Short Game Savvy
 

Here's an article Brian Gay and I did recently for Swing Magazine, a cyber magazine delivered directly to your mobile device. According to the founders, the magazine now has a subscriber base of 300,000+, and they expect to top 1,000,000 within the year.

In addition to writing Brian's articles -- more Short Game Savvy is coming! -- I have since January been doing a monthly video instruction feature. So, expect to see as well as hear more from me in the coming months.

Go here for your free subscription: http://thumbzine.com/mags/getmag.php?mag_id=6&vol_id=89

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Thanks YODA. GREAT article!!! :salut:

Kevin

Dual Horizontal? How?
 

Great news Yoda. Really looking forward to it. Couple of questions if you dont mind.

-For those without fancy phones, will you be copying the articles , videos to this site as well? To be honest, I have an Iphone but am wary of potential direct marketing spam type stuff.

-Since the Steve Stricker thread which covered his and Brian's chipping method......level left wrist and no left wrist cocking, Ive been working on it and love it. In fact I really love it! But a question for you if I may: I found at first a tendency to wag the club under the plane. I could fix it with a pure Angled Hinge but Im wondering about Horizontal. Horizontal only will go under plane I think. Dual Horizontal will keep the club shaft on plane.........but how do you best accomplish it? After goofing with it and reading this article would I be right to think that its the Right Arm Pickup , the bending right elbow that lifts the left arm (as per Homers Dual Horizontal photos) which allows the clubshaft to stay on plane? Another reason to not freeze the right arm or triangle or whatever. Has Brain's left arm been lifted here?


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Geez OB, if you were a hitter like us normal people, you wouldn't be struggling with this. It's the MAGIC OF THE RIGHT FOREARM bud! :)

Kevin

So true Kev. So true.

With a 10-18-D HALF, Left Wrist Action, maybe?

Double Horizontal made me crazy for a minute there. Still does maybe.

ha ha you very funny man

My wife says I'm just a dork. :eyes: I think she's right. :)

Kevin

not sure if this works in the UK but put my details down earlier.

Great idea though, I'm sure the UK will have it pretty soon.

One of the first lessons I learned from Yoda, correct head position chipping. I had always had a head position behind the ball, influenced no doubt by Nicklaus's views and putting stance.

Suffice to say, getting a centered head position chipping has made a very big difference in my shortgame, in a very short time.

She sure has mastered the nuances of the understatement, Kevin:laughing9 !

Look at how Brian Gay adjusts his machine here, how much of his body is ahead of the ball in this picture. Beautiful.




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OB,

We see the same thing my friend. IMHO That's YODA and HOMER!

Kevin

Its also sorta like cheating, an unfair advantage, compared to those poor guys who try take the ball closer to low point, with a shallower angle of attack.

Im trying to get more like that and loving it. Lots of right arm left for the ball too.

Ob

Good one.

Sounds like the perfect marriage to me:happy3:

Sincerely :-)

I singed up for this on my iphone. Got me a cool little Brian Gay app now too. No spam junk emails or whatever. You guys have to do this , its pretty cool. I can now text questions to Brian Gay apparently. I hope these guys dont read my nut bar posts around here or they'll be cutting me off for sure. They have no idea what is about to hit them.

Come to think of it this must be what Daryl and Bucket are up to these days and Mike O. maybe..............Hmmmmm. Ill ask Brian.......

I signed up, always willing to listen to Lynn Blake's teaching.

Mr Blake is something special isnt he?

Having had a few chipping lessons from the man himself..... there is a criticaly important but easy to overlook thing that shows up in this photo of Brian Gay.

Take a look at how he gets his weight left..........there is a slight lean of the head and upper body to the left. Now everybody in golf knows you're supposed to put your weight on your left side when you're chipping, but Mr Blake had to pound this lean of the noggin into my noggin. Even though I thought I had chipping figured out about 40 years ago. It makes the Angle of Attack steeper, the contact better, the results more consistent. It feels to me almost extreme, but it doesnt look so in pictures and it really works. Its very much like standing on one leg in feel and in real. In fact that is a great way to get into this position raise you right leg off the ground then put it back down without changing your heads position.

So here, you could say, is an example of a Machine Adjustment at Address where the Head is not centered between the feet.

I mention this because even though you guys might read Lynn's words and think you're far enough left, theres a good chance you arent. I sure wasnt. Sort of like a pool player raising the butt end of his cue to get at a cue ball stuck up against the rail.

And yes I suck at drawing lines with my computer.


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Has part 2 been published?

Cut Shots Cut
 

Unfortunately, AC, as yet no Part II.

I was ready to go, but . . .

The editors took a sharp right turn toward video. Hence my subsequent monthly video publications on their site.

The good news is that I have since put up on LBG several posts and photos of BG's Cut Shot alignments and Stroke. I can't remember exactly where, but search the On TOUR with LBG and The Majors threads, especially the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazletine, the 2010 SBS Championship at Kapalua and the 2010 Verizon Heritage at Harbour Town.

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