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Are you tall as well OB?

Lynn made a comment like that to me last year and it went right over my head. I am finding your post and Drews very interesting... Damn wheels shouldn't be spinning like this on the weekend.

Kevin

Almost 6' 3" if the middle age spread hasnt weighted me down any. In my first lesson with Lynn we started off with the arm set and it took all morning to get my right arm on plane. The trick in the end , for me anyways, was to get the left hand level. Id always set up with a slight bit of wrist cock in the left hand. Lynn was like "well that did take a while" when I finally got it right after lunch..... he was persistent , I gotta tell you. I was trying but it was a struggle, Id probably hit a couple of million balls with low hands ....so a few hours to break it wasnt so bad I guess.

And then Lynn said to me: "this alone (the level left wrist and on plane right forearm) could be all that separates you from your golfing goals". Pretty profound stuff I thought at the time, but I was all for it and he ending up being correct.

I had jokingly told him my goal was just to hit the ball like a couple of guys from back home......to which he said "Let me guess Moe Norman and George Knudson". I didnt get there of course, but I did get my cap down a few and won a couple of tourneys Id been aiming at. Nothing major just club tourneys , club c and a match play but not bad for a guy who just turned 50. Qualified for my Provincial Match Play too , made it home really early on day 1 though. But I was there and still have the umbrella , towel and sore rear end to prove it after taking on a guy from Michigan State who killed me. Hmm maybe my hands were too low there?

If someone were to take all that Lynn has helped me with away but I got to keep one thing......itd be the level left wrist. I know that doesnt make sense when most of the guys on tv dont have it but Im convinced of its transformative powers. Of course there have been a few guys over the years who have displayed the level left wrist at address......Hogan , Knudson, Moe, Elk for example, but they're very much in the minority statistically. Who'd want to align themselves in any way with that minority?

Its a lesson I keep revisiting , re learning ....old habits die a hard death. The positive results are always immediate, always. Its sort of like a natural homeostatic alignment or something that just makes my takeaway float nicely. Cant explain it really. I have to slightly hover the club to get the left wrist level like its hanging naturally or something although its not fully uncocked. It goes really nicely with a Lagging Takeaway from Adjusted for me.

Where on earth would I have learned this if not here?