When a Weakness Turns Into a Weapon

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Richie,

I am glad you got your transplant and have taken up the game again, golf is better with you around!

I saw you got into a pretty good thread with Brian M on hitting and swinging a week or so ago, till our friend Jeff jumped in and got it closed down (errrr, not saying he was right or wrong, it just always happens). I dont like how he deleted other peoples posts and cherry picked the info so I might have missed some of your posts compared to what I read today.

I understood what Brian was saying that there is no true hitter or swinger and what feels like hitting is invariably still a swinging motion. I guess what I don't understand is for a guy who seems to promote patterns of swinging a club he is so opposed to using a hitting stroke, which to me could be just as much one of his patterns as NSA. Its also disconcerting to hear him say how trying to hit has ruined many a golfer, as you know I am digging into hitting.

I really studied the hitting posts around here all weekend and made a serious attempt to hit last night, too many changes to implement to make any determination but I can say for certain I did not go from 85% to 65% power as he suggested in that thread. What caught me by the biggest surprise is even with new impact fix hands which made the club look open at address I was still pulling the ball, is that the typical miss hitting, a pull or pull cut?