Homer Kelley-Rotalla?
 

How often do you hear you need to visualize a shot, and think only of what you want to accomplish, no negatives? How hard is that to do? It was damn near impossible for me.

Don't top it
Don't chunk it
Don't hit it in the water
Don't hit it over there by the white soldiers
Oh My God, what if I miss the green and have to chip?
Don't leave the putt short
Don't run it way by the hole

What a freaking mess.

Putting Yips
Chip Yips
Driver yips
Don't kill anybody with this one!

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Today

Pressure Points
Imperatives
Essentials
Hinge Actions

Visualize what we want, feel the proper mechanics. Prepare for and FEEL the pressure points and proper hinge action through the impact zone for the shot I've visualized.

I no longer have time to consider bad thoughts. Visualization, preparation, no blackout through impact are now realized when I focus. I now have a chance!

AMAZING

Thanks Homer and everybody at LBG.

Kevin

If I do what I learned today the ball will do what it is supposed to do because it will have no other choice. :-)

Kev, I just got out of a mini case of the chip yips, myself. What helped me was watching the hands peripherally as opposed to watching the clubhead peripherally. Address , Top , Finish. The three Stations. The travel from one Station to another is Hand travel, not clubhead. When you're monitoring the Hands instead of the clubhead it makes it way harder to throw the clubface at the ball. Thank goodness.

In Basic Motion , Homer said to start without a club at first , then with a club. Its the Hands you are swinging, ideally. Its impossible to swing the clubhead when there isnt a club in your hands! He also said that if you arent getting all you want out of your shots despite your knowledge of alignments ..........."Stop monitoring the clubhead instead of the hands".

I could kick myself for not figuring this out earlier. It was a concept I had known intellectually but not taken to heart. How Homer figured this one out is beyond me. All you ever get in golf magazines is "keep your eye on the ball". Homer qualified it with the Aiming Point concept, looking fore or aft of the ball to great advantage and watching the hands peripherally as opposed to the clubhead.

He was sensory based, Homer was. Im talking vision here but it goes oh so well with the touch , Lag Pressure awareness its sustainment and the direction there of (deliver path).

Homer was a genius.

Swing the Hands (Not the Clubhead)
 

This is good, James. Really good. Thanks!

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Cheers OB, I have my swing thought for the weekend sorted out now :salut:

You are AMAZING O.B.

Another in a LONG LINE of GREAT posts.

Thanks very much again!

Kevin

Thanks guys. I used to live off of my chipping and short pitches, I had to. Somewhere I made a wrong turn, but Im back , touch wood. And when I do the above it looks and feels so sweet. My brother who has witnessed the whole thing over the course of our last few games said............"thats like a Lynn Blake shot".

High praise indeed.

Try it out and let me know if it works for you guys. I got a feeling it will.

Ultimately you can get to the point where the only thing in your mind is the visual of the ball's flight (or roll).

Nothing else is needed.

It obviously takes some work to get to that point, but especially for the better players, the more you can 'see' what you want, the easier the game becomes.

If you need to visualize part of your motion, make it the hands. Always know where your hands are!

"The mind is in the hands" - Ben Doyle

Yes I totally agree. This was yip therapy however. When I chip well , or pitch , or putt well its just a picture of the target in my mind. Like pitching pennies or throwing darts or something. Knowing my exact distance or watching my arms or hands travel , the clock method or whatever can get in my way when Im on. Its just a picture and go. The brain knows how much lag pressure to apply. No need to interfere. It can be crazy accurate and very uncluttered.