Happy New Year! You've enjoyed the Twelve Days of Christmas, now it's time for the Twelve Weeks of NewYear's. For the next twelve weeks, we will get your 2011 season off in the right direction by sharing sports psychologist Dr. Rick Jensen's "Twelve Tour Tested Truths."

 

In his brand new book, Easier Said Than Done, Rick shares what he calls the "Truths" of the game. And he should know; he's coached 14 players to a combined total of 34 major championships. Each week we plan to share one truth with you. Follow them and you'll learn what all those major champions already know - these truths flat out work to lower your scores.

 

The easiest way for you to access the Truth each week is to follow us on Twitter by clicking on this icon: 

 

Once you have a Twitter account, sign up to receive tweets from DDSOG on your mobile device (under settings/mobile) and the Truths will come straight to you. It's an effortless way to get this educational information and get started on lowering your scores. If you need assitance getting signed up, simply give us a call and we will walk you through the 2 minute process.

 

"The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball." - Ben Hogan

 

In this first truth, Rick describes the skills golf demands: ball control, decision making and self management. It is these skills, not a text book swing, that determines success. Otherwise, how has Jim Furyk ended five of the last eight seasons ranked in the top five golfers in the world? Certainly no golf school uses his swing as the model for students.

 

So, good swing mechanics and movements promote the possibility of ball control, but they are not, in and of themselves, the skills needed to go low. Ball control can be acquired with a less than technically clean swing. And rigid conformity to a text book swing in no way ensures ball control. You have certainly seen both of these in action - the highly consistent player with a crazy-looking swing, and the player with tour tempo whose only consistent result is dragging you into the woods to help search for a ball.

Our long establishes philosophy of helping you "Master the Game, Not Just Its Techniques" demonstrates our commitment to help each golfer find a unique solution to the three skills of ball control, decision making and self management. In fact, our Golf Matrix philosophy is all about these three skills and how they interact. Click here to see more information from our website.