[Richie3Jack]

If making bad shots equates to teaching the mind to handle more frustration, then are you suggesting I restrict my golf to the range in the pursuit of more knowledge/information?

I think the key is to be open to allowing your mind to more knowledge/information or whatever in order to get proper mechanics. Because with the proper mechanics, then you can start yourself on the right path to get the feel.

Feels are subjective. TGM is a feel oriented book, IMO. I believe Homer Kelley fully understood that feel was extremely key to a golfer's success because it could make the swing repeatable. I also believe that Homer Kelley saw that the problem was that feels are subjective.

For instance, as far as keeping the FLW at impact I try to feel a very slow start down. I also feel a bit of a 'palm heel strike' right into the ball with my right arm/right hand. That may not work for you, but it works for me. In Yoda's video lesson with Colin Neeman, Collin's best shots were when he felt he was driving the ball right into the ground instead of driving it into the air. Works for him, may not work for you.

We got there by understanding the right mechanics first and then coming up with the feel that works best for us. This feel then allows us to repeat these mechanics over and over. I believe this was one of Homer Kelley's main goals of TGM, provide a system where golfers could come up with their own feels in order to repeat the proper mechanics.

When you say 'My intent was not to get into the mechanics, more the mind's response to the mechanics'...you appear to be missing the big step in creating a repeatable stroke.




3JACK