Buck, how does the release of the Hips differ from the hump for the MORAD or S&T guys?

Is the lever later, Dr Lingerlonger?

Same . . . whatever it takes to keep your head centered . . . head on door jam . . . ain't but so many ways the hips CAN MOVE to do it right.

That is what my GSEB taught me last week!
 

I feel strangely united to others...like I am part of something historic, special. It is not agina. I know what that is! :laughing9

Dude , what the heck is agina? You mean like chest pain? I get that sometimes when Im reading D's posts. Like my heart aint got enough oxygen or something.

A historical moment!
 

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?

I like that book but Homer had it right and so many years before as well. Its sort of sad that most people couldnt get his book. Anyways, all of those "ways" are really things that happen when reversing the swing, but in sequence. They are not initial moves or whatever. I would suggest that given 6-M-1 its ground up, like Hogan suggested , but with the proviso that it is the Hips that make the Knees appear to do what they do......with the exception of maybe a little left leg extension.

Thanks, OB. That is really reinforcing my lessons.
 

I agree with the idea that most golfing instruction is simply a more colorful meditation on a limited part of TGM.


OB, with your TGM background and effective golfing TQ, how did you learn the "comming to neutral " move? How did you realize that part of TGM was important and how did you learn to do it repeatedly, effectively?


Thanks btw.

Pat

I dont even know what "coming to neutral" means.

Someone has got to give "City" a Yellow Book.

I have the 6th edition from a MN friend.
 

I read it in between fights at school. When my instructor talks about a part, I read it . When you fellas talk about a part, I read that! I would also rather read this forum and take TGM lessons. When I read the book, it is disorientating. Still, I will do it this summer using two copies so I can have a ready reference.

Moi