A 21 hcp explores a ferris wheel on the way to getting a chicken wing or two.

[innercityteacher]

BUT IS IT A RIDE WORTH TAKING?

I'm not spoofing you guys. These are serious questions regarding power and precision.

The Bobby Jones quote about Leo Diegel and B. Swisher employing a "shut face method" and "soundly thrashing" him in tournaments has me intrigued. I'm hoping you can help me decode that technique using our common TGM insights.

If I am at impact fix with my handle and shaft way ahead of the ball, I can make the club stay closed or shut ("square") by rolling my back shoulder straight up and down by forcing the clubface to look at the ball and "ferris wheel" straight up and down.

After the backswing, I can ferris wheel the shoulder down or RF thrust down. The club face is a horizontal hinge, I think, and there is no layback. As long as the clubface is closed to the target line and the ball is middle my stance or back, there is a huge chicken wing finish and a ball that really, really flies like a 145 yard range ball 9 iron straight to the target.

I can do it with every club from a small chip to a full driver. A light flvh (flat left vertical hinge) into the chicken wing keeps the ball to the target line.

In that technique, my plane or ferris wheel is not inclined and there is no swivel. I can do almost the same thing with the ball using impact fix, RFT and the hitter's angled hinge or straight-line thrust. It is a more complex move and the ball doesn't yet hug the target line.

I'm sure I have missed several crucial TGM concepts using the ferris wheel technique. The great irony is that I could not have discovered the effectiveness of that technique apart from the "basic motion" progression which I do with at least 100 balls several times a week and the magical right forearm, shoulder plane discussions and horizontal hinge insights.

I have read a lot of golf books. Several years ago, for a summer, I delved into Byron Nelson's life and thought I read that he employed a similar "shut face" method. I tried it and shot some high 70's rounds but could not maintain it not knowing the basic TGM facts as I do now, or at least the primacy of the plane, impact fix, and the horizontal hinge.

Insights are appreciated.

Patrick