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I guess I'm adressing this question specifically at members like Kevin and others who have the game to play tour golf... I just looked at Mike Weir finishing dead last in the Memorial - Very much a shame given how good he is/was. What sort of things absolutely cripple a tour player to that...

As this lazy Saturday evening drifts away into the ether, I thought it might be interesting to throw out the following: If you could ask a superstar tour pro, past or present, any question at all, what would it be and to whom would you ask it? You get one question - swing-related or otherwise -...

I've searched about this site a fair bit and can't seem to find a specific thread on the way the right forearm is supposed to work through the impact area (Lets say about 18" approx. either side of impact) There's a fair bit of peripheral stuff, but nothing other than that. (Apologies if I've...

Art, Could you round up a few of your colleagues from your rocketeering days and definitively put to bed this RoC argument once and for all. Bring the aliens from Area 51 as well and see if they can throw a couple of extraterrestrial cheekies at the nay-sayers;) (As a side issue - Which is...

Could somebody help me out with this one... My swing speed is approx 110mph, I'm swing in to out a lttle too much, my ball often looks like it's been drop-kicked when I go off the boil, but Flightscope is consistently telling me that my angle of attack with driver is approx -3.0 degrees. This...

I had the distinct pleasure of teeing it up at Merion yesterday, and, phew, what a place. One of the few golf courses that has ever exceeded my expectations, it's truly a magnificent piece of property. It's already started to take shape for the 2013 US Open: the fairways are about as wide as...

Brilliant Masters week as usual, but spare a thought for Lee Westwood. He's been in the top 3 of every major since Noah first put up his umbrella, but can't quite get his nose over the finishing line. And he's sooo much better than so many of the guys who have pipped him to the post. Must eat...

Just a quick thought. As dedicated golfers, are we not so lucky to see the top players competing against one another so often? It's like getting to watch Barcelona play European football (soccer for the unwashed proles;)) every week. And what with Tiger rounding into form, McIlroy firing on all...

This might be the stupidest question ever posted on this forum (or any others, for that matter) but, nevertheless, I shall plough onwards... With all the good stuff about the action of the arms on the downswing in the past few months, could ALL of it be undone by forearms that are too tense? I...

It's hard to feel too sorry for PGA Tour pros, but I wouldn't mind seeing Kyle Stanley win next week after what happened today. Must be gut-wrenching.

Tiger Woods and Robert Rock in the final group at. Abu Dhabi tomorrow. Should be a ding-dong. Worth staying up all night for?

You know when you're a Manzella-ite when you listen to Newt Gingrich blithering on about building a colony on the moon in 8 years and your first reaction... no, your only reaction is, "LET'S ASK THE SCIENTISTS!!"

I wonder if anybody has had a chance to look at the Charl Schwartzel swing sequence in the latest Golf Digest. You have to take a look at the face-on top of the backswing position: What a thing of beauty! It's taken in the midst of a full swing but it looks so posed and perfect it could have...

Just watching the Sony Open on TGC right now. The leader, Johnson Wagner's pre-shot routine on the 16th tee was EXACTLY the same one Kevin Shields posted about Alexander Noren a few weeks back. If you have a chance, check it out. He's still got 17 and 18 to play. Great stuff...

Watching a little European Tour from South Africa. Struck by how much better Retief Goosen seems to be swinging it. Seems a lot less across-y and under-y from the top and in the downswing. Anybody think he'll make a bit of a comeback in 2012?

I have a quick question about tugging/pulling. Is there ANY stage in the downswing where it won't ruin the action. Is any of it benign, or should it all be swept away? Since the release information and its offshoots came about, I feel like I'm exorcising myself of ALL the tugging demons. Is...

I asked this question on a different thread, and I was wondering if the following made any sense to anybody? Arms, coupling point, tumble torques and release work well deep into downswing and thus place the potential radius of the clubhead into the ground ---Absence of jump at impact----To...

I was thinking that perhaps it would be fun if we had a competition for 2012. People pick their four major winners and the person who gets it right will win a day of instruction with Brian, the cost split equally between everybody else who had a punt. Ties will be decided by the person who...

Forum members, I've thoroughly enjoyed my year or so as a member. When you can draw together avid golfers, avid scientists, avid golfing scientists and avid scientific golfers into one big happy;) family, then that alone is worth it's weight in gold. Thankyou to everybody for making this forum...

Would I be correct in saying that one of the major reason why we look to 'bury the hula-hoop' is to make sure that the lowest point of the left hand is by the right thigh, and not some point closer to impact? I ask because I feel my release is starting to shape up, but often as I get into...