[Delaware Golf]

Last paragraph of 7-19, "Right Arm Swing". My humble opinion is that the Hitting instruction that you were given was a bad idea. It got the patterns crossed. I would never have changed you to Hitting. Swinging is in your genes. You're an awesome Swinger, so why change? As much as I'd like for someone to Hit, I know better than changing someone with so many Swinging tendencies.

I love your pattern, and I think it resembles the awesome footage that you showed me from Mac's prime.

My advice to you: DON'T HIT! DON'T SWING WITH THE RIGHT ARM! SWING!

Ted,

How do you explain the last two paragraphs of Tomasello's July 1991 interview...the master of swinging with the right arm.

GI: What happens to the shots of a player who executes these moves?

Tomasello: The player will immediately hit the ball higher and straighter, and substantially longer. The flight pattern will be dead straight to its apex, with the ball falling a touch left or drawing fractionally as it decends.

GI: How long before a student makes significant improvement?

Tomasello: I can give you documented examples of golfers with no previous record of success who started winning tournaments immediately (on the pro tours Sally Little and Jodie Mudd, I'm sure there are more). But the learning is never-ending. The amount of time and dedication the golfer puts in determines how far he or she can go.

How about Jodie Mudd's comments: "I started working with Tom Tomasello on The Golfing Machine in March 1984. At the time I was in danger of losing my tour card. I finished the year qualifying in 15 of the last 17 events and climbed from 250 to 35 on the money list".

For the record, Tomasello was teaching the swing from July 1991 Golf Illustrated before he went to Australia in 1989. I have Tommy teaching that swing in a 1988 video. Some seem to believe that Croker influenced the swing that Tom talks about in the GI interview.

It's funny, in the Letter series videos, Tomasello says the keys to the golf swing are the right forearm and the right hand.

As a student of Tommy's, I can tell you that Tom used the checklist from 12-3-0 and 12-5-1/2/3 as the basis for his teaching. Tom didn't deviate from TGM.


DG