Occam's razor for golf - Be the smartest golfer you know

When things go bad in golf and in life we have a tendency to let our imaginations go wild and come up with elaborate ideas why things arent going our way. In golf when the ball doesn’t go where we think it should go we tend to think of solutions that don’t normally help. You must remember that what you are feeling rarely is what you are doing. This is true for golfers of all levels.

I can remember working with many different players that made a living playing golf that were trying to fix something they just werent doing. I have had many players that thought they were hitting pushes or pulls and spend countless hours trying to fix it on the range only to find out their alignment was bad. That is correct, they were hitting it where they aimed. So while they spent time trying to fix their angle of attack, hand plane, shaft angle at the top, left knee rotation, shoulder plane and more they just needed to put and club down on the ground and see where they were aiming.

I play with a great group of guys and many of them shoot well over 80. Each round I hear all kinds of reasons for why the shots didn’t work out unfortunately rarely it their assesment accurate. So remember to go back to basics before look for the elaborate answer.

Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case, the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is.

In golf for the full swing this should include these boring items;