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I meant to ask this during my lesson with Brian or last night on the Manzella Live show, but forgot. The Soft Draw video begins with a description of Ernest Jones swinging (swing the pocketknife) vs. more traditional TGM-based idea of swinging (left side pulling, loading from pulling the arrow...

He said in an interview yesterday he was progressing well and sees improvement in his future because: “It will be nice to be able to hit against a solid left side for the first time in years.” He's looking forward to being able to snap his kinetic chain without pain.... Here's the story...

My first lesson with Brian in Louisville was in October '07 when my golf game was in a severe melt-down. Yesterday was my fourth lesson. I got answers to questions about whether I should use more lct, more float loading, more underhanded toss in my soft draw that really were not what I...

I suppose this is an obvious point, but the value embedded in the old posts here is incredible. Take me for instance. I've had tremendous improvement this year in my abilities in many regards, but I've struggled to combine my distance and compression gains of the past year, based on learning...

I am looking at getting a new driver. I hit the ball decently. Probably average carry with current driver is in the 260-265 range unless I really nail it and I am single digit handicap player. I have been working on Soft Draw pattern. I was reading about Taylormade Tour Burner drivers (prices...

I've made good progress with the SD. My problem shot has been an occasional weak wipe or slight pull. A post by Brian earlier this week (about outside path producing a more open face) popped into my head and I thought I must still have too much pop-out on the take-away? I decide to see how...

I started with this forum early last fall and spent a couple hundred hours, at least, reading here. I was a 5-6 handicap golfer who was so frustrated I was very close to quitting golf. I fought the pull-hook for years and thought I couldn't take anymore of it. My game improved some immediately...

I think the time away from the course has been great for me. I have spent much of the last 6 weeks at home in the evenings reading here and working on my swing. I decided in December to try changing from an angled-hinging hitter with a short, really fast swing to a swinging procedure after...

I wandered into a golf superstore where I look for used clubs from time to time, and there was the usual crowd of guys standing around the hitting area with test drivers and a launch monitor (look, I hate to sound like a snob as I am really not that good a golfer, but I want to tell people - if...

I've been posting some long-winded posts (sorry) about my progress since beginning to read here and take lessons (I've had two) with Brian. I hope someone on the same journey finds something I say helpful. I am one of those "80 shooters trying to become scratch" cases that Brian says are...

In the past 7-8 months I have poured a lot of time into reading here, studying TGM, and working on what I learned from Brian in two lessons this fall. After Brian blew up some of my "junk" in the lessons, I have really been erratic and struggled. In early December I felt enormously frustrated...

I hope Brian doesn't mind this post as it is not golf-related, but I know it does relate to many golfers here. The reason I am here is my interest in golf and my appreciation of the knowledge here and the sense that the knowledge here is factually grounded in careful observation (by some very...

I have had two lessons with Brian and am still struggling with the change I need to make to my pivot, but I have learned a tredmendous amount about golf through his videos, the yellow book and this forum. Maybe too much (in the short run). I think I have about 4 different swings now. None of...

Brian- In my two lessons you've had me focus on the Soft Draw Pattern with a flatter shoulder turn and a pivot center more between my shoulder blades and more over my right leg. As a long-time hooker (and pull hooker), I wonder what it is that makes you decide that pattern is a better starting...

Brian came through town a couple weeks ago on his way to Tuscaloosa and I go my second dose of the Matrix. The pivot was really the issue for me it seemed (to steep, outside in on path, and somewhat laid off) -- getting to the inside of the ball was still the problem, and pulls and pull hooks...

So round two with Brian was last week, when he made a tour stop on the way to the Bama-LSU game. I have been having the hardest time hitting the inside aft quadrant of the ball and hitting a lot of pulls and pull hooks. it has been driving me crazy. Brian was working on helping me pivot to...

After spending the past two months trying to absorb information from here and on Brian's videos and DVD's and Ben Doyle's DVD, I made the journey to Louisville to get my swing patterns "blown up." It was well worth the trip. As I tried to apply the information from here, the stumbling block for...

This may sound like hyperbole, but it's not. I grew up a golf fanatic and was a decent player as a kid who worked on a driving range after school and played golf a tremendous amount in the summers(could break 80 but never got close to scratch). I learned golf reading Hogan and Nicklaus, and I...