What happens to you when your golf swing suddenly disappears?
Here’s how to get it back without endless lessons or arrays of gadgets to improve your muscle memory.
Imagine…
It’s perfect weather for a round of golf. Your pre-game practice was good and it has amazingly tranferred over to the course. It seems that every shot is crisp and on target. It could be that perfect round. You’re smiling, thinking about the bets you’ll win today; finally getting some money back…
Then without warning your shot squirts to the right. Suddenly you feel your stomach drop. Your face is flush. What just happened?
Shake it off, it was just a fluke. That ball is lost; hit another. Just relax, it’ll be ok…
What the…?
Not again! The only thing worse than hitting a stray shot is hitting two identical stray shots! And the round was perfect to that point!
Most golfers have experienced this tragedy more than once. Actually, most golfers think great golf is almost a fluke, because this happens just about every time they have a great round going.
Is it the golf swing? It could be. But if you have ever hit a shot that was accurate, then it says you CAN hit the shot again… and you should be able to do it every time.
The question Is: Why don’t you?
I will answer this question at the risk of exposing a growing problem in golf today.
The problem is that when a golfer goes to a golf instructor with this problem, the instructor usually give the golfer golf swing instruction.
Why is that a problem? Because the golfer already knows how to swing the golf club!
You probably think I’ve lost my mind, but if you’ve ever hit the ball well, you don’t need golf swing instruction.
So what’s the problem?
Your golf swing is merely a little out of control. It’s the same as if you lost control of your car. You still know how to drive; you just lost focus or got distracted. You don’t go back and get driving lessons every time you swerve slightly, do you? You don’t try out a new method of driving your car after a fender-bender, do you? Maybe you focus on what you’re doing more, but learn it all over? I think not.
Just like driving a car, hitting a golf ball requires focus. Since the golf swing is a little more prone to errors, the golf swing requires more focus than driving your car.
You’re probably thinking: “Wait, I play my best when I don’t think!”
The same goes for driving the car. When’s the last time you actually tried to think about turning the steering wheel as you went through a turn?
What I’m saying is that there is a huge difference between thinking and focus.
Why am I writing this? Because unless golfers can see how they “think” when making another movement and compare that with how they “think” during the golf swing, golfers will be stuck on the golf instruction merry-go-round, until they either run out of money or just get sick of instruction that doesn’t fix the real problem.
So how do you get your golf swing back? By applying the same type of focus you use to steer your car around a corner to your golf game.
Try to imagine what was going through your mind when you first started driving. If you were like me, you were trying to figure out if there was something you could look at to know where the wheels were so you didn’t run off the road or get too close to the car beside you. Now, you never give it a thought… OR DO YOU?
This is my point. If you can capture the same type of thought; focus, that you use for driving a car and apply it to your golf game, you would instantly play better golf.
The next question I hear from golfers is: “How do I stop thinking?”
Well, I have always said that the answer was to think in pictures. And if you can do it without distractions, you will play better right away. My Golf Swing Control Instruction Course will show you how to focus properly during the golf swing…
… But I have found that most golfers have another step before they can start improving their focus during the round…
They have to get their “thinking” mind out of the way.
I have finally found a resource that can help you do that. Yeah, I’m not a psychologist. I learned this part of the game on my own and never realized how much trouble most golfers have trying to clear their thoughts. Well, the guy I found is a lot like me. He doesn’t believe in practice… Not hitting a thousand golf balls anyway.
His name is Craig Sigl. I like his program because it is simple, just like Golf Swing Control, and it is straight forward… just like Golf Swing Control.
You probably know by now, I don’t endorse other people’s products because I haven’t found many that have been worth the time to look at. Well, I finally have, and believe me, I didn’t do it very easily either.
Actually, Craig did a sneak-attack on me by helping my business partner, Eric, without telling me. After Eric started using Craig’s program, he went out to play golf without having any practice for almost 3 months. He told me that Golf Swing Control kept him in play,and Craig’s program kept his mind from talking himself out of a good round of golf.
That got me to look at Craig’s program, and I have to admit, once I listened to it, I knew it was a winner. I knew it, because Craig handles the same situations that I handle one on one with my professional golfers when needed. I figure if professional golfers have these problems, amateurs do too.
So that’s it, I think Golf Swing Control has found the one program that complements it perfectly. It’s Craig Sigl’s, How to Break 80 without practice. Don’t let the name of the program throw you off like it did me, it should say, How to break 70 without practice, but then I guess a lot of golfers would miss it that way too.
At any rate, whether you have Golf Swing Control or not, Craig’s program will certainly help you play better golf. Check it out by clicking this link: How to stop thinking during the golf swing.

Leave A Reply (3 comments So Far)
Frank
1186 days ago
Tracy, GREAT information! Several years ago I read a golf book and read something that has always bothered me. It stated “if you think about anything other than golf, when you’re playing golf….you shouldn’t be playing golf!
I have never forgotten that and it ruined my game for a while as I’m not a pro and I’m out there playing because I enjoy the friends that I’m with. I enjoy the beautiful day, the gorgeous course and green grass and flowers and trees. Im glad to be alive!
Relaxing and swinging a club easily has given me more pleasure than “thinking” about it, ever has! I have been using my “Monitor” to improve my game. I have played the same course for about 15 years at least once a week sometimes more and I believe my ball has been in just about every spot or place on the course. And do you know what ..I’ve hit a great shot from all those places at one time or another and I remember them and try to use that positive thought to do it again…and it works about 80% of the time!
I’m in my 70′s and a couple of years ago I hit a drive,on a par 4 hole of 360 yards long, that was at least 280 yards. I can envision that day and that shot and that hole has never been a problem again!
This is a positive Monitor” that I have used and your comments are well put! thanks for a great blog!
James
1210 days ago
OUTSTANDING!
Mac
1294 days ago
Tracy,
Much thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to understanding and simplifying golf swing movement / control. Received your Golf Swing Control 2 DVD’s set a week ago. Prior to that I had already read and re-read (taking notes), both the Manual and the Transiton Secrets (and listened to the audio). I also took notes from the Newsletters. My purpose in studying the instruction this way (before watching the DVD’s), was to intentionally force myself to focus visually, seeing myself performing the details spelled out in your program. When the DVD’s arrived, I determined to just watch them 2 times through before beginning any of the physical steps (again visualizing myself doing the things you teach). My pictures, I must say are not really what you would call vivid. In fact they are more like shadows at best. However, I kept at it, and by complimenting my shadow-pictures with “feel sensations,” I have been able to better understand my body’s Dynamic Balance.
A little background (I promise this will relate to “Has Your Golf Swing Disappeared Again”) : I am 62 yrs. young. Played Baseball, B-ball and Football back in the day. Didn’t take up Golf till my 40′s (I had the” I’ll play that silly game when I’m too old to play a real sport” attitude). What a great game, and what a fool I was not to have allowed myself to get hooked on it years ago. But, I digress and that’s in the past for what it’s worth. Well as it turned out my athleticisim (and short game feel) allowed me to shoot in the 70′s and mid 80′s during my first year of playing. Most people thought I was “sandbagging” them. In retrospect, I can now see that my early success with Golf was mostly due to my “shadow-picture visualization.” You see not realizing it, I was already programmed to see(visualize), and feel what my mind and body needed to do in order to play competent Golf, due to the earlier purposeful mental and physical repititions I had learned and executed in other sports.
I am also a musician (drums ,guitars keys and vocals), and often work in a recording studio. I mention this because it also relates to what Terry says about GOLFERS NEEDING TO SEE HOW THEY THINK WHEN MAKING ANOTHER MOVEMENT AND COMPARE THAT WITH HOW THEY THINK (prior and) DURING THE GOLF SWING. In the recording studio because of time / $ constraints, as a drummer, I would just listen to dozens of pre-recorded songs at home before I went in and recorded the drum tracks for them (usually in one take). How did I do this? Back then I just thought I had the talent / meorization to accomplish this. Now I know a little (a lot) more. I was able to do it because I, not realizing it, had already programmed myself via visualization to make all of those intricate moves. So, by the time I was actually playing the drums, my “subconscious drumstick map” had already cleared the path for the events / movements to happen. This in turn allowed me to really focus on the feel while I was playing.
In short (finally, if you got this far), the above is a testimony as to what Terry is saying about the mind and focus. Any success I’ve experienced has, I now know, been in part to GETTING MY THINKING MIND OUT OF THE WAY (once I of course -in most cases- had some fundamental understanding of what I was doing first).
Before I read Terry’s Golf Sing Control Manual etc. and this article, as I said earlier, I did’nt really believe I could (or did) see in pictures. Now I realize tha I’ve been doing just fine with my “shadowy visions.” YOU DON’T HAVE TO SEE TECHNICOLR MOVIES OF YOURSELF TO EXPERIENCE THIS. WE EXPERIENCE IT EVERY DAY IN EVERYTHING WE DO. WE JUST NEED TO BE MINDFULL OF THIS PHENOMENA.