Tomasello question

[Delaware Golf]

I knew Tom Tomasello personally.

I talked golf with him intimately for many years.

During much of that time, we were both learning and discussing Homer Kelley's Star System of G.O.L.F.

Tommy was a fifty-ish retired Marine twenty years my senior working in the golf business. I was a thirty-ish, Honorably Discharged Air Force guy now graduated from Georgia Tech working in the financial business. Despite our enormous dissimilarites, we were brothers: We lived in the same town, shared the same passion and had the same dream; that is, finally unravelling the mysteries of the Golf Stroke. Oh so many times, we went mano-o-mano in close quarters -- I guess you could call 'close' my 12' X 50' mobile home (paid-for from the slim pickin's of my moonlighting cookware sales and the G.I. Bill) -- only to come out clinging to 'this book' or 'that book' and 'he said' or 'she said.'

Then came The Golfing Machine.

It hit us both like a ton of bricks.

Bobby Clampett was making his move and Ben Doyle was his mentor.

Words such as lag and drag and thrust were used for the first time, and we embraced the challenge of learning more.

Tommy went first to Homer Kelley -- in 1981. I followed in 1982.

Now, some twenty-five years later, I have had the privilege of watching many times on video my late friend deliver his message.

A message that has enabled so many -- from handicap player to TOUR champion -- to bridge the gap between 'can't' and 'can.'

Here is my conclusion:

Tommy didn't teach Right Arm Swing.

And he certainly didn't teach Hitting.

Tommy Tomasello taught Lag Pressure.

Lag Pressure and its consequent Clubhead Acceleration sensed by the Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point (Right Forefinger).

Lag Pressure as defined by Homer Kelley.

Lag Pressure as known by Ben Hogan and described in his book Five Lessons as "three right hands."

Lag Pressure as understood by Tommy Armour in his How To Play Your Best Golf All the Time and translated as "Whack the Hell out of the ball with your right hand."

Lag Pressure.

It is the Secret of Golf (6-C-2-0/A-E).

Yoda,

Tommy taught BOTH Hitting and Swinging...the swinging motion utilized right arm acceleration...it's a right arm swinging motion with longitudinal acceleration. Tommy didn't just "Sense" the right forearm he USED it.

Then tell us what the difference is between what Tomasello taught and right arm swinging...I'm sure there other forum members that want to know.

DG

[ChrisNZ]

I must admit, the more I get into Tom's procedures, the less I really care whether it's a right arm swing or not - more just whether it works!!!

That said, I wonder if the action involved in a non-automatic release for swingers is relevant here. Usually, this is presented in terms of a deliberate effort to begin to release accumulator #2 (wrist cock), for example in Yoda's classic post on the three stage rocket (drag load, uncock the left wrist, roll). But if the folded right elbow (with its level right wrist) causes the left wrist to cock, could not this non-automatic (or deliberate) uncocking of the left wrist be turned over to the deliberate unfolding of the right elbow? Similarly, any cocking of the left wrist on the backswing is analogous with folding the right elbow. In a nutshell, the right forearm cocks and uncocks, the pivot turns...

That's pretty much how I'm experiencing Tom's swing at the moment. Right arm swing - maybe not (I am 99.9% sure that the right elbow is not the low point in Tom's swing); right arm, or forearm controlled swing - very likely. Lag pressure - absolutely!

Chris