I come home, check the sites and see this. A nice, compact, efficient swing that appears to just end, and a ball that goes straight and far.
Vandal,
Ted Fort's Golf Stroke -- in your words, "nice, compact, efficient" -- is The Promise of The Golfing Machine. Happily, it is also The Evidence that such a Stroke can be built by those willing to subjugate ego to purpose.
"And then I go to the range and proceed to shank, hit it fat, dribble some off, hook a few for good measure, pull some nearly over the net, shank a few more at the other row of practice tees and flat out suck"
The last few times i went out for a practise hit i sucked big time. The ball was going anywhere but where it was supposed to. I was not happy. :
But i figured i was trying too hard. I was a slave to the ball and overswinging. So i just went back to basics...started practising with the dowels for a few nights.
Yesterday evening i went to the course for a quick few holes and a little TGM miracle happened..they started going straight and felt oh so good