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A handful of ideas that explain how I think about golf, learning and the swing.
Nothing to buy on this page. If you want to know what I actually believe before you spend a dollar with me, these fifteen are the shortest route to it. Start at the top or pick whichever title annoys you most.
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How golf became a competition to see who knows the most - while the golfer just wants to hit the bloody ball.
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Why one fills your head - and the other sets you free.
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Ask ten coaches what the golf swing actually is and you get ten different answers, all delivered with total confidence. That isn’t a disagreement. It’s an industry with a hole where its model should be.
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Two decades among the researchers and biomechanists, and the most useful thing I came away with had almost nothing to do with the data.
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Five words from a golf teacher, and why most drills won’t make you a better golfer.
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The most common objection to the whole idea, and the one that falls apart fastest. You threw something into a bin this week without thinking about it once.
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Hogan, Nelson, Demaret. The best ball-strikers golf has produced came up being coached to throw, before anyone could show them a slow-motion frame of their own hip turn.
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What I know for certain, what I only suspect, and why I’ll always tell you the difference.
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The new Open champion has a swing like no one else’s and a path into the game that was never meant to produce a major winner. So where does the speed come from?
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Sean Foley recognizes something fundamental about the golf swing. But I think he’s missing the most important part.
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The man who helped explain why your golf swing doesn’t need to be identical every time.
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The most accurate ball-striker who ever lived, turned into a system by people working backwards from a genius to a formula. It didn’t survive contact with a biomechanics lab.
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One golfer, two conversations. In public, he had the golf swing in a hundred thousand parts. In private, he’d read 450 books and was over all of it.
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Every week someone turns up to tell me this isn’t new. It’s the emptiest move in golf - and there’s one question that ends it every time.
Read it »There's a lot more where these came from - the rest lives on the Substack, and it's free too.
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Everything above is the shape of the idea. The Golf Lie is the whole thing - the thirteen words, the science underneath them, and an answer to every objection your golfing brain is about to produce.
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