Rethinking Golf: A New Approach to Performance in the 21st Century--A New Guide for Beginners through Tour Players and Their Instructors - Softcover

Hogan, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971655103 ISBN 13: 9780971655102

Publisher: Maverick Publications, 2001

Synopsis

In Rethinking Golf, Hogan reaches beyond the mindset of those who think about golf in terms of "how-to", and connect instead with those who don't mind remembering what it means to "play" golf. For Hogan, much of what passes for effective golf instruction is too centered upon process issues such as the backswing, when the real purpose should be to help golfers understand what they want out of the game, and then helping them find it. Hogan reminds us that too many golfers leave their regular jobs go to the range, and then "work" on their game. Where's the play in that process? How about a little less thinking and a little more remembering a child's sense of fun? It's not as if the fundamentals can be ignored. Hogan recognizes that fact, but suggests that the focus on the swing ignores the true fundamental of the game, which is to hit a round ball with a flat edge and make it move toward a target. He argues that learning the fundamentals of set-up, grip, stance, alignment, basic full swing, chipping, sand shots, and putting should be accomplished in much the same way as learning to type. The basic elements of the swing can be learned in segments by repetition, until the player develops competence by rote. At that point, the real work of creation in in golf takes place, by shifting one's entire focus on the target, imagining the shot and distance to reach the target, and then unconsciously adjusting the rote swing to the goal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Maverick Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971655103
• ISBN 13: 9780971655102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 145