What in your opinion was the worst advice or tip or instruction that you received or that is just generally accepted in the golf world?
For me, it was the "impact is a return to address position" dogma. Turned me into an instant flipper requiring exquisite timing to be effective. I became overly aware of the clubhead and remained so until finding this forum.
I started playing golf in my early 20's in 1981 and from what I know now, was pretty much a natural "hitter" -- standard tee shot was a 3-wood off the deck...just hit down and to the right and it went. Sort of baseball on an inclined plane. Probably a pretty good RFFW. Then, I started reading golf magazines and the like and discovered that I'd been doing it "wrong."
I had always wondered if impact looked like a lower case "y" or an uppercase "Y." Since most at address look like "Y" and you were supposed to return to that (and with your hips not open to boot), well, we all know that that leads to. I like what Martin Hall said on his show about swings should be sequenced (hips, then shoulders, then arms/hands) and not synchronized (everything arriving at same location).
What was your "bad instruction" and what did it do to you?
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