[BerntR]

Address the ball with your Left Wrist Level and your Right Forearm On Plane. This is hugely different from your current Cocked Left Wrist and Above Plane Right Forearm at Address (and will feel very strange!).

You got that right Yoda,

It took quite some time to get used to this address position. But I got there after a month or so. And I have now hit a lot of good shots from this address position. In spades on the range and also on the course. But the ratio of bad shots is just too high. This simply isn't a path towards increased stability for me. My impact alignments used to be very solid. Now it seems like a timing lottery.

Right Forearm On Plane at address (RFOP) requires more arms swing and enables less pivot action through the ball than I prefer. Hands come in too high for me. And too late. And too far away from my spine. The right hand isn't in position to do what it loves to do, which is to drive. Combine this with tendency and preference for open hips and feet towards the target prior to impact, and plenty of Accumulator #4 left - and everything is set for a big, bad pushed slice. I think the push slice is my compensation free stroke at the moment. If I just "rip it" that's where the ball will go. Out on the course the good shots don't come in clusters as they used to do. They come in singles. Sometimes they don't come at all.

It was Homer's chapter 2 and the part about ball compression that led me to the approach that you could see on the first video - "the sea of compensation". As soon as I got the image of solid ball contact clear in my head I knew what kind of impact action I was looking for and I basically build my stroke from impact and back. The first video was deliberately taken on a bad day when I was struggling. I wanted help to sort out the difference between the clusters of good ball striking and the clusters of poor ball striking.

With the short game I never got close to the touch and the lag pressure control that I am used to having. The scrambling rate is really low this year.

I used to be a pretty reliable and steady 5-6 handicapper. Now have advanced to 10.6 and I am struggling to break 90 even though I have worked more on on the game than for years. Season best is 84. It doesn't even feel like I play golf anymore. If the RFOP had any promises it should have showed up by now. Because I have tried to build a stroke around RFOP just as I built a stroke around a good and solid impact alignment earlier. RFOP is high maintainance material for me and nothing more.

The majority of world class players seem to have their hands lower at address than the RFOP alignment prescribes. Maybe they know what they're doing?