Im with Bucket here. Little bit of face issue maybe keeps you closed up; stop and steer to the right. Good motion overall. Hold the swords guys, but the LAST thing I want this man to do as a student (competitive, tough and athletic) is grind in the yellow book. If TGM is your thing, just find a TGM instructor and remain a "player".
Those Hogan photos are a good place to start also, kind of opposites: different face, lowpoint movement and tracing.......................
No argument from me JT. I get a little too excited about my own studies. I wouldn't teach that way on the range, but switch modes when I enter the forum. Thanks for the great advice!
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Im with Bucket here. Little bit of face issue maybe keeps you closed up; stop and steer to the right. Good motion overall. Hold the swords guys, but the LAST thing I want this man to do as a student (competitive, tough and athletic) is grind in the yellow book. If TGM is your thing, just find a TGM instructor and remain a "player".
Those Hogan photos are a good place to start also, kind of opposites: different face, lowpoint movement and tracing.......................
I already have the good instructor part. Going for a lesson in 2 weeks when I get back. My time with golf was more finding feels that produce a good result. TGM in regards to alignments and where power in the golf swing comes from is really helping me figure out what I had wrong.
My biggest misconception was with the left wrist cock. If I flatten the left wrist from P1-P4 then I shut the face(because LH is turned on the shaft). Ive read in so many places before that you need a flat left wrist at the top and at Impact. It's been hard work to get a decent shot like that and I didnt realize I was doing it incorrectly until I stopped flipping and started hitting big huge draws and hooks instead of pull fades and pushes.
The left wrist is ideally Flat Level and Vertical but Flat and Vertical are relative terms. Relative to grip type. If you during your backswing Arch your left wrist to achieve a literally flat left wrist you have broken your Left Arm Flying Wedge Alugnment.
The left hand hangs naturally in what we would call a slightly turned manner although there is no turn involved. If there is a nutral this is it. The elbow is turned too a's it's aligned to your mouth naturally. Not perpendicular to a golfers square plane line.
If you arch your left wrist to achieve a literally flat left hand at top you are not Flat in tgm terms.
The face being square to the left arm idea at Top is also Relative. Relative to Grip Rotation. For a ball played back of Low Point by a golfer who Rotates his grip, the face will appear more closed so to speak at top or in follow through. As it should.
Literaly flat or parrallel to the left arm at top is common and logical but only correct under specific conditions. A week left hand grip rolled literally level at fix and no grip rotAtion a's in a ball played at low point.
See the photo in the book that accompanies flat level and vertical ........ It's grometrically flat not literally flat.
It's a Mellon scratcher but hopefully a useful one. To get it wrong is to compromise a lot of your alignments take Hinge Action for instance.
The left wrist is ideally Flat Level and Vertical but Flat and Vertical are relative terms. Relative to grip type. If you during your backswing Roll your left wrist to achieve a literally flat left wrist you have broken your Left Arm Flying Wedge Alugnment.
The left hand hangs naturally in what we would call a slightly turned manner although there is no turn involved. If there is a nutral this is it. The elbow is turned too a's it's aligned to your mouth naturally. Not perpendicular to a golfers square plane line.
If you roll your left wrist to achieve a literally flat left hand at top you are not Flat in tgm terms.
The face being square to the left arm idea at Top is also Relative. Relative to Grip Rotation. For a ball played back of Low Point by a golfer who Rotates his grip, the face will appear more closed so to speak at top or in follow through. As it should.
Literaly flat or parrallel to the left arm at top is common and logical but only correct under specific conditions. A week left hand grip rolled literally level at fix and no grip rotAtion a's in a ball played at low point.
See the photo in the book that accompanies flat level and vertical ........ It's grometrically flat not literally flat.
It's a Mellon scratcher but hopefully a useful one. To get it wrong will tarnish a lot of your alignments take Hinge Action for instance.
I get a little too excited about my own studies. I wouldn't teach that way on the range, but switch modes when I enter the forum. Thanks for the great advice!
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