Back to basics

I had a nice short weekend trip up to Bodega Bay. I played a round of golf on Saturday and it was ugly, as expected. I took my first lesson in a long time last week and I knew that things are going to have to get worse before they get better.

I had a been in a stagnant position where I just couldn’t get over the hump. I was constantly making swing changes that would help for a bit, and then unravel later on. Which would lead me to my next “fix”. It was a terrible cycle and I was fed up with it.

I’ve had a lot of fun trying to teach myself a golf swing. Learning about swing mechanics and trying to be my own golf coach is definitely going to help down the road. But in the meantime, I needed to call in the pros here.

My first lesson revealed that I had some fundamentals horribly wrong. The last few months, I had diagnosed a lot of my issues correctly but didn’t realize the fixes were simply fixing fundamentals. Instead I was applying more complicated fixes that made things a whole lot worse eventually.

I can’t help but think how many solutions to problems out there are simply just getting back to the basics. I worked in consulting for 3 years and we were often brought in to fix “complicated” problems. While we hated to admit it because we were judged by our billable hours, most fixes were relatively minor when you broke the actual problem down.