Howard’s approach to teaching golf is: Keep It Simple. Extremely Simple. He has broken it down into teaching the golf swing with just two drills; Drill 1 & Drill 2 that are done with:
1. The Correct Thought
2. Deliberate Practice
3. Very Slowly
4. Repetition, Repetition and Repetition
5. Ongoing Continual Feedback
Drill 1 – Learning how the hands control the club face during the impact area to hit the ball high and straight. This drill is learned with your wedge, with shots of only 15-30 yards max.
Drill 2 – Learning how the hands control the body for power, work done in about the 50 to 70 yard range. This drill is also learned with your wedge, with shots of only 50-70 yards max.
Slow It Down
Why does slowing down work so well? The myelin model offers two reasons. First, going slow allows you to attend more closely to errors, creating a higher degree of precision with each firing—and when it comes to growing myelin, precision is everything. As football coach Tom Martinez likes to say, “It’s not how fast you can do it. It’s how slow you can do it correctly.” Second, going slow helps the practicer to develop something even more important: a working perception of the skill’s internal blueprints—the shape and rhythm of the interlocking skill circuits.
The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle pg. 85
Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there’s nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn’t play in the 70’s… A full swing is nothing more or less than an extension of the short swing. Like everything, it takes some learning, but learning the correct movements is 10 times less difficult than he thinks. In fact, once you are on the right track in golf, doing things the right way takes a lot less effort than the wrong way does.
Ben Hogan