The QATSPY Sports Page 4 Golfers
By: Charles W. Boatright
Author of The ESPY Golf Swing Coach, Delta Technique Geared for Distance and Control
Palmer TECH Using Special Golf Balls, a Great Father’s Day Gift
One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of the average amateur golfer who is trying to develop a consistent golf swing is finding time to work on their golf game. Practice time for the average amateur golfer is at a premium. For most of us, golf is our passion, instead of our profession, and the time we have to work on our golf swing is time we must make the most of.
There are some special golf ball that can allow your father to use his backyard as a practice range, or a scaled-down version of a par-4. These special golf balls are safe to use in the backyard and don’t cause injury to others or damage to property. These special golf balls are called Almost Golf Balls® that are foam-filled, PVC shell golf balls that are the same diameter of an actual golf ball. These balls weigh a fraction of an actual golf ball, but only go one-third of the distance.
The Almost Golf Balls® have the same flight characteristics as an actual golf ball, so that your father can draw and fade, where your father is hitting in feet instead of yards. When your father gets home from work, he can take a bucket of these Almost Golf Balls® and work on his golf game right in his backyard. And even more importantly, your father can get much needed exercise with you even before dinner.
The 405- Training Drill
During my 405- Training Drill, I usually take my utility (nose) bag and hit between 200 to 500 Almost Golf Balls® in my backyard. I carry my golf bag with me and hit every club in my bag. The characteristics of these Almost Golf Balls® allow me to reinforce my muscle memory, while I get between 3.5 to 4 miles of walking and aerobic exercise in and enjoy the outdoors.
If you are a son or daughter, you can use these Almost Golf Balls® and spend time with your father by enjoying one of the best sports in the world. The reason it is important to reinforce muscle memory is that the subconscious mind can only retain a set of skills for a limited amount of time, a few weeks. In order to maintain your critical muscle memory, you and your father have to continue performing your golf swing sequence.
The 405- Training Drill allows you and your father to take a page out of the football coach’s play book and apply it to your golf game. The 405- Training Drill that is described in my book in Section 7 allows you and your father to apply a scrimmage-type practice to your golf training. The number one stumbling block between your father’s golf practice and his golf game is simulating the same conditions that exist on the golf course. The 405- Training Drill and Almost Golf Balls® will allow your father to directly engage and train his subconscious mind.
The rules of the subconscious mind state- if there is a contrast between how the golfer practices and plays, the subconscious mind will defer to their course play. The subconscious mind will sabotage any new technique learned during golf lessons and practice. Until the subconscious mind can have confidence in a new golf swing technique, it will retain an existing golf swing technique. This is the very reason why you or your father can’t directly take what you just learned in a golf lesson or practice session to the golf course.
Purchase Your Almost Golf Balls® for Dad and Yourself
If you use the PROMO CODE: ALMOSTGOLF, you will receive free shipment on any order of Almost Golf Balls® from LIBERTY Health Supply. Please use the links below to purchase your Almost Golf Balls®
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If you use the Promo Code: ALMOSTGOLF you will receive free shipment on any order of Almost Golf Balls® from LIBERTY Health Supply.
In my golf book, I discuss The Palmer Tendon Golf Swing Technique, the Palmer TECH, which makes it easier not only to perform a consistent golf swing, but also to coach golf swing mechanics to others. The ESPY Golf Swing Coach techniques detailed in my book help the golfer to develop the proper feel for their golf swing. This was what Colonel George Robert Hall emphasized during my interview with him, the feel of his golf swing sequence.
Colonel Hall knew that if he could establish the correct wrist action in the golf swing from his address position, he knew the rest of his golf swing sequence was correct, even in the confines of his 7.50 foot x 7.50 foot prison cell by using a stick or his left thumb as the handle of the golf club.
Colonel Hall was a POW who was held at the Hanoi Hilton for over seven years and still shot his handicap of four (4) at a PGA Pro-Am. Six weeks after Colonel George Hall’s release from Hanoi Hilton, he played in The Greater New Orleans POW Pro-AM Open. For background into Colonel Hall’s story and my interview with him, please use this link: The Colonel Hall Story.
For more information about how to use Almost Golf Balls® and the 405- Training Drill, purchase your copy of The ESPY Golf Swing Coach from the links below, or visit your local bookstore:
PURCHASE NOW YOUR NEW GOLF GAME
The ESPY Golf Swing Coach, a Self-Coaching Technique and simple Sports Psychology enabling the golfer to take the baseball swing sequence from the batter’s box to the tee box.
My book can also be purchased at Edwin Watts Golf Store in Jackson, Mississippi. Phone No. 601-956-8784
820 East County Line Road, Ridgeland, MS 39157
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