Help!!! I give up this game!
 

I am in dire need to fog lifting. The last couple of range sessions have been the worst in a long time sometimes I wonder if this 'endless persuit for precision' is worth it. Its absolutely doing my head in.
I have been reading up on the forums and the books, try to do the dowel drills, impact bag drills and let all the info incubate, but I just 'don't get it' :confused:
Been working on my set up alignments, Right forearm in line with the clubshaft etc etc but it just doesn't feel right or look right at all (my range has mirrors that we can use to check our swings)
I know that I have a bent plane line, I run out of right arm in the downswing and I sideswipe at the ball.
My swing is all over the place but I am trying but getting nowhere.
I was thinking of just working on chipping the next time I go to the range, or do you think it might be better to forgo the range and just use the dowels and just work on the motion?
So apart from buying the first plane ticket to the swamp what can I do?
I feel like putting the clubs away and taking up fishing [-o<
Help!!
Alex

Bud, I would go with the dowels focusing on alignments, use a mirror to ensure that what you are thinking you are doing is what you are actually doing.

Then do 12-5-1.....maybe 12-5-2, get those right.

Get that crisp contact, work with different clubs as well.

Just a wild observation, you might be getting in your own way. You had a fairly decent stroke a while back, it is there and it can be better.

You can fish a little until the week after The Open. Then, Yoda and I will see you at St. Andrews. Since you can't come to us, we'll come to you.
Have dowels, will travel. ;)
In all seriousness, when you go to chip, look, look, look. Go to follow-through and look at your flat left wrist. If it's not flat, do it until it is flat.

The Next Best Swamp Thing
 

Alex,

Your name was one of the first I read when I started posting on the TGM and Chuck Evans Forums two years ago. I have read every one of your comments and questions and have thoroughly enjoyed each and every one. On more than one occasion, you have inspired me to write a post shedding light on the great truths that Homer Kelley left us. One day, I hope to meet you personally.

Meanwhile...

Send us a video. Ted and I will review it and record a personalized CD with analysis and commentary. The disc will contain all the software you need to load and play it on your own computer.

With your permission, we will post it on the site.

:)

That sounds about right my friend, I think I am just trying too hard and expecting too much. I suppose I should know by now that this game we call Golf, the amount of effort you put in does not necessarily translate to results straight away. [-o<
I think I will just go back to the dowels for now and just keep on looking. People always look at me strangely when they see me with a few wooden dowels at the driving range :D

Thank you Yoda for you kind offer! I really appreciate this. I haven't got any recent video but I do have some from late last summer that I will email you. I shall try to take some newer vids tomorrow when I head to the range but it will be something to get started with I suppose.
Thanks again for the kind offer and yes, you can post it up on the site if you feel it will help everyone else on the site lift some more fog.

Alex

videos
 

With the newer videos from the down the line view, try to get the camera about hands high or very slightly higher on a parallel line with the baseline. In other words, try to shoot through your hands. If you can send it as an AVI file, it would be best. I'll look forward to seeing them.
Ted Fort

Hang in there Alex and do not fish. It promotes over the top and club head throw away.........:rolleyes:

Hi Ted,

I emailed Yoda some videos from front on and down the line this morning. Hopefully he has received them ok. I will try to get newer ones tomorrow and then send them to you or Yoda.
Thanks again,
Alex

videos
 

You're welcome to send them to my email address at tufpgagolf@yahoo.com. If possible, cut the excess off each end to make the avi file as small as possible. I'll get the others from Yoda.
Thanks,
Ted Fort

Hang in there Alex, buddy.

No fishing, no casting.:)

Try working on chipping and gradually move up once you get to hear that lovely clicking sound of the compressed golf ball on a regular basis.

You have to get worse to get better, so stick with the programme and good luck.[-o<