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Old 01-10-2006, 10:10 PM
Fred Brattain Fred Brattain is offline
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LORD HELP ME, I think I am a Switter. (Fortunately I live in CA where this is no doubt legal ).. here is what I am finding out using TGM ,and I invite ANY help someone wants to render.

Background - tradition golf swing until knees and back went south on me.

Tried to become a hitter.

What I have found is that IF I try to be a hitter, as in purely hitting, I make really good contact about once in 7-8 shots. When I DO make contact it goes a long way. However almost everything else is thin.

If I switch back to swinging, but using a hitters grip (palm grip ala Moe Norman) I make consistently good contact, but do not have the same distance.

PLEASE do not misunderstand. I am not trying to be a gorilla out there, I don't hit the ball very far anyway, and can use all the distance I can muster.

I am also not sure (having not tried it for an extended period of time) if my back will withstand that rhythmic but Centripetal motion of swinging.

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Old 01-10-2006, 11:08 PM
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Fred

One important thing about hitting to remember is that you are moving the entire lever assembly with a steady thrust via #1 pressure point.

The feel through impact is slow deliberate and heavy ie: dragging baby brother.
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Old 01-11-2006, 03:07 AM
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Switting puts the Grrr in Swinger!
Don't be ashamed of being a Switter! Most Tour pros are exactly that. That puts the Grr in Swinger. Yeah, baby!
And it may be other reasons why you aren't getting the results you deserve..pivot speed, flexibility, back-up support, etc.
I am a California pro...GSEM..Swit away, my man! But polish the Star System Triad.
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Old 01-11-2006, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by billmckinneygolf
Don't be ashamed of being a Switter! Most Tour pros are exactly that. That puts the Grr in Swinger. Yeah, baby!
And it may be other reasons why you aren't getting the results you deserve..pivot speed, flexibility, back-up support, etc.
I am a California pro...GSEM..Swit away, my man! But polish the Star System Triad.
In the immortal words of tennis great John McEnroe, "You can't be serious!"
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Old 01-11-2006, 03:16 PM
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Fred,

One of the hardest things to master in hitting is keeping your right wrist bent through impact. If you are hitting it thin, that may be the culprit.

Keep that right wrist bent and don't run out of right arm.
Putting you into the hitters emergency room for more attention from Luke the Nuke!

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Old 01-11-2006, 06:36 PM
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Fred,
I am probably a poster child for switting; I'm not proud of it.... AND I've been to Ted twice in the last year.... and believe me, Ted ain't teaching the switting.. I've also experienced the thin shots and some other problems that occur when not properly and completely executing a 'hit.' In general there are 3 things that give me problems in my journey from swinging to hitting..... a)stopping at TOP and not going to end....this is very important ...and I'm ususally surprised by how short a hitters stroke actually feels to someone who is/was a swinger b) a lack of extensor action and c)loosing the bend in the right wrist. Ted will probably chime in with more....
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