The Short Game - Your Long Game's DNA

The long game magnifies whatever errors that are present in your swing.
The short game shows up whatever errors these are. In other words, the short game is the skeleton of your long game.

The most common instructional error I see is trying to correct mistakes in the full swing by working on the full swing!

My swing speed with the driver is around 119 mph on average. So many things are moving at the same at such a high speed.

Firstly without the aid of a proper video camera and software to capture the swing, it is impossible for the naked eye to detect faults. What looks 'natural' to the naked eyes usually looks like garbage on slow motion on a video camera.

Secondly, even with the aid of a video camera, there will be too many faults in a full swing. Trying to change 10 things in one go simply does not work.

Hick's Law states that when we concentrate on more than one concept at a time, our reaction time increases exponentially - no wonder so many people become paralysed over the ball!

Jack Nicklaus said that when he practiced, he tried to have no more than one swing thought. Jack, of course, is the winningest major champion of all time (18 professional majors).

The easiest solution then is to identify the flaw in the full swing and then go back to the short game to correct it. A little outside-in path on a chip shot will mutate into an uncontrollable slice producing machine.