Playing The Game Of Golf
Playing The Game - by veteran PGA Tour Player John "The Golf Genius" Toepel
Today we begin focusing on playing the game we love called golf. It is a game and it supposed to be fun! It is as, all sports are, first a game and second a sport. The Concept Golf approach is to simplify your learning the game through a few principles. Reduce the game to its few true principles. Principles that are true for all golfers all the time.
It is time for golfers to shift the focus away from the swing and its thousands of difficult positions and complicated concepts. That stuff tends to make the game un-fun. Would you like to learn how to make pars and birdies and how to have fun playing golf? Then let’s do it.
In the purest sense golf is completely about the score you shoot. High numbers are not good in this game. Pars and birdies make golfers happy. Golf is a game unlike any other. There is time during a round of golf to reflect, talk to the people you are playing with, observe nature, enjoy being outside.
Concept Golf discovered the five swing principles. It also discovered the two playing principles. That’s right; there are only two playing principles. They are just as simple as the swing principles. The first is the target concept. The second is plan, aim, swing. As you understand these principles you will become a golfer, a player. It’s not the grip, or the stance or the backswing that makes a player. A bigger picture is necessary.
Let’s start with a story about a friend of mine who wanted to reduce his handicap from 1 to +2. Some of you may say this story is just for the good golfers. Not so. The story is about a golfer who wanted to lower his handicap without changing his swing. He got exactly what he wanted. Because Concept Golf is a brand new way of teaching people how to play golf, a few people are skeptical about its veracity. It seems too simple to be able to work. That’s why the story starts with a quote from a Brit.
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.” Winston Churchill, British prime minister
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