Ben Doyle's How To Build A G.O.L.F. Game

[phimaynard]

Thanks for this memory, Mike. I appreciate it!
Legends aren't born . . . they are made.

and humility is the anteroom of all the perfections.

The excellence does not exist without humanism. Thank you so much to share these images and these memories.

[SwingNorthtoSouth]

Mike is a great Yankee Fan in addition to doing great work on this site. I will miss the Stadium as well. My best memory will always be meeting The Mick many times at the Stadium. Gave him a dozen golf balls for his birthday one year in the 1980's.

Nice video of Yoda and Ben. When doing this drill and hiting balls, make sure you "close the door" with that flat left wrist.

[ColtsFan]

Swing,
good point, Im trying to get to the point of closing the door(finish swivel?) w/ a flat left wrist WITHOUT FLIPPING....aiming point concentration, and bringing that left shoulder up/rt shoulder down is helping.

In my Ernie book, How to Build a Classic Golf Swing, he is doing this, the problem I have is concentrating on this move and forgetting about the pivot delivering this move, you know what happens then... body stops, flip left

[okie]

TGM makes no reference to the left shoulder. As I stated before, prior to a better understanding I focused a great deal on the left shoulder moving up and the right shoulder going down in order to achieve the deep pitch elbow position. what that did not help me do was tilt my axis to avoid the collision that never will occur, namely the right elbow and right hip. Perhaps the left shoulder is a feels as if, but HK took special care to reference the importance of the right shoulder. Again, I am not taking pot shots at Mr. Doyle, just sharing a mistake that I made using (most likely incorrectly) something that he emphasizes i.e. to bring the hands down by raising the left shoulder etc.

[metallion]

At the time I got interested in TGM, I could only get hold of two sources of information: The Yellow Book and Bens tape. I tried to read the book, but had a hard time getting through. Then I got Bens video. It served me greatly, first and foremost as an overview of the Yellow Book. I can't say the video really helped my swing (I do not expect that from videos), but it made it many, many times easier to read the book.

Personally I'd recommend Bens video to anyone who wants to begin studying TGM. The video is not all you need, but if you are new to TGM it may serve you well, as an introduction.

[ColtsFan]

thanks Metallion.... I appreciate your take on Ben's video and how it relates to learning TGM