[Delaware Golf]

Yoda,
This really intrigues me. Where will you get the 'test subjects'? To do this well, you might actually have to use one person on swinging and compare to another person hitting...which then raises issues. I'm not sure one individual can do both equally well since the differences in the two motions are both subtle and not so subtle.

Ted switched me to hitting a year and a half ago....now I'm not a great player but I have a 1.8 index (down from roughly 3 when I first came to Ted..go Ted!) What I've found is a) on the course I swit probably 50% of the time... it is hard to eliminate cf and it doesn't take much to overpower the right triceps b)I 'think' I can generate slightly more clubhead speed swinging....but again I don't hit or swing optimally all the time (ever? might be more correct when referring to optimal) and I can't pivot well enough swinging to keep the ball in the same zipcode. In my very limited experience I find it hard to believe that there is someone who can, on command, switch and optimally execute both stroke patterns.... and I believe opimal is necessary because some of the differences are subtle. Although, I await anxiously ANY feedback that comes from the TPI experience, as I'm running out of time (just speaking for my 59 yr. old self) and still need tons of help.

YES, YOU CAN SWITCH FROM BOTH PATTERNS ON COMMAND AND GENERATE OPTIMAL SHOTS (just watch the Tomasello videos (I also think Tommy developed his playing and teaching approach around moving between hitting and swinging with ease and moving between the different hinge actions with ease too), I believe Yoda can hit and swing equally as well too). However, I swing more than I hit. I don't I need to incorporate more hitting (hitting stroke pattern) with my irons to achieve MORE accuracy. The right arm swinging stroke pattern I learned from Tomasello has all of the accuracy I need (almost holed a 7 iron from 160 yards last weekend, ball mark was two inches from the cup). I mainly use hitting with full shots for distance control and sometimes spinning the ball left to right on the green towards the pin. So, I use hitting as a strategic asset rather than as a primary stroke pattern.

On audio tape, I have Tomasello commenting on his game from a personal journal entry....to paraphrase the comment "striking the ball as good as ever and shooting par or better". The "shooting par or better" is a direct quote, I don't think it gets better than that...


DG