Until 5 mins before we teed off and I thought, 'Wonder what would happen if I monitored PP#3 for putting as well...'.
I set the ball just slightly to the toe of the putter, felt PP#3 on the backstroke and hit 5 of the purest feeling putts I ever hit.
Couldn't take it to the course quite so quickly - I missed 5 par putts from within 10 feet, most of them short cuz I was scared to blast them past the hole with my newfound Hulk like PP#3 induced stroke.
If you're game, would love to hear more on
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Set your anchors push your elbow against your motionless head like it was a wall!
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Experiment with heavy EA within 150 yards
Is EA extensor action? Haven't dialed that in yet, am kind of stumbling through fog lifting. So much of TGM is still a mystery to me, I'm kind of getting by on the few things I can figure out.
I know I'm a swinger, and I use a 10-2-B grip.
Funny thing is, I can't hit it out of my shadow, haha.
I used to be long'ish - okay, wild and always O.B., but long'ish.
The new swing is just so compact - I push back against PP#3 and somehow the backswing finds its natural stopping place, then I aim at inside aft quadrant, and try to drive to the low point.
I was so surprised I kept hitting the ball so solidly - short, but solidly. On one approach I had 110 to the pin. Hit a SW right on line, came up 10 yds short.
Plunked a ball down for fun and decided to 'go after it'.
Completely chunked it. Downswing black out.
Put another ball down, just made my typical compact, somehow feels like its on auto backswing, drove PP#3 to the inside and bingo - put the ball within 4 yds of the original one.
Lesson learned. I'll work on power later, for now I can't tell you how happy I am to be playing again - with half a clue.
HoganFan, If you are thinking you are short, try a little more forward shaft lean through the ball. More downward pressure on the shaft and you will get some more distance.
I just read what I wrote and it seems so curt.
Sorry.
Do some basic motion without a ball at first. Feel the shaft loading into pp#3 in the back swing.
Push pp#1 forward and hopefully you will feel a little more loading into #3. That is quite a bit of forward shaft lean.
A lot of basic motion will help instill that feeling so you can carry it into acquired motion and then full motion.
As a newly converted hitter, I hate the term "swing."
Good luck. And if you have any questions, do not go see your PGA pro unless he has GSE? behind his/her name.
Jerry, curt is the uncomplicated poetry of TGM - pretty sure Homer himself would give you a thumbs up for keeping it concise and accurate.
So thanks for that - I wasn't trying to be coy, I actually get that with TGM less is more. Like the swing, Homer found a language that made the most impact, with the fewest moving parts.
And thanks for the exposition on your points - most of TGM is way beyond me. So a extra verbiage goes along way to fog lifting for me. But I'm amazed at how profound a change the little I have figured out, has made to my game.
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Good luck. And if you have any questions, do not go see your PGA pro unless he has GSE? behind his/her name.
I hear you brother. I can't even watch playing lessons with the pros on the golf channel anymore unless I turn the volume off. I watch just to see beautiful, efficient motions.
Last face to face instruction I had was at cracker barrel with Lynn+Ted over a short stack. That was...5 years ago?
Now its me, this forum and a stack of balls chipping to a hole 35 yds away. My warm up used to be an hour of pointless / uninformed ball smashing hoping something good would happen.
Now, once I hit a few solid chips, feel the ball melt, compress then fly off the clubface - I know I'm on the right track. Well, at least a 'more right' track.
Sorry to run on, thanks again for taking a moment to help.
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