What do you feel was the biggest change you made with your new understanding? Face alignment, alignment of the path, or swing change? Or is it a little of each?
Thanks,
Kevin
Kevin,
All of the above, but specially the angle of attack. TGM improved my mechanics, especially FLW (I seldom throw the club in a disastrous fashion these days) But according to TM my angle of attack with say my six iron was -4.2 degrees, in order to hit the ball dead straight I basicaly had to "trace left" a couple of degrees. TGM also taught me how to trace! i had a basic understanding of how the face and path interact with one another, but I did not fully grasp the role of the angle of attack, or the vertical swing plane (the angle of the swing plane)I paid through the nose to get on TM to see what all of the hulabaloo is about. I also learned how to hit my driver 18 yards further! It turned out that I needed 2-4 degrees more loft on my driver (for optimum launch numbers etc) given the angle of attack I was using (aka hitting down)It turns out my driver was perfect for a +3 degree angle of attack. So, get a new driver with granny-loft, or hit it on the way up. I have never hit the modern driver well enough to think that it was a cheat stick...I am embarrassed by some of the drives I have hit in the last couple of weeks! It almost looks like a knuckle ball. Of course because the head is moving up and in you have to rotate the plane line a bit right. I seem to recall Yoda talking about something similar. I agree that a TGM expert would make good use of TM. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand the points of contention with d-plane...I am just going on what my eyeballs and doppler eyeballs are telling me. Like hogan (the likeness ends there) I am on a quest to eradicate a hook that ended my dream of playing professionally. The best I could do was learn to play a push-draw. I have not hit it left of the centerline one time in a month. I did hit a push-fade to about 40 ft. Perhaps this will disappear like the many soap bubbles (queue violin music) of the past, OR I have something to hang my hat on. If that be the case...I'm back!
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