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Issue #: 115
Date: October 4, 2004
Publisher: Marc Solomon
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"Easier Said than Done" or "Easier Done than Said"

In golf these days there’s a lot of “Easier said than Done” claims being made (if you know what I mean).  And it can be confusing when you’re constantly being flooded with advice on how to improve your scores.  So you need to determine which products are going to help you and which are a waste of your valuable time and even worse - which are going to “mess you up.”

The $1,000,000 Question is - Why aren’t you playing golf as well as you feel you should be?  Maybe it’s because the advice that’s been given to you is from the “Easier Said than Done” approach of Golf Instruction.  Golf isn’t an easy game and many people will try anything to improve their scores, so you get caught up with all the “Easier Said than Done” Golf Instruction.  And your game starts going in the wrong direction down a “one way street” of disappointing scores.

Do you want to know what I believe is the best way for you to constantly improve your game?  I believe that improving your golf game and playing the golf you want to play can be - “Easier Done than Said”.  Yes - I mean to say “Easier Done than Said.”  Improving your game and your confidence on the golf course can be accomplished without having to reinvent yourself.  You just need to know where to look and then where to focus your attention.  In other words - have a PLAN for improvement.

Many times golfers see a golf tip and say “I need to try that.”  And then you see another and say “This is what I need to do for my game!”  Then you see yet another tip that you “need to try tomorrow” and pretty soon you’re now collecting “tips” like some people collect stamps.  And then your game starts to slowly fall apart, so you start taking different golf lessons from different people and your game doesn’t get any better.  And then you ask yourself - “Why can’t I get better? Am I ever going to improve or should I just live with the fact that this is as good as I’m going to get.”

So my question to you is - “What are you looking for when you say you want to improve your Golf Game?”  Are you looking for another “Easier Said than Done“ claim - Or are you wanting improvement that is based on Proven Results!

“Have you heard any ‘Easier Said than Done’ Golf Instruction lately while watching television?”  It’s like the claims - “Come see us and we’ll help you to hit the ball longer and straighter" - “We’ll help you to make more putts” - “We’ll help you to improve your swing” - “We’ve developed a new golf swing that automatically hit’s the ball perfect every time”  This is all bad stuff you need to avoid because it’s all “Easier Said than Done” stuff.

So what is Golf Improvement that’s “Easier Done than Said”?  It’s saying that if you have a PLAN for improving, you will improve!  It means that you have a RESULTS based PLAN to improve your game.  It means - “Give me the facts about improving my game - I’m tired of listening to all this fluff that says just come see us and you’ll automatically improve your game.”

The “Easier Said than Done” approach that most golfers take (and get frustrated with as they don‘t improve) - says that you need to hit 1000’s of golf balls to improve and if you don’t improve, you need to take more lessons and hit more golf balls.  And even after hitting those 1000’s of extra golf balls, it doesn’t guarantee that after all those hours of practice, that you’re going to get better.  “Easier Said than Done” is the approach that I see many of the businesses in the Golf Instruction Industry preaching to you in the hopes that they can get your attention.  They’re playing with the emotions of 1000’s of golfers that would do anything to play better.  “I’ll do anything! I just want to play better!”  Have you ever said that before?

Easier Done than Said” means improving is more readily accomplished if you have a PLAN.  What type of PLAN?  Well, if you’re a 95-golfer that wants to break 90 consistently, you might use the following example as the basis for your PLAN: “I average 95 for 18-holes.  I want to take 10-strokes off my game and I know I’m capable of doing it.  Where do I start?”

You start by knowing what the 85-Golfers does to be able to get that score on a consistent basis.  And then you try to play like an 85-Golfer.  What unfortunately happens is the 95-Golfer thinks they need to play like the 75-Golfer and because their skill isn’t that of the 75-Golfer, they make bad decisions and try to play shots they aren’t capable of playing on a consistent basis.  So the 95-Golfer continually ends up with a couple of 7’s and 8’s on their scorecard - that cancel out the Pars you worked so hard to get.

Then because you can’t seem to get out of your usual range of scores in the 90’s, the 95-Golfer starts to use the “Easier Said than Done” approach to Golf Instruction, by saying - “All I need to do is rework my swing, I’ll get my swing videotaped and the Pro will tell me what’s wrong with it, then I’ll go to the range, hit 1000’s of golf balls and practice my new swing.  Then I’ll be able to hit more Fairways, hit the ball farther and I’ll shoot my 85.”  And you know what this approach is, it‘s “Easier Said than Done”.  Or in other words - “It’s Continual Frustration”.

The Golfer that will “break-out” of their usual scoring range and transform themselves into a 85-Golfer uses the “Easier Done than Said” approach of having a PLAN and by saying - “Golf Made Simple has done research and found that the 85-golfer hits 6-fairways a round, that’s only 2-more fairways than I (the 95-Golfer) currently hit.  So if I hit my Driver just as good as the 85-golfer, and I hit 2-more fairways a round, it isn’t going to automatically improve my score 10-strokes.  Though being in the fairway 2-more times during a round can help me improve 2-strokes - which is a start.”

“Also, Golf Made Simple has found that the 85-golfer has 35-putts during a round of golf, that’s only 4-putts less than I (the 95-golfer) average per round. So if I improve my putting by only 4-strokes and I improve my Driving to just get 2 more balls in the fairway - I’m over halfway to my goal of 85.  I’ve now improved 6-strokes and I’m breaking 90 on a consistent basis!”

And because you now have started to develop your PLAN, you’re on your way to becoming a consistent 85-Golfer and instead of just beating golf balls on the range “hoping to hit everyone straight!” - You now know that with every swing you take, you’re scores are going to improve.

So you see - There is a reason why “92% of Golfers scoring between 90 and 100, improved 6 to 11 strokes” with Golf Made Simple.  That’s because we have a PLAN for you!  We do research on how golfers improve and why they don‘t improve.  And the research says that when you have a PLAN for improving, you will improve - and that’s “Easier Done than Said!”


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I Developed A PLAN!
From Erratic to Consistent

Alex:

I was reading the newsletter this past week about the golfer from Chicago that improved so much and I felt, I also needed to say thank you for helping my game improve.

Let me say, as people who play with me can testify, Marc’s program has changed my approach to golf and lowered my score forever.  Before I came to the school my scores were wildly erratic - from the mid-70’s to the high 80‘s, but since they have been from the low 70’s to high 70’s with most scores at only a couple over par!  Marc’s results oriented teaching did not take long to have an impact.  In fact, I shot par the first day of school and under par the second.  After returning home it has been weeks am I’m still shooting in the 70’s without any fear of getting up into the 80‘s again.  I look forward to attending early next year and reinforcing his concepts and further inoculating myself against the monkeys!

Thanks for all your help,

Chuck Paulk - McComb, Mississippi - 9/28/2004


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On-Course Training
How to Stop Chunking Your Wedge

Here’s the scenario. You're on a par-5 that’s 510-yards long.  You hit the best tee shot you ever hit. It’s a 260-yard drive that splits the fairway.  Your next shot you take your 5-wood and hit a great shot 210-yards straight down the middle.  Now you have a 40-yard shot to a green that has sand in front and on the sides.  There’s also a stream of water about 20-yards beyond the green.

You take out your pitching wedge and hit 2-inches behind the ball.  The divot goes higher and farther than the ball.  You try to regroup for your next shot.  On your next shot you hit the ball in the sand bunker on the right.  Your first sand shot you leave in the sand and your next shot you hit on the green.  You 2-putt and curse yourself for that catastrophe.

Now as painful as it is, let’s think about this scenario - after hitting your first 2-shots 470 yards, it takes you 6 more shots to go the final 40-yards.  Some people might say that this scenario is a little extreme.  I don’t think it’s very far-fetched, I see people doing this everyday.  Sometimes the same person will do it a couple of times during 1-round of golf.

What caused the agonizingly, brutal wedge shots?  Deceleration!  A huge contributing factor for bad wedge shots is deceleration.  What causes it?  A back swing that is too long.  Most people would answer that the reason for bad wedge play is picking up your head.  That is not the cause.  When standing over the ball with the shot to the green, you see the water behind the green.  So you say to yourself “Ok, now swing easier on this shot so I don’t over-shoot the green”.  Most players I see still take the wedge as far back as they would with their driver and then try to adjust by slowing the downswing.  That slowing down is deceleration; you’re putting the brakes on your swing. It throws off your timing and you hit a bad shot.

The same thing when you’re in the sand bunker.  You’re trying to get the ball out of the sand, but you see another bunker on the other side of the green.  The last thing you tell yourself is “don’t hit it over the green into the other bunker.”  So as you make your downswing, after a back swing that was too long, you decelerate and hit the sand 6-inches behind the ball.

The secret to great wedge play is the back swing.  The shorter the back swing the better.  Contrary to a lot of what you may have heard, the length of the back swing controls how far you hit your wedge shot.

To further illustrate this:

  • Take some practice swings where the clubhead goes as far back as your right hip (right handed player).
  • Then swing through to your left hip.
    • That’s a 40-yard shot.
  • Now take some practice swings where your clubhead goes as high as your right shoulder.  Then swing through to your left shoulder.
    • That’s a 60-yard shot.

Make sure that on both swings you swing just as hard.  Don’t try to swing harder on the 60-yard shot.

After you’ve practiced telling the difference between the 2-different length of swings, by actually checking to see how far back you swung; hit some balls.  You’ll see and feel the difference in you wedge shots.  After you’ve become proficient with these two shots, try to take some shots - knee to knee.  That will produce a 20-yard shot.

While using this PLAN the next time you’re facing a daunting 40-yard shot, all you have to tell yourself is to swing hip to hip.  You’ll never decelerate again.  YOU’LL ALSO NEVER MAKE AN 8 ON PAR 5 AFTER YOU HIT YOUR FIRST TWO SHOTS DOWN THE MIDDLE.


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A Hole-In-One is a Beautiful Sight

MARC,

TODAY I HAD A HOLE IN ONE ON THE NUMBER 8 HOLE OF MY GOLF COURSE.  IT WAS A 154 YARD SHOT.

I HIT WITH CLUB No7 AND I`M NOW IN THE CLUB'S RECORD BOOKS!


BEST REGARDS

ARTURO VARGUS - MEXICO - 9/30/2004

Congratulations Arturo!  Getting a hole in one has to be perhaps the single most happy accomplishment on the golf course.  They don't happen much, but when they do - it's an incredible feeling.


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Limited to 4-golfers per class   -  9-holes On-course Training each day   -  Golf Instructor for Life

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