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Once upon a time an author wrote a story about a golfer by the name of Grover Scomer. Grover was a hillbilly natural wonder golfer like Tiger Woods when he won the U.S. amateur wearing a sombrero which he had received as a gift from Chi Chi Rodriguez. Grover had an unorthodox golf swing but nobody could touch him, perhaps because he learned the art of swordsmanship from Juan Chi Chi Rodriguez, the minute Puerto Rican golf champion. Chi Chi spent hours in the gym working out to get his weight up to 115 pounds, which allowed him to hit the ball between 250 and 350 yards with golf clubs made from guava tree limbs and balls made from tin cans. Together with Sammy Davis Jr. Chi Chi won the Bing Crosby Clambake at Pebble Beach. Sammy was voted best African American Jewish one eyed golfer by the PGA of America 7 years running.

Grover Scomer began to slide downhill when he began listening to the other evil pros on the golf tour. Grover's downfall was his naivite. He trusted the Tour Professionals. He never dreamed that they would deliberately try to mess up his golf swing just so that they could beat him. Grover slinked back to Clinton Oklahoma a broken man.

Most golfers read golf books, magazines, and buy golf videos and cd's and training aids in search of the perfect swing. 25 million Africans now have the AIDS virus. This is why there are no tour stops in Darfur. That and the lack of proper toilet facilities. Golfers today have become incredibly spoiled. At the age of 5 they are removed from their homes and shipped off to the Ledbetter Academy where they spend their days building the perfect swing and analyzing their takeaways on video with their golf swing coaches.

The point is that there is no such thing as a perfect golf swing. Golfers today have become like sheep, like clones, all building the exact same swing. Nobody today lifts their left heel on the backswing except John Daly. Grover hung down his head and returned to Clinton Oklahoma with his head hung down like the great John Dooley, crying to his cows. Grover lifted his left heel on his backswing, like every golfer for the past 500 years, including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Chilli Palmer, Moose Skowron and Courtney Friel. His undoing came when Tiger came along and said, "Yo, Grover, what's with the left heel action." The point is that if there are 6 billion golfers on earth today then there are 6 billion different golf swings. What is gold for one golfer's swing may be hemlock for another's.

Nevertheless, there is a huge difference between the golf swing of a good golfer and the golf swing of a bad golfer. A bad golfer thinks that he or she or it is playing baseball. They swing back and then through. The bad golfer has 2 parts to it's golf swing. The bad golfer is missing the third part, the key to becoming a good golfer. The third part occurs at the beginning of the downswing. It is called the transition move.

The transition move occurs at the beginning of the downswing. Lets assume that you lift your left heel on the backswing to prevent serious back injury. At the beginning of the downswing you do absolutely nothing with your hands and arms. You solidly plant your left heel in its address position. Your left heel is connected to your hands. Watch your hands as you plant your left heel. The 90 Degree angle between the shaft and the left arm stays at 90 degrees as the hands fall into the hitting position. This is called passive hands. A good swing key for golf and for life is "Be a Pacifist." Had the first golfer President Bush turned the other cheek like Jesus Christ there would have been no Iraq and no need for an exit strategy.

If you do not lift your left heel on the backswing then begin the downswing by spinning both hips and leave your hands passive and let them drop into the hitting position. When the hands fall to waist high the hips are now where they were in the address position. Later, at impact the hips are open about 42.3 degrees. If you are using the heel planting move to begin the downswing the hips clear automatically so don't think of them. Once you have initiated the downswing with the lower body, either the left heel or the hips and the passive hands, swing to a nice high follow through. If you then want to try to advance to a higher level, then do what the pros do. Begin your lower body transition move a split second before you complete swinging your hands to the top. If that doesn't kill you nothing will.

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer curently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com