TV experts should carry a “Golfers Health Warning”

 

A fellow was telling me recently that whilst watching a Tournament from Dubai, one of the swing analysts recommended to the golfing masses that they could all improve their games if they simply kept their “Heads Still” as the pro’s do. His comment was backed up by a slow motion video playback of some Tour Star.

Yes it’s true, so many golfers have moving heads and play awful golf; it’s a fact that the head is one of the most talked about parts of the swing.  ( Google “Head still in golf swing” and it comes up with 1,680,000 listings ) “Keep your head down,” or put it another way, “Keep your eye on the ball” are statements forged into the annals of golf lore. Virtually every bad shot is followed by the utterance, “I lifted my head / I took eye off the ball.”

 

What’s wrong with everyone, all golfers state it is the problem and even our TV expert said “Simply keep head still.” Nothing to it surely! So, why can’t people do it?

People cannot do it because the tip is flawed. It is a “country club” myth.

If you go for a lesson and the instructor tells you to “keep your head still,” I recommend you move your head, with your body underneath it, out the building and find another Coach. I must add that there is an exception to this which is for the short shots like chipping and putting, on these occasions we all look for the shot from time to time but it is impossible to look up for a full shot without damaging yourself.

 

So as I said earlier, many golfers have moving heads but it is not the head that is the problem. Something makes the head move and that thing is the body. Your head cannot go anywhere without it being taken. You need to find out why the body is misbehaving. There are two or three reasons I know of.  Don’t tackle the symptom, find and tackle the cause.

So the TV expert whoever he was, has set back the ambitions of thousands golf addicts around the world for another season.

 

I’ve always said too much TV is bad for you!