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Golf and how it is taught has evolved over the years but when something is good it withstands the test of time. Eighteen years ago I attended a PGA Teaching Workshop where we discussed putting. As PGA Professionals we all understood that one of the keys to good putting was having a good rhythm, but how could we practice it and how could we help our students achieve it? The reason this can be difficult is because everyone is an individual who moves at a different pace in their lives which means there is not one pace for a proper putting stroke but many.
That is when the lead instructor of...

            All good golfers learned the game the same way. If you ask a good player honestly how they learned to be a fine golfer they will tell you the following: Well, I really didn’t have a lot of instruction, I learned very quickly to be a good player and I loved every minute of it.
 
        That is exactly what...

All of us right handers (opposite for lefthanders) have all been trained to hit the ball with our left side. I don’t know why! We do everything with our dominant side so why not golf.
 
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            No matter what tips you receive in golf remember that the main goal of the tip is to get a golf club swinging with centrifugal force...

Everybody swings a club differently. No one has been able to copy any of the great players body movements now or ever. With that in mind, you wouldn’t want to copy the way a players body moves but you might want to watch the way the club moves....

"Breath New Life Into Your Game," By Mike Wright of Mike Wright's Golf Pilates.
Do you hold your breath when you swing? Or do you inhale on the takeaway to the top of the back-swing and exhale on the down-swing through impact and finish? You might notice this aspect of your swing-feel next time you play or practice. By inhaling to the top of your back-swing you naturally augment your body's ability to turn around the axis of the spinal column during the back-swing. This produces elastic energy released to the ball at impact. This is a scientific fact: inhalation facilitates rotation and rotation creates elastic energy for power. The golf swing is simply a rotational movement; The first phase after set-up  is known as the take-away or movement from the address position to the top of the back-swing. The conscious, 3 dimensional...

By Marilyn Michael Administrator North American Institute of NeuroTherapy
 

There is no secret why folks who learn the most modern method of hypnotherapy, NeuroTherapy Training, see unprecedented changes in their responses on the course. They learn that how they responded to life, in general, directly affected their performance in golf. They learn to take seriously the fact that the mental side of golf was extremely important and to put major work into that aspect of their preparation.            
Everyone has felt prepared at some time for an important game....they've practiced harder than everyone else...their swing is in great shape...but when it came down to the wire they played poorly and beat up on themselves. What was it?
What folks learn with NeuroTherapy Training for Athletes is that there are many levels involved with athletic effectiveness, physical, chemical and mental. Most serious golfers put the major emphasis on the physical part of their game. Unfortunately, the most disciplined...

First of all what he was showing you is where every great player is Past, Present and into the future of this game.  It is simple, fundamental and how you square a stick to a ball in any sport.  The great players just look different doing these things and even they get out of position from time to time, usually from working on some wrong information. 
Now this first picture of Hogan's old set up out of his first book Power Golf is typical even today from players that are taught awful information like he was, notice the stiff left arm and his right arm tucked in sounds familiar to anyone that has been around the game for more than a day.  He learned in late 1945 that he was Dead before he started from this position.  Sure you can play great from here, from time to time, but you will NEVER be consistent and last from this starting position. 
Now here is where EVERY great player is, notice the width of his stance and his arms "laying" in front of his chest he learned only from here is where he could make his athletic powerful golf swing and only from here he could use his body correctly in the golf swing.  Remember Hogan had his...

This would be a good time to talk a little about centripetal force and how it relates to the golf swing. Now I will talk about quite a few things here that may seem complicated to do, but always remember I can make you do all of this with one or two simple swing thoughts. First of all you must swing the club on plane. It will become clear that you cannot have centripetal force and swing off the correct plane and by swinging on plane you automatically create this force in other words you can not do one without the other. Let me first talk about a quick definition. If I took a string with a rock attached to its end, held it between my thumb and forefinger and twirled my fingers around that rock would spin around on the end of the string as well. The faster I twirled the faster the rock would fly through the air. My hand would represent an inner moving force (centripetal force) the rock would represent the resulting outer moving force (centrifugal force) and the two forces would be equal. In short, the inner force controls and determines the outer force that is centripetal force. Translated to golf, centripetal force allows you to swing the club powerfully and repetitively.  
      Because human beings have two shoulders, arms, hands, hips and legs things get a little more complicated in the golf swing than the example of the rock on a string. We have to find the post point, or the thumb and forefinger which moves the string representing the inner force propelling the outer rock. Because golfers have all of these body parts we have to learn to identify the center of our swing and recognize this as the source of centripetal force and that center is our spine. The spine must move throughout the swing, and this inner central constantly moving force transmits energy through arms, hands and club to the club head itself swinging through the ball to the target. The club head just like the rock represents the outer force in the centripetal force formula. The faster you move your inner force, or spine, with the club swung on plane, the faster and more powerfully the club...

The old adage of you get what you pay for goes completely out the window when it comes to golf lessons.  Simply by analyzing what some of these "coaches" are saying is stunning and flat out wrong. 
Here is a great kid Sean O'Hair getting completely wrong and horrible information from his new instructor.  Excuse me but you learn when your 10 years old about swing plane, and anyone that comprehends this knows that what his coach says is his old "bad" back swing is perfectly on plane. Where he wants Sean to get in his new "good" swing is flat, traps his right side and is on plane to hit a baseball NOT a golf ball.  If this kid ever gets...