A golf training video...

Forget the rest, this is the best.

I do this often and it really does work well.

The opposite scenario where you have a swing that makes you feel quite disgusted with yourself has a very negative effect. These days, I immediately throw those ones away.

Over the years, I have had quite a few collegues analyse my swing and they all gave the same useless, fault finding feedback. I used to thank them and go work on the array of faults they had eagerly pointed out.

I am not criticising them but there were big mistakes being made and I feel that a video training lesson is almost always destructive for most amateurs. They look at themselves and immediately think, boy do I look awkward.

It doesn't really help to have your awkward swing tutted at and more or less condemned as being pretty hopeless. I couldn't get the critical commentary out of my head when I was watching re-runs.

Two years ago I started using my four finger grip drill to improve my swing and it always produces a video clip that has great smoothness and movement. The fact that I also hit the ball surprisingly well was another huge bonus. Take a look at the drill in this golf lesson video and you'll see what I mean.

Once again, (to view this golf training video in a larger screen, click the onscreen 'YouTube' logo and when the new page opens, click the enlarge symbol, which is furthest right on the video toolbar).

I just put this short video on repeat mode and let it run and run. As I have done this often, I am getting better at feeling the buttery impact, seeing the wonderful ball flight, hearing the soft click of titanium rubbing against a surlyn covered ball and tasting the success of the process.

I have written plenty on his drill on other pages and go into some intricacies on my private member page. I hope you can adopt these habits and enjoy the same success I have had using them.