Do You Play?

Golf is a game to be played.  Unfortunately, many golfers hit a ball around a golf course and never really play the game.

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For many pros, teaching golf has morphed into fundamentals and mechanical practice.  Golfers can be limited by the belief that they must master one fundamental before tackling another.  It is not that fundamentals are irrelevant -- it is the premise that with the singular emphasis on fundamentals, golfers may never be 'allowed' to progress into the play of the game.

To play a game it involves different 'maneuvers' or plays.  You don't play Monopoly by rolling the dice and moving your piece around the board.  To play, you actually buy properties, charge rents, improve properties, and sometimes pay penalties for actions.  In golf, trying to hit the ball straight every time on the golf course is like rolling the dice, moving your piece, buying Baltic Avenue, sometimes falling off the board, and moving back to Go to try to it again.

Some pros won't teach golfers how to curve the ball until they can learn to hit it straight.  But, paradoxically, if they can't hit it straight, they can already curve it...and often, the course curves the ball for them.

Some pros believe that mental intensity is the missing link to performance.  But, even the most intense mental effort cannot overcome all conditions on the course, and failure to consider them contributes to failures.

Mandating straight performance is a mistake.  The search for a good swing nears success until the golfer hits the first hole.... then, it's about how well he plays...