Cool, Patrick.
Does it seem like you are barely moving the shaft? Swing speed seems to be of little importance as long as you just drive the structure through the ball. I'm getting distance I only dreamed of.
Yes, it is extra-terrestrial, like the force or "Schwartz!"
Originally Posted by JerryG
Cool, Patrick.
Does it seem like you are barely moving the shaft? Swing speed seems to be of little importance as long as you just drive the structure through the ball. I'm getting distance I only dreamed of.
When you say "structure" are you talking about the sweet spot and the power package which carries it?
Good mechanics help us experience the feeling of the sweet spot but then the sweet spot creates its own mechanics demanding certain bio-mechanical structures.
I think that's why Bobby Jones swung so smoothly. It gave him his greatest feel of the sweet spot. Tonight was interesting for me because I had tried both swinging and hitting to carry the sweet spot but had the most success with a very short back hip turn and then pushing the sweet spot with my slowly returning back hip completely down through the ball. It's amazing how the ball reacts when you stay balanced and dire the sweet spot through the ball! The ball becomes like butter or non-existent. It becomes a sub-atomic game of billiards.
It's amazing. Remember when I said I was simply trying to support the on-plane sweet spot it it stressed out all different parts of my body but the ball was jumping? This was that!
PMB
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Cool, Patrick.
Does it seem like you are barely moving the shaft? Swing speed seems to be of little importance as long as you just drive the structure through the ball. I'm getting distance I only dreamed of.
Sometimes it feels the flex is several minutes after the ball has left! It is sooooo cool!
YBGF
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Sometimes it feels the flex is several minutes after the ball has left! It is sooooo cool!
YBGF
It is just the best, isn't it?
Now your task is to continue putting with the blade putter and concentrate on some EA and pp#3. It is frighteningly accurate. I miss putts, but I nearly always Roll it on the line I want it to Roll.
Oh, yeah, think Roll, not Hit. Roll the ball. That awful Star Ship Enterprise putter of yours won't allow you to Roll the ball.
I think we have about 2 weeks of golf left here if we are lucky. C'mon over.
I've had some good ball striking this week -- breakthroughs, really. (Along with a couple of "what the heck was that" fat shots when I didn't start with that little hip slide and just pretty much stuck the club in the ground 2 inches behind the ball...)
First, if you don't have them -- get the DVD's!
Second, as said elsewhere, there is so much more "out" and "down" than we believe. I find that I can backslide to a sweepers style strike and then, the inevitable "flip"...bad stuff.
Third, I was standing a little too far from the ball -- an inch or so closer eliminated the toe hits and brought on that much sought after Nirvana -- compression. Like a half club to full club longer. It also eliminated the thin hits and no divots I was seeing.
Finally, the underhand pitch/tracing feeling has helped me be able to hit both irons and driver -- something I've struggled with all summer. If one was working, the other wasn't. Now, I can hit both (and usually a ton).
Thank you Yoda and everyone here on the forums.
I'm looking forward to drills when I can't play this winter so I can really see myself finally rebuilding my swing. It's been interesting playing while trying to adopt what I'm learning -- some nights I show such progress then other nights (or on the next hole), some old flaw or other has crept back in...
Hybrid Mode
