Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover 3 reasons you may not be improving at golf.

This is a very different video than what I normally put out.

Usually, you'll see drills to build your technique for a better swing.

However, in this video, you'll learn about the mindset that it takes to really improve your game.

So, if you're working your tail off day in and day out...

But you're not getting the results you want...

Then you'll learn tons in this video including the main 3 reasons you may not be improving at golf...

#1 The missing link

Maybe a long time ago you hit a perfect shot...

And you think to yourself...

"Man, if I hit every shot like that, I'd be shooting in the 60s."

Well, what happens is that you'll always be changing things up and searching for that perfect swing that you once had.

One day, you'll be changing up your stance...

The next day you'll be altering your takeaway...

On and on.

The problem with that is you're not focusing on the important fundamentals that'll actually make you a better golfer.

Stop searching for the missing link!

#2 "I'm going to have a perfect swing, then..."

This is the opposite of searching for the missing link.

This happens when you obsess over every minute detail like practicing 1000s of reps trying to get the perfect takeaway.

Let me tell you...

You don't need a takeaway that looks exactly like Adam Scott's or Tiger Woods' takeaway.

Heck, pros don't all have the same swing so stop obsessing over the moves that don't matter.

If you're spending all your time building what you think the perfect swing looks like...

...then you're spending less time on the important moves.

Instead of laboring over the perfect takeaway...

Spend your time practicing draw and fade shots.

That makes more sense than spending all your time trying to look good.

#3 One tool in the toolbox

This is when you rely on one shot.

Let's say you can draw the ball really well, but you stink at hitting fades.

Don't just sit back and accept that all you can do is hit a draw.

It's nice to have one great shot you can rely on...

But you need to start working on your other shots to take your game to the next level.

Work on your fade shots...

Work on hitting the ball high and low...

Work on a more powerful turn so you can get more distance.

Don't rely on just one shot.

Put more tools in your toolbox!

Watch this video now to...

find out the 3 reasons you may not be improving at golf!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:13

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, and welcome back. In this video I’ve got something a little bit different for you all. Usually I go over drills, I talk about technique on how to improve the swing.

This is going to be a little bit different. We’re going to talk about the mindset that it takes to improve, and three of the scenarios I see people fall in time and time again, working really hard, out there practicing your golf game, day in, day out, and it’s just not getting better.

So what is the things that we’re falling through?

Number one, I see a lot of people with what I call the missing link. The mindset, I fell into this same trap myself where I’m practicing my golf game, and I’ve hit good shots.

Let’s imagine that I’m out there and one day I hit the ball, or six months ago, or a year ago, or 10 years ago, and I hit this beautiful golf shot. Really, really solid, great distance, and I played really well.

I think to myself well if I can just do that every day, I’d be in the mid-60s every single time. If I could just hit that kind of shot, then I could be back in the 60s.

So I’m constantly looking for this missing link in my current swing. So I try to set up a little bit different, I watch tons of videos, I try this, I try that, and I’m searching all over to get different feelings, to get different pieces.

Sometimes it will work, and I think oh man, I got it. I was at the range today, I hit it awesome, this is the one that’s really going to pay off for me. Then the next day it falls apart again.

That’s the missing link kind of syndrome that we fall in to, or we think we just have one piece that we’re missing, once we find that we’ll play unbelievable golf. That’s not exactly what happens.

The real reason that you hit the ball so well that day is that you probably had some kind of swing thought that was good. It was getting you into better contact position, but your rhythm, your timing, your confidence, your flow that day, everything was just working out.

Now we get those sometimes, and we hit the ball awesome even though we have pieces of our swing that aren’t that great.

So if I look back to when, let’s say that I was very first shooting in the low 70s. I’d have days where I would shoot, play really, really good, and I thought I kind of figured it all out. If I could just do this every day, I’d play on tour.

Well, instead of trying to look for that one piece, which I did for years, and I realized that that didn’t work.

Then I finally said I’m going to develop solid fundamentals, and I’m going to work on the big, most important pieces of the game, just like we teach in the Top Speed Golf System.

The five fundamentals where I’m going to focus on constantly improving my technique, the most important pieces of my technique, to improve over the long haul. So even though those shots were great, I now hit the ball much better than I ever did back then, because I continually improve my game.

So quit looking for that missing link, that one key that’s going to tie it all in together. Even if you’ve found it, it would fall in and fade away, and it only work for a short period of time.

We’ve got to constantly look at our fundamentals, look at the five pieces of the Top Speed Golf System, and see which pieces that we need to work on. So that’s the missing link, that’s a very tough one that I see a lot of people fall into.

Another one is the I’m going to have a perfect swing then, so what I mean by this is a lot of times we get too focused in – this would kind of be the opposite of the missing link, where we’re trying to perfect every single little piece of our swing.

Let’s imagine we have a takeaway, and we get the club a little bit inside. SO instead of being perfectly on plane, just like we see with maybe Adam Scott, or Tiger, or Rory, or our favorite player, we get the club just a little inside.

We work for months trying to get that club perfectly on plane, perfectly the way we want it at the top of the swing. We want to get perfectly on plane, flat left wrist, club angles, everything exactly right.

We say to ourselves, yeah, maybe I’m not hitting it very good, but once I get this takeaway down, then I’ll work on hitting it better.

Or, yeah, I’m not hitting it very good, I didn’t play very well today, but you know, once I perfect this wrist angle at the top, then I’m going to be able to play great and that’s going to solve it all. I’m going to be able to worry about hitting the ball then.

Well that day really never comes. We’re always looking for something else in our swing. I fell into this trap too, and what I want to impress onto everybody here, is that the thing that’s going to help your ball striking the most is forgetting a lot of the small stuff.

That’s why I’ve boiled the system down to just five things. If we can do five things well, we can hit he ball really well, we can play great.

So don’t worry about all the little tiny pieces of the swing getting exactly perfect. It doesn’t really happen, we never really get there. We always see flaws that we want to have fixed.

The second piece of that is go ahead and start shaping the ball now. I want you to go ahead and start to learn to hit a draw where that ball is going out, curving right to left, curving left to right.

Hitting those low shots, those high shots, being a great golfer is about how can I control my golf club? How can I create momentum so that the golf club naturally wants to do the type of shot that I want to hit?

If I want to hit that high draw, how can I do that? Or if I start to hook the shots, how can I naturally let the club just start to work?

The only way to do that is to force yourself to try to learn those different shots and to force yourself to shape the ball left to right, right to left, high, low, all kinds of things that you could do. So you’ve really got to work on those things. So that’s the second piece.

The missing link was the first one, where we’re searching for that one magic bullet. The second one is when we’re saying I’m going to have it perfect and then I’m going to work on this other thing. Cut out the then, focus on the five keys, forget about the rest, and then start playing, trying to hit the ball solid.

Before you ever swing, I want to visualize that perfectly pure contact where that ball’s compressing against the face. Don’t put that off ‘til later, try to hit the ball as solid as you can now. Try to work the ball now, and get control of your game. So that’s the second thing.

The last one is the one tool toolbox. The is more along the lines of the guys that have been playing for a long time, they’re pretty good players. You have a certain game that you play, but you probably haven’t progressed in the last 5 or 10 years.

That’s like having a toolbox with just one tool in it. Maybe I can hit that nice little draw out there that goes 240, but I don’t have a lot of power. I’m really not worried about power any more, I say oh, that’s for other people, I’m not a big distance player.

Or, yeah, I can’t work the ball from right to left, or left to right, that’s for other guys. I have my one tool in my toolbox, and I try to do that every single time.

Well that easily get you to where you’re just getting the same results for a long period of time. What you want to think of it as, I want to have that one tool that’s really good, but then I want to be working on the rest of the tools in the toolbox.

Maybe my go-to shot is a high draw. I’m going to work on hitting a fade, hitting the ball low, picking u some distance going into the Top Speed Golf System, getting that shoulder turn, getting that good lag, getting the speed coming through there, and trying to get more distance.

It doesn’t mean that I have to ditch what I’m already doing well, I want to play to my strengths, but as I’m playing to my strengths I want to sharpen that toolbox, I want to put more tools in there so that I can answer a variety of things.

So work on those three keys. I know that sometimes it’s frustrating when we get stalled out. Keep those three things in mind. If any of those three sound like you, I would work on improving on that, and I guarantee it will kickstart you and get you improving again.

If you’re not doing those three things, and you’re already improving, you’re on the right track. Just keep it up, you guys are doing fantastic. Keep up the hard work, and you’ll keep getting better and better. I’ll see you guys soon.