[innercityteacher]

My presupposition is that Leadbetter/Haney/Harmon, McClain, and every popular teacher and great player can be discussed in relation to TGM as having done several things HK would agree with. Sometimes, those translators of golfing truth use a different way to illustrate golfing insights that I find easier to apprehend and assimilate.

I want to learn how TGM describes these insights and then we can go back in time and better understand the champions of old like old Tom Morris or Bobby Jones.


In Nick Faldo's "Golf-The Winning Formula," Nick Faldo (Leadbetter,pp.88-90), describes 3 ways to "Reverse the Swing." The first is "to feel the left shoulder rise." The second is the "bringing the back elbow down and in." The third, "and only for the most advanced player," is to feel the left knee seperate from the right.


I asked my GSEB about this, today, as he instructed me to come to "neutral knees," before "hitting the ball with my hips." So I noticed the left knee move and asked.

As I practiced coming to neutral, the ball compressed differently and travelled low before climbing the hill to apex and landing softly. It made a different compressing sound and felt effortless.

Why is such a little move so radically effective?

You've really hit on an interesting thing here. Somebody wake Bucket up, we'll be talking goat humping here.

If you Slide, 10-14-B (but please dont look at the photos, they've really got to go) parallel to the Angle Of Approach as opposed to parallel to the Arc of Approach your weight will go out over your left toes. (If you're useing the Arc and Slide parallel to it , then your weigth will be less on your toes)

Now if you leave your weight on the toes and then Turn on top of that , you have moved your center of gravity closer to the ball! Another form of the Goat Hump sort of, which can also move the left shoulder, closer to the ball giving you some Radius issues.

So you gotta get your weight off your toes while your turning to keep your "ass on the glass".

Somethin Ted told me about.

"Swinging from the feet" or ground is kinda something different, see 6-M-1 The Downswing Sequence.