Originally Posted by Daryl
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There is a "Way". The Golfing Machine Way. Using Alignments rather than Positions. Using Hinge Action rather than a Swivel. Power Accumulators and Pressure to meter out distance, etc., etc.
You're in a learning phase. Flying Wedges. Power Accumulation, Loading, Storage, Delivery and Release. Hinge Action: So hard to understand, so easy/simple to use. That was a life altering experience for me.  It took more than 25 years. I know. I'm not the smartest pencil in the box. But WoW. Now 10-2-B makes total sense. The Bent Right Wrist makes total sense.
I study the Book with a Golf Club in hand. Standing with a Dowel, 2 Dowels, Rackets, Ping Pong paddles, Look, Look, Look. "I don't care what you're doing as long as you know why". Plane Boards, Mirrors.
Turn to 7-19. Try everything your reading. Drive it, drag it, Float Load it.
Magic of the Right Forearm....Why does the Left Wrist Cock without cocking your right wrist when your right arm is raised? Try to figure it out.
I think that 50% of your Practice is like this. The other 50% is done at the practice facility.
With this Website and the Book, you should learn everything you want to know in a few months. (ok, maybe 4). You should be scoring in the mid 70's by next Spring.
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Give yourself short term and long term goals. Perhaps a goal could be to consistently shoot in the low 90's (just suggesting), from April to June 1st. Let's say you usually shoot 100, so your goal is to drop 10 strokes off your average score. Then you'd look up Basic Motion and discover that it is a simple little chip shot. If you made 10 great chip shots a round, and left the ball within 3 feet of the hole, you'd save yourself 10 - 12 strokes maybe more! (TGM book, Alignment I DVD, LBG.com search) (score 90)
Longer pitches and wedges are Acquired motion shots. Did you know that some pros just use acquired motion to manage their game? AM might help you shave another 8 shots off your game in June. (Same resources) (score 82)
What about when your on the green? Maybe you are like me and throw away 8 strokes a round by simply trying to make birdie putts from too far away and missing the comeback putt. Use those same sources in July to shave off 8 more strokes. (Same resources)(score 74) and so on.
A TGM session with Yoda is essential if you want to advance. I'm frugal, independent, stubborn and cynical about most things claiming to be great so I held off on visiting Yoda because I didn't want to be screwed by another set of false promises. So, I wasted the cost to see him on 30 bad rounds of golf trying to do it myself. (I was bright enough to go see some TGM fellas in MN and I have an official TGM instructor which helps too.)
So, I don't know your situation but if your budget for golf in a season is about $3000 you could also approach this in another way. I don't know where you're living or flying from, but maybe:
1/3 Personal training in Cuscowilla
1/3 TGM/DVD / training-aids/video recording/ -work on the range
1/3 playing this great game trying to shoot par or better
Anyway....you have some decisions to make bout your level of interest/time/resources etc. We will be here to answer your questions. I would recommend reading through the book three times just to get an idea of some of the basics of TGM without a club and to see what you understand and what is foreign.
I say Daryl has a dry sense of humor because making a lot of changes in 6 months has caused me to hit the wall 3 or 4 times. Intellectually, I get most things but the bio-mechanical changes for mastery of new skills takes time. So, in 7 months I went down 10 strokes on my hcp. index. It'd been faster if I saw Yoda, I believe.
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