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Yea, we are just coming into season here in AZ. I actually practice more and play a touch less, they dont charge you more to practice in nice weather but man to play its an arm and a leg.

I will probably work more with an AI in Tucson who posts here from time to time.

The problem is now that my expectations are higher the margin for error has gone down and the swing needs to hold up. I can hit it with any pattern because its a stick and ball game which I have always been good at, but making that little white ball behave like I want is not nearly as easy. Each pattern is a journey for me to see what works best. It took HK 30 years right...I got some time.

Im very much the same way ...I like trying to work on both patterns. Three and four Barrel. I've even started goofing with the different Minor Basic Strokes....the Paw , the Pick, the Bat, the Pause, the Pull. The Pull , Paw and Bat are my faves. Left arm , shoulders , right arm.

I do think its best to keep em separated. So you need to identify their separate identities which adds a lot of precision. After a while you can turn components off and on like light switches.

I've been Random Sweep Release my whole life so I want to work on my Longitudinal , rope pulling for Drag Loading, to delay my release ......thats my goal for this winter. Without Yoda and Teds help Id never have known about any of this stuff. I cant tell you how much my ball striking has improved. I was a one handicap when I first met Lynn and Id say Im easily 25 yards longer off the tee now .....three years later, having played the game for 40 years. Im an old dog with some new tricks.

In regard to Rope Pulling , I know there's always this discussion about whether you can swing and hit at the same time. If you confine it to Longitudinal vs Radial acceleration its easy to see that you can do one or the other , or one (longitudinal) before the other (radial) but not two at the same time. You can not radially accelerate and still be longitudinally accelerating the club. "You can not walk in a circle and a straight line at the same time" , reasoned Homer. The longitudinal delays release of #2 angle if the hand path is straight (ish). Think about pulling a rope by its end, straight line......along the ground say......cf will not cause it to throw out radially because their is no cf .....unless the hands take a corner. Sort of like a water skier being pulled straight line, if the boat takes a corner the skier goes out. Thats how I see Drag Loading. Lately Im Drag then Drive or just Drag.

Never been to AZ ........I signed up for a Clubcorp card a few years ago and see there are some nice courses down there I could get on for a reasonable amount.... The photos of the courses in that state look awesome. Someday.