Golf Instruction: Improve Your Golf Swing By This Weekend

Here is a simple way to improve your golf swing quickly without hitting a ton of practice balls on the range. You can actually do most of your practicing at home. All you need to do is watch this short video – I edited out all but what you actually need – and practice doing it. For best results, close your eyes when you start swinging. It will help you develop the feel for what you saw on the video.

Once you get comfortable with duplicating this motion and feeling yourself do it, you can go to the driving range and practice it. Once at the practice tee do the same sequence you watched in the video. You will be amazed at the results you get.

I am all about simple and easy to understand, but some folks like to know the how and why.
Here is a more in depth explanation of the science behind it for those of you that are interested or curious.

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The science behind mirror neurons is a white-hot topic in neuroscience now and is finally being introduced to golf. Check out “Raise Your Game by Doing Nothing” in the latest issue of Golf Digest.

Since the 1990’s mirror neurons have been put forward as potentially being integral to our ability to learn skills via imitation.

Players in other sports do this sort of thing all the time–they become experts at watching the actions of others and then adding those movements, strategies and skills to their personal skill sets.

This is the way past generations learned and were taught to play golf and it produced many great champions like Bobby Jones, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and many more. We just didn’t know the science behind it then.

Later we had Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and the list goes on, that all developed their swings this way.

We have many examples today of successful tour players such as Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk, John Daly and more that learned from the natural method of watching and doing.

With the advent of high speed photography, we moved away from natural learning into motion analysis based learning which also worked, but not as well and has become much more complex and difficult for the beginner.