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Thanks Bucket. Watching Arnie over and over. Sweet stuff.


Saw Eddie again today. Worked on a few small but specific things.

First of all, my club was closed at address. Would seem I could have at least figured that out on my own in the last 20 years. Ha ha.. Got it fixed and now know how to ensure it is consistently square by grip checks. Changing my grip as well, for other reasons. Feels pretty good, but I have to think about it a lot.

Eddie found out what I was doing to jack up my back swing. My back swing was going too far to have purpose. My shoulder turn stopped and my arms continued going around and up (over my body). This put the club in a god awful place from which to initiate an on plane down swing. Combine this with an already closed club face at address, I wonder how I ever became even a bogey golfer. Sure have been making things hard on myself it seems. As we effectively shortened my back swing (or arms involvement) I felt as I was staying more on plane. Eddie said so and that is good as money in the bank. Need some fresh video but the British Open conditions today prevented such conveniences.

We worked on keeping my right elbow more attached to the body. The results were near instantaneous. The swing path on the down swing is way too inside and going out to left field. We worked on that a good bit and towards the end of the 1h 45m lesson I was getting it. I can do it now when I try, but it feels a bit artificial and I am fighting years of bad muscle memory. I have been yanking the club down with my left hand from the top.

I will have to educate my hands and arms to allow the right arm to do some pushing. Oddly, I think I used to do this on some level. After long practice sessions, it was always my right forearm that felt sore. Then I read this book and saw that dvd, started using the left arm exclusively to pull the club down. Seems I have inadvertently mixed swinging and hitting components over the years with disastrous results. Just guessing, but that is what it is feeling like.

Most importantly, I took what he taught me to the range later today. I was hitting some very consistent shots straight as a friggin laser. Just a pitching wedge into 30 mph wind, but it felt good. Real good. Nice high shots that flew straight about 115 yards. Wish I could have hit more but the course closed due to weather. The wife walked out on the range and filled her rain jacket pockets with balls. I hit about 20 balls and only 3 would have missed the green. A rarity for me. I still am not making any divots, but we talked about that today and there are aspects of Eddie's pattern that will fix this in time. Baby steps.

We stood in the driving rain and wind today for nearly 2 hours. Looks like I found me a golf instructor.



-Dan

DEDICATION.........instructor and student.....results to follow...nice work.