A recent e-mail to me referred to all the training aids for
improving your golf. Immediately the movie
”
Tin Cup
”
came to mind.
A recent e-mail to me referred to all the training aids for improving your golf. Immediately the movie “Tin Cup” came to mind.
Training aids have been around forever, but certainly not what we have today. Years ago, one had three brands of golf balls to choose from, etc. To hit certain type of shots, you needed to get very creative with the clubs in your bag.
Technology has certainly improved equipment over the years or we would still be playing with hickory shafts and golf balls stuffed with feathers.
Now you need two bags to carry all of the different types of clubs and balls for the different types of shots, and you still wouldn’t have the right club for the right shot.
Marketing and packaging is the name of the game. We are all “head cases” when it comes to golf. If we think a certain video, training aid or specialty club will turn our game around, we’ll buy it.
I have often said that you could take a bucket of horse manure, wrap it in a bow and stamp “Golf Improvement” on the side and it would sell to somebody. And the worst part is, you can’t talk some people out of it.
I’ve made the mistake of telling someone that their equipment that they were using was just fine for them. They got insulted and went somewhere else and bought new equipment, saying that I didn’t want to sell them. How rude of me.
I guess the bottom line is, if you think that the book, video, training aid, etc. will work, buy it. It’s cheaper than going to a shrink. Otherwise, see your local PGA or LPGA golf professional and get some help.
Pat Larkin is a Class A golf professional based at San Juan Oaks Golf Club in San Juan Bautista. His column appears every other week in the Free Lance. E-mail him at
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