tuition & instruction
inconsistency
is the key to consistency Mark Fairbank The Golf School of Excellence, Balderstone Sports Institute
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I want to be consistent� is the most common request that amateur golfers have of their coach, it’s the hunt for consistency that sells buckets and keeps flood lights on at ranges. While lessons with your local PGA Professional and hitting more balls a day than Vijay Singh will, as logic tells us, lead to an improvement in your swing, it is not the real key to consistency in performance on the golf course, this is because the game of golf, by nature, is inconsistent. It is the unpredictability of Golf that makes it the greatest game on Earth, the very inconsistency that we grapple
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with and work to control is the essence of what makes us love this game and invest so much into its mastery. Golf is an inconsistent game, once the ball leaves your club face its eventual resting place is entirely out of your control. A purely struck drive could get a band bounce and end up behind a tree while a ball destined for a hazard could easily hit a tree and bounce back into the fairway. A perfectly struck chip could catch the edge of the fringe and accelerate past the flag while a bunker shot hit in the teeth can strike the flagstick and drop into the cup. A ball
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