If you could time travel back ten years...

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dsmith2296

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If you could time travel back ten years and visit yourself on the range for 15 minutes, what would you tell yourself?

I just wrote the response below in another thread and I think that if could go visit myself at the range back in July 1999 for 15 minutes, I would teach myself this feel:




Try to punch a SW 50 yards with a LCT and a tucked right elbow whilst utilizing only a 1/3 swing. And stop swinging/manipulating the clubHEAD. Try focusing on the handle/grip instead. On these punch shots, right when you achieve max right wrist bend thru the LCT, pull the HANDLE down past your belt buckle with your pivot BEFORE the clubhead catches up and you lose right wrist bend.
 
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EASY:

Don't ever stop playing. There's a great chance that you will only play 3 out of the next 10 years because of one thing or the other. DON'T TAKE ANY BREAKS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THEM BACK. Oh yeah, go find a short Italian fella down in Louisiana. Become friends with him and take him to the Capital One bowl game on January 1, 2005. Listen to me and you will become an amazing golfer in 10 years.
 
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Frizit

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Swing left and quit trying to hit the inside quadrant of the ball which taught me most of my bad habits to begin with.
 
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TPG

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Yeah, I would have told myself about the flat left wrist, bent right wrist, and working on the pivot.

Unfortunately I would not have listened, because hitting a forward ball with a bent right wrist is difficult and none of the "pop" instruction I was reading back then told me how critical it is.

LOL, I remember reading things like "put 40% of my weight on my left/right side at address" and really thinking this was going to make the difference.

there has been a lot of learning since then ... :eek:
 
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Brian Manzella

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Been there, Done that...

I started a thread like this last year.

Message in a Bottle

Pretty good thread.

But, here it what I said....and it has changed VERY little...

I said:
"If I could write down 10 little items on a blank business card, and put them in a Coke bottle, in a time machine, back to the City Park Driving Range Coke machine, where I'd get a coke before my Friday night golf season practice sessions that I religiously did, missing out on parties, etc...

...I might not kick Tiger's butt, but I could handle DiMarco... "
I thought "the list" would make for a great thread.

Here's the list:

1. Copy EVERY PIECE of Hogan's grip from "5 Lessons" and turn your right hand a hair to the right.

2. Point the butt of the club at your belt buckle and your belt line toward the ball.

3. Copy the hands first "lagging clubhead" takeaway of Bobby Jones. The body pulls the hands. Do it like he does at first, then use just a little of it. But always use some.

4. Right Foot—then backswing. Left Foot—then contact. Swing the club back & forth, back & forth in the same place over and over. Count your feet out. You'll get it.

5. Flat left wrist at the top, like Nicklaus, with the left thumb under. Same flat left wrist and left thumb under as Nicklaus near the target, with the butt of the club pointing to the target.

6. At impact, have your left wrist slightly arched, your right wrist bent, but not as much as at the top, your right arm under the left, your belt buckle left of your hands, your left shoulder more open and more UP than at address, and your tailbone AHEAD OF YOUR NECKBONE!!!!

7. "SWING DEM ORMS"!! And swing the clubhead like Ernest Jones says. When the club is vertical for the last time before impact, POUR ON the right arm, but remember #6.

8. The Ball travels on the "D Plane" until wind and gravity have their effects—if any. The 3 points of the plane are the ball, the path of the clubhead at impact pointing exactly where it was going—up or down, in or out, OUT IN SPACE, and the line drawn by where the clubface is pointing—ala, a lie angle tool—OUT IN SPACE.

9. Perfect a true Ernest Jones-type "pure swinging" pitch shot with your sand wedge.

10. Buy a "TPM 1" style putter. Put like you pitch in #9 with a chip shot style stance. Watch the bottom of the hosel during the strokek and try to trace a straight line as if it were a light.

Never Complain, Beat their ass, shake their hands after.

GO!

Now this was assuming I could send the "message" back to 1977.

If I could only send it back to 1999....it would be quite a bit different.
 
Shot Limit

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dsmith2296 said:
If you could time travel back ten years and visit yourself on the range for 15 minutes, what would you tell yourself?

I just wrote the response below in another thread and I think that if could go visit myself at the range back in July 1999 for 15 minutes, I would teach myself this feel:




Try to punch a SW 50 yards with a LCT and a tucked right elbow whilst utilizing only a 1/3 swing. And stop swinging/manipulating the clubHEAD. Try focusing on the handle/grip instead. On these punch shots, right when you achieve max right wrist bend thru the LCT, pull the HANDLE down past your belt buckle with your pivot BEFORE the clubhead catches up and you lose right wrist bend.
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Good advice.
 
vjsinger

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Play golf. I wouldn't have been at a range, but I would have told myself this at whatever watering hole I was at the time.
 
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Richie3Jack

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Oh dear Lord.

I'd try to explain as much as I know about TGM right now and my current pattern right now as I could along with D-Plane and the new ball flight laws. I'm the type of person that more or less 'needs to know everything' so I can eliminate what things I need to stay away from and focus on what things I should learn. Obviously, TGM is not infallible, but I think it's a good 'base' for a golfer and now that I can throw D-Plane into the equation it makes for a very good base knowledge.

I'd also get rid of some of my fallacies with putting, tell me to take up yoga and go with some Mizuno blade irons and stick with blades. That and the putt on 18 to break the course record at Caldonia doesn't break as much to the right as I think.




3JACK
 
birdie_man

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Not too sure...zero doubt stuff has changed though. My "trace outside" stuff has evolved and no longer is so relevant.

Could just say NSA, NHA and that would at least put me squarely in Custom Ville.
 
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Chip Putterman

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I began playing 10 years ago. I took several lessons from "so-called" instructors, went to a one day ESPN clinic and went to GolfTec for an evaluation/lesson where they put this vest with sensors on. NOT ONE told me the importance of the FLAT LEFT WRIST. Well, long story short, I became a 9 Handicap Flipper. On days when I timed it well, I could shoot in the 70's. On others days, 90 plus. What would I tell myself 10 years ago?
-flat left wrist at impact
-forward swing bottom (aiming point technique)
-loading
-lag and body pivot
-straight plane line (thru the impact zone)
P.S. I would also tell myself to invest in Google and invent a blanket with sleeves.
 
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burners

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Wish we could go back 30 years; all I'd need is the correct ball flight laws and how to aim properly. Way too many well struck shots not going at the target.

Name any other sport or activity where some "experts" still don't get it. Sigh...
 
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puttmad

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Easy one....

1) Correct ball flight laws
2) Compress left lower back for backswing and right lower back for forward swing
3) Not worrying if left or right heels lift during the back/forward swings respectively....
 
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