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I was searching around FGI and came across and old MORAD post by hawkmc. If posting this is against the site rules or if the author wishes for this to be taken down I will gladly do so.

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hawkmc
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I've often heard that MORAD is essentially The Golfing Machine with a few changes. Does anyone know what the difference is and which one is correct?

I did work a little with O'Grady 10 years ago and liked MORAD's 9 trajectory windows mapping to various swing motions/combinations. I did not experience Mac teaching a reverse pivot motion in the backswing and a really wide downswing, as others have posted. I also worked with a TGM instructor back in 1979-80 when it first was popularized, but there seemed to be too many swing components and variations. Never realy felt that TGM take human physiology/kinetics into account. But I could be wrong and am willing to listen to other approaches if they work.
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O'Grady had 9 trajectory windows (High-H, Medium-M & Low-L): HH, HM, HL, MH, MM, ML, LH, LM & LL. Probably from TGM he had mapped the various motions the body, arms, hands and club could make and identified the trajectory it produced. If I understood him correctly, where most people fail is that they mix motions from High, Medium and Low together. Certain combinations do not mix well, particularly a high-traj backswing motion with a low-traj downswing or low-traj hand positions with high-traj arm plane....Mac could demonstrate all 9 trajectory windows, going into detail about the motion and then executing. The LL wedges, draw or fade were impressive and then the high lobs (execute exactly as he had described).