[Yoda]

Yoda,
It has been about three months since you visited us in Minnesota. On that day at Medina I thought I was starting all over again. You gave us your all throughout the day and gladly much of it was actually absorbed into this puny brain.
I used to play pretty fair golf and actually thought I knew something about the golf swing. Kevin Carter introduced me to TGM and I learned otherwise. After a hip injury and lots of confusion I couldn't break 90 earlier this year.
After Medina it started to come together bit by bit. Visits with Kevin including chipping and range time, revisiting the MacDonald drills, Homer's book, daily visits to LBG Forums (the website with the most golf expertise available) have been a huge learning process.
3 weeks ago it started to slowly come together. Last week the score started to appear. My last two rounds on two different quality golf courses were 75.
"Thanks" seems a little shy for what I have gained, but I at least get to buy coffee for Kev.
Regards.

Jerry,

From 90+ this summer to 75 this fall is a pretty fair leap. Congratulations!

I have written in the past of the void I feel -- I liken it to post-partem depression -- after doing a national workshop, whether it be one day (as in your case) or two or three (other typical LBG formats, public or private). I feel the same way after our annual The Barclays Golf Academy in which our five-man professional team gives more than 500 individual lessons (and hundreds more in group format) during the four days of the tournament. That 'void' is born of the distance that now separates me from my students.

In each instance, we have come together from afar; we have worked; and we have bonded. Then -- poof! -- it is over, and we return to our respective homes. I know we have 'cracked the egg' and am proud of the progress we have made. But, I also know that even more lies immediately ahead, especially if it is facilitated and monitored by a competent teaching professional.

Thank God for guys like Kevin Carter.

He makes your story -- and mine -- possible.