Why golfers struggle with consistency

The #1 answer I get from my lessons when I ask "what do you want to improve?" is consistency. This is easier to attain than people are making it out to be. It comes down to knowing the basic fundamentals and how to execute them. You MUST have a solid set of pre-swing fundamentals to have a chance at a successful golf swing.

-Grip

-Aim (body & Face of club)

-Stance (Includes ball position.)

-Posture

Those are the most ignored and misunderstood pre-swing fundamentals. It is amazing to me how many golfers will completely ignore putting the effort in to doing those correctly before they swing the club. Any one of those done incorrectly leads to compensations in your golf swing in order to strike the golf ball correctly. Sometimes people will mess two or three of them up and at that point in time I'm saying to myself "Why even swing the club?" I could go into deep explanation about what each one of those causes but we will save that for a private lesson.

In short what we are trying to do for consistant ball striking is get the path of the club moving in a direction to where when the face strikes the golf ball we produce the shot we want and on top of that be able to repeat that motion. The reason golfers have extreme difficulty with that is because each one of the fundamentals I listed can influence what the path and face of the club will do during our swing and most golfers fail to pay attention to those fundamentals. What it creates is a long golfing life of mishit shots and high scores.

So if you are struggling with a hook, slice, chunk, thin shot, high shot, low shot, a shot that doesn't get off the ground, the shot that hits too many houses, the shot that goes backwards, or the shot that goes nowhere at all because you missed. I have good news This is not rocket science. I have given 1000's of lessons and I can honestly say that 95% of them had atleast one incorrect pre-swing fundamental which was causing inconsistency. So the information below is taken from experience of seeing what incorrect fundamentals can do to a golf swing. You will see the effect with the main cause in parenthesis.

Hook: (Grip, Stance, Aim)

Slice: (Grip pressure & position, Stance)

Topped shot: (Grip too strong, Stance)

Chunk:  (Grip too strong, Stance)

Push: (Grip, Stance)

Pull: (Grip, Posture, Stance)

Over the top: (Posture, Stance)

shank: (Posture, Stance)

Miss: (Posture)

Your friend told you are picking your head up: (posture)

Chicken wing: (Grip)

Out to In swing: (Stance, Posture, Aim)

Squeezing the club to tightly: (Grip Pressure)

Anxiety: (You don't practice the correct fundamentals enough)

Below is a drill to practice correct posture and also check to see if you are a good distance away from the ball. Arms should hang underneath shoulders with a hip hinge and slight flex at the knees.

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