
For example your grip can be at the root of many issues – not how you place your hands but something even simpler than that. You’ve probably already experienced this situation – in fact I don’t know a golfer who hasn’t. You hit a bad shot and then you tell yourself that the next shot has to be better to compensate and you start piling the pressure on yourself.
As you increase pressure you start to grip the clubs too hard. Tension has a tendency to make us do that. Along with this tight grip on the club goes a corresponding loss of control. The ball starts flying in all directions, and the tension builds ever more, until you look at your knuckles and they are white from the pressure. If your clubs could breathe you would have strangled them by now.
I have a playing partner, Peter, who has a laminated card with a simple list of points that he reads when his game starts to fall apart and at the top of that list is ‘Let the clubs breathe’. It’s simple and we all know about it, but this quick visual reminder is all that it takes to get his game back on track and ensure that the tension wasn’t there in the rest of his game.
This simple technique of having written notes about the five or six top bugbears in your game is so powerful that more people started using it. It was like having your own personal golf pro walking with you and giving you the necessary instructions when things started to go wrong improving your golf technique as you play.
