Cam Younger’s prime tip for amateurs is one he nonetheless makes use of himself

When you’ve caught the Golf bug, you’ll strive absolutely anything to get higher. One week, it’s a viral swing drill. The subsequent, you’re making follow swings in the lounge or staying up late finding out your favourite tour participant’s swing on YouTube.

Whereas it’s tempting to imagine that one swing thought can change all the things, the fact is that higher golf is often constructed on the much less glamorous work.

It’s a lesson PGA Tour execs perceive higher than anybody. Whereas their swings could look easy to us mere mortals, the sport’s finest gamers are continually engaged on the fundamentals. Simply ask Cameron Younger.

In the most recent episode of Warming Up with GOLF’s Dylan Dethier, Younger defined that the most typical recommendation he offers to amateurs can also be the only: construct a stable setup.

“Everyone can arrange correctly,” he says, “There’s nothing preserving anyone from organising with fairly sq. toes, shoulders, hips. However individuals screw that up so much.”

Why the setup by no means stops being vital

Whereas he explains that one of many greatest challenges for amateurs is an absence of time spent refining key fundamentals, there’s one other stunning issue at play — one which even he nonetheless struggles with once in a while.

“Most individuals’s idea of actuality is fairly off. Like even mine, I nonetheless battle,” Younger says. 

A method Younger combats that is by making exaggerated rehearsal swings to really feel sq. as a result of what feels appropriate usually isn’t. 

“I battle like proper over and left foot ahead — like closed hips,” he says, “So, I’m at all times — like I imply I used to be on the market on the vary yesterday taking follow swings like this, taking little [swings] to attempt to simply make the pure place extra sq..”

It’s a reminder that “really feel” and “actual” hardly ever match and that the reply isn’t often discovered looking for one other swing tip — however moderately by spending time confirming you’re aligned and sq..

The subsequent time you’re tempted to chase a quick repair, begin along with your setup as a substitute. It won’t be flashy, however as Younger explains, mastering the fundamentals is usually the shortest path to higher golf.

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