There is an advantage to being cross-dominant as I am, I suppose, when it comes to figuring out the “feels” for swinging either left or right-dominant, but it took me a while to realize it.

I have actually been doing it unconsciously for some time, but now that it has hit me, I’ve been working on how to best describe the feeling for both dominants in my upcoming video and, of course, the neutral swingers will feel both of them, as they aren’t thinking of one arm over the other.

So, the problem is that the golf swing is performed with two arms (for those that have them, and I’m not trying to be funny here, just to point out the fairly obvious), and some people tend to only think of one arm when swinging.

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For the trail-side dominant swingers, it should be much easier to learn a swing motion that doesn’t lead one to swing over the top, but then again, it isn’t, because many people who swing right-handed with the right-dominant sensation swing over the top.

It’s easier, I believe, to run into problems swinging with the lead arm dominant feel, because that often leads to an early shoulder turn (over the top) as one feels as though they must turn into impact like as in a baseball or cricket swing.

What I have therefore done is painfully simple to me now that I’ve thought of it – I imagined swinging with only one arm or the other in a thought experiment, and there was the solution.

I’m still working on the exact phrasing of said explanations, but since I’ve talked about the right and left side actions for years, going back to this concept that I presented all the way back in 2011 on the DJ Watts Golf blog:

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… I am pretty sure that it will be a very simple concept to understand when presented.

Friends, I can promise you one thing about the golf swing, when it is properly explained and absorbed – it is a very, or should be a very simple process to learn it.

In my humble opinion, the problem arises when people try to over-complicate things with intricate explanations and pseudo-science, because of course, if you completely confuse people, you will make a lot of money un-confusing them, or just leave them confused and still charge them for the lessons.

This upcoming video will, I sincerely hope, be the shortest yet most instructive video I’ve made to date on the golf swing, and there is one word that I am going to use now that is crucial:

Trust

You have to trust, even if you don’t believe, that you can swing a golf club properly.

Release the doubt when standing over the ball, and trust that the motion you’re going to make will be the correct one.

This is the mental obstacle to golf.  This is why seasoned pros hit very odd shots under pressure – they lose the trust in their swing and everything breaks down.

Who was the most confident golfer ever?  It wasn’t Tiger Woods.

It was Jack Nicklaus.

He detailed once how, when he was going to play in a major, he would hear golfers complaining about the length of the rough, or the speed of the greens, or the narrowness of the fairway, and he would smile and think to himself, “most of the field have already eliminated themselves from winning.”

Jack won so often because he trusted his swing, and he went out there and played.

So, I’m going to make this video as simple as I can, (which is the cause of the delay, because I keep finding things I’ve explained that I think can be explained even more simply), and explain everything as simply as I can, and if you trust what I’m telling you, everything should go swimmingly.

More to come.