This sounds like a 'sad act' story but bear with me.

Like most males of the species I hate ironing. I let it build up for about 3 weeks and then do a marathon session.

Today was ironing day :(

So I set up my 'work station' in front of the tv and put in Alignment Golf. My biggest regret was I ran out of shirts!!!!!

Honestly it was the first time I have watched it all the way through in over a year and it has given me renewed confidence in my game. Some of you might recall a thread I started a while back lamenting the loss of my draw. Whilst I figured out myself that it was because my hinges had stopped I could have saved myself a lot of trouble by watching AG earlier because VJ says it loud and clear early on in the show.

Anyone that has this and hasn't watched it in a while, stick it in your player, you won't regret it and you will whet your appetite for the upcoming AG II!!

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Agreed its a great watch for the second or fifth time. What was the V.J. quote Styles?

Any idea why your "hinges stopped"? Why you were Angled Hinging? Were you getting the face closed? Was your pivot stalling or something? Was it a subconscious Hand Manipulation? I't happens to me. Two wrongs trying to make a right.

Hi OB

Can't recall the exact quote but it was along the lines of:

"These guys are hitting cuts and slices and looking at the top of their swing wondering what they're doing wrong but they aren't looking at what their hands are doing"

Not 100% sure on what I was doing (apart from hitting angled hinges) my own explanation as to why I was doing it though was because I was using (I think) an automatic release and was producing angled hinges and even vertical I think as some of the compressions were just awful!

Thanks.

Maybe but you're too good a player to be just Angled for no reason, Im thinking. Give some thought to it being a compensation........for a closing face. I could be wrong but its something to consider. It's something I discovered about my game. I get a flip which begets Angled to Vertical Hinging. Two wrongs trying to make a straight but only achieving lousy compression.

The only cure for me is to live an breath.............Delivery Line Roll Prep. Inside out Impact followed by a Finish Swivel or Roll with a Flat Left Wrist and Horizontal Hinging. Total compression. 2-C-0. as opposed to what I was I getting done previously. It all about Impact Geometry.

that strikes a serious chord with my own experience OB

I love the stretch in the evenings here in the UK at this time of the year.

After being excited all day long after watching AG, I went to the course and teed off at 9pm!

Got 8 holes in and tons of bunker shots and chips

lots of rehearsing delivery line rolls, I was hitting it great

heading out for 18 shortly, can't wait!

Hi GP. I have had two occasions two play in Scotland.
 

Besides the two full rounds, each day, it was fun to see people playing with their dogs running around. We have a new puppy, a schnauser, and I am trying to talk the local municipal club into letting me walk a few with her in the evenings for next to zero cost.

Thanks for reminding me to practice my bunker shots! :)

Patrick

I think Styles is more the type that has "The Little People" walking around with him..............no stupid stereotyping implied eh? When I was over there they were always quaffing my Carling Black Label when I wasnt looking. I think those little fellas are Canadian...........constantly changing the channels on the t.v..........I think to find a hockey game.

Styles, despite the fact I should know better............Im still subject to Steering. Maybe everyone is.

Im trying to de-code it, find its pattern of multiple compensations..........the first fix is always the Delivery Line.......inside-out impact for balls played back of low point, Clubshaft. Then I fix the Clubface, with Horizontal Hinging. When the effortless compressions come back I start working on Lag , Clubhead. Then I try to forget it all and play by feel, Lag Pressure. The goal is to make the ball (which is a tyrant that inspires steering) and the club disappear and just play with Lag Pressure and the Delivery Line or the Aiming Point. It's elusive but divine.

The process is ongoing, a never ending cycle. But knowing the pattern is making the cycle way, way shorter. Knowing the ball flight laws has really helped too. What I used to ascribe to a clubhead path is now a face angle thing......making corrrections is far more "cause and effect" now. My intentional hook has never been better too. It seems amazing to me that we could all have played the game for so long with the ball flight laws backwards!

Not all of we. Just you. :laughing9

ICT, as OB said, I'm in Ireland not Scotland but its all the same, both great places to play and (mostly) friendly people everywhere you go.

OB, I hit the ball beautifully for 15 and a half holes yesterday including 2/3 sand saves :)

Sadly I hit a lay up 7 iron 200 yards on the 16th into a new bunker (you know the kind - where you foot disappears into the sand) and from there hit OB (not you!) had to drop into the soft sand (how do you like those eggs?) and took two more to get out. Should have hit wedge for my lay up, just hard to hit two wedges for 2nd and 3rd shots on a par 5!

Got another fried egg on 17 and didn't play 18 so well at all. Went from 2 over to 7 over in 3 holes :(

A great round is in there fighting to get out!