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And when you can let go of your pro you’ll be able to swing the club on your

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My question is for Mike Daleki Mike, I have often felt the same way about not getting "tips" to help my swing from anyone other than a pro. My question, though, is about the thoughts and feelings that you have when passing the magazine rack with the Golf Digests reaching out to you or when you are in a doctor’s office or a car wash and there are two magazines, "Homes and Gardens" and Tiger Woods picture on a Golf Magazine. I’ll read the Golf Magazine.  I won’t look at any swing mechanics articles, nor the tips and hints that have to do with the full swing. As far as the magazines reaching out to me from the racks, they really don’t.  I figured out early in the game that I never benefitted from reading them.  Never.  Can’t remember a single thing I learned from reading golf magazines that had a positive influence on my game. Further, once I noted that the advice was sometimes contradictory, I knew that they were not a valuable resource for improvement for me. So it’s easy for me to forswear them.  Besides, there are so many other interesting golf books to read, on course management, mental game, short game, physical conditioning–I can give up the swing stuff and never know it’s gone. Why do you think it is that you are so drawn to the articles? Well, I don’t think I really am.  The only articles that really attract me are those that deal with some aspect of the mental game.  The rest, for better or worse, don’t hold much attraction for me.   Why is it so difficult to give the theory a break, even for a couple of weeks? I don’t understand.  I don’t have any problem reading theory–I generally don’t want to do it.  I’ll poke my head in from time to time depending on who is commenting–Brad Greer and David Laville are two whose posts are not corrosive to my swing–but generally I stay away. I suppose, if I weaken at all, it’s just because I’m naturally curious about almost everything.  But experience tells me, I had better have one source for swing input, and one only. There have been times that I thought I could try everything, every school of thought, every body part tip, every picture, every clich