You don't understand what a treat you are in for . . . Drew is extremely HIGH QUALITY . . . as a teacher and even more so a person . . . CLASS all the way.
Sean, I could teach you to compress the ball in about 20 minutes!
I know because I taught a college kid, today, using range clubs.
1) Identify the natural design of the club's sweet spot by letting it hang straight down.
2) Support the sweet spot with your extended right index finger. Right hand grip with club in middle of rt forearm with enough space for left hand to "fit in."
3) Put your hands in impact position.
4) Turn up-plane maintaining impact hands extended index finger.
5) Turn down-plane/thrust down-plane pointing the index finger at the ball.
6) The low point of the club must always point at the infinite plane line, or be parallel to it, and I laid two clubs down.
7) Don't drive with your legs, rotate with your chest like a tennis shot.
"Why does the ball feel so soft like we hardly hit it?" "Why is it flying so high?" "Ball Compression, do it again. Read this website at lynnblakegolf.com. and watch all the free videos."
50 balls later, the young man was compressing his shots and some of them were straight and on plane! I emphasized the club plane and no leg drive. They sat for 20 minutes watching me after they were done. I explained I had a bad hip, short-leg, the heartbreak of psorriasis and dandruff. And I was a registered independent and proud of it. "Why do you always hit it further and straighter than we do? " "Go to the website!"
Sean, I have no clue as to what Yoda, Bucket, Kevin, OB, and the other talented pros know. But if I can compress 90% of my shots and have talc/dust on the sweetspot of all my irons, you will be so happy after your lesson you will be elated!
Imagine how well you'll do with a real pro!
Patrick
Originally Posted by Sean1
I've worked very hard over the past four years on this game, e.g., practice, lessons, more practice, more lessons, books, videos, clinics, etc., and I still struggle mightily. I can barely drive a golf ball 200 yards, assuming I hit it straight (over the weekend I played with two 12 year old's who consistently out drove me). I played today and shot a 92. Luckily I had 24 putts or I wouldn't have broken 100. I'm also tired of losing golf balls (I average about six to eight penalty strokes a round).
Simply put, I don't know how to swing a golf club. I don't know how to make the transition. I don't know how to sustain lag. I don't know how to compress a golf ball. I understand Joe Dante's concept of coefficient of angular momentum. I understand Bobby Clampett when he discusses where a divot should be in relationship to the ball. I understand how the lower body is supposed to work in the golf swing. However, I slap at the ball, I don't hit it. A good 7-iron for me is 135 yards.
I have a lesson with Drew on Thursday and am looking forward to it. However, what if I'm just to dumb to figure it out? Are there people like us out there...we just aren't meant to play this wonderful game?
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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!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 04-06-2010 at 10:34 PM.
[quote=Sean1;71791]I understand how the lower body is supposed to work in the golf swing. However, I slap at the ball, I don't hit it. A good 7-iron for me is 135 yards.
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So have you trained your pivot to do the right things with the right sequencing or are you just focusing on the shoulders, arms, hands, club and the ball? It takes good footwork & hipwork to compress the ball properly.
The first round of the Master's starts on Thursday and the golf season begins a new. While Yoda is checking on Brian Gay's Alignments at Augusta National's practice facility, I will be checking the same exact Alignments many miles away up north with you .
I look forward to learning about alignments and how to swing a golf club properly!
You don't understand what a treat you are in for . . . Drew is extremely HIGH QUALITY . . . as a teacher and even more so a person . . . CLASS all the way.
I know because I taught a college kid, today, using range clubs.
1) Identify the natural design of the club's sweet spot by letting it hang straight down.
2) Support the sweet spot with your extended right index finger. Right hand grip with club in middle of rt forearm with enough space for left hand to "fit in."
3) Put your hands in impact position.
4) Turn up-plane maintaining impact hands extended index finger.
5) Turn down-plane/thrust down-plane pointing the index finger at the ball.
6) The low point of the club must always point at the infinite plane line, or be parallel to it, and I laid two clubs down.
7) Don't drive with your legs, rotate with your chest like a tennis shot.
"Why does the ball feel so soft like we hardly hit it?" "Why is it flying so high?" "Ball Compression, do it again. Read this website at lynnblakegolf.com. and watch all the free videos."
50 balls later, the young man was compressing his shots and some of them were straight and on plane! I emphasized the club plane and no leg drive. They sat for 20 minutes watching me after they were done. I explained I had a bad hip, short-leg, the heartbreak of psorriasis and dandruff. And I was a registered independent and proud of it. "Why do you always hit it further and straighter than we do? " "Go to the website!"
Sean, I have no clue as to what Yoda, Bucket, Kevin, OB, and the other talented pros know. But if I can compress 90% of my shots and have talc/dust on the sweetspot of all my irons, you will be so happy after your lesson you will be elated!
Imagine how well you'll do with a real pro!
Patrick
I was an inner city teacher too. I was a counselor for teens who had severe emotional and behavioral problems in an alternative high school. That job was much easier than learning how to swing a golf club!
I'm happy to hear you can swing the club so well. Perhaps I am just a slow learner or just don't get it. I'll find out tomorrow!
I understand how the lower body is supposed to work in the golf swing. However, I slap at the ball, I don't hit it. A good 7-iron for me is 135 yards.
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So have you trained your pivot to do the right things with the right sequencing or are you just focusing on the shoulders, arms, hands, club and the ball? It takes good footwork & hipwork to compress the ball properly.
I'm trying to sustain lag, but right now I'm so confused I can barely swing a club.
No, you are obviously a great person who will rock the delivery path!
You are also correct about how hard the golf swing is compared to our daily stuff! You would laugh out loud if you saw my collection of stuff I tried before TGM. I literally tried everything else first!
But you know the saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher shall arrive."
Check out another post for laughs, "Delivery Path California," using the search engine. I was thinking of your challenges and several of the responses when I wrote it as a way to reflect and summarize (teacher lingo).
Patrick
Originally Posted by Sean1
I was an inner city teacher too. I was a counselor for teens who had severe emotional and behavioral problems in an alternative high school. That job was much easier than learning how to swing a golf club!
I'm happy to hear you can swing the club so well. Perhaps I am just a slow learner or just don't get it. I'll find out tomorrow!
__________________
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!
You are also correct about how hard the golf swing is compared to our daily stuff! You would laugh out loud if you saw my collection of stuff I tried before TGM. I literally tried everything else first!
But you know the saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher shall arrive."
Check out another post for laughs, "Delivery Path California," using the search engine. I was thinking of your challenges and several of the responses when I wrote it as a way to reflect and summarize (teacher lingo).
I just read "Delivery Path California". Great job...very, very clever! I heard Don Henley's voice as I read it. On my way to Attleboro tomorrow I'll keep an eye out for a "Dead head sticker on a cadillac".
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