[mabramb]

Paul,

Your Incubator is in full overdrive now, and somewhere soon in these exchanges, the truth will hit you like a ton of bricks. You will see it and say, "WOW!"

Meanwhile, keep turning these ideas over...

You do hit the ground before the Clubhead reaches Low Point (opposite the Left Shoulder). The Clubhead then travels Down Plane to the Lowest Point of the Stroke. That is why the Divot is taken.

Hang in there, my friend.

The gates are about to be opened.

I've been doing some visualization of my own through reading these posts. I believe the visualization I have had of "the swing" is what has been inhibiting me from hitting down on the ball.

Up until now I've pictured the cirle of the swing as having the centerline being an imaginary line from the ball straight up through my body(somewhere around my head depending on ball position) AND... the circle's circumference was only tangent to the surface of the ground. Fundamentally I knew I needed to hit down on the ball to get optimal precision and performance but I never visualized what that would require... a sector of the circle being in the ground and the concept of the low point being the left shoulder (i.e. the required center and radius neeed to hit down on the ball!).

Reading, re-reading and absorbing these conversations is providing a whole new visualization of the golf swing and I am a person who is a visual learner (conceptually and in the real world). I have also taken on starting to read the book from the beginning and a lot of things that were foggy to me are now gaining clarity.

My impact bag should arrive this week and I can't wait to practice with it. I'm beginning to experience more "ah-hah's" and it's exciting!!

Thanks to all of you guys,

Michael