Ted's Putt
 

This was a pressure putt. You putt in front of Ben/Lynn/Brian and a whole class of students on a green that has been trampled by footsteps over the last half hour. We needed closure and Ted delivered.



lets try this:
ill be back .... again

Re: Ted's Putt
 

Lynn told me you had a great shot of the gopher running in the hole...

Keee-rect!


But the Yahoo dump will not open it up. I have a few things to share from the 3 G.O.L.F Guys workshop. I wanted the putt to be the first. Now verison tells me a now need to buy file space. Gas just hit three bucks down the street. Ouch !!!!!!!!!


I'll get it on - school starts soon- I will be a t peace at home. lol.

gas prices
 

We've got people waiting at the pump, thinking that there won't be any gas for Labor Day weekend.

Even when raking a practice ball on the range, the great Ben Doyle wants it to be done with a Bent Right Wrist and Lag Pressure!

"Everything thing you do, every move you make -- is a test."

It doesn't matter if you're Yoda or Brian, jpvegas1 or MBCpro, if Ben sees something he doesn't like, he'll tell you without hesitation.

To Ben, Lynn, Brian, Ted, and Mike it was truly an awesome experience. I came to the school thinking I was a hitter, but I can actually perform both swinging and hitting. Ted told me "When I see you swing, ehh, but when I see you hit I get really excited." I can tell you it was a great experience and I came away so much more knowledgeable than I was before. I have never pretended to be a Golfing Machine guru and may never be, I have a very cursory understanding of the subject, which increased dramatically over last weekend.

Once again, thanks to everyone for your efforts in making the school a great success...

hitter
 

If there was anyone that needed to stick to hitting in the school, you're the one. My personal opinion (both cents) is that angled hinging is your friend. Stay away from a start-up swivel, stay away from horizontal hinging, but keep a finish swivel. There's nothing wrong with learning both as it will make you a better player. In order to succeed as a player, hit, hit, hit.

Thanks for the input Ted, I couldn't agree with you more. I haven't been able to play much the past two weeks as I've been traveling. Looking forward to hitting my club a couple of times this weekend and doing a whole lot of "hitting". I'll keep you updated with the progress and may make the occasional trip to Marietta to get a Jedi's perspective...

I have just returned to England and did not have much access to a computer in the States hence my delayed post.

The Canton experience was fantastic. I learned things that I could NEVER have found out left to my own devices and left the boot camp with a crystal clear blueprint of what I had to work on. I can not tell you how valuable that is. Instead of practicing some good things and junk. I will be practicing the right things. I have got clarity of mind instead of questions and doubt . All my golf energies from now on are being directed along the right path. No more wasted man hours and energy on the working on a mix of good and bad things. A friend of mine Emailed me on at the end of the first day to find out if I felt I was getting value out of the $1500 investment in the course. I wrote back that I would have paid $1500 for what I learned in the first day alone and as far as I was concerned days two and three were a bonus. Each teacher had a different style of teaching and I soaked up information from all of them. The instructors hit my personal swing issues from different directions which was not confusing and I found the combined teaching more helpful than if I was getting the information from one source. Brian wanted me to shift my downstroke plane line left and demonstrated some novel ways of doing it , Lynn taught me the swinger's swivel, Ben's bunker session had delayed reaction where I was doing the right things he taught me a couple of hours without even realising it, Ted worked on my major wobble ( Bad initial hip movement at start down) Most of my faults were a PRODUCT of this fault where I developed a steering action shifting my plane line right to counter destructive hard pulled left shots. Mikestloc provided me with a visual image of the swingers stroke pattern . His swing has to be seen to be believed. I watch it all the time. They all taught me much more than this but these are the main points that I got from them. I have much work to do but so far my swing looks much better. Strangers on practice grounds are commenting on it. I am MUCH longer and MUCH straighter and seem to knocked off about 3 strokes from my HC already. I have a lot of work to still do but inside I know I am on the right track and will get better and better and I am excited about it. This TGM stuff WORKS.Those 3 days in Canton have changed my life . . Also the students on the course were a great bunch of guys. The whole thing was first rate. Mathew did a fantastic job as the host at his golfclub. He put a lot of effort in getting the event running smoothly and this was much appreciated. He also gave me a lesson on my backstroke hip action. ( I was not turning my hips enough) I would like the thank all those that helped me

always a swinger
 

You are as much a swinger as tball is a hitter. You were very quick to make the adjustments that were given to you, in the school. We pontificate, and you assimilate. There was plenty of both at this school. ;) Enjoy your new found knowledge. It will serve you well for the rest of your life, instead of being the tip of the week.