[innercityteacher]

Yah, thanks, man.

I personally, can get into a lot of yippy stabbing stuff with that Push Elbow Chip Basic............maybe its just me. I dont know.

I have discovered, thanks to John Savage (GSEB), that my swing is ENTIRELY in my control.

I can rotate my hips back, slowly, feeling the weight/lag (as confirmed by Yoda's Brian Gay tape)going back.

I can then concentrate on driving my primary lever with a frozen bent right wrist using pp#1, or elbow thrust, or pp # 3 (within 125 yards). That combination of moves keeps my body very quiet and seems to minimize the left leg imbalance I feel. As I get used to driving the lever down, all sorts of interesting concepts come to mind.

Indeed, the more I drive the primary lever, the clearer balance positions become and accuracy improves. (I had my short irons behind my belt buckle and either hooked them or pushed them off the green). Our rough is brutal and even though the sand is uneven at our public course, we welcome bunker shots.

The simplicity of driving the lever with my right arm (hitting) brings to mind the idea of a machine (fairways and greens).

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DRIVING QUESTIONS: I see pros vary the height of their tee balls. (Daryl, we are not speaking about the height of the little umbrellas in your "boat drinks." You know the frothy, fruity, rather feminine drinks that people from Illinois consume to celebrate their adopted Hawaiian POTUS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_drinks )(If I were him, I read this forum. I'd also ask the readers here, for a clue about many other subjects. Jerry and I would be happy to help him in educational issues. For every 1 percentage point we increase the performance of a schools population, we could get a 1% tax reduction. For every graduating hs person above the previous five year average of the school, we could get a $1000 grant for a needy person to a college of their choice, or a $1000 deduction on their home mortgage. Anyway.....)


1) When teeing the ball higher, as I have read about on our forum, I found the ball to travel further and higher. Is it simply the vertical bounce that increases distance? Yesterday, I tried my first high tee in competition and placed the ball inside and forward. Happily, it was a dogleg left and the high hook looked cool and was helpful (like moi ). I then varied the tee ball position to more out rather than in to get a straight ball that I hardly had to touch to get better distance and a straight flight. Do all the rules of hinges apply to that sort of set-up?

Patrick