The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons

have golfed for years... not a good golfer at all.. i can drive maybe 140.... bot this book june 3, started practicing june 4...did watch his videos ( they are on youtub e) ... and on june 24, 20 days later, went out to the course and hit a drive 200 yards - no effort... hit my 3 wood 180... ..really unbelievable... in my opinion this is really a great book and great videos... easy to follow and it makes golf seriously fun again. i can't believe my own drives... its really unbelievable.. i highly suggest this book.... GREAT instructions... he's very concise... this GREATLY improved my game and made golf fun again.

This book covers the mechanics of the golf swing. Great for beginners. Easy to read. The book takes the mysticism out of the most complex actions in golf. The swing.The drills are easy to follow.Michael McTeigue is great teacher and researcherIf you have taken a number of golf lessons as I have, every instructor shows you how to grip the club first and address the ball. I believe that this is the wrong approach because the natural instinct to hit the ball is so strong.McTeigue shows you how to resist the “hit instinct” and use your legs and torso to hit the ball. You will generate more clubhead speed which will increase more distance in your drivesThe lessons are broken down into 8 lessons and it's important to follow each lesson one by one. The lessons will seem silly at first (and they are), but I urge to follow them.The beauty part is you can practice the lessons in the privacy of your home. No one will see you. You don't need a golf club or a driving range to practice. In fact, I recommend that you don't even use a golf club until you've covered the first few lessons on how to move your body through the swing.The body movement is key to understanding the effortless golf swing. The lower body creates the momentum for a powerful swing. I am left handed and he teaches from a right hander's perspective so the wording was a little hard to follow at first. There is a companion video which I recommend so that you can see what he is talking about in the book. Once I learned how to mirror the movements then the lessons were easy to follow especially with accompanying video.It is important to do the lessons in order, I can't stress that enough, and eventually, you will build muscle memory and your swing will improve. I recommend that you spend 2 weeks on each chapter and in 16 weeks you will be driving the ball over 200 yards!! Ladies will be able to hit the ball 200 yards as well.

This book helped me build a consistent and successful golf swing. I practiced the seven lessons in sequence, establishing muscle memory for the set up, balance, tempo, and staying relaxed. This frees up the mind to focus on strategy to visualize your next shot.I have also read his book Bullet Proof Putting and highly recommend that one for the same reasons.

Read this book very easy to read and good info.

...book out there since Hogan's Five Lesson's. In fact, if I was going to recommend one book to a beginning golfer this would be it.UPDATE: I promised to update this review after re-reading the book and using Michael's drill. After my round last fall, when I broke 90 for the first time in years following a single read-through of "Effortless", I have gone back and re-read the book and did the drills. I also found many facets of the book that I had already forgotten, e.g., free swinging arms regardless of grip. I am hitting crisper and farther than ever by religiously following Michael's instruction through the drills. I will be revisiting this program (because that is what it is) again and again.Here's why I think Michael's program works. Many online tips and even observational 1:1 lessons are based on a mechanical thing that the instructor wants to replicate. Michael's book tells you how an optimal golf swing should FEEL to YOU. That is what I have always wanted to do, get inside a touring pro's head and feel what he feels. Michael's book will help you do that. Yes, I know many of the concepts have been covered by Jimmy Ballard and others. But Michaels shows you how to implement it in a way no other book does. It is my new golf bible.I have been playing for over 30 years, struggling to break 90. After just reading this book I immediately, had the best round of the last 3-4 years. I have been struggling with my irons (driver OK but not much distance).Basically shaved 7 strokes off my score and broke 90 for the first time in years. I hit more GIR than in any round in the last few years as well. Additionally, I was much less sore and frustrated after my round than I have been for a long time.Note, this was after just reading the book and incorporating the key elements into my game. I expect even greater results when I actually do the drills in the volume and sequences suggested by Mr. McTeigue. I will update my review then.To much "hit" instruction out there these days. And the golf swing does not usually feel like it looks. Which is why many amateurs are misled by watching the pros.Finally, to those who say the book is too "thin". Nonsense. This is all you need. You won't be confused and you will focus on the fundamentals that are mostly like to transform your swing. Think of the many of the greatest golf instructional books out there. They too are relatively short and focused:1. Five Lessons, Ben Hogan2. Swing Easy, Hit Hard, Julius Boros3. Little Red Book, Harvey Penick4. Play Your Best Golf, Tommy Armour (although he advocates "hitting" which messed me up, I think).I only wish I had run into this book years ago when I first starting playing and my first instructor was trying to get me to relax my arms more.

Bereits nach dem Lesen der ersten beiden "Lessons" habe ich gemerkt, was ich in meinem Schwung seit Jahren falsch mache und deshalb keine Konstanz in meinen Schwung bekomme.Das Buch liest sich sehr gut und alles ist sehr gut beschrieben.Vor allem geht der Autor auf viele Sichtweisen und Ansätze hervorragender Golfer ein ohne jedoch eine jemals davon als "die" Schwung-Methode anzupreisen.Es gibt Themen, die er selbst an unverzichtbar für einen soligen Golf-Schwung erachtet.Für mich ist es wirklich eines der besten Golf-Bücher, die ich bisher gelesen habe, auch besser als das von Ben Hogan, der aber ebenfalls in dem Buch erwähnt wird.Und, man kann gleichzeitig seine Englisch-Kenntnisse auffrischen ;)

Livro revela um método para um swing sem esforço, recomendo a todos. Muito bom e muito esclarecedor. Realmente válido. Parabéns.

Just trying to read something of golf I found this book as a great key that corrected my swing after my reading of first 30 pages. I do my swing now with real flow and the result is longer and straight shoots.Thanks a lot. Greatly recommended book. Easy to read.

I have been reading books and articles on how to correct and improve my golf swing ever since I can remember, but every fix that I applied to my swing merely acted as a patch with a rather short shelf life that did little to resolve the deeper fundamental issues of my game. I had been following this formula ever since picking up golf clubs at a young age, and had subjected myself mercilessly to a never-ending wash, rinse and repeat cycle of conflicting information in an effort to become proficient at what must surely be the hardest game in the world to master.Until I read 'The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing' on my Kindle, that is, which offered a brief and simple explanation of how the basic mechanics of a golf swing, done properly, and effortlessly, can produce consistent length and accuracy with each and every swing. In what was something like an epiphany for me, it was the first time that I had ever been made to consider how the club was best suited to strike the little white ball over and above the testosterone-charged belt-the-leather-off-it mantra which I had always adopted. In particular, it was the concept of passive arms being subservient to the rotation of the lower half of the body in the golf swing that made me realise that I had been doing it wrong all these years, and why the pros can make the golf swing look so fluid and effortless. To unwind a lifetime of bad swing habits is easier said than done of course, but I knew I was onto something when my first tee-off shot went hurtling down the middle of the fairway at the start of a strokeplay event (just two days after reading the book) with what seemed like no effort at all, and I had my first glimpse of a successful golf swing that pros have probably known all their lives.Significantly, it was specific phrases in the book such as 'subservient arms' and 'muscle memory' that really forced me to analyse my current swing, which I now realise had only ever been dominated by my arms and wrists. By allocating the driving force to my lower body and allowing my arms and club to passively follow the arc that was being created for them, nearly every shot I hit, from wedge to driver, was straight and consistent, and, remarkably, with more length than I used to hit them previously. I entered the strokeplay event with no real time to practice this new swing philosophy, trusting only the mental shift I knew I had to make to correct the respective roles that my lower body and arms needed to perform in the stroke. I play off a ten handicap and went five over on my first outing with my new golf swing, winning the competition, and unable to recall when last I had enjoyed such a satisfying and effortless round of golf.

The book is well written and has considerable hints interesting, the division into lessons is very simple to follow. The directions are simple but not banal. I think other times reread this book