PowerSlot Swing catching fire

This past Wednesday, I went to the warm up round of the U.S. Open being held at our nation's greatest public golf course, The Black Course of Bethpage. What a course!!!

To anyone who has any questions about what it is like to play The Black ... and I know the course well because it is where I taught myself how to play golf nearly 20 years ago ... if you are not long and precise with your driver, then game over.

The course can be forgiving to those who hit it long and stay away from the rough. Trust me, a bad round at The Black is like going 18 rounds with Mike Tyson. You most definitely feel beaten up.

But I’m not writing to talk about the event, but more importantly, what I witnessed on the practice range Wednesday. There was a pro golfer, on the range of arguably the greatest golf tournament, using a training aid. That’s right, a training aid, that you and I can purchase at any golf store, in hopes of improving our game. Was I seeing things? Nope. Was he hitting well with the aid? Yup. And was his teaching pro right there making sure he was using the aid correctly? Yup. But one provoking thought came from this amazing sight.

Why is golf the most instruction-laden sport? Think about all sports that are played. You never hear that Roger Federer is using a training aid to help his backhand. You never hear that A-Rod is now working with a different swing coach to help him hit the ball further. You never hear that Kobe Bryant has been working on his jump shot technique with a coach. So why do we hear stories like this all the time in golf?

There’s an article about The PowerSlot Swing which can be seen in “Golfing Magazine,” that is distributed both regionally and nationally and it came out just in time for this year's U.S. Open. It has generated interest and there are golfers who want to take a lesson with me.

So after I left The U.S. Open, I met a man at a nearby range and taught him the PowerSlot Swing. He loved it! In just one lesson, we ran the whole gamut, from the short game to the driver. Toward the end of the lesson, my phone rang and it was a number I didn’t recognize but answered it anyway. After introducing myself, this gentleman, with a thick Long Island accent said, “Yeah, I saw your article in the magazine and I’m hear at the range … I got to tell you something crazy is happening here. I’m hitting the best shots of my life. Everything is going where I want it to go.” He wanted me to give him more explanation so I put him on the phone with the student I was working with and they began to talk like two excited 10-year-olds who just came out of their first Yankee game.

This is the point, The PowerSlot Swing truly does not need intense instruction. All you need is the decision to take the leap and give it a try. Now that contraption that the pro golfer was using may help him become a better golfer, but I promise no bells, whistles or gimmicks. Just a great swing that will work for you. Wait, now that I think about it, that contraption might work for the PowerSlot Swing. I’ll get back to you on this…NAH!!!

How Can I Improve The Swing?

So here is where I pause to ask any of the The PowerSlot Swing skeptics to do me a favor. And believe me, I have had many arrows slung my way where both golf teaching professionals and seasoned golfers have said, “The swing does not work.”

Any person reading this who has nothing nice to say (and by the way, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it at all) about the swing, give me your best physiological reason why the swing does not work. Instead of simply discarding something because it may look different, go against the grain or whatever your reason may be, intelligently tell me why.

Actually, your physiological reason could be helpful to me for it may give me improved insight as to how I can improve the teaching of the swing. But if you cannot do it, and all you can do is simply be negative, then maybe you should ask yourself why you don’t think the swing works or why the swing itself is something that is bothersome to you.

Once you can come up with your best answer, please e-mail me and maybe we can work together to bring The PowerSlot Swing to any and everybody who wants to improve their game. Because as I always say, and I will say it until the best reason why I should no longer say it is presented to me, “The Swing Works.”

The Next Best Thing

This is written as a letter to the golf industry:

Dear Golf Industry,

The other day, I taught two people The PowerSlot Swing and to their delight they found instant success. Before meeting with me, they said they would go to the range maybe twice a month because all they had ever felt was discomfort trying to find success using the conventional swing. However, one of the students said something I think you need to hear; “I will now come to the range two to three times a week to practice this swing because I am finally hitting the ball the way I knew I always could.”

Most important for this letter is having you hear this student say, “two to three times a week.” Why is this important for you to hear? If our overall economy is doing poorly, just imagine how the golf industry is suffering. If The PowerSlot Swing is able to get more people to say they find golf to be an easier game than they originally thought, I believe more people will begin to spend money again to play more golf – just as witnessed with this student I worked with – and hopefully, the golf industry will thrive, even in this poor economy.

Now I’m not being so presumptuous to say that The PowerSlot Swing is the cure to the golf industry’s downturn, but every little bit helps. So what I am asking the golf industry to do is embrace The PowerSlot Swing as a vehicle which will add interest in learning how to play golf, improving one’s golf game and most importantly, having people spend time and money to do it.

So in conclusion, to all in the golf industry who are looking for that next best thing to help bring people to your golf ranges and courses, embrace The PowerSlot Swing because I am confident to say that it is the next best thing.

Sincerely,
Andy Kossowsky
Inventor of The PowerSlot Swing

How Good Do You Think I Can Get?

I'm sure there are readers of my Blog who are wondering, “How good is Andy since inventing The PowerSlot Swing?” Before I tell you how good I am, I wanted to tell you a story.

Not so long ago, I played golf with someone I never met and he told me he had the chance to have a sit down lunch with The King, Arnold Palmer. This gentleman said their time together was short for he was at a table with other people who were taking up much of Arnold’s time. However, he was able to ask him one question; “If I play golf once a week, how good do you think I can get?”

The answer was quite surprising to me because it is the perfect description of the type of golfer I am. Arnold’s answer was, “If you play once a week, and you are a 10-handicap, consider yourself to be a great golfer.”

To all who are reading this, I am a 10-handicap and unfortunately, I only play once a week. Though my goal for this season is to get down to a 6, I realize it is going to be fairly difficult considering my five-year-old has a busy schedule, my working wife needs all the help she can get and my full-time job will become more interesting as the summer moves along.

How good do I think I can get using The PowerSlot Swing? I always say, give me three months where I can play nearly every day, practice my short and putting game and have someone from time to time look over my swing, I think I would be a low single digit to a scratch. I know it. But once a week golf just does not help me get to that level.

I often wonder if Tiger or any professional golfer only played once a week would be able to compete at the same level. Actually, think about any sport and regardless of comparable talent, put a once a week athlete up against a player who hones their competitive skills every day, you know who I am betting for.

So to conclude, some may think that being a 10-handicap, “is not that good” - though I did not use this time to tell you that since inventing The PowerSlot Swing I have shaved 6 strokes off my average score - but if The King said out loud that a person who plays the amount of golf that I do is someone he considers a great golfer, then who am I to argue.

I am proud to say I am a 10-handicap playing as little as I do, but the competitor in me knows I can and will get better. I hope that sounds a little like you for you know you can get better as well. Trust me everybody, the PowerSlot Swing works.