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| On the jacket of Dr. Bob Rotella's new tape,
"The Golf of Your Dreams" he states that in the last fifteen years the average
male American golf handicap has been frozen at 16.2. The average female American handicap
has remained static at 29. This seems to corroborate the anecdotal evidence of the overall
lack of improvement among the general golfing public. I trust that Rotella has done his
research properly. I cannot substantiate his claim, but I believe him. These broad statistics cause one to wonder about such a thing. A likely explanation by the members of golf's "powers that be" is that those falling toward the side of scratch are improving because of the professional golfer's guidance and those falling toward the side of the hideous hacker are not seeking professional guidance. We could also say something like, "Well the great strides in equipment technology are being offset by the flood of novices into the game. It's a wash." Whatever the scenario, such a statistic has to be a thorn in the side of the teaching professional. The general lot of golfers don't improve but nearly everyone in the golf industry sings the same song: "but if you're having trouble with your game, you should see your PGA professional." These statistics also have the potential to pin down any hopeful purveyor of golf wisdom and expose his ineffectiveness. We could say something like, "Doctor Rotella, this is your fourth major work on golf since 1995. Yet even your own words the average handicap has not gone down in fifteen years . . . so . . . that would include the last three years . . . right?" He would likely reply (as I would), "Well if every golfer would read my stuff, there would absolutely be an overall improvement." :~} The consistency of the average handicap numbers however leads us to believe that the average in scoring is more or less impervious to the outside influences of technology, psychology, and the perpetual influences of those things that urge us to appeal to ideal forms. These could include the endless supply of training devices, methods (even the one here), and outside instruction. Though I like to think of the method here at Golden Barefoot Golf as a unique self teaching tool and the training device as the purest yet invented, I cannot now exclude this site from the mounting heap of golf information. Only time will tell if this method will have a significant effect on the average. If you want to find out, I suggest you click on the training device link. |
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