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Old 06-17-2008, 07:48 AM
pistol pistol is offline
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Originally Posted by golfbulldog View Post



Does this drill look like a drill used /recommended by a player who believes in squaring the clubface early or late?

Does it look like a drill used by a man who uses his right hand alot for imposing power?

Maybe..but not to me...I love this drill...encourages sequenced release in my experience.
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I have not read the book for a while but i'm sure this was a drill for beginners so i don't see how it applies to to the debate
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Old 06-17-2008, 04:30 PM
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I have not read the book for a while but i'm sure this was a drill for beginners so i don't see how it applies to to the debate
I don't think it is anymore a drill for beginners than the entire book is for beginners...

But it is a drill that teaches a correct motion, on-plane...no throw away...good enough for anyone IMO.
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Old 06-17-2008, 07:16 PM
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Dariusz

You offer two arguments that are particularly weak, and these arguments come up all the time when people comment on Hogan's swing.

You wrote-: "You also said you have never found any "secrets" of Hogan to be convincingly true - how can you say this if you neglect digging in the dirt yourself ? how can you say that the Yellow Book is the best way to understand what principles Hogan used to be the best ballstriker in history of the game since, as I told you, noone of TGM students could ever duplicate or be close to Hogan's overhuman accuracy and consistency ?"

This "digging in the dirt" argument is woefuly weak because you have no idea how much time I spend "digging in the dirt" in an attempt to understand the golf swing. By the way, despite spending endless hours "digging in the dirt", I can never personally hope to become a good golfer because I have too many physical handicaps/limitations. Hogan, although an extraordinary talented golfer, was also a mortal golfer who based his swing on many golf fundamentals/principles. Those same principles are present in many other golfers' swings. They can be studied and understood by a person like HK. However, even a perfect understanding of golf swing fundamentals cannot create an "expert" golfer, like Hogan. It requires, in addition, an inherent "gift" for executing the golf swing. The same fact applies to other sports. Roger Federer may be the greatest tennis player that has ever played the game of tennis, but that doesn't mean that one cannot study and understand the tennis principles/fundamentals that form the underlying framework of his tennis skills. I have read an endless number of golf instructional books, but none of them equals the TGM book with regards to the critically important criterion of having at its "core" a fundamentally sound scientific approach.

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