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

I love golf but it's a frustrating sport to learn. I come from a baseball background and have struggled with an arm dominated swing, usually resulting in right pushes and slices. The correct way to swing a golf club was not obvious to me and I struggled for a long time trying to swing more inside, always focused on what my arms and hands were doing during the swing. I compared my swing to what I saw pros doing and I was putting so much effort into my swing while they seemed to be hardly trying. I did not understand how that was possible and it inspired me to search out an easier, simpler way.Within this book you will find a step by step process of rebuilding your swing from with a focus on easy repeatability. The methodology of Effortless is essentially a body turn with very relaxed arms. It's a surprisingly simple system. I honestly did not believe it would work until I tried it for myself. It's difficult to believe one can swing a club so well, with no loss in distance, with such little effort. The reason is simple and we all know it by now: the large muscles of the legs and back generate far more speed than the upper body alone. Effortless is a system to reliably generate momentum with the lower body while keeping your arms relaxed, which will generate a huge amount of club head speed. When I first set down this path I was comfortable with the idea of losing distance if I could just hit it straighter, but there's nothing about the Effortless system that compromises distance or accuracy.Effortless, despite its brevity, leaves little room for misinterpretation. The writing is direct and as straightforward; it reminds me of Ben Hogan's no-nonsense style. A word of caution: each lesson is fundamental to those that follow it. It's tempting, but incorrect, to read through this book in a few sittings and try to apply it to your game. I made this mistake myself as I was anxious to improve. This approach will fail as it would with any golf instruction (book or otherwise). Many of the negative reviews gave the impression that they attempted to breeze through the material. Improvement will only come with patient study and a lot of practice. It takes time to transfer the written word to your mind, understand it fully, and commit that to muscle memory.Effortless is the foundation of my game. It's more than just a book about how to swing a club; it's an approach to the game of golf that is free of stress. Many books can teach you how to swing a club better. Effortless will make you a capable ball striker and change your whole mindset on the course. This book will teach you how to be relaxed when you swing a club and that feeling will naturally translate to a more relaxed game overall. It's difficult to feel rushed or stressed when your swing is so pure and easy. If the idea of playing relaxed rounds of golf with a swing you can rely on appeals to you, buy this book now and never look back.

I gave this little gem four stars only because I reserve the fifth star for the Bible. The book is that good! It took me some time to really process the fact that McTeigue is not trying to reinvent the swing or bring anything new or profound to our attention but simply to lay out a simple, yet effective method for achieving what so many other teachers have been trying to convey in all those "other" books of golf instruction. He does a great job. I have diligently practiced the step by step approach he teaches to build a better swing and after about three weeks of practicing the "lighthouse turn" and the "basic arc" I went out and actually hit some balls at the range, first with just the basic arc and then a few using the 3/4 swing. The results were a dramatic improvement in both the ease of the swing and ball striking.Now the only thing I believe I have to do is remained disciplined in my practice and continue to build the muscle memory that he talks about and I will be on my way to the best season of golf in my life.I've been golfing for thirty years and this is by far the best and simplest instruction I've ever received.

I love this book.Some background: I took up golf a year ago. I'm a self-taught golfer, 0 lessons, and I learned my swing from a few books. For full disclosure, the ones I referred to most often were Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic, Revised and Updated, Practical Golf, and this one.Well, all credit to where credit is due for Mr. Nicklaus, and I think Practical Golf is a very good book as well. They're both classics in the golf instruction world, along with Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf. But I found out that this is what I needed, and is the only book I refer to now for the full swing.I shot an 80 from the back tees two months ago, a feat I directly attribute to the long game improvement I gained from this book. I'm a 14 handicap and dropping. I gave it to my dad for Christmas; he's been golfing for 20 years, and he hits the ball farther than he ever has at almost 60 years old. Now he's consistently shooting in the 70s for the first time in his life.This book is not about gimmicks, and it's not a "new" swing (such as Stack and Tilt). Rather, it provides a clear and excellent explanatory model to help you develop the feeling of a professional caliber conventional swing, and get the sort of easy rhythm you see from guys like Fred Couples. Using the lighthouse turn drill, which is literally the ONLY drill I use for swing practice, you develop the easy, flowing, coordinated turn required to hit crisp golf shots.Learning the swing this way helps you get rid of all of those obnoxious (frequently negative) swing thoughts about your knees, your head, your elbows, your hips, etc., and just focuses you on turning freely. You don't think about your knee flex and your elbow angle when you shoot a free throw; you just trust your shot to take the ball to the target. This book will help you play golf that way. Good luck, and swing easy.

I’ve always had problems with consistency and repeatability. This book really helps and helps direct my focus. I’m looking forward to changes.

This book will help any golfer better understand and improve the golf swing.

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.

good trainer