[davel]

EDz

What you say is really not that basic. I am trying to learn the tgm lingo to help me understand many of the things you say. And what you say may or may not apply to just hitting or just swinging. But I could save myself sometime if I knew which method to select to know what my backswing procedure and downswing procedure would be needed for the desired action. It maybe I have to learn both to find out and that could take sometime and may confuse me. I am 61 years old so I don't have years to develop a ideal swing. I do know however that time and hard work will be necessary to get to make the necessary improvements. If selecting ahea of timme swing versus hit shortens the time I would like that advice. Thanks for replying

Dave

Davel - I know this may sound a bit too basic, but it is none the less critical.

Find your Balance. Find the 'center' of your circle, and a line from it, to your hands.

From the top, draw a straight line, on and down the plane, to a spot in front of the ball (aiming point).

Send the force you generate, from the ground, through the body in a whip like fashion.

Skip a stone and hit an inside out cut shot, feeling the right elbow lead the entire right forearm supporting a heavy, slow, smooth, impact with the mass of your body supporting the line of compression. The nail through the ball.

Understand PP#1 and its 'orbit' around your center of balance. Keep PP#1 either 'on' or 'inside' the maximum circle of the path of PP#1.

Learn clubHEAD control
Learn the flying wedges - 90 degree support of impact - driving downplane force to both arms straight, in balance

properly 'centered' and 'balanced' the motion is completely smoooooth and 'heavy'.

Feeling the pressure points in your hands move 'down the chain' from PP#1, lead by PP#2 and supported from directly behind by PP#3.

The plane of the pressure points and center is important.

Imagine your hands are a universal joint.

Find the 90 and the 180.

Send force to both arms straight through the presssure points, in sequence

Thanks Homer....