[Jimmy]

I've made the trip to Quail Lodge a half-dozen times or so now. Watching that guy struggle brought back painful memories of me struggling not to flip the impact bag over! Ben never did pull the tire out with me (I'm not sure that he even had a tire when I was there), but one of the drills he had me doing was to try to hit the impact bag without flipping it over, since, adding with the hands and arms is what flips the bag over. If you notice, when the person in the video appears to hit the tire well (the club doesn't "double-dribble", as Ben puts it), the tire still goes flipping down the range. When Ben hits it, it doesn't flip or hop around at all. One of the drills he had me doing in the sand was to try to hit the lip of the bunker and just trap the clubhead there under the lip. If you add with the arms and hands, the clubhead will bounce back out from under the lip.

Ben has certainly made TGM, and teaching, his life. During one of my visits to Carmel Valley, my wife (fiancee at that time) came out to the range with me to say hi to Ben, then she was about to go into town and go shopping. Ben made the comment that he had never seen that town in the day time. He said, "I've been 'right here' for 30 years." Then it dawned on me .. he meant "RIGHT HERE" on the driving range!