Jerry Brown has been a student of the game of golf for over fifty years and has studied how we naturally learn physical motor skills effectively. Awaken Your Inner Golfer facilitates self-discovery for the feel of a golf swing that works for each individual golfer s unique physiology through the playful exploration of forty unique instinct-awakening golf exercises. The exercises facilitate an awakening of the uniquely instinctive kinesthetic intelligence within each golfer, and can help you improve both your short game and your long game. The golf exercises present an opportunity to learn the physical motor skill of an effective golf swing through trial and error and exploration and discovery in a safe environment where so-called mistakes are experienced only in the context of learning. This learning process of self-discovery tends to have a greater permanence in the body/mind than trying to learn through instruction and mechanics, and is the same process a child instinctively uses to learn any physical motor skill. This instinctive learning approach is not intended to replace conventional mechanical golf instruction but to present tools for learning beyond conventional golf instruction that are not often recognized or utilized. While the mechanics of a golf swing may help you understand the dynamics of a golf swing, reliance on mechanical analysis alone often leads to tyrannical paralysis. The author believes that most swing flaws are not an issue of incorrect mechanics, but a result of the body s compensations for a grip and posture that work in opposition to natural instincts. Awaken Your Inner Golfer provides unique, simple, and explicit guidelines and illustrations to establish effective foundations of grip and posture that are necessary to access your instinctive kinesthetic intelligence. The section on the grip alone is worth the price of the book and may challenge your golf game for the better! The playful process of exploring the golf exercises with variations in grip, swing, stance, use of subtle senses, and imagination stimulate and awaken your body/mind s innate instinctive ability and facilitates trust in that ability to play golf more from your subconscious instincts than from your thinking mind. The simplicity of this approach could be the answer to the complexity of traditional golf instruction. By encouraging a quieting of the thinking mind and engagement of the physical body through the use of visualization, imagination mindfulness, and self-awareness, the golf exercises presented here also offer an opportunity to allow these tools to flow into the golfer s daily personal life.
