Brian Manzella
Administrator
In another thread, I said:
I thought "the list" would make for a great thread.
Here's the list:
"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 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!
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!
