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Old 09-04-2010, 04:49 PM
HungryBear HungryBear is offline
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Originally Posted by O.B.Left View Post
.............. Is there any way that you are mistaking the feel of "Throwaway" for Lag Pressure?

............But it is common for a person who encounters an open face geometry at impact to (subconsciously) start to steer the clubhead path to the left and at the same time throw the clubhead at the ball. ..................... making for a compensated swing and a ruination of the ideal impact geometry as outlined in 2-C-0.

Its interesting to me that even armed with knowledge of Homers ideal impact geometry .......I am still subject to this sort of thing. Perhaps we all hold on to this "seems as if" false logic somewhere deep within the recesses of our golfing minds? Homer himself noted that he didnt Steer dandelions. From which you could deduce that even he, the man who defined Steering , was subject to it's false logic when confronted with a golf ball. ( I always like the way Lynn says "confronted by the ball", "in the presence of the ball" , "the ball as tyrant", etc)

When Im hitting unintentional fades that are starting to lose distance...."muffins"......I have to stop myself and give myself a 2-C-0 lesson. Arc of Approach, Inside/Out Impact for a straight line base line, Horizontal Hinging. Its THE cure for a plane line bent to the left and throwaway as a method of closing the clubface. Homer called this: "Cut shot therapy." In its most heightened state it can bring out the dreaded , shank. Forgive me for speaking its name in this house.

And hence as Lynn so eloquently notes in his Finish Swivel movie......the only line in the entire 12-3-0 mission critical MECHANICAL CHECKLIST FOR ALL STROKES which is capitalized, bolded and italicized is Section 6. number 22: From Top: DELIVERY LINE ROLL PREP. Note the extra emphasis on the "Roll". Overtaking must happen. In the ideal manner its via a Flat and Rolling Left Wrist. Horizontal Hinging, inside out impact..... its a lesson I need to keep giving myself, probably always will. Add a little lag pressure to this geometry and golf becomes an easy game again.
Yes- Let me assume that this is throwaway- Yes it is- because denial will never fix anything.

Let’s look at local conditions:
I can not do well trying to hit the ball. I MUST mentally go from top to follow-through and let the ball get in the way if it chooses. I guess Homer would call it a dandelion.

To my best observations I do not have a problem with quitting

BUT

I can have a problem with compression. When It gets "ragged".

I can pound energy into a tire all day.

I can smack a flat club shaft as hard as I like against any flat vertical surface that dares stand 6-10 inches outside my left foot.

So- first a thanks then a How is this "cut shot " therapy done? I have read it many times but never understood what or how it is done??

I bet if I said (I will not admit it.) that with all those good conditions above then the problem would show up as a little "chicken-wingy" U would say. Ah Ha!

The Bear
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