[Yoda]

Been sitting on this waiting for a good time to spring it on you guys. Here is Yoda and Ben speaking Lag with no words (more or less). Check out the left wrist at impact- I have been working on this all week.

One of Ben's bg things- as if he has any minor things- is that the hands and therefor the clubhead does NOT come back or recoil after impact. He said he would move in with you and give you lessons for a year if you ever caught him doing that.

Thanks for this memory, Mike. I appreciate it!

Ben Doyle taught every day during our school at Woodmont CC (just north of Atlanta) and actually spent four nights in my home. At about 5 a.m. the Monday morning after, I found him clothed in a white suit rolling two suitcases down a steep stair. He accepted my help, but I have no doubt he would have done quite well without it.

Then, after our goodbyes, it was out to his waiting car, and off he went into the night. A plane was waiting, and he had business 3,000 miles away.

Ben was 72-years-old at the time. In his own words: "Even par."

Legends aren't born . . . they are made.

And in the ephemeral world of golf instruction, Ben Doyle has made his own.