[Richie3Jack]

This is the promise of 'Alignment Golf' versus 'Position Golf'.

There are many 'methods' that can help the golfer break 100. And 90. And even 80.

But how does one build a Golf Stroke that challenges "Old Man Par" and then goes beyond?

Once the conceptual and structural work is done, only the golfer's own sensibilities to precision alignments can guide. On the PGA TOUR, a "mere" two shots per round in Scoring Average means the difference between silly money and folding sweaters.

Witness the 2009 stats-to-date of Steve Stricker (#1 Scoring at 69.02 and #4 Money with $3,076,236) and Vaughn Taylor (#88 Scoring at 71.00 and #125 Money, aka "keep your card", with $294,164).

And at the risk of bragging, there's no doubt I have a lot more room to go. My putting has been so-so at best as I rarely 3-putt, but don't make much of anything outside of 10 feet. In our last lesson Ted and I worked on putting because my alignments were looking great and now I am rolling the ball noticeably better just less than a day later. I also can greatly improve distance, but coming off of major surgery back in late October, doctor's orders say no really heavy exercise for at least a year and I figure I'm in the beginning stages of creating a repeatable stroke.

I play with a group of guys that are 3-15 handicappers about twice a week. Then I play with my ole man and his friends every Saturday and they are in the 12-20 handicap range. It's amazing how these guys worry about things that are not all that important if completely unimportant for that matter. Things like 'straight left arm' and the length of the backswing. Every time my ole man hits a ground ball he curses at himself for 'looking up.' I then told him that he actually doesn't look up most of the time he hits that ground ball and that his left wrist is so bent at impact it makes it almost impossible to not hit a bunch of ground balls. I then filmed him on the range (secretly, believe it or not) and then showed him and I still don't think he believes me, but he's hard headed.

For me, Alignment Golf gets the golfer focusing about things that they really need to focusing about (3 imperatives, 3 essentials) and then provides a path to get there and each path is customizable for each golfer and then provides customizable FEEL so they can repeat those things they really need to focus about over and over again.




3JACK