Brad Hawkins Golf Academy

We’ve spent decades analysing where the club, hands and arms should be.
But what if they’re simply responding to something that happened earlier?
The question I’m interested in isn’t WHERE.
It’s WHY.
Find the cause and the response changes.

If I can’t do it myself, I have no right charging you to teach it.

Golf instruction has spent long enough teaching what happens instead of WHY it happens.

I’m done playing safe. I’ve done the work. I’ll stand behind what I teach.

Agree or disagree — let’s have the conversation.

Most golfers are told to get into an “athletic setup.”
But looking athletic doesn’t mean the body is organised correctly.
The relationship between the rib cage, shoulder girdle and the weight of the club can completely change how the arms hang and how much freedom you have to move.If the shoulder girdle is holding the club instead of responding to its weight, you can already be blocked before the club ever moves.
Posture isn’t about how it looks.
It’s about what it allows to happen next.

You’re studying what happened — not what caused it to happen.The positions you see in great golf swings are often responses to what happened before them. Copying the position doesn’t teach you how the player got there. Understand the cause, and the positions can start taking care of themselves.

The takeaway isn’t the problem—it’s the first response. Most golfers know where the club should go. Very few understand what’s stopping it from getting there. That’s the difference between teaching positions and coaching cause and effect.

Most golfers spend years trying to fix their backswing and downswing, but the real problem starts before the club even moves.If your posture doesn’t organise your body correctly, every movement that follows becomes a compensation.Build the setup correctly, and the swing starts responding instead of being forced.
Follow for more cause-and-effect golf instruction.

What if the positions you’ve been chasing were never the real problem?
For years, golfers have been taught where to put the club, the hands and the body. But positions are only the response. The real question is: what created them?
Once you understand the cause, the positions start happening naturally instead of something you have to force.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you think golf instruction focuses too much on positions?
What if the positions you’ve been chasing were never the real problem?
For years, golfers have been taught where to put the club, the hands and the body. But positions are only the response. The real question is: what created them?
Once you understand the cause, the positions start happening naturally instead of something you have to force.

Most golfers spend years chasing positions instead of understanding what creates them.
Depth and width aren’t things you try to manufacture—they’re responses to what happens before them. When you understand the cause, the positions take care of themselves.
Stop copying swings. Start understanding movement.

Most golfers spend years trying to change the response instead of fixing the cause. If you understand what creates the movement, the swing starts changing much faster.