[JerryG]

So I'm golfing the other day and I forgot to Hula. I was too busy trying to practice a drill to keep my right shoulder tracing the plane. I was also struck by the desire to lower my hcp. to single digits (11.5) these days. I was frustrated.

Slight shift to left, Pivot back, and come down on the Elbow Plane. Isn't that S&T (Before coming to TGM, I had been trying S&T)?

I straightened my longer right leg and my shorter left leg accepted the weight shift and I dropped my right elbow by firing my back hip. I did not miss another shot yesterday or today. (I played 2 new course, par 71's, lots of slopes, no clue on the greens, shot 82/80).

As a teacher, I don't like "Cliff Notes." Why not enjoy the real book and get all the insight. But, lots of my kids read only graphic novels (like Daryl) and so "Cliff Notes" in their hands fills me with optimism and joy.

TGM is wonderful and I'm going to Cuscowilla once I save up my ruples. But isn't the S&T DVD set and book really simply the "Cliff Notes" version of about 5% of TGM? I was abused, respectfully,by the guys I played with for being boring because I was hitting fairways and greens.

I felt great about that.

Is S&T "Pivot Controlled Hands?" I searched through several posts from the past and I know there are serious reservations about it. Couldn't the insight from TGM help create a more effective S&T? For example, I really monitored # 3 PP while sliding my back hip forward, and hit some awesome drives and nice approaches. I controlled my ball flight and direction well by monitoring my FLW.

Maybe S&T is weak for "normally" constructed people but really good for golfers with physical limitations, due to it's simplified dictates?

Ideas?



YBGF

Hey Bud,
We are on a pretty similar wavelength, just like when you were here in August.
Thanks to TGM and this Forum (and KevCarter) I am playing the best golf of my life. I am not scoring my best yet due to distance control and the usual brain dysfunction, but a rash of mid to upper 70's in the past couple weeks as well as low 80's prior to that, have dropped my GHIN from 14.5 in May to 7.5 currently.
On Sat., I played with a fellow that used to be my 4-ball partner and is still an excellent amateur player. After the front 9 he said if he had any idea I was striking it so well he would have signed us up for an event this fall.
Thanks guys.