POPULAR MYTHS

Looking Up

“Contrary to widespread belief, head lifting invariably is an EFFECT of bad swinging, not the CAUSE.”  ---Ernest Jones, Swing the Clubhead, 1952 .

   So if someone says, "I looked up!" as if to absolve himself of any personal responsibility for a poor shot, interpret that as, "I made a really bad swing."

Magnetic Therapy?

A recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involving sufferers of chronic lower-back pain, found that real magnets were no more effective than fake ones for relieving the participants’ discomfort, suggesting the placebo effect might be at work when it comes to these popular golf accessories. - Golf for Women, December 2000