Thursday 12 January 2012

Your Authentic Swing

The Legend of Baggar Vance
A Golf Movie About Life
Based on the book by Steven Pressfield
Directed by Robert Redford
As the caddie, Baggar, and his small assistant, Hardy, measure the course the night before the golf tournament young Hardy asks about their golfer:
Hardy:  Do you think Junah can win?

Baggar: If he can find his authentic swing.

Hardy:  Authentic . . .?

Baggar:  Yup!  Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing.   Something we was born with.  Something that is ours and ours alone.  Something that can't be taught to you, or learned, it's something that's got to be remembered.  Over time the world can rob us of that swing . . . (it) can get buried inside us under all our would'ves and could'ves and should'ves.  Some folk even forget what their swing was like.

(Hardy runs out of balls to putt.)
Baggar:  Keep swinging.

Hardy:  But I don't have any balls.

Baggar:  Don't worry about hitting the ball or where it's going to go, just swing the club, feel the club.  Close your eyes.  You can't make that ball go in, you have to let it.
LOP is going beyond my would'ves and could'ves and should'ves. I cannot make myself LOP, I have to let me.

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