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jdswets - Practical Golf is definitely written more at the level of underlying principles. Although IIRC, it does describe the evolution of a hooker's pattern in similar terms to NHA. You would need to extrapolate that bit further though to get concrete strategies for tackling different fault patterns. Golf Doctor is much more targeted at providing specific improvement strategies for particular issues.
Study both books (plus either Search for the Perfect Swing or the Physics of Golf) and I'm not saying you'd come up with NHA - but you'll have a great framework within which to understand and evaluate different patterns, whether NHA or others, and indeed the various teachers that have left you feeling embittered.
So far as Trackman's concerned, ain't we in violent agreement? Great tool, but marketing material that needs to be taken with a pinch of salt?
All I would add is that, right now, trackman access is going to be somewhat expensive if you want to use it as a practice aid. And to the extent that, with a bit of thoughtful analysis, you can get most (if not all) of the feedback that you need from ballflight - either on the course or anywhere where you can watch the flight of the ball - I'm going to save my pennies for now (though I'd be saving hard to buy one if I was a teaching pro).
But, good as it is, presumably you didn't need trackman data to tell you that that NHA might help you - or to make use of the pattern.
Study both books (plus either Search for the Perfect Swing or the Physics of Golf) and I'm not saying you'd come up with NHA - but you'll have a great framework within which to understand and evaluate different patterns, whether NHA or others, and indeed the various teachers that have left you feeling embittered.
So far as Trackman's concerned, ain't we in violent agreement? Great tool, but marketing material that needs to be taken with a pinch of salt?
All I would add is that, right now, trackman access is going to be somewhat expensive if you want to use it as a practice aid. And to the extent that, with a bit of thoughtful analysis, you can get most (if not all) of the feedback that you need from ballflight - either on the course or anywhere where you can watch the flight of the ball - I'm going to save my pennies for now (though I'd be saving hard to buy one if I was a teaching pro).
But, good as it is, presumably you didn't need trackman data to tell you that that NHA might help you - or to make use of the pattern.
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