Sweet!
 

Long story...short version. Okie struggling...viewed DVDs...centered head...magic of the right forearm = -3, 69...from the tips...blowing 20-25 mph! Best ball striking round in...10 years!

Wow, do you think impact alignments are important? Nice testimonial!!!

Kevin

Sustained IT for a full round
 

I seldom post scores...especially the good ones. I cannot begin to tell you how poorly I was hitting the ball (even for an infrequent player) I start to get down...then watching the DVDs again I realized that was my problem...I had lost the down...the 3-D impact. I got the old bungee cord out and started doing the extensor action drill with the right forearm pick-up and noticed that my hand path had become more circular...add insuffiicient hand speed etc. I rate that one of my best ball-striking rounds because not only did I hit the ball well but not once did the clubhead outrace my hands through the ball....that was the first time EVER that I sustained the lag pressure on all of my full shots in a single round of golf. Experimenting with this and that I had moved away from the importance of lag pressure. I did hit quite a few shots that were not 100% on line...in fact I only hit 3-4 that you could put a hat over them...but the 3 dimensional impact was there. If I had scored 5 strokes higher I would still have been chuffed!

What Is Lag Pressure?
 

"Lag Pressure."

Such a mysterious term!

Yet we bandy it about as jargon we think we all understand.

But we don't.

This past weekend, at the conclusion of a long and fruitful day's work, my student Collin Neeman, http://lynnblakegolf.com/gallery/sho...ry.php?cat=512 now playing the Gateway Tour in Arizona, and I were having dinner at Cuscowilla. The day's work done, we were talking about the illusive and inert 'lag pressure'.

The water glass loomed before me, and with my right forearm on the table, I placed my forefinger to its side and, using my forearm (and a bit of pivot from my seat), moved it slowly to the left side of the table. The glass resisted -- inertia -- yet my forearm advanced. And with it, the glass.

My 'on plane' forearm and the supporting pressure point (the right forefinger), felt the 'drag' of the 'lagging' glass.

"'Water Glass' lag pressure", said I.

"'Clubhead' Lag Pressure", said he.

The Golf World wants you to "Swing the Clubhead", almost always with an indiscriminate bending of the left wrist. In the words of a famous instructor, to "hit the ball with the head of your instrument".

:sad:

A TGMer uses his Pivot and Arm Swing to create Clubhead Lag Pressure in his Hands. The "head of your instrument" takes care of itself.

The difference is empowering.

And is more easily demonstrated than explained.

:salut:

"Swing the Hands not the Clubhead."

Yoda, until you showed me what this really looked like, I only thought I knew what this meant. Suffice it to say the flat left wrist plays a big part.

ob

Indispensable, but elusive!
 

Ain't that the truth! I can even plot how I got off track. I started to think consciously about the clubface/clubhead instead of my hands. I suppose it wil always be a challenge to continue monitoring the hands. Lag pressure is indispensable as well as elusive...and you don't even need that much! :golf:

sorry for going (slightly) off topic, but thanks for the update Yoda. I very much enjoyed watching the videos with Colin when I first joined this site. Can I ask what age he was when you made those clips and how much has Colin's game changed since then - ie what was his handicap back then (he looked like a college kid then) and what was it when he turned pro?

I had often wondered how his golf had developed after seeing the videos.

Making a Splash...not!
 

..and if you can snatch the pebble from my Educated Hands, it is time for you to leave :) .

Seriously, what a wonderful post. One of my All-Time favorites.

I am heading to the Chinese restaurant for lunch - can't wait to give it a try.

Seriously how much right wrist bend? Where should the bend be set? How much bend sustained into the hit?

Alignment in the sand
 

I watched Alignment Golf disk #1 twice yesterday, both times being mesmorised by the beautiful sand shots VJ and Yoda produced apparently effortlessly, It got me wondering, can I or anybody for that matter use a hitting procedure from the bunker?