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".
Basic and Acquired are fine exercises and lead to extraordinary short games.
But when it gets to Total Motion and the pivot components get in there, that's when the trouble begins.
Train the pivot first. Not hitting it well? Look to pivot. Without a club.
Basic and Acquired are fine exercises and lead to extraordinary short games.
But when it gets to Total Motion and the pivot components get in there, that's when the trouble begins.
Train the pivot first. Not hitting it well? Look to pivot. Without a club.
Loren,
I am finding the same thing, work on impact alignments using basic and acquired motion. Those alignments must become ingrained so they happen automatically in total motion. In total motion, work on pivot and think about the three stations, Address, top, finish. It's too difficult to see and feel impact alignments during total motion, and working on them may encourage quitting/steering, and makes it next to impossible to execute a proper finish swivel.
THE STAR SYSTEM TRIAD
1) The Three Imperatives (2-0)
2) Controlling the Three Functions (1-L-A/B/C)
3) Through the Three Stations (12-3)
I am really enjoying the simplicity of the MacDonald drills in training my pivot.
Kevin
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I could be wrong. I have been before, and will be again.
"I didn't flip my thing at the whatyacallit position". 
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