[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by SHIBUMI

with only minor adjustments........ hockey players pick up golf the easiest as the slap shot is a good impact position

Baseball, Basketball, Footballers are athletic enough to get into that range because they have body control, they just need to know how to us it
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How many former NHL players have played the PGA Tour or high level Amateur golf? The only 3 I know of, are Grant Fuhr, Dan Quinn and Bill Ezinicki, who I was friends with for 25+ ears. The skills are different.

Compare that, to the number of MLB players who have played golf at a high level.

If you took 5 people from each of the major professional sports and brought them to the golf course and stuck a golf club in their hand, this would likely be the results.

MLB pitchers and hitters would likely be the best golfers. They understand ball "spin", hand to eye coordination and they already play a rotational sport.

Tennis players, same as above. They understand grip, alignment, spin and play one of the ultimate "hand to eye coordination" sports.

Footballers? Most will try to hit the ball with their body (strength) and never learn golf. Quarterbacks maybe a different.

The hockey players would probably hit the ball farthest, without a clue where it's going.

No NBA player has ever played on the PGA, other than perhaps a novelty invitation.

Originally Posted by SHIBUMI

The game is more complicated than most think. You need to learn the movements for:

The first step is the full swing for woods and irons to learn. They are different but most folks think the same.
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Once on the golf course, it's calling up the swings you have learned in the right places.

There is no such thing as muscle memory. Muscles have no memory, only the brain does. Repetition is gained by memory muscle. Once you learn the correct memory for these shots
you will play better with a smaller margin of error.
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The sweet spot on a club is about the size of nickel or a dime. Don't let club makers fool you. Hit that spot you hit a solid shot. Miss it a little and you still hit a good shot within an acceptable margin of error. The smaller your margin of error the lower your scores.

Better swings=smaller margin of error. Please don't expect to hit a ton of nickel or dime shots, won't happen, even for tour players. Focus on improving margin of error.
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Originally Posted by SHIBUMI

then it is useless and harming. When you take a golf lesson, you should see instant improvement.
Thats when you know you have the right person. Improvement you can take to the course.

You need to understand that you need to learn many swings so when you play you take the correct arrow(swing) out of your quiver. ..

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As I've posted before, the above "swing advise" is mired in the 60's & 70's. High speed video, advances in technique and teaching theory, as well as improvement in equipment, has rendered most of the above advise, obsolete and adverse to improvement and enjoyment of the game. To say nothing of the fact, advances in statistical analysis have shed a bright light on formerly sacrosanct "scoring theories", which have turned out to be unfounded.

The game of golf is significantly easier than most folks seem to think. It is not a sport of "swing", it's a game of putting the golf ball in the hole and it doesn't matter how you do that or what swing you use.

If you have any doubt about that, go to YouTube and watch 3 people swing a golf clue ... Adam Scott, Jim Furyk and Scottie Scheffler If you're still not convinced, watch videos of Charlie Owens and Calvin Peete, Still not convinced? Watch videos of Sam Snead putting and Ben Crenshaw putting. Does "technique" matter? It doesn't matter a lick.

If you need more convincing, turn on the Ryder Cup right now. Watch Bryson DeChambeau swing ... then watch his partner Justin Thomas swing. Do you need further convincing? Take up tennis.

Anyone who tells you "swing like this", run. If someone tells you to change your swing, depending on what club is in your hand ... run faster. As Lee Trevino once said, "no one has ever hit a golf ball, with his backswing".

The only thing that matters, is what's going on with your clubface, within about 6" of the ball and there are only 2 variables ... club face angle (vertical & horizontal) and swing path.

Don't take swing advice from anyone who's unwilling to post their current, GHIN reported or otherwise confirmed golf scores and who can't beat you by a decent margin (in most cases).