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Review:
The Negotiable Golf Swing: How to Improve Your Game Without Picture-Perfect Form - Joseph Laurentino
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Look at the Champions and PGA tours and it's apparent there's one obvious difference.
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Champions Tour players appear characteristically individualistic, while PGA Tour players exude a seeming uniformity.
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Nowhere is this illustrated better than in the golf swings of the marquee players on each tour.
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Think of Bernard Langer, Jay Haas, Fuzzy Zoeller, Lee Trevino, Chi Chi Rodriguez and Dana Quigley. Not one of those swings is even remotely similar.
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Now picture Trevor Immelmen, Aaron Baddeley, Sean O'hair and Adam Scott. Even though they use different instructors, those swings really don't appear all that different.
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Players on the PGA Tour exemplify the modern golf swing. That swing probably had its origins with Ben Hogan and his breakthrough book,
Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.
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And in one way or another, Butch Harmon, David Leadbetter and Hank Haney all teach a derivative of Hogan's swing theory.
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When I played on high school and college golf teams, Hogan's book was my golf swing bible. Back then I had a lot more time to practice and sharpen that swing.
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Over time my swing became difficult to maintain. Manufactured on the principles in Hogan's Five Lessons, I simply lost the ability to repeat it successfully.
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Slowly, I began to develop a more personalized swing, but still never made a complete transition. Searching through the work of most well known instructors didn't really help. In Tiger's words, I felt as if I would never "own my own swing".
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I happened to find
The Negotiable Golf Swing by accident, and found its basic principles interesting.
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I'm convinced that if most of us learned how to walk the way we're taught how to swing a golf club, we'd be crawling on all fours.
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I'm convinced that if most of us learned how to walk the way we're taught how to swing a golf club, we'd be crawling on all fours.
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Of course, to hit the ball well, the club face has to meet the ball squarely. And that means the movement of the club through the swing has to adhere to what he calls "non-negotiable" rules.
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But, the way you achieve those non-negotiable aspects of the swing can fall broadly within boundaries that fit within your unique nature.
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Lee Trevino certainly does not have a picture perfect swing, but he may be the best ball striker that ever lived, and I doubt that he would have approached the greatness he did if he tried to build a swing on today's fundamentals.
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If you've tried building a swing only to be frustrated because you feel that you're fighting your own nature, then you should give The Negotiable Golf Swing a look.
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Like
How to Feel a Real Golf Swing,
The Negotiable Golf Swing takes you beyond traditional instruction and helps you put together a golf swing you can have confidence in.
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You can find out more or purchase The Negotiable Golf Swing here...
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