Golf and Sports

EAT MORE CHICKEN

A couple of weeks later, Bob’s form slowly subsides and he goes back to his normal level of play.

I must need more chicken. (Bob, 2018)

As Bob shovels unhealthy amounts of breast, thigh and wing down his gullet, his form starts to decline even more than normal as he is so full all the time.

Finally, he gives up of the idea of chicken. He’s finally figured out the secret to golf.

BEEF!

ADAM, YOU’VE LOST IT!

Maybe I have – I’m always on the verge.

As stupid as this whole scenario is, golfers worldwide are going through something very similar every single day.

They pick some random thing – usually something that tour pros do, or a unique characteristic that the latest “tour-winner” has. They then try to incorporate it into their own swing, hoping that this one is the magic-move.

In many cases it’s not – and then it’s back to the drawing board.

But, in many cases, they have a bit of success for a while. And it might have absolutely nothing to do with the intervention – as our “chicken” example clearly demonstrates.

And, due to confirmation biases, it can lead players to spend inordinate amounts of time on things that really are not making much of a positive impact on their game. 

BUT I GOT BETTER

I had to have this conversation with a player of mine recently, who always comes in with the latest fad gadget or swing advice he found on youtube.

He’s always “finding the secret” – and always finding out later down the road that it wasn’t the secret.

Yet, this player got better.

But how? When we look back at what he was trying, he stuck with none of it.

Well, throughout this whole process, he was practicing and playing. So he got better at golf in the same way as an ectomorph might gain muscle by lifting a can of beans 20 times a day.