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Rick Dandy

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Please give your comments on how to avoid RABBIT EARS...I love the spring...Rabbit Ears. One of the great day to day swing wreckers in the game of golf. Especially disturbing when you see it in the flesh with a junior golfer that you have built from the ground up. A caddy, with a junior college hook, who can't hit it out of a wet paper bag, wipes putts from eight feet with excuses, and fresh from a sales job layoff, joins you on Monday and is fine and quiet for a few holes, but then the tip of the minute starts on nearly every swing your junior makes that is not producing good results. And then the creeping begins. The dialogue revs slowly like grains of sand. Wide comments begin on the tee box but invariably become more detailed as your junior gets closer to the cup. And now your standing on the next tee while your junior golfer is involuntarily succumbing to a putting lesson at the previous hole with Milk Toast, along with details on face angle and release and tempo. I wish I had a razor strap! I learned to be positive-selfish with my swing and what I wanted to do to the golf ball, a behavior I found to be consistent with every player in the Hall of Fame. How sweet it would be, if we could have a tournament and play our brains out, and hear the loons holler and the heartbeats of competition while every swing was given presence and integrity to be improved on. No excuses. I'll take my junior to the woodshed this weekend, along with a summer reading list. Please give your comments on lessons you've learned.
 
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GPM1985

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Passionately written, but I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Could you clarify what you're asking?
 
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Rick Dandy

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Specifically, I would be very interested in techniques you have learned and how you might convey to a Junior to avoid swing advice from someone.
 
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Bigwill

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Tell them, "Do this, and don't do any different unless I say so!"

Seriously, I would tell them: "Stick with the basics you were taught. Everybody's different, so you have to figure out the rest for yourself; what worked for them may not work for you." If my son or daughter picks up golf, no one is going to give them advice while I'm around. I don't have the patience I used to. My goal is to learn enough about the game so that the only places they need to learn from are:

1. Me
2. The practice tee/short game area
3. The course
4. Someone who I trust knows what they're talking about

These are the only places they'll get what's best for their game, not someone else's.

Golf magazines are nice to look at, but a lot of people are going to use tips that they have no business using, because the tips are very general. Same goes for TV and internet instruction. Learn the way I learned basketball: Go out and play. If it works for you, don't change it.

As for myself, I've recently figured out basically works for me (at least in the full swing and putting). I'll never change those, only refine them to get the results I want, and any instruction that I seek out has to be along similar lines. That certainty allows me to tell well meaning advice-givers "That dosen't work for me. Thanks". I'm done chasing my tail, and tired of chasing fixes and keys. Rabbit ears have messed me up for almost 10 years. I guess I'm smartening up in my old age:)
 
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