[Homerson]

I agree on your last statement, Birdie Man! Many people are indeed better served through learning feel through mechanics, or some such approach.

I disagree about the figure 90%. I am not sure of any number to replace that. Why? Because if the pros can get to the highest level, by that route, then would possibly suggest and imply that they have gotton there by the most efficient means and therefore there is at least some merit in the approach.

Imagination lies for me in the realm of pictures and feelings rather than words. An example might be teaching someone in a bunker how to hit it higher. Would you say move it more to low point, more of an open/open proceedure, with a little vertical hinge rather than angled? Or would you get them to visualize hitting it higher, and let their body react and adjust.

Can one learn mechanics from feel?
Can you say after the learning experience, "This is what you did", possibly for future reference, or simply such that that person has more associations with that learning experience, and therefore has 'learnt' more conclusively?

Stan Utley gets a lot of positive press around here. At the last PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit he stood in front of 1000+ teachers and said that he doesn't know much, but someone recently told him that his action was a TGM hitting proceedure. Does he not know much? Or can he more easily relate to pictures and feelings than the spoken or written word?

Surely there is room for other approaches?

I'm still interested in Annikan's opinions?