Are you frustrated with your golf game? Do you want to get better but see little improvement in your game, no matter how much you practice, how many lessons you take or how many instruction books or magazine articles you read? Can you characterize your progress in golf as “one step forward, two steps back”?

Do you often hit the ball well on the driving range, but then “lose it” on the course? When you are hitting your driver well, do you find yourself missing your irons? When you are nailing your irons, does your putting stoke disappear? Do you play like a single-digit handicapper on one hole and a high-handicapper on the next? Do you ever wonder why you just can’t seem to pull it together at one time? And then keep it together?

Does it seem to you that the really good players know something that you don’t know? Have you ever thought that modern golf instruction is leaving out something important?

This Website Was Created For You

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this website was created for you!

On this website, you will learn the timeless fundamental that all good teachers and players know, but few if any can clearly explain. Not only will you learn this timeless fundamental, but you will also learn about training aids that will help you to incorporate it into your golf swing to hit the golf ball longer, straighter and more consistently than you ever have before. You will also learn to incorporate this fundamental into your short game to help you improve your touch, score lower and win more.

In a very short time, you will experience an increase in your self-confidence on the golf course and gain greater admiration and respect from members of your foursome.

Why I Created This Website

Most golf instruction books and videos available today have been created by famous players and instructors. These books and videos typically focus on key fundamentals such as grip, aim, stance and posture. They also illustrate key body positions that the golf swing passes through and attempt to explain key swing movements. These body positions include the address, back swing, top-of-the-back swing, transition, forward swing, impact, follow through and finish.

Many provide an overview of the short game, including pitching, chipping, putting and sand play. Some even include a discussion of practice techniques and drills, course management skills, and the “mental” part of the game.

Few, if any, adequately convey the true essence of the golf swing.

That’s not to say that these books and videos aren’t useful. Many are excellent with respect to the subjects they address. In fact, I’ve recommended some of the best on this website.

It’s just that they are incomplete. They fail to give you the last few pieces of the puzzle that you need to see the whole picture. In some cases, they go to the other extreme and give you extra pieces that — although intellectually interesting — aren’t really necessary to complete the picture. Often, these extra pieces reflect the players’ and instructors’ personal styles rather than true swing fundamentals.

Of course, on some level — whether consciously or unconsciously — these players and instructors understand the fundamental revealed on this website. Most learned it as adolescents, when motor skills are developed more easily than they are as adults. They learned it through a combination of athletic talent, expert instruction and ample opportunities to practice and play.

By hitting hundreds and thousands of golf balls at an early age, they learned to “feel” the presence of golf’s timeless fundamental in their swings. It’s almost as if they learned it through osmosis. The very method by which they learned this fundamental, however, leaves them at a loss for words to explain it to others.

That hasn’t kept them from trying. The more scientific or “left brained” among them tried to explain this fundamental through “mechanics”. The more artistic or “right brained” among them have tried to explain it in terms of “feel”. Because 90% of all golfers shoot over 90, neither group has been as effective as I’m sure they would like to be.

That’s why I created this website. It is intended to help you to learn Golf’s Timeless Fundamental without having to hit hundreds and thousands of balls. While there will be some discussion of mechanics and feel, it doesn’t rely heavily on either one. Instead it takes a third approach — a combination of both science and art — from which you will develop correct mechanics and the correct feel. This third approach is simple and easy to learn.

This website also presents lessons in an order that reflects how adults best develop motor skills. This is especially important because adults must go through three primary developmental steps to transform their golf swings into correct and repeatable motor skills.

First, you must begin with an understanding of the correct movement patterns of swinging a golf club. As already discussed, the lessons on this website will provide that.

This is followed by training the brain and body to recognize and “feel” the correct motion of the swing. When training the brain and body to do that, it’s important to break the swing down into its component parts and to perform each movement slowly before speeding it up.

Thirdly, and very importantly, you must execute this new high-speed motor skill with a high number — and a high percentage of correct — repetitions until it becomes almost automatic. After all, contrary to the old saw, practice does not make perfect.  Practice makes permanent.  Only perfect practice makes perfect.

At this point, I want to be careful not to mislead you. Learning to play golf up to your potential will still require considerable time, attention and effort from you. Like other areas of your life, there are no substitutes for for clear goals, hard work and a determination to succeed. There is certainly no substitute for regular practice and regular play.

After you complete the lessons on this website, however, you will be spending your practice time in a much more efficient and effective manner. You will be practicing and playing with the entire picture in mind, not just part of it. The result will be steady and consistent progress towards your goals — whatever they may be — instead of the “one step forward, two steps back” experience referred to earlier.

What You Will Find On This Website

This website is divided into two major sections — lessons and training aids. To get the most out of this website, it’s important to go through the lessons sequentially. Also, if you don’t already own them, it will be important for you to purchase a few essential training aids.

Add discussion of Lessons.

About Myself

Before turning to Lesson 1, let me tell you a little about myself. I am not a professional golfer or even a teaching professional for that matter. I have spent part of my career practicing law and am currently working as a commercial real estate investment consultant for my own firm called RealAsset Solutions, LLC. I am also the creator of a website and blog called RealForecasts.com, which provides market forecasts and investment strategies to real estate owners and investors.

Because of time constraints, I’m usually able to play golf on only one day over the weekend. If I’m lucky, I’ll get to play during the week every now and then, and occasionally hit a bucket of balls in the evening after work. I consider myself an above-average golfer who — through a fair amount of study and experimentation — discovered a golf fundamental that for the most part has previously gone unexplained.

For years, I struggled to take my game to the next level. I took lessons from top instructors. I read books and magazine articles. I watched videos. I spent many hours on the practice range. I tried everything I could think of! But still, I wasn’t seeing the results I was looking for. I knew that something was missing.

Then, I discovered the fundamental that will be revealed to you on this website. I saw an immediate and dramatic improvement in both my ball striking and my short game. Everything that I had ever learned about golf suddenly came together. I found a new sense of hope and optimism about my potential to play golf at a higher level than I ever had before.

Probably the biggest change came in the area of consistency. Like you, I typically hit many excellent shots during a round of golf. For every good shot I hit, however, I hit more disappointing shots than I care to admit. The fundamental introduced on this website will allow you to hit a lot more good shots and a lot fewer bad shots.

When you come right down to it, isn’t that our goal? To hit more good shots and fewer bad shots? And to improve the quality of our bad shots? After all, it has been said by many that you measure the quality of a golfer not by the quality of their best shots but by the quality of their worst shots.

This website is my attempt to share my discovery with you. Although this website will help golfers at every level, it is primarily aimed at the avid golfer who wants to get better. I guess you could say it’s a website created by an avid golfer for avid golfers. I know that if it can work for me, it can work for you too!

A Labor of Love

I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois and developed my love for the game of golf in my teens, while caddying at Knollwood Club in the neighboring town of Lake Forest. My connection to the game of golf grew stronger when I received a scholarship to the University of Illinois from the Evans Scholars Foundation.

For those of you not familiar with it, the Evans Scholars program was founded inthe early 1930’s by Charles E. “Chick” Evans, Jr., who between 1910 and 1920 was one of the world’s greatest golfers. In 1916 he won both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open, a feat equaled by only the legendary Bobby Jones in his “grand slam” year of 1930. Today, the Evans Scholars program is the largest privately-funded scholarship program inthe world.

In the Fall of 1977, during my junior year at the University of Illinois, I had the honor and privilege of spending a day with Chick Evans in downtown Chicago while writing an article about him for the Daily Illini newspaper. We talked about caddying, we talked about golf and we talked about how proud he was of the Evans Scholars program and the many students it was helping to receive a college education. As I traveled by train back to Champaign-Urbana later that day, I was inspired by the impact that the life of this one man had made on the lives of so many young people and their families.

Chick Evans passed away in 1979 at the age of 89. Looking back, I realize that I have Chick to thank for not only helping to provide me with a college education, but also for providing me with much of the inspiration I’ve needed to create this website.

An Open Invitation

Once you’ve had a chance to complete each lesson in this website and to begin incorporating Golf’s Timeless Fundamental into your golf swing, I invite you to contact me to let me know how you are doing. I have personally experienced the highs and lows associated with the learning process and know what you will be going through as you begin to improve your golf swing.

I want to make myself available to you to congratulate you on your successes and to hep you work through your frustrations. I want you to do well and would like to do what I can to make that happen. Feel free to contact me through the Contact page of this website.

Good luck with your golf swing. I hope to hear from you soon!

Your friend in golf,

Jeff Peshut