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Old 05-24-2008, 08:39 AM
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Duke,
Welcome back from the darkside! You are the reason I looked in TGM in the first place, when you mentioned your initial lessons with Lynn on GEA. You really peaked my interest and then when the 'old crumudgeon' Keller got involved I figured there might be something to it. So I went to Ted and I've never looked back. The one thing about TGM that intrigues me so much is ...it never changes. It is real, it is true and I either execute or not. At the end of the day, I know pretty much what I've done wrong or I can go to an AI and find out....but I'm not changing my approach from week to week or month to month.

I'm not going to denigrate another teacher but there have been so many 'pop' theories out there and generally the endorsement is one or two pro players that even I couldn't have messed up. When the masses try the same stuff....FORE! (either left or right or both). As I said, welcome back and thank you for posting, both here and that time on GEA.
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Duke,
Welcome back from the darkside! You are the reason I looked in TGM in the first place, when you mentioned your initial lessons with Lynn on GEA. You really peaked my interest and then when the 'old crumudgeon' Keller got involved I figured there might be something to it. So I went to Ted and I've never looked back. The one thing about TGM that intrigues me so much is ...it never changes. It is real, it is true and I either execute or not. At the end of the day, I know pretty much what I've done wrong or I can go to an AI and find out....but I'm not changing my approach from week to week or month to month.

I'm not going to denigrate another teacher but there have been so many 'pop' theories out there and generally the endorsement is one or two pro players that even I couldn't have messed up. When the masses try the same stuff....FORE! (either left or right or both). As I said, welcome back and thank you for posting, both here and that time on GEA.
I found the old TGM site and ordered the book as an assistant golf pro. Literally two days after I got it and began reading it, Ted Fort walked into my shop to play a PGA Match Play match. I recognized the logo on his hat and asked him about TGM. He invited me up to Marietta. We talked I hit some balls and he said I was 'switting'. After about a twenty minute discussion about things I like to feel, we decided to go the hitting route. He teaches a lot of hitters, but he told me that most of the golf pro's he worked with used swinging because it was closer to what they had been taught in the past. In my case, I had about a 50/50 mix of components.

I worked with him off and one for about 2 years and went from being a mid 70's guy to breaking par.

Much like Duke, I couldn't leave well enough alone. After leaving the golf business for law school, I started monkeying around with some other methods and my ball striking deteriorated. My handicap crept up to 8. I went to see Ted and got back on track. In three months, my index dropped back down to 4.

Recently, I haven't been able to play that much and I almost ordered the Stack and Tilt DVD's, but then I had the sense to remember how easy this hitting thing is and how well it has worked for me.

I played for the first time in about 5 weeks last weekend. Hit a bucket of balls before, going through basic and acquired motions focusing on RFP and bent right wrist. Shot 77 on a course I had never seen. Should have been lower. I had 2 three putts. On a 335 yard uphill par 4, I was about 20 yards from the front of the green and made bogey. On a 305 yard par 4, I was pin high on the fringe and made par.

Needless to say. I have wised up. It's TGM for me.

I feel like now that I can practice again, my short game and putting should shape up and I will be back down to scratch.
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Old 08-14-2008, 11:16 PM
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I found the old TGM site and ordered the book as an assistant golf pro. Literally two days after I got it and began reading it, Ted Fort walked into my shop to play a PGA Match Play match. .

I worked with him off and one for about 2 years and went from being a mid 70's guy to breaking par.

Needless to say. I have wised up. It's TGM for me.

Ted Fort teaches every day in Marietta, Georgia. He can be reached at 770-401-1086.

But not next week . . .

Because he will be teaching off the 18th green at The Barclays, a $7 million PGA TOUR event and the first in the FedEx Cup Series. In that duty for Lynn Blake Golf, LLC, he will give approximately 120 lessons in four days.

I'd wait a week . . .

And then call him for your own turn at bat.

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Old 08-14-2008, 11:28 PM
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Ted Fort teaches every day in Marietta, Georgia. He can be reached at 770-401-1086.

But not next week . . .

Because he will be teaching off the 18th green at The Barclays, a $7 million PGA TOUR event and the first in the FedEx Cup Series. In that duty for Lynn Blake Golf, LLC, he will give approximately 120 lessons in four days.

I'd wait a week . . .

And then call him for your own turn at bat.


If they got a buffet there . . . bet the purse ain't that big next year . . . BUFFETS FEARS TED FORT ALMOST AS BAD AS GOATS FEAR MIKE O.
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Old 08-15-2008, 02:11 AM
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If they got a buffet there . . . bet the purse ain't that big next year . . . BUFFETS FEARS TED FORT ALMOST AS BAD AS GOATS FEAR MIKE O.
The man can eat! No doubt about it! I'd still go behind him otherwise he'll push you out of the way- in his frenzy to feed!
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