Using Other Sports Techniques to Improve Your Golf Swing
One of the first things your learn as a novice golfer is not to swing a golf club like a baseball bat. And if you have ever seen a master at another sport, like baseball, hockey or tennis, try to swing a golf club with no instruction, you know that assuming a golf swing uses the same kind of motion leads to terrible shots. So, can you use your previous sporting experiences to improve your golf swing? Yep, and here’s how.
This blog post tells us, “Borrowing and feeling moves you’re familiar with from watching or playing sports will give you the confidence you’re missing. Better yet, they’ll keep your worst shots at bay and give you the accuracy and distance that leads to lower scores.” Check out the links below to correct your specific issue.
If you get stiff during your swing, play down your rigidity by thinking like a linebacker.
Play more like a pitcher if you are usually short off the tee.
Try to think like Peyton Manning or Brett Farve if you are struggling with consistency.
Always slicing it? Batter up.
If you tend to hit the top of the ball, channel your inner tennis player.
Be more like a hockey player if you hit your irons fat, but leave the fights on the ice, please.
Combined with Thought Free Golf’s mental conditioning program, techniques from other sports can really improve your golf game. Visualizing your success in any sport is key to a strong mental game– using the confidence you have in other sports to better your golf swing may be your key to success in lowering your score!
Shane O'Sullivan Says...
November 18th, 2008 at 8:55 am
You make some very good points. When I first started that was what my Father always told me was not to swing my club like a baseball bat. But a good swing is the key to a better golf game.