I was practicing at my local range on Thursday evening around 7pm. Play had been suspended at the tournament due to inclement weather earlier that afternoon. Presumably the practice area was also closed to the players. It was only myself and my AI, Scott Appleby, and we had just began practicing.
Then a rather tall man drives in and walks into the shop. Scott and I look at each other and he asks me, "Was that Jay Delsing?" I nod, saying, "I think so!" He runs in, introduces himself, and then Jay comes out and hit with us for about an hour and a half. Jay is a really nice guy and a self-proclaimed "feel player" with no intricate swing knowledge. He currently works with Jim Hardy and endorses his "one-plane" swing.
Over the course of those ninety minutes we got into some of the Hardy ideas. Jay says that he tries to get his right elbow "behind the seam of his golf shirt" at the top ("not a foot, not four inches, just 'behind'") then keeps it there while turning as fast as he can into the ball. [TGM references: Swinging procedure, Drag loading, Punch elbow position.] Through the ball he attempts to keep his hands in tight to his body and "throws" his right hand and clubface palm-up to the sky. I point out, as he demonstrates this, that he has a very bent left wrist. He says he doesn't worry about that because if he did all he'd do is hit hooks. As an aside, I guarantee he has a flat left wrist at impact.
Just a little snippet for everyone. It's things like this that only happen one week a year.
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