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How would you classify the Runyan putting method in TGM terms fladan? A combo of Pick and Paw Minor Basic Stroke or perhaps PIck , Push if you employed Right Arm power?

Either way it might come as a surprise to some TGM critics to learn that Lynn does not limit himself to the teaching of putting and chipping per 12-5 The Basic Motion Curriculum. Which in my opinion is a curriculum to Total Motion using a sameness in method as you progress from putt to chip to pitch to total motion. It is not a prescribed , mandatory method for short shots or pitches. No Sir. Homer believed sameness was a great way to simplify and build a stroke from the ground up but he did define the alternative methods for short shots , which dont lend themselves to Sameness.

Some pros have a sameness as they progress through the shots some dont. To each their own. You have options. I personally tried the Zone 2 Only chipping methods but have reverted to my old Zone 1 Paw minor basic stroke (but with new insight). And Im goofing with Pick, Paw Runyan style too.


As a side note .....Homer identified Zone 3 (Hands) only putting and chipping, see the Peck Minor Basic Stroke . It was after all the most popular method of his day from Jones to Palmer. As long as the clubhead doesnt pass the Hands Fix position prior to impact you're good according to Homer if somewhat perilously close to flipping. Call it studied Throwaway if you will or clubhead swinging as opposed to Hands Swinging. Homer did. See 7-19 Lag Loading.

The point being made by some folks that you dont see "TGM" type chip and pitch shots on tour is ill informed in my opinion. As if there was only one way according TGM which is flat out incorrect. How could those guys miss the section of the book devoted to the Minor Basic Strokes? Or the combinations there of? How many guys on tour employ Paw putting? Do the long wand guys often use Push? Did Arnie use Peck? Does Stockton teach Pull? (it looks like Push but I think its Pull) . Does Michelle Wie use Paw , Pull in combo? Is that her problem with putting? Two accumulators , two zones? Complicated by the two different centers? Now Pick Paw Runyan style a fine method. Thats a compatible coupling of Minor Basic Strokes with one center to the motion.

Too much coffee this aft guys. Sorry for the rant.