Golf Is A Game Of Opposites

Do you ever wonder where golf gets it reputation of being a stupid game? Well you will hear it all right here. Can you figure out why it's such a mental game? You want to do something and your brain says “no” you are doing it wrong. That's because golf is a game of opposites.

You try to go under the ball to get it into the air, it rolls along the ground. So you get upset and really swing down hard on the ball and it goes up. You swing left, and you know the club face is square to the target but, the ball curves to the right. So this time you say to yourself, if it wants to go right I'll swing that way, and it goes left. Come on, your brain can only take so much of this. You gotta be stupid to play this game. Your brain knows logic, so now you've got to trick it.

When players get on the golf course and over a the ball ready to make a shot they start to think. I've got to keep my right arm straight, knees bent slightly, swing back slow, and accelerate through the ball. I'm here to tell you if you haven't figured it out before you get on the golf course you're not going to find it there. Think about these things at home or work and practice them in golf practice areas, so they are automatic and you don't have to think about them. At any rate think before you get over the ball.

Laws of physics are pretty cut and dried. If your club face is square to the target and the swing path is to the left, it will impart clockwise rotation, causing the ball to spin to the right. If your club is square and the swing is to the right it will impart counter clockwise rotation, the ball will go left. If the club face is square and the swing path is straight to the target the ball will go straight. Remember golf is a game of opposites.

Now we know cause and effect in physics law for swing plane, we've got one variable out of the way.

Most players wonder why when pro players take out a chunk of ground their ball still goes s good distance, but when they do it the ball doesn't go anywhere. The answer is when a pro player hits the ground it after he has hit the ball. Most players will hit the ground before the ball. In order to obtain the correct results, two actions have got to happen. The body weight has to have moved toward the left foot and hands must be ahead of the club head. So that the bottom of your swing circle is in front on the ball. If you are having trouble doing that, move the ball back in you stance a little.

Even though I poked a little fun at golfers and golf in general, it is a game we love. Oh, speaking of golf being game of opposites, it is one of the few games where you try to have the lowest score.

Enjoy this misguided game and have fun.

Dale Bartlett, PGA Member, author and golf instructor

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