Thank you OB
You've just validated the key to my recent "AHA!!!" moment about the golf swing.
I've slowly practiced and begun to understood pressure points, power accumulators, Magic of the Right Forearm etc....but until I started using Extensor Action, I was still inconsistent with my stroke. It has been the 'glue' to my whole swing!
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This is how unfair life can be....
Ya see this....1093 Posts.
I began understanding the Magic of the Right Forearm 3 weeks ago, and had it locked down about 1 week ago which includes Extensor Action and the Flying Wedges.
You have 4 posts. I bet your about 20 years old too.
I began understanding the Magic of the Right Forearm 3 weeks ago, and had it locked down about 1 week ago which includes Extensor Action and the Flying Wedges.
You have 4 posts. I bet your about 20 years old too.
Daryl - I wish I was 20 again! Then maybe I could've enjoyed 20 more years of golf than I have - I've only been playing(hacking, actually) about 5 years....until I stumbled onto this great site. Now I feel like I can actually control the golf ball....some of the time! Thanks to all (like you) who post here giving freely of their knowledge. I'm sure there's still more for me to learn......though hopefully before I get to 1000 posts!
I have to re learn Extensor Action every week or two. I find that it is almost always the thing missing thing when Im going through a golf trough or cycling down. You're not so far behind, never more than one cycle. You can always just catch the next wave.
Hey, Drew will like this, no doubt. He's a wave rider no?
I have posted along these lines before but I believe it may be helpful to some in the consistency department. Behaviour is driven by sub-conscious desire...or true intent. What do you really want out of this ball of wax? The golf stroke is a vehicle to a greater end, namely lower golf scores. Even the best learned to "win ugly" Nobody likes "ugly." I think the goal of becoming a ball-striking savant is a pyrrhic victory at best.Not to raise the eyebrows of our northern neighbors but there were X amount of players that could probably have schooled Moe Norman out there where it counts (just not on the days his was setting one of his umpteen course records!)
Homer seemed to be big on the separate identities thing and gave us great advice on how to proceed.
Learn the alignments...make the motion indoors...always look, look looking...take the motion to the range and manufacture shots as though you were playing golf...take your shots to the course...add the numbers and enjoy...rinse and repeat.
I am aghast at how many seasoned players cannot aim within 30 years of their target! To me that is a result of being mechanics-minded on the range. I think when the lines between the three stages become blurred then consistency suffers!
I have posted along these lines before but I believe it may be helpful to some in the consistency department. Behaviour is driven by sub-conscious desire...or true intent. What do you really want out of this ball of wax? The golf stroke is a vehicle to a greater end, namely lower golf scores. Even the best learned to "win ugly" Nobody likes "ugly." I think the goal of becoming a ball-striking savant is a pyrrhic victory at best.Not to raise the eyebrows of our northern neighbors but there were X amount of players that could probably have schooled Moe Norman out there where it counts (just not on the days his was setting one of his umpteen course records!)
Homer seemed to be big on the separate identities thing and gave us great advice on how to proceed.
Learn the alignments...make the motion indoors...always look, look looking...take the motion to the range and manufacture shots as though you were playing golf...take your shots to the course...add the numbers and enjoy...rinse and repeat.
I am aghast at how many seasoned players cannot aim within 30 years of their target! To me that is a result of being mechanics-minded on the range. I think when the lines between the three stages become blurred then consistency suffers!
My tenacity is exponentially more disagreeable when I am wrong!
This has been part of my TGM journey. My initial reaction to discovering TGM was "YESSS...finally golfing perfection will be mine. Muhahaha!" I have always had the tendecy even in the middle of competitive play to become swing-oriented...er obsessed. Sean O'Hair reminds me of me back in the day with...less compression...less hair...less height! Always fidgeting...always tinkering. Ironically, it took the most exhaustive book on golf stroke mechanics ever compiled to put me on a better path! HK My "mob" as Homer termed it is less unruly these days. If I have a particulary bad day I know that my alignments are off so I have to go back to the net, the mirror etc. Start with 12-5-1...graduate to 12-5-2...I have a rule: if I start thinking about sequenced releases, snap loading etc. on the range I make it a mechanics session by hitting nothing but basic motion shots (not my favorite way to hit a bucket of perfectly good range balls) On the course I try to approach it from a NO, or GO mind set (learned this from Tomasi's book The 30 Second Swing.) Essentially this is shot selection based on the situation at hand factoring layout difficulty, weather, personal feel etc. I focus on the straight plane line, clubface alignment and "catching" the lag with my #3PP.
My tenacity is exponentially more disagreeable when I am wrong!
This has been part of my TGM journey. My initial reaction to discovering TGM was "YESSS...finally golfing perfection will be mine. Muhahaha!" I have always had the tendecy even in the middle of competitive play to become swing-oriented...er obsessed. Sean O'Hair reminds me of me back in the day with...less compression...less hair...less height! Always fidgeting...always tinkering. Ironically, it took the most exhaustive book on golf stroke mechanics ever compiled to put me on a better path! HK My "mob" as Homer termed it is less unruly these days. If I have a particulary bad day I know that my alignments are off so I have to go back to the net, the mirror etc. Start with 12-5-1...graduate to 12-5-2...I have a rule: if I start thinking about sequenced releases, snap loading etc. on the range I make it a mechanics session by hitting nothing but basic motion shots (not my favorite way to hit a bucket of perfectly good range balls) On the course I try to approach it from a NO, or GO mind set (learned this from Tomasi's book The 30 Second Swing.) Essentially this is shot selection based on the situation at hand factoring layout difficulty, weather, personal feel etc. I focus on the straight plane line, clubface alignment and "catching" the lag with my #3PP.
Well Okie, You’re on a roll. Two for two.
I don’t want to bust anyone's bubble, but……, for those that understand TGM, the difference between a good day and a bad day, is only a few yards. Of course the score card may be very different.
For the rest of Golfdom, it’s “wow, man, did anyone see where that one went?”. "I didn't flip my thing at the whatyacallit position".
"I didn't flip my thing at the whatyacallit position". 
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