Young Yoda

[rprevost]

I am not sure that this is the place to say this, but I want to second Yoda's comment on laser plane-line-tracing aid. This past Christmas I received one as a gift. It was the kind one attaches to the shaft. Unfortunately, I could never get on plane with it. My right forearm did not point inside the plane line, but outside it. And it caused all sorts of grief. On the course, I was constantly searching for the correct plane and ended up most of the time on a severly flat plane, well below the TSP. That made it extremely difficult for me to hit the ball first with any kind of power. I finally junked the laser aid and went back to the dowels Yoda gave me last year. It was a revelation, and every thing is back like it is supposed to be. In my case, modern technology did not help.

[KOC]

Yes, Milan, those would be mirrors. I got the idea from Paul Bertholy, one of the more famous names in golf instruction in those days, when I trained under him during a three-day course at his home. Below is a September 1983 photo of Paul and me in his back yard near Pinehurst, North Carolina. Note the famed Bertholy Swing Bar in my left hand....

Dear Yoda,

Besides of the weighted bar, was that the right hand "claw" of the Bertholy method in the photo?

I spent a long time to read and try to understand the "method" during my long holidays (healing of my elbow). I read Paul preferred the flywheel action over the right arm thrust. Is that similar to TGM spinning the flywheel?

I also found a story that Moe Norman recommended Paul Bertholy to his friends and in return treated the manual as a treasure. Would you share more with us?

[BerntR]

I just have to ping this thread. I was playing the Royal Aberdeen the other day. The green fee was rather stiff but they gave us a goodie bag to sugar it. The backside spelled: "The origin of the 5 minute rule". Simple words with tonnes of historic content. Just like this thread.

Looking on how today's top performers strike the ball, it's obvious that Homer - and Lynn - was ahead of time when Lynn wrote his letter to Golf Digest.

[gmbtempe]

Wow, thanks for the bump in the thread, great conversation.