How to Calibrate Your Golf Swing (without getting lucky)
Understand that all you have on the golf course is ballflight, strike and ‘feel’ for feedback.
‘Feel’ could be numerous things. Body in time and space awareness, before, during and after swing. Club awareness before, during and after swing. Rhythm and timing…
One has to be present to be able to self reflect and coach themselves ‘online’. (i.e. not overly attached to outcome results past and future)
Calibrating your swing is a little bit like herding ducks ‘a little bit left and a little bit right’ in relation to exploring ballflight, strike + rhythm and timing.
Sometimes trying to calibrate your swing is like herding cats! (Impossible)
When herding cats, don’t PANIC. It’ll be ok. Take a break. Go do something else and come back to it later. Go talk to someone that you trust.
Many panic and make drastic changes. You’re a skilled golfer, you’ll find it again by herding ducks. Be patient.
For example a European Tour Player interviewed in my Masters reflecting after he lost his Tour Card ‘I made massive changes…sometimes hours before an event…panicked…It’s one of the main reasons I lost my card’
It could simply be you’ve slept funny, have a cold/virus (changes feel), been on a long haul flight (changes feel) etc. 
Your golf swing is not repeatable (ever). It ebbs and flows. It’s a living organism. Tend to it with love, care and attention. Embrace this concept. Lesson 1 in swingliketiger.com explores this concept. Sign up it’s free.
Love, care and attention does not mean calibrating your swing by breaking it into parts and servicing it like a car. Calibrating it is ‘herding ducks’ with ball flight, strike rhythm and timing as feedback. Ideally on the golf course.
‘Herding ducks’ can and should be trained often. This should involve working on different ball fights and strike + exploring your swings rhythm and timing…because that’s all you have for feedback on the golf course (with regards to your swing).
Understand that it’s not always the swing that has caused unwanted outcomes (I.e. misreading a lie and not adapting your body to it). Many default to golf swing, don’t be that golfer.
Sometimes there is a sweet spot of not having to calibrate your golf swing. The task and your swing are intertwined. When I asked a pro that has over 8 course records to reflect on them he said ‘I don’t get in my own way’.
The best players can ‘herd ducks’ during a competitive round.
They have experience doing it and embrace it.
They understand variability in their swing is NORMAL and part of playing golf.
See Jack Nicklaus describing below.
vimeo.com/671158626
They have experience doing it and embrace it.
They understand variability in their swing is NORMAL and part of playing golf.
See Jack Nicklaus describing below.
vimeo.com/671158626
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