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Swingolf is not comparable to any other style, method or way of teaching. In Swingolf instruction there is no learning, for example, to transfer your weight, keep the left arm straight (for right-handed players), turn your hips or especially to acknowledge impact (the ball). The particular ball result is experienced and judged only as an equal part of the general whole. Swing is not at the end. Swing does not start with the wood, or even with a short iron. The swing must start with the smallest of strokes. The putter is the key club to swinging.
The faster the speed of the swing, the truer its motion, i.e. it rotates flawlessly. Therefore, we confirm that no tournament playing professional swings slowly with the driver. However, speed is ONLY possible with soft, supple, long muscles. Starting with a full swing cannot produce the sensitivity that ensures consistency and distance. The understanding of the swing via the intellect may be the very deterrent to feeling and expressing it. It is commonly thought that tournament-playing professionals first learn technique and later their swing becomes instinctive. This is ludicrous. You did not learn to walk via mental, technical commands to the body that later become instinctive. The best players in the world do not KNOW HOW to swing, just as you do not KNOW HOW to walk, but CAN.
"The Swingolf instructor thinks as the student thinks, feels as a student feels: relationship is otherwise superficial"
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