[innercityteacher]

I know because I taught a college kid, today, using range clubs.

1) Identify the natural design of the club's sweet spot by letting it hang straight down.
2) Support the sweet spot with your extended right index finger. Right hand grip with club in middle of rt forearm with enough space for left hand to "fit in."
3) Put your hands in impact position.
4) Turn up-plane maintaining impact hands extended index finger.
5) Turn down-plane/thrust down-plane pointing the index finger at the ball.
6) The low point of the club must always point at the infinite plane line, or be parallel to it, and I laid two clubs down.
7) Don't drive with your legs, rotate with your chest like a tennis shot.

"Why does the ball feel so soft like we hardly hit it?" "Why is it flying so high?" "Ball Compression, do it again. Read this website at lynnblakegolf.com. and watch all the free videos."

50 balls later, the young man was compressing his shots and some of them were straight and on plane! I emphasized the club plane and no leg drive. They sat for 20 minutes watching me after they were done. I explained I had a bad hip, short-leg, the heartbreak of psorriasis and dandruff. And I was a registered independent and proud of it. "Why do you always hit it further and straighter than we do? " "Go to the website!"

Sean, I have no clue as to what Yoda, Bucket, Kevin, OB, and the other talented pros know. But if I can compress 90% of my shots and have talc/dust on the sweetspot of all my irons, you will be so happy after your lesson you will be elated!

Imagine how well you'll do with a real pro!

Patrick

I've worked very hard over the past four years on this game, e.g., practice, lessons, more practice, more lessons, books, videos, clinics, etc., and I still struggle mightily. I can barely drive a golf ball 200 yards, assuming I hit it straight (over the weekend I played with two 12 year old's who consistently out drove me). I played today and shot a 92. Luckily I had 24 putts or I wouldn't have broken 100. I'm also tired of losing golf balls (I average about six to eight penalty strokes a round).

Simply put, I don't know how to swing a golf club. I don't know how to make the transition. I don't know how to sustain lag. I don't know how to compress a golf ball. I understand Joe Dante's concept of coefficient of angular momentum. I understand Bobby Clampett when he discusses where a divot should be in relationship to the ball. I understand how the lower body is supposed to work in the golf swing. However, I slap at the ball, I don't hit it. A good 7-iron for me is 135 yards.

I have a lesson with Drew on Thursday and am looking forward to it. However, what if I'm just to dumb to figure it out? Are there people like us out there...we just aren't meant to play this wonderful game?