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    A golfer that sprays the ball everywhere with longer clubs......?

    Ok, I have someone in my regular foursome who has taken two lessons in three years with Brian, but because of circumstances hasn't been able to get a lesson in the last year. After the first lesson with Brian this friend added something like 50 yards to his drives and could actually find the...
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    the key to hitting pitches off very tight, wet lies?

    The shot that drives me crazy in spring is hitting short pitch shots, say within 60 yards of the green off super tight, wet lies. I have gotten to play twice in the past two weeks with some much warmer than expected weather and I'll bet I hit two of these shots fat and thinned three more. Is...
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    Couples and Watson (and how far left is Couples aiming?)

    The Champions Tour weekend rounds were great fun to watch, primarily because Watson and Couples were both playing very well (nice scenery, too). I DVR'd Sunday's round and watched it during the commercials and halftime of the Saints game. It was a fun duel to watch. I liked the video of Watson...
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    What would Moe Norman's "numbers" be, and should we care?

    I understand the difference between ballstriking and winning tournaments. Based on all the eyewitness testimony, you'd certainly think that Norman could light up Trackman and had great clubface and path control and an understanding of ball flight and the ability to hit a lot of different shots...
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    the July '09 Trackman newsletter is a must read.

    Learn the importance of sweetspot hits - that missing the center of the driver left or right by ONE DIMPLE will cost you 10 yards in accuracy (vs. 2 1/2 yards accuracy with a 6-iron) and that missing by a half inch with the driver, 35 yards. Learn why heel hits fade and toe hits draw. Learn...
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    to the point of having trouble watching Tiger play golf

    Did anyone try watching Tiger play yesterday? As a long time Tiger fan, it's gotten to the point for me that I find it almost painful to watch him hit. I watched half the round yesterday, and he must have hit 7-8 huge misses right and not just with a driver, finishing with that high right...
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    the worst swing thing I've ever experimented with on the range?

    No not the crackpot swing thing I tried several years ago after finding a crackpot website on the internet before joining the land of the sane. I've been very curious about the adding left wrist bend thing in the downswing and then taking it out by impact ever since Mathew and Brian talked...
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    the video Brian is going to sell a zillion of...

    My short wedge game and chipping has been really quite poor for my level for quite some time. Brian described for me a chipping procedure I needed to work on at the end of my last lesson (it was in the midst of a driving rain which had rained out the second half of my lesson). His description...
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    The Art of "Stroke Pattern" Design

    That's what I am wondering too. What justifies trying to teach someone to change from using one plane to another?
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    the manzella louisville experience

    I won't get into all the details of my full day lesson with Brian, but just wanted to pass along a few observations. First, if people could see the difference in precision in my golf game after 20 months of reading here, practicing a SD pattern, sampling NSA and NHA features, and four lessons...
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    Johnny Miller is right about Tiger...

    As he said during one of Tiger's worst ever final round efforts: ...now it will be interesting to see if Tiger tries the same things he's been trying or tries something new... He has no clue where the ball is going off the tee and only a slightly better idea with the rest of the bag. It was an...
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    how my old idea of "pure swinging" was hurting my SD pattern

    how my old idea of "TGM swinging" (vs. hitting) was hurting my SD pattern I've been struggling to understand four things lately: (1) why is my distance not any better even though everything else about my game is far better, (2) why is my left elbow still killing me when I play golf, (3) why do...
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    Low Point vs. Ball Position

    Brian- This may be too far off point, so of course feel free to disregard, but I do have a much less theoretical low-point/ball position question. I really have trouble whenever I've experimented using the SD pattern and trying to move ball position back closer to middle on short irons. I feel...
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    villegas and holmes, the "holding the umbrella" backswing

    So Villegas and J.B. Holmes each have, on iron swings, a backswing that goes back to the "hold the umbrella" position (and rarely past that point) that Brian talks about with respect to Nicklaus, they both let the swing go a little further on swings with drivers and fairway woods, they both are...
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    What does "underplane" really mean?

    I have watched all of Brian's video's multiple times, read the yellow book, spent untold time here learning, hit a lot of golf balls trying to see if I understand things here, read a large percentage of the posts here from the start of time, and I think I have a feel for a lot of different swing...
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    Tiger Woods swing early amateur days (SD!)

    The Golf Channel has been running video of every event Tiger ever won. I've been watching and using my slow-mo DVR capabilites. Back when Tiger could find a fairway with his driver (but had limited distance control with irons), his swing was very Soft Draw. The position at the top of the...
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    huge soft draw swing changes, with trajectory question

    I've had a big breakthrough in using soft draw pattern. I was re-watching the soft draw video before going to practice last week and caught the comment about no torque swinging and letting club set at top with no torque, letting motion of arms and club carry upper body to backswing finish and...
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    The Ernest Jones pure swinging mid-sole pitch is the killer shot.

    In my last lesson with Brian I learned I was using too much shoulder/body rotation and I later realized I was still using too much negative torque in trying to hit the E Jones swinging pitch shots. In the last two months, I've practiced these shots quite a bit. It was really hard to learn to...
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    Bubba Watson and Lee Trevino and wedges

    Anyone watch the cheesy ING shotmaker thing on tonight? Not surprisingly, I found Trevino, Bubba Watson and Paula Creamer very entertaining. Suzann Petterson, not so. I liked it when Bubba quipped he hadn't seen the line on a Lee T. putt because he didn't want to watch Trevino's putting stroke...
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    a question about sand shots/applying pure swinging motion

    I've been improving my short pitch shots using much more of a Ernest Jones swinging motion, with some direction from Brian about how I was misapplying that approach. I am now hitting some good short pitch shots. My sand shots are much more erratic. I've watched "Over and Out" many times and can...
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