Golf For Geniuses

PGA Tour Recap

Golf For Geniuses — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:56:59 +0000

How can you not like Bill Haas. Last year he won The Tour Championship and the $10,000,000.00 Fedex Cup after making an incredible shot out of the water. Yesterday he won in a playoff making a 40-something foot putt. I am starting to see a pattern. This is the sort of thing that happens to certain people, it gets into your psyche, you start believing that these kind of things are supposed to happen to you, and poof, they do.

Congrats to Phil on another great tournament. He looks good, refreshed, focused. He could have a great year, I am calling him to win at Augusta.

Keegan Bradley is also showing that he may be a force. I want to see a little more but he also may be the ‘real deal’.

Sergio looked really good – his confidence is growing. How much longer do with give Ricky Fowler and Jason Day before we label them show ponies?

Interested to see how Tiger makes out this week.

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‘Understanding’ the Golf Swing – It Can be Done!

Golf For Geniuses — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:28:05 +0000

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more weird.

Those of you that have been following my blog or my teaching ideas have recognized that I do not do too many things that are along the lines of so-called ‘normal’. I guarantee I have something for you today that you have never heard before….

With the correct information and some smart time spent, it is very possible to develop a good golf game.

However, and I need you to think about this, if there is no such thing as muscle memory (which there is not), how do you convince a golfer of what they did right when they do it right?

I frequently have students hit great shots and then tell me, they ‘don’t know how they did it. It just felt great’.

I tell them they hit it straight because they swung their arms on plane, (anyone that works with me knows what plane is and that it makes a ball go straight). I tell them it went far because they swung their hands and arms correctly (anyone that works with me knows how to swing their hands and arms correctly and that is where the majority of speed comes from) However, even knowing this they still ask. Why?

REASON. The human body likes the motion needed to hit a ball long and straight, the only feel to it is ‘GREAT’. When we swing the club poorly there are many feels associated with it and it is easy to describe them with great clarity.

To become the best player you can, it takes confidence. I would suggest the fastest way to great confidence is to know you know what you’re doing.

The golf swing is totally understandable. Those who just hit balls and wait for their muscles to remember the good ones and forget the bad ones are in for a long wait.

Go to my site, learn one color-coded section at a time.

www.lagandload.com

NEVER be afraid of to much correctly organized information.

BE TERRIFIED of poorly organized random opinions.

Tiger and Balance in the Golf Swing

Golf For Geniuses — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:52:10 +0000

Tigers new swing. You are going to start hearing the commentators talking a ‘better Tiger finishing more in balance’, or how ‘Tiger’s balance is better’. As a result, the majority of listeners will assume that Tiger has been working out on balance boards or stability balls. While you are probably correct, these drills have very little to do with the improvement in the balance in his golf swing.

Being strong, flexible and fast are very good attributes for any athlete. However, what allows a golfer to have good to great golf swing balance, is a combination of swing plane, correct hand hinging, and ball position. See my video below and check out our LagnLoad YouTube channel for more details.

Once the club gets into motion it can weight up to 40 pounds. If it is swung in the wrong direction, the player will not be able to retain their balance. A 3 year old is strong enough to retain good form if the club is swung on plane and the hands are hinged correctly through and after impact.

Put another way, if the club is swung on the correct line (plane), proper balance will result. This is opposed to the incorrect idea that a golfer must get so strong in order to have good balance.

PGA recap…Pebble Beach, Mickelson, Tiger and Sean Foley

Golf For Geniuses — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:27:49 +0000

source: www.whatisthetrend.net

First things first. Congrats Phil Mickelson. There has been a whole lot of speculation around Phil… is he to old?, is his arthritis going to end his career? His bad play so far this year has added to the whispers. Well I guess the whispers will be silenced for a month or two now. I do not think that the general golf public realizes how much Phil enjoys beating Tiger Woods (especially when playing in the same group on a Sunday). You can bet that when the cameras are off, Phil is just having a big old ‘YES!!!’ to himself.

DID YOU SEE THAT? How about that incredibly long pause after the short missed putt for Tiger on 15? I have never seen him do that. I can’t imagine there were too many positives going threw his mind. People may one day look back at that moment and say that was the moment Tiger really started to see himself as human. It is moments like that, that eat away at your confidence and give the other players the belief that they can beat you.

Yes,Tiger will win again, but, the question of how many and how often is up in the air.

I have said from the first day he got together with Sean Foley that Sean will get Tiger swinging great. However, I highly question if he will ever get the magic back.

It is going to be a great golf year, stay tuned.

PGA Merchandise Show Wrap Up

Golf For Geniuses — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:20:38 +0000

Way to go Kyle Stanley! It takes some real fortitude to loose as he did last week and come right back and win this week. That is a sign of a guy with staying power.

I just got back from the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. Here is my take – I find it so frustrating to see all of the amazing technical gadgetry that is marketed to help golfers get better, and only witness golfers NOT getting better.

I truly believe we are getting way too caught up in flashing lights and not enough effort is being dedicated to learning how to teach the golfer to use the gadget to read the appropriate readings that will make the ball go long and straight.

Seems to me like teaching is becoming a lost art.

So Many Golfing Opinions Out There…..Pick Just One

Golf For Geniuses — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:33:27 +0000

Like so many, I am in the habit of opening my lap top as soon as I wake up every morning. As my life is about teaching golf you can imagine that my email gets filled with golfers sending me opinions of other instructors. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just go with the flow, tell golfers to take the club back low and away, shift their weight onto their back foot, extend their arms down the line, and stay behind the ball… that will be $100.00 please.

If that is working for you, I suggest you keep doing it. This morning I woke up to 2 emails telling me that the instructor at Revolution Golf said Hogan stacked his right side after I just put a clip out saying he stacked his left side. I suggest that you listen to both clips and make up your own mind, go with your gut. One suggestion I will make is, do not get caught up trying to mix and match. Find someone who teaches a set style of motion and who has writings and videos to back it up.

Sincerely,
Mark
www.lagandload.com

Tiger Now has a History of Not Winning After Being in a Final Round Lead

Golf For Geniuses — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:43:31 +0000

Fascinating watching Tiger. His loss to Rock cannot be a good thing for many reasons:
#1 He never had a history of not winning when in the lead, now with this loss to Rock he has done it twice. The other players now have hope going into the final round when close to Tiger.
#2 Even as mentally tough as Tiger is this has to allow a little doubt to creep in. Now with that said…He will win, and when he does I do believe he can regain that intimidation factor.

2012 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando

Golf For Geniuses — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:25:10 +0000

I am on my annual journey to attend the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. 1 million square feet of golf. I am always amazed that golf can fill a venue the size of the Orlando International Convention Center.

I believe that golfers are the only group of people who have access to higher technology than the FBI, CIA or NASA. They have electronic gadgets that would blow your mind!

The only thing that amazes me more than the size of this place and the gadgets is the fact that these things are not doing a very god job of making better golfers. It seems to me that the more toys we invent, the worse we get at teaching golfers how to make these toys spew out the digital printouts that make the ball golf long and straight!

I believe we have started to let techies and computer programers teach golf. I will be reporting back on the latest and greatest………….stay tuned!!!

Gaining Your Angle on the Ball

Golf For Geniuses — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:14:33 +0000

The longer I teach the more convinced I am that the first thing that golfers should to improve their swing is to have the correct picture in their minds. Over the next year Lagnload is going to become the leaders in the industry of getting you the correct imagery.

Make the picture make sense…..

Human’s have a tendency to work their way into the picture or knowledge that they have in their heads.

The ‘Secret to Golf’ is learning how to sustain the wrist conditions through impact.

The Swing is made up of the club, the hands and the arms.

The player must coordinate the swing with the pivot.

Picture of Gaining Your Angle on the Ball

The pivot is only difficult to learn if the player believes the center of the swing is the center of their body.

To trap cover the ball, the player needs to learn how to move the balance of the body to a position that is not behind the ball.

The only players who get past the ball are the players who swing off-plane through the ball.

If the spine angle is correct, it is next to impossible to hit the ball to the right.

The swing is easy, the pivot is tough.

The player must not assume that because they move their body parts correctly, they will hit the sweet spot of the club.

It is a mistake to not take the time to educate the hands.

The the time to learn how to position yourself over and on top of the ball.

Golf Question?

Golf For Geniuses — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:52:57 +0000

I have a question.…

If it is true that the average handicap for golfers has only dropped 1 shot over the lst 50 years, and given they did not have high speed cameras or hundreds of training aids, books, fantastic clubs, balls and courses, what does that say about us?

Is it possible that if we did not have all of this high tech stuff that the average handicap would have risen dramatically over the same time?

I’d love to hear your thoughts……….