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".
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.
got addicted to golf in 2000...here in the igloo land of quebec canada, winters are long so i started looking at golf forums and ran upon a caracter named Randy Sparks...a TGMer and a Homer fan...i challenged him with my lack of knowledge...a couple of years later, here i am on msn every morning with him and Dave, the dude from OZZY-LAND exchanging vids of our swings for a couple of years, trying to ingrain TGM...
Got to meet Randy in his hometown of Destin and spend a day of "HITTING", wich was a surprise for both of us...He let me talk to Chuck Evans on his cell after sinking about ten 12 footers per hit stroke...geez...those were the days...
Too many years have gone past since this meeting and the internet exchanges, but life gos on. I would love the do it all over again, and my passion for TGM lives on, especially through this forum although i am quiet, i'm still around and listening and learning.
WHEN STUDYING THE TGM BOOK TRIANGULATE A CoNCEPT USING THE SEARCH FUNCTION OF OUR FORUMS, THE VIDEOS, AND THE BOOK BETWEEN LESSONS. STANDARD ADDRESS AT MID-BODY DEMANDS A CORRECT GRIP ALA HOGAN AND THE MACDONALD MARCHING DRILLS AND CROSS THOSE WITH HOGAN LOWER BODY VIDS ON YOU TUBE! WHEN YOU MOVE FREELY LAGGING UP AND DOWN PLANE YOUR FLAT FROZEN LEFT WRIST APPPLIED TO THE HINGES WILL GIVE YOU GREAT BALL CONTROL.
Originally Posted by rhh7
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".
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.
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
What brought me to TGM? Very simply, a scientific system that I could depend unwaveringly and not one that changes with the whims and fancies of self anointed gurus, who if they cannot convince you, will confuse you.
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