 The
Anti-Pro:
Forget Everything You Know
By Jim McLellan,
Senior Writer
Hate Golf?
While you were comatose...This is what happened to our game.
$100+ for golf lessons. $500 for a driver, exorbitant prices for
carts and green fees....if you can get a tee time. Golf course
personnel who "do you a favor" to let you play "their
course." All day shot to play 18 holes.
...And...Arrogant golf pros who convince you that a series, or two,
of golf lessons, at hundreds of dollars a series, will make a difference.
Do these lessons have benefit?....Hell Yes, for the golf pro. The
golfer is more confused and frustrated after the "pro"
is finished fleecing him of his kids college education money. Does
the golf pro care? Not if your check clears!
Pick up any golf magazine. What are you looking at? Fashion!
Aloof, nose in the air, gotta have this gotta have that crap.
The golf magazine is as real as Tinker Bell. Are you buying it,
are you buying the equipment, the dress, the hype, the status,
the insanity? What do golf schools that cost thousands of dollars
a week (to stay at some posh, plush hotel) do for your game?
Let your wife shop while the golf school pros throw "tip"
after tip after tip at you. Tons of tips Dude, Hey you want your
moneys worth, don't you? At least your wife will have something
to show for her shopping. She will not have a bag of bad habits
at the end of your bad dream vacation, but you will, I guarantee
it.
What has happened to this wonderful game of ours? More high
tech, freeze frame "instruction nonsense, and you 'went for
it." Lets see your swing. Looks like a bunch of junk yard
parts to me. No power, inconsistent, and down right goofy looking.
Can you fix your swing yourself if something goes wrong? You
have thousands of dollars invested, seems like you should have
something to show for your empty pockets. You have read 317,039
tips on how to cure your slice and you still slice.
You have read 749,208,488 tips on how to get more power and you
can't hit the damn thing out of your shadow. And you know what?......you
think the next tip will finally reveal the secret you've been
missing.
My prediction: You will probably die a Liz Borden clone. But,
you will have nice looking clothes (for Spike Jones), a very costly
set of chimney cleaners, skin cancer, a red balance in you check
book, and cirrhosis trying to keep up with the local golf pro
sitting next to you at the 19th hole.
Your best golf lesson? No lesson. My gift to you? Brain surgery....forget
everything you think you know about the golf swing. Because, Bunkie,
if you know "a lot" about the golf swing your swing
stinks. Yes, stinks.
Why, because the more you know about the golf swing the more
contrived, artificial, inconsistent, powerless, ridiculous it
becomes. Stop for a moment ...think about it...you read, you study,
you spend money, you suck!
You are walking along on the ice, and the next thing you know
you are flat on your butt. You are driving down a neighborhood
street, a ball bounces out between two cars. How many feet does
your car travel before your foot hits the brake?
The golf swing takes two seconds. From the top of the backswing
to the ball is somewhere between a forth and a fifth of a second.
As fast as it takes you to fall on ice....How much time do you
have to think?
Yet, Dr. Einstein, you believe that if you keep doing what you
have been doing you will learn to play golf.
Keep buying the mags, forking out your money to the golf pro
so he can show you his shell game, buy the threads, play at the
expensive golf courses, buy the clubs made of Kryptonite. Support
this billion dollar industry. They are laughing at you all the
way to the bank!
They're coming to take me away ha ha, They're coming to take
me away he he, to the Funny Farm.
To learn more about Jim's simple approach to learning your best
golf swing in the shortest period of time visit his site at www.mcgolf.com.
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