Making a Decision...

[Martee]

At what point do you make a decision as to what golf philosphy, instruction, method, style you are going to adopt as your mainstay?

Bouncing from one golf philosphy or instruction to another will certainly without a doubt lead to confusion at best and at worst totally incompatible parts.

The approach of shopping around for an answer to a fault, to how to perform the correct stroke, how to do anything appears to be a hap hazard method.

To me it seems golfers out there are still seeking the secret, much as they continue to go through equipment and training aids. If it works for the moment, great, if not on to the next. If it had worked but now doesn't throw it away and find something else. I see posters visiting a half dozen or more forums, posting the same question. After getting various responses, that same poster is back in a few days with another question, again spread across the forums seeking another answer. Based on their response back it seem the posters are approaching building, maintaining and reparing their golf stroke as a smorgasbord, take something from here, then jump over here and take something from there, etc.

Where is the master plan, blueprint, the controls and restrictions, the guidelines and definitions to ensure what is being constructed is in fact solid?

I equate this to just kind of wandering aimlessly, chasing what sounds good and just plain hoping that you can hit on the right combination to find something that works. Am I alone in this observation? Reviewing and gathering all this information, doesn't it lead to information overload, confusion at times? I fully understand golf intructors need to seek out the information so they can be better prepared to work with students, understand the students golf stroke and where the student is coming from, but for the student, how many, how much is needed to know?

How do you decide or do you decide to define your basic stroke, your blueprint upon which you build your golf stroke?

The other question is do you have a blueprint or defined golf stroke flavor you are building, maintaining, etc.?

Do you have a source to aid you or is it multiple sources? If multiple, why?