Hey Paul

Thanks for such a great tool in the core!!! The core has helped to develop my golf game and also make my job as the golfer clearer.

I have been playing this game for 23 years now and nothing has helped me more than the core has.

It has made my job clearer as a golfer and has helped me focus more of my attention on how i would like to apply the leading edge of the club to the ball.

When i pick up the core every day and put a club down on the ground and start to make swings, i know where the correct application is. Its like i have so much confidence in what i am doing.

It feels free, clear, nice and very very powerful. There is no doubt into what i am trying to do. I can swing the club short, medium and long in length and every time the application is the same. I can swing it freely at an incredibly fast speed with pure confidence that i am going to NAIL IT!!!!

Wow, i have never had that sort of freedom with speed and confidence into the fact that i am going to apply it correctly!

I look back into my learning of the game and how i played professional tournaments with pure fear!!

My dad would take me every week for 18 years for technical lessons with a very good coach. Every week he would GIVE ME SOMETHING to work on and not to come back until it had improved!

I would go off to the range every day and work like mad to try and perfect a position!

The truth of the matter was that i was lost in space, i never new what i was trying to do and why that new position would make me better. I never ever knew what i was doing. I never got any better, i was just LOST!!!

I would always go back and say i am broken fix me! And thats what he tried to do. I never owned my swing, i never learnt it i was always being given it.

Everytime i played a tournament my focus was always on a position and never what my job was, it was never clear. I was always worried about my back swing and never even thought about how i would want to apply the club to the ball. This lead to me not wanting to play the game any more and being fearful of playing tournaments.

Now that i have the core and have been working with it for about 8 months i am a better golfer for it. I understand what i am trying to do when i get to the range and every session has clarity and simplicity.

My golf game on the course is getting better, i am more switched on into what i am trying to do. My whole attention is now on how i want to apply my club to the ball to produce the shot i want to.

I am getting better at picking my line and committing to driving my club parallel to the ground along my intended target line.


So paul, thanks for the core it has helped me learn more about where my attention should be, i am a better golfer and most importantly i enjoy the game more now because the core has made it simple for me!!!!


Regards

Mark

Hi Mark

Thanks for the comments about the Core.

It's great to hear how you're starting to 'feel' about your golf and thanks for your honesty.

I think it can be really interesting for amateur golfers to hear golf professionals talking in the way you did. Talking about 'fear' and struggling with the game of golf.

My impression is that most club golfers would dearly love to hit the ball like 'us' pro's and can't believe we have any problems with the game!!

Telling your 'story' needs honesty and I thank you that you've told it. So often we read books about 'famous golfers' where their 'story' is all about hard work and then ultimately glory. Your 'story' has been all about hard work amd then ultimately frustration!!! I do know however that you have made a break through, so it's not the end of your 'story', there could well be some 'glory' at the end!!

To anyone reading this and thinking Mark's story is similar to theirs, check out a book called "Extraordinary Golf" by Fred Shoemaker. It's a great book about a golf pro who tells you about his golfing life.

Good golfing

Paul