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PSheehan- we've spoken before- at GEA. You're another one whose postings (inadvertently) brought me over to the "force." The difference is (if I remember your story correctly) that you were already a good golfer, whereas I suck. I'm sure you read my original post- I'm not making that stuff up. 7 iron 135 carry! I mean, WTF is up with that? That's woeful, by anyone's standards. And I'm not talking about macho, "I can smoke my driver 290" sort of stuff, I'm talking "I have decent strength and eye/hand coordination yet hit the ball like a child!" stuff.
My distances ALONE tell me something's wrong, something's FUNDAMENTALLY wrong. Which of course it is- I'm getting almost zero compression, sustainning precous little lag, and coming from the wrong direction. (Actually, with all of those mistakes it's a wonder I can regularly shoot in the 90s!)
One of the first things that TGM taught me is to hit DOWN and (and this for me is by far the most important point on earth) OUT. The "OUT" part I never got before, not in five years of playing this incredible game, yet it's so vital, so IMPERATIVE, that without it, good golf is almost impossible.
It's what Tomassello talks about (again, all credit to Homer Kelley for teaching this guy and Lynn for providing his videos, free of charge!) when he says "out to right field, down the first base line" etc.-- not AT the target!"
I could never get this fundamental into my cranium- to me, "out to right field" is exactly where I DID NOT want to go- I was terrified of "right field." As soon as I changed just this one simple little thought I hit the ball differently than I'd ever hit it before- A high draw.
Now again, I'm still hopeless at golf- but a light went on when I hit that shot. One of those "oh...so THAT'S what they mean by 'out'!" I was hooked, for good, last Wednesday at Dyker, while hitting balls alone in the freezing cold. It was the moment where I said "that's it, I'm gonna stay with this way of learning golf, gonna COMMIT to it. And I will. And as I improve and become an 80s shooter (I have modest goals) I'm gonna remember guys like you and DukeNasty who intoduced me to the world of TGM--- AS TAUGHT BY TED AND LYNN!
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