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Post by Richie3Jack on Jan 17, 2010 20:12:32 GMT -5
A bit about me.
I'm 33 years old and my current index is 0.4. I got down to a +1.2 earlier this summer.
I live outside of Atlanta, GA and started playing golf when I was 11 years old. For those in the Atlanta area, I play out of the Canongate Club membership and usually play Windermere (139 slope). Here's some video of when I was really hitting it well this summer.
3JACK
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Post by suns11111 on Jan 23, 2010 21:57:02 GMT -5
Rich / everyone- www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQzNk2k0q9gHello. We have shot a few emails back and forth. Im 34 had my best years from 2002 to 2006. 2003 finished 2nd and 3rd in scratch tournaments (at one point was -9 in leading by 5 till wheels fell off). 2006 won the best ball shooting 65 my own ball. 2007 to present downhill. 2009 hitting the ball way better, maybe greatest from week after week (not having to search)......but putting and short game horrible. Club Championship I may be the only golfer ever to hae a 6 putt and later on that nite win the putting championship (next day I was horrible again). Goals - learn more about putting, reading Richies information I bought the Breakmaster and going to work on the bio stuff (hammer and ball). Rule of 12 and body pivot like Manzella instructed in his PGA video ( about the opposite that I was doing, so makes sense why I need work). Also doing core work for the first time and again The Hammer drills are part of Michael Lavery's 'Whole Brain Planet. Seriously Rich my wife its giving me weird looks on this one...... Side note: I work summers on the grounds crew and taking my first vacation in 10 years to Disneyland and bring the clubs for a couple rounds. 2010 is kind of a wake up as I am not getting any younger. JeffS
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Post by jonnygrouville on Feb 5, 2010 20:26:33 GMT -5
Hello. I am a 32 year old self-confessed golf swing nut. Got the books, got the theories, very little time to practice, even less to play!
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Post by sinistral on Feb 15, 2010 22:11:37 GMT -5
Hi, This is Scott from Kansas City. I have been lurking on this forum for a couple of weeks and would like to contribute. Started playing @ 41 and am a 4.5 @ 59. Before I post, I am left handed and I don't exactly understand DEXTRALish. The clock positions confuse me. Being left handed, I address the ball on my 12 and backswing counterclockwise toward my 11, 10 , 9 8 ,7 to 6. Right handers address the ball on their 12 and backswing clockwise toward their 1, 2, 3,4,5 toward 6. I really don't get the right handed 9-3 drill. I would like to start a thread about elbow position at address which can be best described in clock positions. Having been in the US Military I visualize that my 12 is in front and that my 6 is behind me. I would like to post right handed to avoid confusion, but I am confused. Your backswing clocks seem reversed. Is it the same with your forearm rotation? When my palms are in front of me and facing each other and I pronate my left forearm, I consider that clockwise rotation. Just like a right handed backswing, What am I missing?
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Post by gilfarkie on Feb 17, 2010 22:45:43 GMT -5
hey richie love your blog - all stuff no fluff I am 47 y/o been playing since forever. I learned to play on a seaside links course in 20+mph winds in South Africa as a teenager. Yes I can hit the ball real low. I am currently in STL but have lived all over the world Aus, NZ, Europe, Asia and various places here in the USA. Oregon, CA, NY, MO, FL. I don't have an official handicap but was always around scratch when I did. I love playing with traditional equipment, I would love to be able to run the ball in like I used to but they don't make many courses like that in MO. I studied the Yellow Book and try out swing aids a lot, got the tour striker and a whippy 4-iron in the bag right now, I like to hit balls at the range to experiment with different ideas. I have never worked with an instructor never even had a lesson except how to grip it from our irascible scottish pro at my first club. Anyway enough about me. Oh yes, don't hate me but I have a magical putting touch always been a better short gamer than ballstriker. don't even have to practice heh heh
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Post by Richie3Jack on Feb 17, 2010 23:53:04 GMT -5
gilfarkie - glad to have you aboard!
3JACK
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Post by nmgolfer on Sept 9, 2010 10:12:59 GMT -5
I'm NMGolfer... yes that nm, band from the open minded manz ... Played the game at the local muni most summer afternoons from age 8 - 13 but quit in frustration when the plastic wood in my kids starter set of clubs and bent 3 iron prevented me from knocking it anywhere near as far as my peers. Played once in college (with a real set of clubs) and amazed myself how far the ball flew... nothing like the bad memories. Life happened then circumstances resulted in my taking the game up again at age 44. Moral of this story: get your kids some real clubs and perhaps a lesson or two.
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Post by anthony on Oct 18, 2010 21:55:07 GMT -5
Hi, I'm 36 yrs old Asian golfer . started to play 10 years back and still looking for answers !
I am very interested in the science of golf, biomechanics , Kinematics . My handicap is 12 .
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Post by Richie3Jack on Oct 19, 2010 9:10:21 GMT -5
Glad to have you aboard, Anthony.
3JACK
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Post by machinestacker on Oct 24, 2010 20:13:43 GMT -5
New to this site as of yesterday. Long time TGM guy, having started with Tom Tomasello in 1987 and have been heavily influenced by Lynn Blake. Good friends with Privateparts and I'm getting to know iTeach, having met him at a S&T clinic in Greensboro in 2009. iTeach has impressed me, and we will probably do some work together in the future. Seems as though TGM is becoming pretty controversial as of late. I've read the exchange appearing here and on BM's forum and found it all very interesting. I appreciate Brian's knowledge and dedication, and quite frankly agree with aspects of his argument. I do however, given the extent of the technology available to Homer Kelley, marvel that he got as much right as he did. I think all of us need to pay umbrage to the man and his work which I feel has paved the way for the most, if not all of the insightful instruction and theory that I see today. Quite frankly, I would never recommend an instructor whose basis has not originally been TGM, flawed to whatever extent that it may be. Anyway, I'm glad to have found your site and hope to visit frequently. EC Attachments:
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Post by Richie3Jack on Oct 25, 2010 9:30:40 GMT -5
Glad to have you aboard!
3JACK
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Post by woodbury on Nov 23, 2010 17:26:03 GMT -5
Im 32 years old. I started playing golf around 2006 and broke 100 within a year. I then hit a wall until getting Never Slice Again. I am now in the low 90s, and seem to be stuck there.
This whole internet golfswing stuff happened to me as a result of trying to read about equipment and clubfitting. Often I would think that if I bought new clubs I could shave off a couple strokes, or that my starter set was holding me back (crazy right?). Since 2006, Ive tried to read about the golfswing. I started out getting Hogan's 5 Lessons, Hardy's Plane Truth and MAsters Class, then finding a true gem in Encyclopedia Texarkana and all of SliceFixers posts, to finding Manzella's forum and getting 3 of his videos, to reading the yellow book, digging through Lynn Blake's archives and now this forum.
My swing is quite ugly, but I manage to hit 6-9 GIR, combined with 35-40 putts, zero scrambling ability, and to top it all off, I havent been at the range in a year.
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Post by Richie3Jack on Nov 24, 2010 15:51:47 GMT -5
Welcome aboard, woodbury!
If you have any questions, please let me know.
3JACK
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Post by jerry1967 on Dec 3, 2010 16:17:23 GMT -5
After watching the video of your swing I didn't see much of a weight shift. Am I right or am I missing somthing? I see a little hip bump but that was it.
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Post by Richie3Jack on Dec 3, 2010 16:29:24 GMT -5
After watching the video of your swing I didn't see much of a weight shift. Am I right or am I missing somthing? I see a little hip bump but that was it. It's an old swing from summer of 2009 For the most part I've always tried to keep the pivot relatively centered. I've always felt that there was some weight shifting, but not a whole lot. My favorite golfer of all time is Nicklaus and I never thought he shifted the weight much and outside of his wedges, he was a phenomenal ballstriker and hit the ball a mile. I wanna wait until my swing gets pretty close to where I want it to post up my latest video. From the Face On view, my swing right now looks just about there. The DTL view it's improved, but still needs work. But the Face On view is almost night and day different. I have one swing saved on my camera where the head moves perfectly on the downswing. No tilting down and away from the camera. Nice extension of the arms in the follow thru and the hands are almost where I want them at P6. I'm getting a lesson with George tomorrow. I think we'll probably work on stuff to shorten up my backswing a tad as I still over-fold the right arm and my right elbow gets a little out of position as well. We'll probably work on straightening the right arm so more and flattening out the shoulder turn so the shoulders turn 90* to the spine on the downswing. Although I've improved a lot there. 3JACK
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