How to Destroy Your Golfing Delusions

by Dr. Richard C. Myers

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In golf we must often be on guard against ourselves.  We think we are doing one thing when actually we are doing something else.  We can have images of our golf swings which do not conform with the facts.  We tend to believe we have excellencies which do not exist.  Sometimes we believe we have deficiencies which are not there, and even change a swing that is all right to begin with. 

For example, a number of golfers have advocated that the arms be held as closely together as possible.  An aid to doing this is to keep the elbows as closely together as possible.  

Several years ago I read of this need to keep the arms pressed toward each other with the pit of the elbows facing upwards.  I tried it but my swing became constricted and I lost distance.  When I showed a friend what I had been doing and what I was now doing, he said that I had been doing it right the first time. 

To correct your golfing image, the best bet is the advice of a teaching pro.  Movies can help but are not quite as good.  There are some devices now that will do a much better job of this and give us a truer picture.