The Cost/Benefit Analysis
Sunday, 07.01.2007, 01:42pm (GMT)
There is a very useful method that many accountants use called "The
cost/benefit analysis". You may be familiar with it. The analysis is
done to cut the company costs that do not provide a specific benefit.
It's done on all the different costs of the company, and then the
accountants can then analyze which costs provide a lot of benefit,
versus which costs provide little benefit. Then quite simply, the costs
that provide little benefit are cut.
The golf swing is really quite complicated. The reason that I wrote the
book was to get rid of all the unnecessary movements that end up
causing many golfers trouble. To do this, I applied the cost/benefit
method, but I did it in golf terms.
Just as an example, we'll use the wrist cock. In analyzing the golf
swing, I found that the wrist cock at the top of one's backswing,
produced great results for a few golfers. However, for the vast
majority of golfers, it actually proved to cause MANY inconsistencies.
That may sound too simple of a solution, but it really works. You'd be
amazed at the consistency that is added by removing this one small
move. See, the difference is that golf magazines or videos, want you to
spend countless hours of your time correcting this small move. You
would have many disappointing rounds if you tried to do that. It's
simply not worth it for most golfers.
I agree that you must have a significant wrist cock to compete on the
professional tour. However, it has been proven to me many times over
that you do not need a wrist cock to hit the ball 250 down the middle
of the fairway. You do not need that extra 40-60 yards that
professionals need. All you need to break 80 is to be able to hit the
ball 220-250 yards down the middle of the fairway. More importantly,
you need to be able to do this every time.
Other examples of what you could easily cut out of your swing would be the following:
- Lateral (horizontal) movement to achieve the proper weight transfer
- All lower body conscious movements.
Those are just a few examples. The list goes on and on, but the point
of all this is that "Simple is Better" for the vast number of golfers.
I could write forever on this subject, but I won't take up all your
time.
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