Simple

I'll go Mac one even better by suggesting that the golf swing can be broken down into the following simple concept:



If you can get yourself into these three positions most of the time during a full swing with every club, you will be a fine ball striker. The only golf swing instruction needed is to teach you how to get into these positions, which represent the true fundamentals of golf. The "methods" teach style and while its important to find a style you like, style in and of itself, will not help you reach these positions.

Unfortunately, it will take hundreds if not thousands of hours of practice to accomplish these fundamentals, and why most give up and focus on style instead. The irony is that most of us spend those hundreds and thousands of hours practicing style, but it is a different style every year, which never gets us any closer to learning the fundamentals.