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In this Golf Smart Insight, I'm going to talk about why fall is my favorite

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season to make

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swing changes.

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For most of us, deciding when to make a swing change is a complicated issue.

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I've got tournaments, I've got the whole ability to practice, and I've got my

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time constraints.

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What ends up happening is a lot of golfers, spring comes around, and I now have

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time to

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practice, but I also have time to play, so I'm practicing a lot, I'm playing a

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lot, and

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before I know my tournaments were upon me.

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Well, when I come back out, I have all this rust that's built up over the

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winter, so in

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the beginning, I'm getting used to finding my swing again, and then I'm playing

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a lot,

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so if I make a swing change, my scores are going to suffer, and I'll be

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embarrassed

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because my body is a laugh at me, and then I've got these looming either trips

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or tournaments,

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and all that builds this extra stress, which makes it hard to commit to changes

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, which

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makes it hard to put in enough repetitions for them to actually work.

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So the fall in the winter, I think, is the hot spot for most amateurs to make

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their swing

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changes, and here's a couple of reasons why.

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One, you don't have any tournaments coming up, so you'll be less worried if you

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're having

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a bad day because you're making progress, you're working on something that

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builds long-term

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results.

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That's the major one, but here's kind of the one B, if that's the one A.

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Practicing on the golf course is one of the best ways to work on transferring a

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skill into

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your actual game.

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So what happens in the fall is the golf courses tend to slow down, so the

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course that I was

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a member at, I could easily go there and play a twilight round for cheap rates,

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and I would

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hit five, six balls from the middle of the fairway, or from a punch shot, or

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from a

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chip shot.

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I would hit multiple balls on the course, and these little walks in between

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would give

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me time to kind of think about it and process it, and then start over again.

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The complete opposite of the rapid-fire structure that most people do on the

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range, and that

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rapid-fire thing just doesn't work.

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It's kind of like cramming for a test.

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It gives you real short-term results, but you don't learn anything in the long

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run.

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Practicing on the golf course can give you some real long-term achievements and

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help

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you build real solid motor patterns.

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So I think that the fall is the best time to make these swing changes and the

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best time

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to practice because you're going to have time on the course, you're going to

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have a lot

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less stress, and the combination of those two seems to build the recipe for

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real good improvement.

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And the fun thing is, there's still enough nice days that you get to go out and

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play

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on the course with your buddies and see the effects of these changes that you

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're making,

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which helps you buy into it, which then helps your brain commit to it, and then

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over the

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winter, I think there's a process that's almost like defragging the computer,

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where

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it reorganizes and actually reinforces the good things more than the bad.

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So get out there, enjoy the fall, practice on the golf course, and start

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building the

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swing that you're going to be able to enjoy in the spring.