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I've been lurking here for some time and wanted to introduce myself to everyone and join in some of the discussions.
I am basically a self-taught golfer who picked up the game in my early 20s because I could play for free at a nice course in Pacific Grove, Calif. I played off and on and finally got hooked. School and then graduate school slowed my amount of time to play. Marriage and a 2-year-old have also slowed things down. But I'm again addicted to this simple, yet complex and challenging game.
I started a journey into the, gasp, one-plane swing concept. Picked up Hardy's book, visited the Chuck Quinton site and worked on a few things. The swing was going OK, but I'm not sure it was because of anything I read. I went to a Jacobs school in May and learned a lot. The thing my instructor focused on for me was all tempo. He liked my plane and all but I am a flipper.
Fast forward. A really bad period of the shanks set in. I shanked everything. No matter what I tried or did, I shanked. And I mean shanked hard. Nothing I did seemed to fix that.
So I came back here and started peeking at the old posts and looking at the videos that I could. I read Brian's stuff and practiced in my living room. I then discovered the LBG site and did the same there. I downloaded all the Tomasello stuff and watched it. Click. Then I bought "Confessions of a Former Flipper" downloaded it and watched. Click, Click, Click.
I went to the range and started working on it again, with that pit-in-my-stomach feeling of the impending shanks. But things started clicking. The fiddle drill. The Tomasello stuff. It just clicked and felt much better than the other one-plane stuff.
I had also read posts in the past on other sites by TGM folks and thought, "What the heck are these people talking about? Accumalator this, accumalator that ... Whatever."
Well, now it's clicking. I don't have the book, so some of the terminology is hard to pick up on, but I like the way things are explained by Brian and Lynn.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I'm here, and like I said in another thread, convert me.
Oh yeah, so if I ask stupid questions, please don't flame me. My asbestos suit is at the cleaners.
I am basically a self-taught golfer who picked up the game in my early 20s because I could play for free at a nice course in Pacific Grove, Calif. I played off and on and finally got hooked. School and then graduate school slowed my amount of time to play. Marriage and a 2-year-old have also slowed things down. But I'm again addicted to this simple, yet complex and challenging game.
I started a journey into the, gasp, one-plane swing concept. Picked up Hardy's book, visited the Chuck Quinton site and worked on a few things. The swing was going OK, but I'm not sure it was because of anything I read. I went to a Jacobs school in May and learned a lot. The thing my instructor focused on for me was all tempo. He liked my plane and all but I am a flipper.
Fast forward. A really bad period of the shanks set in. I shanked everything. No matter what I tried or did, I shanked. And I mean shanked hard. Nothing I did seemed to fix that.
So I came back here and started peeking at the old posts and looking at the videos that I could. I read Brian's stuff and practiced in my living room. I then discovered the LBG site and did the same there. I downloaded all the Tomasello stuff and watched it. Click. Then I bought "Confessions of a Former Flipper" downloaded it and watched. Click, Click, Click.
I went to the range and started working on it again, with that pit-in-my-stomach feeling of the impending shanks. But things started clicking. The fiddle drill. The Tomasello stuff. It just clicked and felt much better than the other one-plane stuff.
I had also read posts in the past on other sites by TGM folks and thought, "What the heck are these people talking about? Accumalator this, accumalator that ... Whatever."
Well, now it's clicking. I don't have the book, so some of the terminology is hard to pick up on, but I like the way things are explained by Brian and Lynn.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I'm here, and like I said in another thread, convert me.
Oh yeah, so if I ask stupid questions, please don't flame me. My asbestos suit is at the cleaners.
