[BurleyGolf]

BurleyGolf,

6 flat is extremely flat.

I would be interested to know how tall you are and if you can measure the distance of your left wrist to the floor??

Let me know if you can do this and get back to me with the numbers.

Thanks in advance for getting these measurements, and I'm glad to hear you had some good practice today. I will add more to this thread in terms of the takeaway tomorrow in an effort to help those interested.

Sorting Through the Instructor's Textbook.

B-Ray

35inch from wrist to floor hands by my side, and in my address position 29inch from the bottom of the wrist to the floor. I am 5 foot 10 1/2.

I bent the clubs 6 flat to achieve a point I wanted to make in a book I wrote about Hogan's swing. I knew I was taller than Hogan and new I could bend them back the other way as needed but, I started hitting it really good and as long as I held my angle there was no toe dig.. Like every golfer does they want to progress and when I started working on some of the TGM stuff last week I found I needed to adjust. The adjust point with lie tape was 3 flat.

I will note one other thing todays clubs are way to upright taking the roundness out of the swing, more hitting now... The clubs are all weighted to get the ball in the air, and self correct mistakes. Now, the funny part about this is the new clubs don't help you if you are hitting it well, they do if your off but not to the extent of what most think. The other thing is the sweet spot has not changed it's still in the middle and the same size, the ball does not know if you are hitting it with a blade or a cavity back. I did a little study awhile back and found that since 1995 that more people shank they ball now more than ever, and there are more people in the game today as well. The New irons are kinda helping and killing the game. Tiger said that he hits his old wood every once in awhile and hits it the same distance as his metal wood, give or take a few yards.. But the metal wood carries about 40 yards further with less roll, and you are less likley to have a miss hit on the toe which is a distance killer in wood drivers. Just food for thought..!

Thanks,
BurleyGolf-