[golfgnome]

Maestro,

You know how much I like you, and I know you're a great Golfer, but:

Nothing is more important than impact. Impact is the language the Ball understands. It’s doesn’t speak French. If you ask it nicely to fly straight and land 285 yards in the center of the fairway, it won’t understand you.

The ball is not your buddy. If you want it to go somewhere, then you must whack it a particular way. The BALL ONLY UNDERSTANDS IMPACT. It really doesn’t care how pretty your Golf swing, or what kind of car you drive.

It’s non-discriminatory. It doesn’t care how tall or short or thin or fat you are. It doesn’t care if it gets whacked with a 400.00 new Nike Driver or a 30 year old persimmon Hagan Wood driver with a D4 Swing weight and extra stiff shaft.

It doesn't care if you use 2,3 or 4 barrels nor if you angle or horizontal hinge with 10-2-B or 10-2-D. Do you Swivel? The ball couldn't care less.

If you can’t talk IMPACT, then the ball won’t do what you want it to do. And it don't care what you say if you can't say it the right way.

The ball speaks in three dimensions. Here is what to say, Down, Out and Forward, and here is how you say it: Simultaneously.

From the preface, "It's not instant perfection but continuous progress toward a practical goal-mastery of the STAR SYSTEM TRIAD: the Three Imperatives applying the three functions through the three stations which should be sought."

I agree that impact is what the ball responds to, but I will maintain that how it gets through there is more important. Remember we can't teach positions and impact is a postion, one point along the swing. Teach players to keep moving smoothly to the finish and impact will take care of itself. Impact is for monitoring how well everything is working.