[innercityteacher]

Ya know, that 39 you shot is a "milestone". It may only seem like one stroke better to you but it sounds to me like you're getting ready for a big breakthrough.

I have a theory. I think that to lower your score from 95 to 85 you have to be twice as good but to go from 85 to 78 you have to be 10 times better. I think that that's where you're headed. But that's just general "Golf Stroke" improvement. Once you break the 80 mark, you're going to be a lot more specific about swing changes and the way you approach each hole on the course.

I think that this is where the "journey" gets fun. Unfortunately, Winter is approaching.

Let me know when you start shooting 78 consistently so I only need to give you 5 strokes.................per side.

I was speaking to Gerry, Kevin, Dodger, Bartly et al., and Dodger finished 2nd, in his club championship at the end of JUly ( by one stroke). The shorter summer in the Midwest moves events up, I think. We do not play our championship until the end of October, though.

It feels like your observations are correct about the magnitude of difficulty in improvement. I shot a 44 in my 5th round after coming back from Kevin and Gerry. It felt like my old 95's used to feel for the whole round! Concentrating on each shot, is it's own reward and always provides a path to a lower score.

But you underestimate, somewhat, the effectiveness of this site and y'all's input.

The Angle Hinge at the end of Impact Fix hands is all-telling. The Hula set-up, from which I trace or RFT makes the back-swing simple. No hip in the way to mess up the down-stroke. As you and Kevin showed me, open feet angles make the essential Pivot powerful. Starting the down-stroke as Right foot push gives me lots of down shoulder right arm from which to hit through the ball.

My biggest obstacle was my own physical fear of losing balance by pivoting too hard. But the Ted Fort Address video, Kevin, Gerry, OB everyone just showed me I could and should do the hit slowly. The hip pictures and marching drills by you and EDZ's drills were fabulous in confirming the logical pieces of the bio-mechanical puzzle.

Honestly, knowing how to get off the tee and proper ball position (Kevin/Gerry) means my only real question is what club do I hit to the center of the green and what will the conditions do to my shot?

Since I have been using the push putting stroke, my line is always within a ball of being correct. The only question is speed of greens. I missed 10 birdie strokes yesterday. 2 putts were below the hole from about 20 feet. I knew I needed one more club but played it too safe. I missed those putts by less than an inch. Another put was 2 clubs short and I missed it by five feet. Five other putts were within 10 feet of the pin by design. I hit them right where I wanted to and they stuck. I missed 3 of those putts by less than a ball in each occasion. I made 4 birdies for the first time ever!

This TGM is basic, logical, simple, self-reinforcing and wonderfully explained here by the peeps, here. Don't underestimate its effectiveness! ( I was a professional tennis instructor for a very brief three years to teach for Arthur Ashe tennis. LBG has all the tools within TGM to help people who wish to become better golfers, become much better golfers!)