I like to think of myself as a fairly good textbook student. And hopefully vice enough to know the difference between reading a text and translate it to physical action. But I am far from being a brilliant ball striker. I play from 6 and spend all the 6 shots from T to somewhere close to the green....
Today I think I physically understood the flying wedge.
Sofar my ambition of studying TGM and engaging in this forum has been to get to terms with what I'm doing when I swing well. And for the fun of learning.
Good strokes don't happen every time I play. Some days it doesn't happen at all - and the good striking is very seldom present for more than half a round. But when I'm on I feel like I can do just about anything within my physical limits. High draws, low fades - and even fade with horizontal hinging.
So I want to understand my swing in order to be able to do my best more often.
But today I found a glitch that's probably there in my very best strokes. And probably dominant when I'm not striking the ball well. It was related to the flying wedges, a loss loss of pp#3 prior to impact, and the right hand 3 dim takeaway - and therefore everything else in a hands controlled swing.
My swing seems to be a right elbow centered swing. And when I am striking well, somehow I manage keep the club going and to produce a fairly sound impact and hinging action by letting the left hand and arm take ofer before impact. No wonder I can hit an 8 degree driver as high as the good players strike their 10 or 11 degrees drivers.... and with a good trajectory as well.
But the worst thing about this glitch (if this is the only glitch) is a lack of distance control. The efficiency of energy transfer through impact varies a lot. The local pro's sees nothing wrong when I hit it 20 yards shorter than I know should - because I have a good looking swing plane, and good trajectory and direction control. So I have to sort it out myself.
Today I discovered that if I move the right elbow through impact - good things may happen. And in order to do that take the club back more actively with the right hand. I managed to keep the pp#3 pressure through impact.
But all this was in the garden without a ball. And to me the proof of the book is striking.
I can't wait to try it out on the range. When the season starts.
In the meantime I would like som comments from the honorable members of this forum.
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