Sean O’Hair – Winner of the Canadian Open
Posted on
July 26th, 2011
by bredies
I was reading an interview that Sean O’Hair had on the pgatour.com website in which he talks about his tough year.
Its very interesting to note that he talks about the lowest point of his career being the days leading up to the Canadian Open tournament – and then he goes on to win!
How is this possible?
I think there are two reasons (three if you count the fact that he obviously has the ability to win tournaments):
- He was so down his own expectations were low so he simply played on auto pilot instead of trying too hard.
- He reverted back to the swing that got him on tour by going back to the coach who he had when he was 11 or 12!
Let’s talk about this for a minute.
Have you ever had a round that was so badd that half way through you knew it was going to be a bad score – no matter what you shot from there on in? I think we all have. And then a weird thing often happens – suddenly you start playing well. It’s too late of course but it still feels good although pretty frustrating that it came so late in the round. That’s what I think happened to Sean O’Hair.
Secondly I think we all tend to over analyze the golf swing and forget the “KISS” rule.
Now we all know that KISS stands for:
- Keep
- It
- Simple
- Stupid
But in golf terms I like to change that to:
- Keep
- It
- Short and
- Simple
Reflecting on what he and his coach started working on O’Hair had this to say:
“We just kind of started rebuilding it right before THE PLAYERS. A big part of it was just set-up and trying to coil a little bit better on the back swing.”
Fascinating to me because that is exactly what I most like about The Simple Golf Swing!
Every single person (including me) that I have shown the set up to has immediately improved their scores. Just that one change of Keeping it Simple and Short is worth every cent that The Simple Golf Swing costs.
Knowing that you are correctly set up allows you to swing correctly and also stops you (as O’Hair put it) getting in your own way by trying to hard.
So I am going to say it again folks: “If you want to keep it short and simple and play better golf then take a look at The Simple Golf Swing.”
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