[Delaware Golf]

DG, it was not my intention to suggest that either you or Tom Tomasello had something wrong. If that is what I have communicated then I apologize to you.

You are obviously a huge Tom Tamasello fan and I respect you for that. On the other hand I know very little of Tom Tomasellos work, having only seen the Australian videos a few times.

TGM is not the theoretically closed loop that some suggest it is. Homer acknowledged the existence of non catalogued, X procedures. Neither Lynn nor Homer were averse to them in the least to my mind. But I believe that Homer would theorize about the implications inherent in the procedure, I know Lynn sure does having discussed a few of my own, X procedures with him. It was the implications of your two armed pull down in Startdown that motivated my first comments. There are so many usable variations , trillions of them, that to say something is flat out "wrong" would be rather short sighted to my mind.

I got my butt whipped a few years ago by a guy who hit every shot cross handed. He took the game up at the age of 43 too. Amazing. I celebrate the differences and the sameness ...........but really just wish I looked more like Hogan.

PS Speaking of Hogan, at the end of the Shells WW of Golf match they gave equal time to Sam Snead. His start down thought......... a pull down of the left arm! Vive la difference.

I think you need to watch Sam Snead again (I have watched it numerous times, it's not the left arm)!!! According to Tomasello it's a 10-20-E startdown (Snead's Startdown is documented in a number of books, one that I have is "Sam Snead Teaches You His Simple "Key" Approach to Golf", per Hand Key 6: Starting Down , Pull with your left hand fingers", Snead defined it as pulling down with the last two fingers of the left hand, this approach concurs with the Ernest Jones "Swing the Clubhead Approach", I believe the 12-2-0 Swing Stroke Pattern represents most closely to the Snead approach, not Ben Hogan)...yes, there may be a ton of different stroke pattern combinations, but there are less than 10 trigger types...single or in combination.

Next, you'll have to question whether or not Hogan really started the club down with the hips?

It's not that I'm a big fan of Tom Tomasello's instruction, I'm really a big fan of the truth...in anything that I study...I believe Tommy is one of a few who spoke the truth about the golfing machine...time spent with Homer, in person, and the amount of audio recordings that Tommy had at hand to fully understand TGM. I don't know of any TGM instructor who taught TGM like Tommy...going through the whole book with his students....his three part teaching approach....a Swinging School, a Hitting School and an Advanced School (shot making with swinging and hitting). It was a complete picture with Mr. Tomasello.

DG