but..............he did fix the hitch. i dont see what you are getting at? i thought the hitch was mental, but haney's explanation of it actually made sense. are you saying that you would try to fix him without fixing the hitch for some reason?
The hitch is mental. But, IMO the 'hitch' or the 'yips' root cause is in technique. And I honestly believe that whether you have CB's type of yips, putting yips or if you were Chuck Knoblauch or Steve Sax who suddenly couldn't throw a ball from second to first base.
Charles had a massive head dip caused by him just dipping his head instead of dipping the head because of axis tilt. In order to counter that, he then has to rise his head dramatically on the downswing or he would hit 3 feet behind the ball. Then he has that extremely steep swing path. That alone makes it almost impossible for anybody to hit the ball even at a mediocre level. Then there's the grip change in his takeaway.
I'm positive that Charles was doing all of this way before he developed the yips. And because he was doing that, he was hitting the awful shots. Hitting spectators and it reeked havoc with his mind.
I believe it's the same with putting yips. Studies show that the majority of golfers aim a little left of the target (if they are right handed). And studies show that to counter that they tend to open the clubface right before impact. That's a big part of yipping a putt in my book. While you can have people with the yips that jab at it, usually a yip consists of an opening of the blade right at impact. Again, bad technique led to bad results which led to a catastrophic meltdown in the brain.
What I think Brian is getting at is that Haney was in a no lose situation. If he fixes Charles' swing, he's the savior. If he doesn't, well Charles is just a headcase. But I firmly believe that there are a lot of teachers if they had that amount of time from Charles and received that much dedication from him could correct his problems.
3JACK
