[Daryl]

Wait a minute .........the whole 1st chapter is about the difference between position golf and alignment golf isnt it?

Yoda?

Maybe the first paragraph in the Introduction (6TH EDITION)

PREFACE: INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK

It may be that an octopus – or a “thing” from outer space - would need a different procedure, but for people-shaped golfers there is actually only “one swing,” as depicted in Chapter 8 and discussed in Chapter 7. This Basic Stroke is not a basic procedure but its basic geometry. Almost anyone can do an imitation that could appear to the untrained eye to be as good looking as those of many experts. And all that would need to be added would be more precision in the Component relationships. And that this book can supply. In fact, that is all it is intended to supply. Without that “Basic Motion” it couldn’t even do that. See 3-0. The relationships in the Golf Stroke can be explained scientifically only by geometry, because geometry is the science of relationships. So learn Feel from Mechanics rather than Mechanics from Feel. “Alignment Golf” – Feel from Mechanics – dispenses with all dependence on “mandatory” Positions, which can be perfectly executed and still miss the ball. They facilitate things but guarantee nothing – unless you know the relations the are supposed to facilitate. Alignment utilization is indispensable but the utilization procedures are optional. Alignment Golf simply smothers Position Golf, so translate your “Position Procedures” into “Alignment Procedures” as fast as you are able to do so.