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Originally Posted by Homerson
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How did Seve get to be so good? Do you really think he had a silent stash of Yoda's notes and read them all by the time he played the British Open at age 17?
For that matter, how do most kids under the age of 14 learn? How could anyone under the age of 21 achieve anything without an encyclopedic command of technical instruction????
Break down the words creativity and imagination, and you might have an answer!
I haven't taken any offence...I do think it is a little one dimensional to diminish how 'prolly' 9 out of 10 PGA tour guys would have acquired their skill sets.
I find it interesting how one of the top instructional web sites devote as much time to a brilliant dissertation on Steve Elkington's flop shot can then write (off) Seve's brilliance in three lines(one post), and one line(another post)!
I am still interested in Annikan's opinion since, I believe, Seve's short game was modeled by Mac O'Grady...
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I dunno......I guess some would call it imagination....I just don't know what that is really. "Imagination." I just don't like it. Everyone talks about it so much.....no one explains what they think it is. I guess "it's" a hard thing to explain....prolly means different things to different people.
It just sounds like a vague thing to me....and I guess that's what it would be....it's such a feel thing.
I just jumped on that fast because imagination is always seemingly pegged as the universal answer to everything in golf.
Maybe I came out too strong.
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I guess it's how Seve learned....how most PROS learned....and that's great I guess...
But you can't just take someone who can't hit the ball and tell him to use his imagination....it worked for the pros sure, but it doesn't work for 90% or everyone else....and I'm not sure one could say that people can't hit the ball because of a lack of imagination either.
...I suppose it's how you should execute....with feel, imagination, w/e you wanna call it. "Feel from mechanics."
I'm not so sure it's how
EVERYONE should PURELY LEARN though....(not EVERYONE I said...some ppl do it well) I don't think that's what you were getting at....but I wanna say it.