Making Your Swing Your Own

I realized today that I’m not breaking old habits, I’m creating new habits. That is just one of the things that make change difficult. A good example is something as simple as keeping the weight forward should be pretty easy…and it is when practicing on the range and thinking through the proper process to make the most out of range time. However, during a round I find I‘m not nearly as process oriented. What I discovered today is when I only think of two precise deliberate moves (a good initial takeaway and exaggerate the weight forward) has helped a lot with consistency. I’m not saying all the other parts aren’t important, it’s simply for me these two keys make the rest of the swing happen without thinking about them. I realized that during some of my rounds I would start relaxing my focus (standing up straighter, destroying my relationship to the ball, not keeping my actual weight on the leading side, creating to much weight shifting during the backswing and downswing, basically very ugly shots far to often for me. The two thoughts take care of some pretty critical things and my contact and ball flight look much more like I imagine it should. I also realize that I’m only a couple of months into this new swing and when I execute properly I’ve never hit shots more pure. Cheers