At Cuscowilla

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-The MacDonald exercises were perhaps the most important element in getting me a brand new swing. The brush - brush motion back and thru and how the knees and hips work is basic.

-I had to leave my belief of being a hitter - and that meant that the adjusted address position has come in instead of impact fix at address.

-There was a lot of aiming with sticks at the baseline.
-We did some Taly training.
-Then learning the finish.
-A stronger 3 knuckles grip.
-Learning to have my left shoulder pointing more to right at set up.
-High hands, but avoiding to have the left wrist uncocked at address.
-The right arm bent, but limber - not sticking out too much.
-Learn to drag the wet mop in both directions, so that the takeaway also has its lag in the mark time rhythm of the Macdonald exercises/brush- brush technique.
-Then the tricky part for me: The rolling of the left arm in the downswing/thru stroke.
-The importance of the last 3 fingers of the left hand and downtoning the right index finger.
-A better position at the top.
-The down stroke waggle
-A lot of club throwing.(real throwing of clubs on to the range - I'm pretty good at it)
-How to start down.
-Learning to kick in the right knee in the downstroke/thru stroke to get the ball in a better path and to get the weight a lot more into my left side than I have been doing.
-A somewhat more rounded backstroke.
-Trying to avoid hitting down the target line but have a feeling of going a little accross it , but just the opposite way that I had always done (avoid OTT, out-to-in)
-Then extensor action and a lot training: shot after shot with different clubs - a lot of drives. And corrections and comments when I didn't get it right and trying to do it more and more correctly.
-Also chipping and pitching. The short bread and butter shot, cut shots, knock down shots, bunker shots, putting.
-And a geometrical slideshow and some practical shot making on the course.

To mention some of the things I needed to work on.

I could have gone more in detail, but all this was specific to my old swing, which was a mess.

And the social side has its own wonderful history, well worth remembering...

Great stuff Air. Thanks.

Those McDonald drills are something else arent they. So much for Lynn "just working outa the yellow book".