There's a lot more to TGM than meets the eye i think. I've been down the conventional PGA qualified Pro lesson route before, a few times actually. Keeping it simple actually complicated things a lot more and left me feeling confused to be honest. Rather than a PGA Pro teaching me his version of how the swing should be, TGM gives me a whole lot more options.
How you can say a TGM swing is ugly, i don't know. As birdie_man says, there really isn't a TGM swing. You can choose how to build your own customized golf swing following some guidelines. I'm fairly new to TGM but i've never been this excited about my golf game at any time in the past 10 years than i am now. Already i can feel and see the improvement, playing off a 3.4 handicap, i feel i'm close to playing 3 or 4 shots better already. That's a huge improvement. TGM works for me and that really is the bottom line.
Not ugly huh? Evidence Ted Fort's Hitting stroke with a wedge. YUK!!!! It's not golf but I can see how it's effective. You say TGM is not one swing. I think because you think that the 'bible' contains every possible movement by a golfer you believe that there is variation in what it can teach. However I maintain in my readings and viewings of info pertaining to TGM there are the basic tenets which you must achieve to swing properly and if you deviate from them you are "wrong". This, as much as many other beliefs is a method.
PS If I try to "put" my hands into a perceived correct position to create Lag or Flat left wrist I am thinking about mechanics. If you're body angles are correct the lag will happen as a by product, not something I have to concentrate on achieving and marking off on a checkpoint. I wish you good luck on this in depth pursuit of nirvana on the course. It just seems like you're reading too much into this book and Mr Kelly's teachings. It rather comes across as a religion that you either belong to or not.
I think it's a fair bet that most of the folks that have taken a liking to Homer's work were once very skeptical. I also think it's a safe bet most of the folks that have embraced the system are thinking golfers that are fed up with the latest Golf Digest tip dijour which contradicts yesterdays tip dijour.
In either case, this forum is about the Golfing Machine and Lynn's in-depth teaching of it. You can certainly take it or leave it but I encourage you to continue to stick around and approach it with skepticism. However, as a good critic I hope you actually own a copy of the book and have made a cursory attempt to understand it. If not, your criticism will be taken at face value as evidence we have a challenge in the Marketing and Image arenas.
Do you have a copy?
One last thing. As Moderator of this board I'm putting an end to this discussion and ask that further posts are put up in another thread with the appropriate subject line. We are way off topic here. Any further off-topic posts in this thread will be deleted.
One can either hood, close, or lay back the clubface through impact. This clubface alignment produces direction control.
Hood: Only a putter can be hooded to any advantage because hooding produces overspin. This would not produce a good iron shot as it would come off very, very low. However, one could use it for specialty shots.
Closing and lay-back can be used together or seperately.
Closing without lay-back = Dual Horizontal Hinging (10-10-D)
Lay-back without closing = Dual Vertical Hinging (10-10-E)
Closing and lay-back = Angled Hinging (10-10-C)
The clubface is only square at the moment of seperation. So at Impact Fix, the clubface must be set to match the hinge action being used.
The clubface does in fact close with angled hinging, however, it's uncentered motion produces a slice. So this means the clubface alignment for short shots should be open but for longer shots it must be closed.
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