The prior system Clay worked with had the goal of teaching students to develop a "perfect golf swing." The idea is that over time you will continually eliminate all of the flaws in your swing.
The difficulty Clay had with the system is that a lot of these small flaws don't affect your play or your score hardly at all.
For example, Nicklaus had a flying elbow at the top, Greg Norman was across the line, Tiger Woods dropped too much in the downswing, Hogan had a cupped left wrist, and so on.
One thing that Clay realized over time is that most players spend huge amounts of time practicing the things that don't matter and very little time practicing the things that do matter.
We know that anyone can improve if they can just work on the things that will make the most difference in their swings and results.
It takes a lot of reps and a good amount of time to make any swing change. For example, if you work for 2 months and 10,000 reps to get a perfectly flat left wrist at the top of the swing, after all of that work, you may not have dropped my handicap at all. Even worse, as we get focused on small pieces of the swing, larger and more important pieces, can fall apart.
If you spend the same amount of time working on the "Power Turn" from Clay's system, you may pick up 20 yards on your drives.
Clay's system works with the Pareto Principle, which says you will get most of your results from just a few key things. Based on my experience, five things determine 95% of the results.
With the system that Clay teaches now, he focuses on the 5 most important things you can do for your swing for power, consistency, and a lower handicap. You can take Nicklaus, Hogan, Woods, Norman, Palmer, and every other great golfer, and they all do these five things well.
The reason is that those moves matter to the physics of hitting a golf ball well. Yet 95% of all amateur golfers do not do these 5 things!
Learn the few important pieces that all pros do and none of the amateurs do, mix in some hard work, and you'll improve your game drastically.
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