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Earlier this summer I read an interview with Lynn Blake:

Q: "Is there a best way to apply these principles?"

A: "You bet. Start with the short shots, the little chips and pitches. Thousands of them. Here is where you learn the basics of grip, stance, posture, the stationary head, the straight left arm and the bending right arm, the right forearm position and right triceps extension, tracing the line, the impact hands location and clubshaft forward lean, and most of all, the motion of the hands through impact.

Here is where you rid yourself once and for all of the old ‘bending left wrist, flattening right wrist’ throwing motion at the ball. And you do it by concentrating on keeping the left wrist flat and accepting nothing less until it is. Only when you’ve mastered the flat left wrist should you expand the program to include the full pivot strokes. That’s because, without it, nothing else works very well, and more information means only more confusion.

Unfortunately, few instructors insist on this staged process and even when they do, most students won’t stick with it. And without this discipline, we come full circle to your first question: Nothing changes and handicaps remain high. The flip side of the coin is that, once mastered, this alignment becomes the gateway to a lifetime of better golf".

http://www.iseekgolf.com/golfinstruc...ith-lynn-blake

Then I watched a video on YouTube of Lynn demonstrating "basic motion".

I am an obsessive golfer, with the discipline to build a firm foundation for a sound swing. I have since hit thousands of 10-15 yard chips in my back yard, with a sand wedge, endless repetitions of basic motion.

In my first 5 rounds this year, my average score was 99.4. Last Sunday was a typical round, 99 with 41 putts.

This Thursday, I had a breakthrough. I shot 40-46=86, with 31 putts! I am beginning to feel like a player. I still had at least 4 or 5 shots where I threw the club from the top, resulting in pull hooks long and left. And I lost several strokes to my driver, which is going back into the basement! I can reach a 481 yard par-5 with two 6-irons, and an 8-iron.

Icing on the cake, when I got home Thursday, my mailman had delivered a copy of THE GOLFING MACHINE, my very own yellow book!

I am inching my way through chapter 14. I now have set my sights on breaking 80, which I have not done in almost 40 years.

I am 64, started in playing in 1956. My first lesson was with Lionel Hebert, although I honestly don't remember a word he said.