Michelle Wie and TGM

[comdpa]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ine/index.html

Michelle Wie was advised to put TGM on top of her reading list...

[6bmike]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ine/index.html

Michelle Wie was advised to put TGM on top of her reading list...

I think it was the writers idea of what Wie should have as 'Summer Reading.' It was hard to figure out the story at first- unless I really failed to understand the 'humor.'

btw- I would never let her read the yellow book.

[rchang72]

btw- I would never let her read the yellow book.

Why?

[comdpa]

Why?

Because it would mess her up. The kid can play, and besides, she already has her hands full trying to reconcile what ol' Lead is teaching and what she is doing (very well). LOL

[6bmike]

Why?

I would surely teach her TGM but she is still a kid with great talent that needs to be handled like a race horse. Just a as Justin said- she can play (and has alignments) and has her hands full of Lead- hahaha

I really believe Homer's book serves the everyman (and women) golfer more than the god-given talented pros. The pros do things we can never understand but with a good TGM instructor can learn what they do and how to fix and get back to it when it breaks.

[birdie_man]

You could teach her some TGM stuff...mechanics are mechanics, physics is physics, etc......wouldn't want to give her the full dose though....i.e. don't start getting into things she doesn't need....complex emplainations, terms, etc. Give her concepts w/o it being "out of the book TGM," type-deal.

That's my amateur opinion anyhoo!

[Martee]

Interesting that it was put on her list, but more interesting was who else recommendeds it... Leadbetter.. I was told a while back that he has his instructors read it as a requirement but can't remember who it was, it might have been one of his instructors this seems to confirm this. Now the question is how or do they apply it directly or indirectly..??

I don't think she should read it on her own unless she really understands HER stroke, having AI work with her, would be a better way to approach it IMO.

[comdpa]

Interesting that it was put on her list, but more interesting was who else recommendeds it... Leadbetter.. I was told a while back that he has his instructors read it as a requirement but can't remember who it was, it might have been one of his instructors this seems to confirm this. Now the question is how or do they apply it directly or indirectly..??

I don't think she should read it on her own unless she really understands HER stroke, having AI work with her, would be a better way to approach it IMO.

Interestingly enough, I spoke to one of Lead's instructors when they first opened shop in Singapore about TGM reading requirement.

He says that they were "encouraged" to read it as opposed to "have" to read it.

[mattsdad]

Maybe she HAS been reading it.

Just before the Sony Open, Leadbetter was on the Golf Channel with an analysis of Wie's "new" swing, comparing it with the "old". The old swing was much longer and it appeared as if she was using the Squared Shoulder Plane at the End. The new swing went just past Top and was much closer to being on the Turned Shoulder Plane.

RT