You want to have the ball in the center of your vision . . . to do that you gotta get your neck BENT DOWN . . . not like Tiger or Adam Scott . . . they can't see the ball.
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Watch how he tilts his neck down thru the swing . . .
Ive been giving this some thought of late in regard to Steering, Throwaway, Homer and the dandelion.........I'm thinking that........
If you are using the aiming point procedure it replaces the ball. Something quite common in bunker play where you aim at a point of entry in the sand by looking right at it. You hold your focus on it. Daryl's great quotes still hold, but at Fix only . You establish your clubface angle and relationship to the inside aft of the ball at Fix and then find your Aiming Point along the Delivery Line. If on the other hand you're employing the alternate method, Tracing you keep your focus on the ball.
Somewhere, I think in the Address Procedure Video with Ted Fort, Yoda also discusses how eventually the entire club disappears.....leaving us with just our hands, the pressure points and the Delivery Line. Indeed for the Angle of Approach Procedure .......the Target Line has vanished as well. Basically everything is disappearing!
I've learned that, for me anyways, the Aiming Point Procedure can really help out on those nervy little pitches and chips where there can be a tendency to Steer or throw the clubface at the ball. Dave Stockton has discussed how he uses a similar procedure when putting. He'd love Homer's dandelion story and its revelations I bet, he's got a lot of related stuff in his teaching. De-pressurizing anti Steering stuff.
Again somewhere not sure where, Yoda shared with us that Larry Nelson likes to pay as little attention to the ball as possible. I like that......a lot.
Im trying to swing like I'm swinging at dandelions.......The Three Stations , Address , Top , Finish. Absolutely zero consideration for Impact with the ball. It just gets in the way.
What if Tiger previewed this set of alignments in Fix? He's looking straight out here, nice Right Arm. Wonder if he'd still Bob?
Guess we'll never know.
Hard to say . . . but you gotta believe that your instincts are gonna lead you to try to see what you're hitting as best as you can. He doesn't set up all whacky like that with the irons and he doesn't move around as much.
His neck is down more here . . . probably should tilt it down more. . . . . but it's gonna be more down with irons pretty much for everybody with their irons as the shafts get shorter. But clear the neck is more down from frame 1 vs. frame 8. Note the trees and the pole that is visible in 8 . . . he probably has added some waist bend and gone forward with hips too but the neck looks more bent there to me.
Thanks Daryl,
I think the hard part is re-learning to focus on the aiming point and not the ball
It can be sort of like having a really ugly putter.....if the ball starts to go in it'll become a darn good looking putter to your eye. The Aiming Point is weird at first but if its working you'll learn to love it and quickly. At issue is the variance in the time it takes different lengthed clubs to switch ends, release. Changing the Aiming Point fore and aft of the ball was like magic for me when Yoda showed it to me the first time. With the driver especially. Its takes some trial error to find the right spot but when you do .............blammo.
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