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I'd like to hear more about cut shot therapy. I understand the plane line is closed in relation to the target line and that cut shot implies we'll be using vertical hinging. Are we essentially just setting up with a clubface that is facing the line-of-flight at impact fix and then executing a vertical hinge while swinging on the plane line?

How do you use it with your students? Is it simply to get the student to trust their alignments and keep a straight plane line?

That's right, Comet. The Plane Line is Closed and the Clubface is aligned Square to the Target. You then ignore the Target Line and swing along the Plane Line while utilizing Vertical Hinging through Impact. The student learns in the most dramatic way that the Ball goes on the Line of the Clubface, not on the Line of the Clubhead travel.

This training is especially effective with Putts and short Chips. Here, there is insufficient 'air time' for the Venturi Effect to produce a curve in the Ball's Flight Path. For example, demonstrate a radically In-to-Out Putting Stroke with the Clubface aligned to the Hole. The Ball goes toward the Hole, not well out to the Right as did the Clubhead. The same holds true for a radically Out-to-In Stroke. We've all known guys who could Putt the lights out Cutting every putt into the Hole.

Personally, I'll never forget my boyhood friend, Bobby Teague. He cut everything... from Drive to Putt. He was short off the Tee, but boy, could he Putt!