The Barclays / PGA TOUR / August 26-29, 2010
 

For the fifth straight year, Lynn Blake Golf, LLC has brought a blue-ribbon team to The Barclays to conduct The Barclays Golf Academy for the private clients and guests of Barclays Capital. We go from 8 AM to close of play Thursday through Sunday.

In years past, we have done in excess of 1,600 individual lessons and personalized CD Stroke Analyses. Last year, we partnered with Callaway Golf and Odyssey and did more than 500 individual putter fittings.

This year, we once again have fielded a team of five. For 2010, these are:

Bill Castner, PGA, Master Professional, New Jersey PGA. "Mr. Junior Golf of New Jersey". Lynn Blake Certified Senior Instructor.

Rick Murphy, PGA, Carolinas PGA, 2009 Professional of the Year, 2010 Teacher of the Year, Lynn Blake Certified Senior Instructor.

Curt Sanders, PGA, Carolinas PGA, 2009 Section Champion, 2010 Player of the Year, Lynn Blake Certified Senior Instructor.

Ed Zilavy, long-term student of The Golfing Machine and Lynn Blake Certified Instructor. Also, our on-site I.T. guy!

Lynn Blake, Founder, CEO and Director of Instruction, Lynn Blake Golf, LLC. Private swing coach, PGA TOUR Instructor and Golf Educator.

Ted Fort and Jeff Hull, two highly-credentialed, long-term LBG stalwarts who participated in our first four Barclays, are 'on leave' to tee it up in the Georgia Section PGA Championship that begins the day after the Barclays. Good luck, guys!

As always, the week will be jam-packed. Each day begins early and ends late. In the exciting atmosphere of a major PGA TOUR event -- The Barclays is a $7.5 million tournament and the first in the FedEx Cup Series -- we are privileged to immerse ourselves in our labor of love. Namely, helping people do a better job of making that little white ball behave!


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That's a great team. Good luck to all and have lots of fun.

tough schedule
 

I haven't figured out how to be in two places at once. But, I'm sure the team will knock it out of the park without us.

Good Luck Ted and Jeff. :golf:

Brian Gay had an outstanding performance today. :) 7 Birdies, wow.

I'd like to attend this tourny someday. See a few holes for sure, but I bet I'd spend most every minute watching the guys teach. I'd learn more that way.


THOSE GUYS ARE GOOD.

I don't want to nit-pick and this has nothing to do with Golf, but who "selects clothing" for Brian Gay to wear while Golfing? Is his "street wardrobe" similar?

Not sure about his street wear, but http://www.sligowear.com/

They must be paying him a lot of money. :laughing9

Barclays Photos
 

Here are some photos from The Barclays. I'll post more as I can.

Full Screen Slideshow

Another great year at The Barclays! They really know how to put on a world class event and this year was even better than before.

A long marathon of lessons, but so rewarding to get the right information out there and see students really compress the ball, many for the first time.

Ted/Jeff - we missed you this year, but it sure was great to have Curt and Rick there. Top quality instructors, and a ton of fun to spend time with! Best of luck to both of you at the section championship!

Yoda Lesson At The Barclays
 

This was our fifth year at The Barclays, and I'm proud to say that my team once again knocked it out of the park. We operated from 8 AM to 6 PM each day of the tournament, and as usual, were totally jammed. As in years past, we filled every available slot and ultimately delivered more than 400 lessons. Whew!

Each Barclays guest who registers at our Golf Academy receives a private lesson and a CD with a golf stroke analysis and summary. Here's an example of the work we do. I had filled in for EdZ during his lunch break, and he returned just in time to assist with the screen graphics. My student Jim and I are now looking at the same screen as you.

Enjoy!



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That was a very great help. Lynn. Thanks!
 

I don't think I ever really grasped the importance of the flat left wrist, though I had my right arm on plane (mostly). Kevin and Jerry showed it to me and are great instructors, but we covered a heck of a lot of stuff (my muscles ached for days) and I have to hit shots with something before I grasp the concept! New thread to search; FLW,

Eye of the Beholder
 

I talked of many alignments in this analysis, innercity, but only once did I mention the Flat Left Wrist (Horizontal alignment), and then only as an inferior Address alignment. Your post reveals you are now focused on this Wrist Condition, and that focus colors everything you see and read. This tendency to hyper-focus on what we are currently working on is human, but it should be recognized and controlled. This is especially important for instructors whose responsibility it is to teach others.

Perhaps you noted Jim's visually Flat Left Wrist at the Top of his Backstroke in the introductory still-frame. On the other hand, are you sure you do not mean the Level Left Wrist (Perpendicular alignment), which was a major point of emphasis?

Either way, you're excited and learning, and that makes me happy.

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Remember though, whether you were talking about a Flat Left Wrist or a Level Left Wrist or whatever . . . Over time, each thing we work on -- no matter its self-endowed importance at the moment -- recedes into the framework of our Total Motion and becomes subconscious. Only then will it be truly integrated and display its full value.

Meanwhile, listen for the many 'nuggets' contained in this lesson. Examine them one by one and ask, "Does this apply to me?" If so, then add each noted item to your golf "To Do" list and set to work as time permits.

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You are right about the subconscious activation, Lynn.
 

Thanks, you mentioned a "level" left wrist, Lynn. I substituted "Flat" since I have looked at that wrist swivel and FLW a lot in an effort to throw the cocked left wrist DOWN to China, not away (as you mention in the Address Routine videos). Jim's awesome position on plane, FLW precisely on plane, simply through the level wrist improvement, helped me see (from the down the line view) how much greater my power and precision might be if I really incorporated that level left wrist into my set-up.

The "Down" and a good Pivot, I hope, will help me make a good showing in our "A" flight championship in a couple of weeks. The "Moe Norman Hands and Arms," and his good swing, helped me in another event, though I only understood the Down and Pivot parts at the time, not the level left wrist.

Thanks again.

YBGF

I had been doing several other things incorrectly!
 

Instead of starting with a level left wrist Mid-body or at Adjusted address, my left hand had creeped to flat, past or even with my left thigh and a severely bent right wrist! :crybaby:

I also had not observed Impact Fix from down the line and so I did not understand the proper Impact Fix start-up in 3 dimensions (so far away from the body).

I don't lift my left heel at all despite the shorter left leg, not a smidge! Is that wrong? :rolleyes: My shoulder plane has also never been that steep or TSP! But, with a level left wrist and a little left heel rise, I bet that TSP is doable!

Thanks, Lynn!

Was it the elbow plane ?
 

How the heck did Jim get from almost falling over to being on plane? :confused1


YBGF