Sorry. Loren is right again.

Internal rotation has the muscles loaded and ready for action. External rotation leaves the muscles loaded but out of position. Getting them back into position leaves them useless. Hogan describes it well in his book.

Happy New Year mate hope 2012 holds much happiness and success for you!

Thanks for always being a great source of information, it’s always delivered in a clear, wise and honest manner. Appreciate your help.

AB

Dart, all the best for the new year mate, and thanks for true inspiration.

Stink

Thanks Stink and AB.

Happy new year and more power to you both.

happy new year Dart, I wonder if you can share some wisdom. Briefly, playing like a legend, handicap tumbling, went back to old club where there’s some history, played with old biddy who was part of the history, had 20 pts despite some amazing shots. Despairing, seriously considered giving up. Went out practice yesterday in total fury, had either par or 1 over on each of 13 holes.

Clearly played defensively with no confidence after 2nd hole on previous day’s comp – something she said was the trigger. Playing with my head and succeeding – grrr!

Recalled my supa best scores are when someone’s done or said something and I’m seriously pissed off at them = played aggressively but my mo is persuader which isn’t that aggressive. Question – how to move into more aggressive play (without wheels falling off totally due to speed errors etc) and sustain it for 18 holes and/or is there another way? I need to fix this or I should give up!

cheers

Happy new year Maggie.

Persuaders never quit but they can come close at times.

A word I found in “The Talent Code” might explain something. The word is IGNITE.

We all have some talent or ability to play and we want more, but it is no use having it if we don’t use it. I see players every day who don’t use it. They can really play golf but they are playing something else. They play hip actions or release actions or plane shifts. If I bet them $10 a hole they instantly play golf. That ignites them.

I think of them as builders who don’t use their tools and expect to build a house.

Maybe what happens to you is, someone ignites you. Once the life or enthusiasm decides to do something it has a better chance of getting done.

The trick is how to light your own fire.

See if you can find what did it in the past and you might invent some new ones.

In the meantime I will give some thought regarding myself.

Hey Dart,
Great post above. It really sets a light bulb off for me, especially as far as putting is concerned, you know the important end of the game. Often I am going along well, have a couple of bad puts or near misses, then its all bad something in my head changes and nothing seems to drop.

Just a matter of catching myself doing it and saying to myself before each putt this is going in and beong confident.

Such a head game really. I’m sure this happens to others how do you deal with it?

Hey Dart

Any coaches in Adelaide you would recommend that have TGM experience?

Cheers

Brettla,

Sorry mate, I can’t think of one. All the guys we trained are overseas someplace.

If I find one there I will tell you. Try the TGM site.

Golftime,

Mate, it is the old trick of being in the moment.

When, in the moment, there is no such thing as past failure. There is no mental noise, only a wrapped fascination with the shot you are playing.

You can do a course on it. Clear Keys, Alpha training, TR. 0 in Scientology or even some meditation, transcendental or regular. They all lead to a calmer, sharper state of mind where the body responds to the your desires more accurately.

What ever that state is, we have all experienced it at some time. You just have to fish around for it. Watch the kids playing, at anything.

Mostly it is a matter of patience ‘till it comes good.

You sure can’t force it.

I always found myself there as a kid – after about four hours of hitting balls. I had tried everything and given up then I was just there doing it; beautifully.

I since have learned to do it in five seconds.

Thanks Dart,

I will try to get wraped up in the moment and have the feeling of success before the shot and see how it goes.

Today I missed 5 getable putts on back 9 after a great front 9 to have an average result. bugger but I see what you are saying.

Thanks again

Thanks Paul

Oddly enough that is exactly what I have done – widened my stance (always played with a strong grip) – I have always stood slightly inside my shoulder width, got the wife to measure my shoulders and cut a plank the exact width that I now place between my heals as a reference point. It has made a big difference to my feel, confidence and ball striking.

Just received email notification that my order from Booktopia for the Talent Code has been shipped. From what I have read on this forum, I am exited.

Found these pearls on Youtube.

Busy working my way through the chapters as presented by Lynn Blake. So much easier to visually understand what is required

http://www.youtube.com/watc...;feature=relmfu

Thanks again, Fish

Great youtube video. I have the short game dvd the he did but never got the video on the full swing. Maybe I will have to have a look for it if it has been done.

Fish, you are very welcome.

Lynn is all good and you should see what Homer actually said.

We all tend to put a bit of our own upbringing into our interpretation.

Homer says Zero out the pivot etc. that means none, nil , zip. So you can really learn the basic action of the right arm. According to Hogan, the elbow is the center of the golf swing, albeit a moving one around the left shoulder.

Happy new year Dart! Could you explain what it means to compress the golf ball and why this is important. I often hear “hit down and take a divot” to compress the ball. However when we tee up on a par 3 there is no divot and when we hit with the driver, it could be on the upswing. Are we still compressing the ball in these cases? And if so, with a driver is there a way to tell when we are compressing the ball and when we are not?

Don,

That is the best best question. If you don’t know what you are trying to do, you would be extremely lucky to fluke it.

As our only job is to hit the ball in the fairway, green or hole. 90% of the job is hit/compress the ball. If you really hit it very well the rest is easy. If you have compression leakage your life is hell.

To compress the ball most efficiently, we say with no compression leakage – the ball must be struck before the shaft overtakes the driving assembly, with pressure on the shaft sustained and the correct clubface closing rate.

The club and the ball are unified for the split second of contact, if there is any squirming in this interval most of you hard earned power is lost.

The enemy is steering, trying to keep the face square. The roll rate for effective contact is very high, more than 180 degrees from clubhead hip high to hip high.

Divots are irrelevant up or down swing the same.

Your flat left wrist is the best weapon.

I always found myself there as a kid – after about four hours of hitting balls. I had tried everything and given up then I was just there doing it; beautifully. I since have learned to do it in five seconds.

(Thanks Dart, you’ve really connected a few dots that would otherwise have been eternally disconnected – cheers)

IGNITION that sounds absolutely spot on Dart – explains everything! I’m always in the lead in big district comps on strange courses, because the big occasion on huge tough tracks ignites me and I know I go into slow mo zone where I think without any clutter and I “know and trust” that implicitly before I start. It seems triggered by big event, big tough track, playing with strangers. I have tried to get the same feeling at other times, but it seems impossible to manifest without one or more of the triggers, the most important is a big track.

But how to get there in 5 seconds AND at any other time? Now that’s the million dollar question and I’d appreciate any sharing you may have. Thanks again, so insightful it’s brilliant :)

”Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears” Bobby Jones.

Hi Paul,
Great to meet you last night with Scott while being screened. Thanks for that tip, trick with the left wrist to help square the club face each time. Now just got to make it automatic. Lots of practice.

Ari,

Nice to meet a true golfer.

Maggie,

It’s like acting. If you can put yourself in character you can do your best.

You can’t always do it and even at your best, the rub of the green can defeat your score but it can’t beat your character. That is what we are learning in golf – character.

Character is simply a series of virtues or good habits that we knock off over time. You know, presents of mind, playing one shot at a time, intention, building a brick wall after each shot, persistence and judgement.

The first one, in five seconds may have taken two hours to learn the first few times. I look at a driver or any club that is misbehaving for a long period of time or maybe a golf hole or course until I am being there and doing nothing else but being there. When I get that 180 degree perception I quit. It means my mind is clear of enough crap to think about playing. Some days it is 95% some days 80%. Less than that and I walk the ball around. No use trying to play with a scrambled brain

All in all, you’re just a-
nother brick in the wall.

Thanks Paul. Maggie, there is a book called “The Inner Game of Golf” that has specific exercises for knowing and trusting.

Yes. It is a lot of fun too.

It is full of great drills and insights.

Fred Shoemaker, a protege of W Timothy Gallwey wrote Extraordinary Golf. He has the same sort of games.

I like the one where someone bowls ball at you from the front and you have to hit them while they are still moving.

Another is throwing clubs down the fairway, club after club. The swings are videoed and compared to your normal swing. The thrown swing looks like world class golfers.

Watching the shadow left after watching the ball amazed me. It leaves you to your inner guidance completely. You loose all sense of the outside world and work from the inner feeling of what is right for the shot.

Maggie knows Clear Keys which I think overtakes the two of them. I think she is looking for a more peaceful place to start from.

It is easier to ignite dry grass than wet timber. If she can become lighter rather than heavier she will be easier to ignite.

When you are in the moment or present time, you feel perfectly light.

It is easier to ignite dry grass than wet timber. If she can become lighter rather than heavier she will be easier to ignite. When you are in the moment or present time, you feel perfectly light.

This is VERY insightful, It IS all about lightness and uncluttered mind. The difficulty is getting there at will. Let me ponder this. We’ll speak again soon….

OK. But – not too heavy : )