'7 Laws' & Nick Bradley

I have a confession to make, I read too many golf books. I'm always looking for something more in my swing. I honestly believe the golf swing can't be as complex as we and most of the golf teachers out there make it. But, like most golfers, my own experience and what I see going on around me says my beliefs are wrong. And now comes along Nick Bradley to sell us hope once more.

But this time may be different. I don't know yet, but from what I saw in my first glance at his book 'The Seven Laws Of The Golf Swing' hope springs anew. First, the visuals are completely different from anything I've seen in a golf instruction book. If there is a 'secret' some where I believe it's in an image. Hogan gave us the 'swing plane' piece of glass as a visual and I believe that one image drove much of the golf theory that's been written since. But there's got to be more. There are too many of us out here that struggle too much with the full swing for that to be THE image.

Nick Bradley's book isn't full of swing sequence pictures. In that sense, there are relatively few images and they are mostly full page vies depicting one of his seven laws. They are visually stimulating and perhaps this is done to keep them 'burned' into our memories. A good many of them also show the underlying skeletal positions. You may think this odd as you read these comments, but go take a look and I think you'll come away with a different opinion.

Though I only scanned the book, I liked the idea that there were only 'seven' laws. Most golf books give way too many pieces of information for the normal human to digest. They also lack any ranking, so you may unwittingly be practicing something that isn't very important, while not addressing one of the basics. Seven is doable. You can get your head, and hands, around that. That also fits in with my belief that the swing can't be that complicated, we just make it that way.

I found the book at Borders, so go take a look for yourself. It won't hurt your game and, who knows, you just might find a big part of the puzzle that you've been missing. Let me know what you think.