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How are you gonna play (or teach) golf well without knowing the answers of "My 10 Questions":

1. Why do beginners hit slices?
2. Why are the images of peoples' swings different from what they imagine?
3. Why can't people take their games to the golf course?
4. Why do people miss a 3(or even shorter)-footer?
5. Why can't people swing like Tiger, despite they watch his swing over and over and know exactly what it's like?
6. Why do people slip back to their old swings after taking lessons?
7. Why can't people hit it longer with a harder swing?
8. Why do people hit it into the hazards they try to avoid, but not the target they anticipate?
9. Why can't people repeat their best drives?
10. Why do people's practicing swing differ from their real swing?

1. Because they are swinging to left field with an open clubface.
2. Feel is not real. What you feel like you are doing is not always what you're doing. That's why you need an instructor and/or video to help you see what's going on.
3.People work on their swings but they don't work on their swings under pressure and they don't practice staying in the present.
4. Everyone's going to miss some of these in the career but it boils down to concentration, commitment, and staying in the present.
5. They don't have the flexibility, strength, and dedication to try to swing like Tiger by practicing a lot!!!
6.People don't realize how long and hard you have to work on swing changes to make them stick. Just because it looked like you've fixed on video doesn't mean it will hold up when your on the first tee of your state open qualifier so you'll revert back. You have to be very stubborn and dedicated to get some changes to stick while other changes can be very easy.
7. They can if they hit it in the center of the clubface with a good swing path (inside out) and face angle. However the faster you go the harder this is to do.
8. Players learn to look through/beyond hazards not at them.
9. They can with practice and dedication, but they have to realize each day you wake up and your bodies a little different so you have to adjust a little the best player's in the world do this well.
10. Because there's no ball there. No hit urge.

At least that's my thoughts on the subject.......I'm not an expert (yet), I just taught 121 lessons last month.

Sorting Throught the Golf Nut's Catalog.

B-Ray