lia41985
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You've got a "flipper"--put the ball in a divot and let him have at it.
You've got a guy staying too much on his right foot and not shifting his weight left enough for a good "run up"--put him on a downhill lie.
You've got a guy swinging "right of Rush Limbaugh" and you're not Hank Haney--drivers off the deck.
And then you've got Tiger Woods.
Tiger F----n' Woods. You're really gonna sell him on a "gimmick"? Nice "band aid" fix, pro. Yeah, yeah, yeah...talk your book and keep that head in the sand and precisely in the middle of your freakin' stance. You'll come around on your own by necessity (knowledge advances to the point that if you don't keep up you lose credibility as an expert) or you'll fail at what you do because you weren't willing to learn. To understand what Popper understood, to understand what the true scientist does...that no matter how careful his construction, how considerate his considerations, and how reasonable his assumptions, there's something missing, something more to learn, some way to be more precise, some way to really "know"...
In the mean time, none of us really "know" but what we definitely do know, in a very real sense, as golfers, is that we want to get better and we'll do it any we we can. And what does that mean? A lower score. We want to be able to control our ball such that we get it in the hole in the fewest number of strokes.
So we're willing to try just about anything to get better and that makes all of us, even Tiger Woods, open to do what it takes (functional marriages be damned--not a judgment, if those are your priorities, those are your priorities; it's you're life and I won't judge you, that's for God/Bill Maher).
Why not, if you're Sean Foley, Steve Williams, Mark Steinberg, Phil Knight or anyone else that's making sacrifices at the altar of ETW Corp. suggest
(making sure you let Tiger feel as if he came to the decision entirely under his own volition because rumor has it arguably the greatest golfer ever has this mentality that he knows a thing or two about what works for his game, stubborn chap)
to Tiger, "hey buddy, why not hit balls off a downhill, sidehill (with the ball above the feet) lie?" You don't even have to tell him why, which is to flatten his eventual sweetspot path and get his right shoulder higher, so that he can "cover it."
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He'll feel it and he'll learn--or he won't and we'll move on to something else (REMEMBER: as Penick used to say, it's ALL a lesson). There's always Trackman...
Is it as easy as that or not?
You've got a guy staying too much on his right foot and not shifting his weight left enough for a good "run up"--put him on a downhill lie.
You've got a guy swinging "right of Rush Limbaugh" and you're not Hank Haney--drivers off the deck.
And then you've got Tiger Woods.
Tiger F----n' Woods. You're really gonna sell him on a "gimmick"? Nice "band aid" fix, pro. Yeah, yeah, yeah...talk your book and keep that head in the sand and precisely in the middle of your freakin' stance. You'll come around on your own by necessity (knowledge advances to the point that if you don't keep up you lose credibility as an expert) or you'll fail at what you do because you weren't willing to learn. To understand what Popper understood, to understand what the true scientist does...that no matter how careful his construction, how considerate his considerations, and how reasonable his assumptions, there's something missing, something more to learn, some way to be more precise, some way to really "know"...
In the mean time, none of us really "know" but what we definitely do know, in a very real sense, as golfers, is that we want to get better and we'll do it any we we can. And what does that mean? A lower score. We want to be able to control our ball such that we get it in the hole in the fewest number of strokes.
So we're willing to try just about anything to get better and that makes all of us, even Tiger Woods, open to do what it takes (functional marriages be damned--not a judgment, if those are your priorities, those are your priorities; it's you're life and I won't judge you, that's for God/Bill Maher).
Why not, if you're Sean Foley, Steve Williams, Mark Steinberg, Phil Knight or anyone else that's making sacrifices at the altar of ETW Corp. suggest
(making sure you let Tiger feel as if he came to the decision entirely under his own volition because rumor has it arguably the greatest golfer ever has this mentality that he knows a thing or two about what works for his game, stubborn chap)
to Tiger, "hey buddy, why not hit balls off a downhill, sidehill (with the ball above the feet) lie?" You don't even have to tell him why, which is to flatten his eventual sweetspot path and get his right shoulder higher, so that he can "cover it."
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He'll feel it and he'll learn--or he won't and we'll move on to something else (REMEMBER: as Penick used to say, it's ALL a lesson). There's always Trackman...
Is it as easy as that or not?
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