Need a little guidance
 

I pretty much gave up trying to execute any TGM on the golf course with the full swing when I played this winter as I am hiting the ball good with my regular swing, but I have continued to work on reaching my goal of 6,000 chips and pitches done TGM style.

The first 1,000 I pretty much spun my tires as I practiced haphazzardly ...if anything taking several steps backwards as old habits kept cropping up as I tried to learn to keep pressure on PP1 during the swing....keeping the hands ahead and finishing with the club below the hands. I hit most of them thin or fat...too much dipping and moving....but I was mostly hitting off of dirt as I figured if I could hit off of dirt grass would be a piece of cake. I started getting serious about 1200...even washed my 200 practice balls for the first time...lol.... and it all started to click on the practice swing...think Ben Doyle pounding the dirt about 5 times before every pitch... but I still often reverted back to bad habits when I went to hit the ball. At 1500 I knew I had it...it felt right and the results were pretty dramatic. I hit 300 more this morning to put me at 1800. I can't imagine how friggen good I will be by 6,000...I am thinking professional style.LOL So far I haven't worried too much about distance accuracy or hinging..just trying to focus on catching the ball pure each time. When do you figure I ought to start working on the different hinging or should I start getting target conscious first> I wonder if this will eventually carry over to the full swing..ya think?

My advice is to find an AI to work with you.:smile:

Isn't going to happen..I live in Kansas...no AI's around these parts and I am not going to travel 200 - 1,000 miles to see one....but thanks for the reply.

The reason many people cannot bring the brilliance of their TGM chipping and pitching over to their full swing is the pivot.

In 12-5-1 and 12-5-2, there is a zeroed out pivot. In 12-5-3 however, the pivot comes into play.

Per 1-L, "...mastery of the Pivot (Zone #1) is so essential for good Golf."
Per 9-0, "The Three Zones are a natural division of the action. Their identities must be maintained in teaching, practice and playing. And unless developed in sequence, a very weak "compensated" game is inevitable."

Per 9-2, "Zone #3 can never be better than its Zones #1 and #2 support."

What can a faulty pivot do?

It can cause the player to be off balance and Bob (3-F-7-C) and Sway (3-F-7-D).

It can cause the right shoulder (Shoulders are the 13th component) to come off plane on the downstroke and cause a roundhouse (2-N-0) and a lack of followthrough (8-11, 6-H-C, 7-13), which will lead to Steering (3-F-7-A), the #1 Malfunction in golf - clubhead throwaway and a bent left wrist.

I would really recommend a thorough study of the pictures in 9-0, according to the principles of 2-R, even going to the extent of mimicking Diane.

Then move on to 9-2 and 9-3 giving it the same "imitation" treatment - all the while monitoring what your hands are doing and identify its feel.

When that is done, simply replicate the mechanics by replicating the 'feel' in your hands...then emphatically, your hands will control the pivot (9-1)

thanks guys..good stuff.

Do yourself a favor and buy a ticket to Atlanta and go to the swamp. I did and it was awesome. Good luck!:smile:

Driver Punch
 

Track,

Another suggestion - especially as you progress in your practice and get to the longer clubs (Yoda recommended this to me awhile ago), is to hit "punch" shots with the Driver. The orbiting head of the longer shafted Driver makes throwaway and left wrist bend more likely. You don't try to hit them a long way (25 to 30 yards - "no stars are given for distance" I believe Yoda said), but monitor your hands and their "flat left and bent right" conditions at impact.

CG