A Day With YODA

[Yoda]

Great day at the PGA today.

I guess we could have watched Tiger without feeling guilty. Afew minutes after Tiger left, we were still looking towards the range. Who do you think was standing 4 feet from Tiger watching him? YODA

We (the crowd and the photographers) are always looking at Tiger. I thought it would be fun to show his view looking at us!

[O.B.Left]

How does that work Yoda? Does one just wander over to observe Tiger
quietly or is there some chit chat pre amble or...........did he set up shop beside you or........

Nice photos.

[KevCarter]

Personal update,

• Frank is having a blast.
• Another of my students had his best round ever today. Thanks Mr. MacDonald...
• I hit balls for the first time in a couple of weeks. Compressed draws. No yips. Really fun to feel the "ground forces" again. More importantly, a new CENTERED PIVOT with zero pain! Maybe I'll even try playing again.

YODA, you are the GREATEST!!!

Thank You,
Kevin

[Yoda]

Personal update,

• Frank is having a blast.
• Another of my students had his best round ever today. Thanks Mr. MacDonald...
• I hit balls for the first time in a couple of weeks. Compressed draws. No yips. Really fun to feel the "ground forces" again. More importantly, a new CENTERED PIVOT with zero pain! Maybe I'll even try playing again.

YODA, you are the GREATEST!!!

Thank You,
Kevin

Thanks for posting, Kevin. The Golf Stroke is a complex, athletic motion that can be made a whole lot simpler than most people realize. That is what you learned in our session at Medinah, and that is the way it is.

Again, I say . . .

If you can walk and swing your arms from side to side (in perfect timing with your 'walking' motion), you can learn to swing a golf club the same way. In doing so, you can learn to swing it the the same way the pros do -- the same way they learned to do it as kids. You won't hit the ball as far as they do -- nor as straight -- but you will hit it with the same authority, and you will begin to post scores you heretofore only imagined.

You will wake up every morning and know that you are 'doing it right', and that you deserve the lower scores you now are producing. You will have become not just a golfer, but a player.

And that's a good thing.

[O.B.Left]

Yoda , would this be swinging your arms independent of your shoulders? Would shoulder motion be arm driven or hip?

[JerryG]

Yoda,
It has been about three months since you visited us in Minnesota. On that day at Medina I thought I was starting all over again. You gave us your all throughout the day and gladly much of it was actually absorbed into this puny brain.
I used to play pretty fair golf and actually thought I knew something about the golf swing. Kevin Carter introduced me to TGM and I learned otherwise. After a hip injury and lots of confusion I couldn't break 90 earlier this year.
After Medina it started to come together bit by bit. Visits with Kevin including chipping and range time, revisiting the MacDonald drills, Homer's book, daily visits to LBG Forums (the website with the most golf expertise available) have been a huge learning process.
3 weeks ago it started to slowly come together. Last week the score started to appear. My last two rounds on two different quality golf courses were 75.
"Thanks" seems a little shy for what I have gained, but I at least get to buy coffee for Kev.
Regards.

[Yoda]

Yoda,
It has been about three months since you visited us in Minnesota. On that day at Medina I thought I was starting all over again. You gave us your all throughout the day and gladly much of it was actually absorbed into this puny brain.
I used to play pretty fair golf and actually thought I knew something about the golf swing. Kevin Carter introduced me to TGM and I learned otherwise. After a hip injury and lots of confusion I couldn't break 90 earlier this year.
After Medina it started to come together bit by bit. Visits with Kevin including chipping and range time, revisiting the MacDonald drills, Homer's book, daily visits to LBG Forums (the website with the most golf expertise available) have been a huge learning process.
3 weeks ago it started to slowly come together. Last week the score started to appear. My last two rounds on two different quality golf courses were 75.
"Thanks" seems a little shy for what I have gained, but I at least get to buy coffee for Kev.
Regards.

Jerry,

From 90+ this summer to 75 this fall is a pretty fair leap. Congratulations!

I have written in the past of the void I feel -- I liken it to post-partem depression -- after doing a national workshop, whether it be one day (as in your case) or two or three (other typical LBG formats, public or private). I feel the same way after our annual The Barclays Golf Academy in which our five-man professional team gives more than 500 individual lessons (and hundreds more in group format) during the four days of the tournament. That 'void' is born of the distance that now separates me from my students.

In each instance, we have come together from afar; we have worked; and we have bonded. Then -- poof! -- it is over, and we return to our respective homes. I know we have 'cracked the egg' and am proud of the progress we have made. But, I also know that even more lies immediately ahead, especially if it is facilitated and monitored by a competent teaching professional.

Thank God for guys like Kevin Carter.

He makes your story -- and mine -- possible.

[GPStyles]

cool story, way to go JerryG