Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / First Post Great Site

Hi Coltsfan,

No reason to change your style, just do every thing you can as usual.

All you need to know is right here a hundred different ways but the book puts you in control. There is enough in the first chapter to make your golfing life blossom.

Forget any pattern but yours. You need the clubhead feel and the alignments.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Explannar ?

The Explanar fits perfectly one of TGM Plane Angle Variations.

The fact that there are fourteen more valid variations does not detract from its usefulness unless you think there is only one way to go.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Flat vs Upright

The aids are of some use but only if you set it up mentally every time you touch a golf club the rest of your life, along with a feel for inertia and on plane hinge motion.

Monitored and evaluated well gives you a lesson every swing. Every swing should therefore get better ‘till you can’t stand how good you are.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Flat vs Upright

I remember Dart talking about Aoki. Think it was him who took to him with a ruler drill too. Lots of blood from recollection:)

A silly question from the back of the classroom: err, what’s a ruler drill, guru? :)

Numbers,

It was actually Hayedo Sugimoto who strapped a piece of flooring board to the back of my left hand and said “now hit”. With my bent left wrist action blood spurted from the back of my left hand and he said “hit again”. “But my hand is bleeding” I bleated. “HIT AGAIN” he said in high anger.

I did hit the most beautiful 5 iron I had ever hit despite the funny address position I had to adopt. Suggy said “good shot, wash your hand. It was then that I noticed dried blood on the block of wood. He gave short lessons. I did not ask for any more but Graham Marsh kept going back.

Back home in Aus. I used rulers and masking tape in kids golf schools. They snapped theirs and cut their hands too but they just used the masking tape to cover the sharp end and kept swinging. Country kids are tough but I never did that again, despite the fact that even the clumbsy kid in the class got it.

We could pick our kids from 300 yrds because of the their rhythm.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / First impressions of TGM

Guru’s right on,

If you miss the message of gradual improvement, you missed everything.

Taking a loss on anything is up to you.

You could just as easily have said to yourself, if I keep getting pars – I am KING OF THE WORLD.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

Guru,

Nick’s father and I were into TGM from the start.

Nick didn’t like his last “full roll” lesson and left me.

You can’t win them all.

His father didn’t like the same lesson. A Doyle casualty. In those days when Ben hit a chip,pitch or punch he showed what looked like a Dual Vertical Hinge and pupils copied what they saw and not what he said. Ben could not work out why they were not getting it.

I notice now he shows lots of Dual Horizontal Hinge and finish swivel.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

i started to re read the book on the way to work this morning ( forward preface and chapter one) and it makes much more sense the second time around so some of it must be sinking in !!

but yeah i’m with you mr C, as soon as i get some time .. i’m off to see the dart

nearly??!!!
if only !!??

Grant,

Pay attention to the first page of the preface.

The idea of Basic Motion and Flat Left Wrist will save you years of tail chasing.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / How often should you have lessons?

A TGM coach knows what is wrong before you phone him.

He only has to find out how good you want to be so he can pick the level of precision required.

He will have to decide whether to take it slowly or crash change.

I always crash change their ideas in case I die before the next lesson.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / 2nd Lesson from new pro.Thoughts

I wonder what causes a slice?

Thumbs down the shaft! get your money back.

Keep the strong grip and deliver your right fore arm on the same plane as the shaft.

If your coach is a PGA member, refer him to me for a little chat

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / First impressions of TGM

Stebboko,

It is wonderful that you are reaping the benefits so fast. You must be the most perceptive and receptive pupil on earth.

It is true. If you have the little yellow book, you will not need little yellow pills.

Before you play read 3-B, becoming target conscious – no practicing on the course. Bloody hard to do. I think it is the main skill to learn.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / How often should you have lessons?

Aym,

You never get it right just better for ever.

Less than two weeks and it has not started to come; more than a month and you have lost track of what you were working on. But there is no set rule.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / some drills

Brad,

If you read the schools you must have missed Guru’s design principles. Club design and left arm design.

If you can’t hit 10 in a row to a reasonable target – one of the very basic mechanics are missing. They are simple but they are slippery.

If one is missing I promise you – all three are missing.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / long irons/vs hybrids

Bradley,

The stinger is a lower slightly shorter shot with authority being the prime quality. Easy to learn.

You can learn a lot about “the stinger” ( a lower speed higher thrush impact ) by using your normal swing or hit but cutting you finish as short as possible. Two or three feet past the ball.

It is a sound and simple shot to play and very instructive.

It is useful in certain physical and psychological situations.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Club face alignment

Royshh,

Sell the 3 pounder to your worst enemy and simply build the swing you want according to a sound blue print.

Steady improvement is the goal not magic fix. The plane line and angle you like. The assembly and loading action you like. And above all the hinge action you like because that governs the ball direction.

Keep numbers out of ten on how you think you are going, just to remain objective as possible

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Mirrors dont lie

Good exercise KGA,

The is the sense we play golf with and must be developed fore ever.

I wonder how many drills we could invent to raise that awareness.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Club face alignment

He is also a snap loader. That means he does not assemble and load his angles until late in the backswing. Hands turn later wrists cock later arm folds later.

Not recommended for people who have a limited time to master the game. I should say swing because I can’t see anyone mastering the game this side of the Pearly Gates

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Mirrors dont lie

I think you can find your body parts better with your eyes closed and you save $20.

Every thing you do first up is a struggle. If it’s worth doing it is worth the struggle. It gets easy with work.

The only reason you have to KNOW what you are doing is so the struggle stage doesn’t throw you.

Every skill has an effort barrier to break through. The good guys get used to the process and break them like eggs. The “what next challenge”.

Watching David Graham go from a man on Tour who had trouble breaking 80 to a double Major winner was like seeing the story of the Ugly Duckling who turned into a lovely Swam. Strange, he always said he would.

When I asked him why he walked like he had a 5 iron stuck up his bum, he said ” that’s how champions walk ”, and that’s when he couldn’t break 80 or eggs.

He improved every swing for ten years.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / New Pro advice views

I lift the heel way off the ground if I want an extra 40 mtrs. but I need wide fairways and little rest between big ones.

I find the occasional lift educational regarding acceleration time and mass development. Then of course you can get much the same effect with no lift.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Hitting Help

Hitting is a nice thing to do. So is swinging. They make playing golf the most wonderful thing.

Just make sure you maintain the lag, then you will be forced to learn your on plane hinge action.

Remember, glass ( plane ), pressure gauge and get that hinge mounted in the right spot with no rust.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Dart

Bio speaks sooth.

I would prefer the PGA would take the lead, but you know bureaucracy. The last to move.

I will not admit I said that.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Dart

Any idea which area you’re moving too? Just started TGM last night and was thinking ‘damn Terrey Hills will be too far away”.

Stebboko,

Orange, out west. Parents and family.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Dart

Would love to try and line up a session in the next couple of months before you disappear out of Sydney. Thanks.

Gibbo,

Most days I need 10 mins notice. I live that close to Terry Hills Driving Range. Plus I am down there every day teaching or getting ready for Cuscawill. So yeah. (I am starting to talk the way my grand kids do).

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Hitting Help

I think you are ahead of normal. Keep it up for a couple of weeks and the rest of your life. You will never stop learning and having fun. Experience it all and enjoy the exhilaration.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Dart

I also thank the ISG crew. A life time opportunity for me.

I will not be domiciled in the Sydney region for more than six months. Humble types don’t make enough to live in the city after semi retirement.

That is of no concern to anyone I have seen for we can prosper on net or phone.

Anyone tossing up east of the Great Divide should initiate soon.

I will be returning to the big smoke on a monthly basis for the workers whom I love.

Paul H.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Billy Dunk

A lot of my generation were influenced by Hogan’s idiosyncrocies.