Does Your Body Determine Your Golf Swing?

The game of golf can often drive a sane person crazy. Everyone knows the frustration that you feel when you spend an off day on a golf course. This can be even after you made a birdie or an eagle the day before. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the game and your golf swing might be elusive.

The quest is always to have a better swing and to find the aspects you need to change to do this. Many individuals have found their way and now play every day and get paid on the pro golf circuit. So how can you do the same thing they did?

But remind yourself that even Tiger Woods can have a bad day. How can that be if he is as great a golfer as he is? But he does have a day where he wishes he could sling his clubs in the sand pit? It is because this game comes down to knowing your body, understanding its relationship to your stroke, and trusting your instincts.

Playing a game or sport means you are involved in many different ways. There are the body movements, of course. But there is also the mind giving you the positive or negative words. And there is also what is called the heart, that is the instinct where you let go and let yourself be the best you can be.

In the movie, The Legend of Bagger Vance, the main character is a great golfer who has lost his edge. His muscles still remember how to play. But he is not listening to his heart, but more his mind. Where the body was willing for him to be good, he could not find his heart to play the game. It was not until he gave up trying so hard and just let himself remember how it felt to be good and to hit well that he got great again.

The game of golf is set up to be hard. With water, sand, trees, and crazy fairway layout set up on the courses you have to combat this as well as the inner voices talking to you. It is a mastery of each person to know when to listen and when simply play from a deeper place believing you can do it.

Heart is not going to win everything for you. You have to master the swing of golf and that takes you doing some work. Your swing is indicative to how your will do in the overall scoring. Therefore seeing can be believing. Take an opportunity to video tape your swing and see if there are things you are doing that you did not even know you were. Once you see the changes that need to be made it is easier to address them.

Then find someone that you know and trust to help you. This will probably be a pro, but it could be a consummate golfer that you admire and want to mentor you. Find someone that plays the game the way you want to play. Then learn by watching them play. How do they swing? How do they set up a shot? Where is their mind when they play?

But of course all the heart and instinct would be nothing without practicing your golf swing. It is here that you begin to combine all these aspects together to get a feel for the game, the ball, and how to use your swing to master golf. The more you play the better you get and that will keep your chance of improvement going.