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GOLF NOTATIONS
1. The "golf swing" is a misnomer. The golfer himself must not do any action even resembling a swing. The 'swing' is a result, happening after the golfer has made his last deliberate move, which by all means is not a "swinging motion" whatsoever, because if it were (if there were any element of 'swing' whatsoever to his move --...no,no, it is entirely a mechanical motion) then the shot would most surely be ruined! Don't misunderstand or quibble, please. A swing-like effect is given, is seen in the over-all appearance of the golf action, yes, if one is studying it (part of the age old problem and error of golf analysis up to now) as one might study the whole without regard to the portion, thereby confusing result with cause. But the golfer is himself the cause of his good or poor golf, and he simply does not, cannot effect any good golf by attempting to produce a "swinging motion". AMEN! Golfers now fine by dint of even only very recent exposure to our methods will understand what is being said here.
2. The takeaway is of only minor importance, at best but guilding, making only marginally better an already assured effective golf action because of the golfer's skills, knowledge and understanding at the top. Thus also are of only relative minor, idiosyncratic significance, such matters as the grip, the stance, the myriad of so called 'basics'. This statement is made in total seriousness and surety, assuming only that ridiculous departures from normal good sense and comfort are excluded of course. The golfer will not take a grip insufficient to handle the dynamics of the club and shaft, to be sure. Neither will he deliberately allow or try to get himself into a top of the action position that is completely untenable. That only makes sense. But, other than for reservations of this degree and tone, all the constantly tauted 'basics' the golfer has been burdened with studying and worrying about are precisely that ....unnecessary BURDENS he were better off without! The one basic that is essential is the one about a golfer being consistent in his preparations, his address procedures, his takeaway (for his most normal, standard shots and efforts), since familiarity and comfort with what he is doing contribute to his confidence during execution, and confidence, without careless disregard as companion of course, is desirable and contributes to success. All this said, the one fact remains: The true, the vital 'basic' of good golf resides solely at and in that one "moment of truth" that is core to the Golf Revealed system and method!
3. Now a word about the so called "top of the swing". A good top of the swing may somewhat ideally resemble that illustrated by us with the little boy and his guru. But it by no means necessarily must so resemble. The "top of the swing" is whatever utilitarian position the golfer has made his and typical of his style and performance, for whatever length and type of shot with which he is faced. It once again boils down to his thinking, his concentration, his understanding, his objective intent and execution in that all important briefest (but easiest, really) "moment of truth" that is core to the Golf Revealed method and discoveries (the which moment exists and applies to all golfers, good and bad, and under all systems and approaches, successful and otherwise). Given correct intent and performance at that moment of truth, the golfer can produce a good shot from whatever reasonable position he has elected to be the "top of his swing", the time for the pause and the downswing execution of his shot.
4. "Thus also are of only relative minor, idiosyncratic significance, such other matters as the grip, the stance, the myriad of so called 'basics'." We have made the preceding statement. We stand by it. It is asked and assumed, of course, that the reader apply only good sense to our statements and appreciate them in the total context of our word usage, which, naturally, would not overlook our inclusion of the word 'relative', for instance. As a matter of fact we have elsewhere indicated the same thrust as here now, when we did acknowledge the importance of one basic, the basic of the golfer developing a consistency to his procedures and movements. And this, of course, in turn allows a decent importance to any other 'basic' which may contribute to consistency. So the golfer will understand that we do not scoff at all those other 'golf basics' which do not involve that crucial "moment of truth", but that we merely wish to give them their proper subservience to and relative insignificance compared with that moment of truth, since a properly executed moment of truth can render all manner of less than elegant basics leading up to it rather harmless, whereas the most perfect and elegant of basics followed up to that moment are of no avail whatever in the advent of misexecution at the moment of truth! A golfer gifted (by knowledge) and able at the moment of truth, can easily produce a good result from even the gravest of backswing bumblings and/or insufficiencies (yes, including bent left elbow, flying elbow, improper weight distribution, too upright a swing plane, too flat a swing plane, laid off clubshaft at the top ....YES, even this latter! ), whereas the most blameless of stance, posture, ball placement, takeaway and backswing mechanics cannot insure that the golfer has the least idea of what to do, how to think, what to intend at that critical top of the swing point and moment of truth, where misexecution can and does surely render all that may have come before it . . .totally for naught. Say, did you notice all those familiar maladies parenthesized in purple above? Quite a bit to know and worry about and try to avoid, right? How would it be to not even have to know or worry about them, nor yet a host of other things, because your top of the swing prowess makes them irrelevant, overcomes them effortlessly, if indeed they do exist sometimes in your preparatory moves? That would be pretty nice, wouldn't it? Well the Golf Revealed Academy can give you that enviable freedom!
However, while on the subject of golf basics, let us except one sole preparatory to the swing 'basic' which must be carefully and skillfully observed, else even the best execution from the top cannot rescue the golf act and shot (in fact good dynamics from the top are indeed almost impossible for reason of, if it pertains, any worry over the misapplication of this particular basic). Actually, so static a thing is this particular basic that we hardly deign to consider it an element of golf per se. Indeed It is crucial in any sport or pastime that has getting something from one place to another specific place as object. We refer to aim, and, in golf, this would include clubface positioning closely behind the ball and alignment of the BODY precisely parallel to the proposed take-off line of flight (NOT the clubface necessarily precisely faced to the target by any measure!) And we stipulate here that should you wish to give the clubface a slightly open or closed aspect (for a fading or a drawing of the ball or yet a lofting or de-lofting of the trajectory) then do so IN initially taking the grip, not AFTER taking the grip. This is very important. So you see we do deal in 'basics' other than top of the swing, when it is truly necessary. But indeed the entire subject of aim is so vital and GR's outlook and treatment regarding it so revolutionary (including a patent pending special practice club already available but to be included en-package in the Golf Academy) that, finding it not best thoroughly handled here on this page with so many other things, we must refer you to the full treatment of the subject at page THIS'N THAT, to which you should go when you are ready.
Further as to 'aim', and still right HERE, though, and relating it, comparing it to so called 'swing', let us say this about the two. Aim must be very very precise, just as accurate as humanly possible (and, indeed, if the golfer has not a clear understanding of the principles of our 'degree' golf ..."3 degree golf" .... he may have a difficult time fully understanding its importance). Nevertheless, and all this being said, perfection is not possible in anything and there will be errors in aiming, and these will result in the ball going to a moderately different location than the golfer had hoped for and intended. GOOD! A startling, incomprehensible statement to make? No, not really. Because if the golfer's shot is going to have error in it, if it is going to go somewhat amiss of target and intentions, we would hope the culprit will be pre-swing aim, not takeaway, backswing, moment of truth or downswing themselves. This is because aim is a more or less static thing and something the golfer can more easily study and acquire expertise in, whereas the latter are dynamic things, things that do stubbornly resist a golfers long search for expertise and ingrained understanding and reliable execution.
But in connection with aim and all executions that come after it, THIS ABOVE ALL IS CRUCIAL AND IMMENSELY IMPORTANT ADVICE AND PRECEPT: ....From the moment of undertaking the golf swing itself, assume the aim adopted was correct and proceed with no intention or attempt to adjust for any conceived or imagined error in aim. To work or think to adjust for 'aim' within the swing itself, is suicidal, absolutely ruinous to the golf maneuver, and it constitutes just about as devastating and persistent a bad habit as can be and is developed by golfers! Don't develop that habit, and if you suspect you have it, work assiduously to free yourself of it. (The best way of freeing yourself of the destructive malady is no doubt to spend as much time as needed practicing original aim itself, until at last you have this relatively easy thing down pat and can commence the more fluid elements of your golf in full confidence that you have disposed aim perfectly and can put that matter out of your mind, awareness or concern!)
As to the 'basics' generally, however, Golf Revealed in its program assumes the student will have some prior knowledge of golf fundamentals, some knowledge of terms such as closed or open or square or hooded, and the like. Or, if a user of Golf Revealed is entirely unfamiliar with these things, then the system is for the most part reliant upon him to acquire a modicum of these essentials through any of a host of easy sources ...beginner's (or otherwise) books, golf magazines, online sources (links to several of which are supplied within our website presentations here). Thus the most rudimentary basics are not in fact decried here, much as we appropriately belittle them as being of themselves entirely inadequate to produce any measure of decent play. Nor are the many many fine instructors denigrated in any way. Learn what they have to say about form, shape and substance. Advantage from it. Our only caveat is to assure the reader that the final, the controlling secret to good golf is contained elsewhere than in these commonly known and advanced basics and to urge upon him the delight of, beyond these mundane although desirable mere basics, experiencing the truth and efficacy of fine golf available through us and our 'way'. So that he will not only perhaps know the common basics but, far more, wonder of wonders, delight of delights, will even actually shoot an excellent game besides! Yes, our way. It is new, it is unique, it is easy. And it works!
And it is in this spirit that we do, on occasion, in our tapes and other materials, deal illustratively with one or another of the rudimentary basics besides the top of the swing moment of truth, but only transcendentally and selectively, as and when we believe such reference and discussion is useful. And we, in our marketed academy, also cover some ancillary but new to the art information that we likewise reveal in these websites as well, such as our "three degree golf", what it means and from what priorly unpublished (as far as we have found) mathematical/physics principles it derives. This new information, here on the websites and in the academy course itself, will be useful to any golfer in measuring his accuracy and judging the sensible degree of risk he ought be willing to take on a given shot or situation of challenge. So even if you don't elect to take our at home course you can advantage right here and now from our websites, absorbing new affirmative information that you have gotten and will get nowhere else.Be exposed and enjoy!
5. For excellent golf you must eliminate certain ingrained fears everyone has in connection with a vigorous physical action. One is the fear of falling. Another is the fear of self injury. Both of which render the golfer incapable of sustaining a top of the swing purpose to and through its original intent, he being afraid he will simply flop (fall) down on his side or prat or that he will bang his arms disastrously down against his leg or that he will stab his groin or stomach with the butt end of the clubshaft. Neither/none of these things will happen. The club itself, the dynamics of its motion, its momentum, its weight will prevent this and, instead, effect the perfect, powerful delivery of the clubface into and through the ball!
6. PRACTICING A goodly amount of practicing is requisite for truly top notch golf regardless of any system, even ours, although ours will certainly give you a fair measure of permanent adequacy and success that will never leave you, just like once you've learned to ride a bicycle you can always manage a decent performance, even after years and years of no riding whatever. People who live in year round warm climates have an advantage, practicewise (if they will use it), over those who live where the winters are real. But those in northern climes can and should practice all year just as the southerners can, by adapting some kind of an indoor routine with plastic practice balls.
Find a place with as much swing room as possible and adjust the character of the shots practiced to that restriction. However, you can under almost any circumstance practice at least half to three quarter shots by using your shortest clubs and choking up on them considerably if necessary. For this you may (or may not) have to also modify to a more bent at the waist, even a slightly more flexed at the knees position, but, actually, this is good training anyway and can develop good posture maintenance and control and good muscular strength. (If your physical condition is really seriously modified by age or any other limitation this may be a bit too much for you to advisably try, so in that event you should confine your indoor practicing to even a little less than one half full shots so that you can maintain merely your normal address stance. But practice is still good as, in our 'top of the swing' intent, thought and method training the beneficial indoctrinations remain effective and the same.)
Now as to any practicing or modes of practicing or supposed 'aids' to practicing, away from the course or environments of similar expanse, some very serious words of caution need to be given. Because practice, bad practice, like bad medicine, can be extremely harmful indeed, instead of grooving effective action and thought, grooving, instead, disastrous penchants and habits that are going to make a player's performance get progressively worse, not better, and assuring tremendous and prolonged difficulty in ever overcoming some consequent entrenched and very nasty maladies. The indoor practice, for instance. - Regardless of how curtailed the swing may be (confined to three quarter shot, half shot, one quarter shot or whatever) the ball is going to be estopped in its flight, bounding against a wall or ceiling used as target. And the golfer, of course, knows this. But the golfer has, indoors as well as outdoors, that entirely natural desire to see the results of his efforts, to watch as much as possible the beautiful flight of the ball, over which he is cause, lord and master. (And this natural desire, even outdoors, even in actual play, let alone in worried trial and practice, is very likely more responsible for horrendous golf shots than any other single cause. It is a fact that the good golfer never sees even approaching as much of his ball flight as do the spectators. If you see the soaring flight of your ball for as much as one half its total airflight then you are seeing too much of it and you have ruined your shot, or at least have come very very close to disaster (watch out for next time, it's bound to come)! But the caution here should be obvious. When practicing indoors guard constantly against this impulse to look up too quickly in order to see where the ball strikes the target. In most cases you
shouldn't see where it strikes. You should be able only to judge the shot by its feel on and through contact and by the trajectory the ball takes on its way back to you, hopefully rendering you in real danger of being hit by the little plastic missile! Even if you are able to develop some proficiency at producing a supposedly decent shot where you vaguely, almost, just in time do see the sphere in its crash against the target wall, you are asking for trouble, you are coming too close to ruinously prematurely watching toward the flight of the ball. DON'T GROOVE SUCH A PENCHANT! Be certain, in this kind of practice, in any kind of practice (such as outdoors into a net or the like) where the flight of the ball is going to be halted way before its energy is spent, that you keep your mind on the ground, not on the beautiful flight or the ball's impact with any mid-target. As a matter of fact, for practicing, opposed to nets or walls, etc. (although we by no means proscribe these, but use them at your own risk and with your own observance and care) we rather recommend the devices with a ball secured to a short swivel-like means which will vibrate back and forth in response to the strike. With these the golfer's measurement and evaluation of the effort is directed and required right down there at his feet, where his attention should remain in a real shot for well beyond the point where the clubhead has passed invisibly through the ball! With this it is well to remark that good golfers don't look up to see the flight of the ball. No, not at all! The force of the club head and shaft, the dynamics, the momentum of the completing swing itself. . . bring the head at last around and facing and level toward the target!
9. THE DOWNSWING. The first move of the downswing is DOWN, PERIOD! The sinking of the elevator. The sinking of the lower portion of the body is best, or whatever portion you key from. The golfer doesn't realize it, but on his takeaway and backswing, he rises up several inches, the elevator rises. The downswing should start with the elevator sinking back down! "And then that elevator starts its fall, and down and down I go, all around I go, in a spin, loviing that spin I'm in, under that old black magic called"... THE GOLF SWING!
On the downswing, besides the immediate first move being a sinking, a lowering of the elevator, there should be a simultaneously immediate separation of the right forearm from whatever proximity it had to the shoulder, a driving of the fist-edges outward to help keep the left arm extended and the swing arc as wide as possible. This is done from a stationary right elbow (except insofar as it is sinking with the rest of the body in the elevator drop) by unbending it while keeping the right WRIST flexed up and bent back, the wrinkles thus formed preserved and maintained! In fact this unbending of the right elbow, this casting (but not of the wrists or fingers), is precisely what encourages and enables a long delay in any uncocking of the wrists and adds maximum last moment speed to the delivery against and through the ball.
Greatest power and accuracy can probably be bestowed the entire golf action by concentrating on the fleshy protruding portion of the right rear hip that should be consciously experienced and noted in taking the takeaway stance when bringing the left arm and hand down and over to the right hand (not placing the left hand back of the ball and then bringing the right hand down to it ). Determine to execute the entire action, both takeaway and downswing without straightening out that slightly humped out condition of the right rear hip. Do NOT straighten the torso back up in the downswing. STAY in the gently crouched position (insofar as the body and determination are able; until the last quarter momentum of the swinging arms and club lift torso and arms up and around). Note: This 'swollen' power and control source residing in the hip region described exists also in all left/rearish counterparts of the torso and limbs, the body-edge back muscles, the long, stretched triceps of the left arm, etc. Any of these sections can be focal point of the return swing power and control, if concentrated on with the intention of governing the return action by that part. This does not mean unduly tensing the part, but it does mean keeping it extended and lowered, not relaxing and rising.
SPECIAL NOTATION TO MY SITUATION. Newly discovered for me after years of vain struggle with an otherwise perception rightly or wrongly derived from Ben Hogan descriptive details, is the now noted fact that with a two or three knuckle grip, the right hand v pointing to the right armpit (approximately), if that strong grip is maintained throughout the swing, the right palm and the back of the left hand will oppose the sky at about a 45 degree angle. Maintaining this, I now find, makes the simplest, the easiest of all swings both going back and coming down, so much so that one feels almost like there is no power or effort to it whatsoever, and it seems to fulfill what Sam Snead always described as an 'oily' swing. It now seems so much easier it is discomforting.
For various reasons I had developed the fiercely ingrained habit of closing the clubface (somewhat) on the way back and keeping that closure (or intending to) on the return swing. The reasons for doing this were several fold. Paramount was the fear of otherwise getting into a 'laid off' position at the top. Another reason was that it seemed to me Ben Hogan's descriptions were prescribing this (low shots into the Texas winds, etc.), and then there were other old bookwriters who insisted that the clubface at the top should be "half closed". Further, on the downswing, then, whatever does happen, in any event as the clubhead and your wrists gyrate and quickly change the roll there is a marvelous feeling of strain and power that, apparently, makes the golfer happily feel that he is shattering the world with his force! Apparently this feeling can become very seductive and be unconsciously coveted by the golfer, for all of its year after year failures. At any rate, I now believe it had been my nemesis for a long time! And that I should trust the "slicing through the atmosphere" sense that occurs when you maintain the 45 degree relation to the sky, the under edges of your hands piercing the air in a down and out bias, whereas, the other way, what you have are the palms and backs of your hands meeting the air resistance broadside, as it were, seeming to run parallel to the sky as a matter of fact. So I shall refer back to all this in number 10, "ON THE TAKEAWAY AND UPSWING" in an also blue notation.
Now more on the downswing moment of truth move and intention at the top. A good first move and thought at the top, and if done from the central or lower part of the torso, is to FALL AWAY FROM THE SHOT! PULL AWAY FROM THE SHOT! Like as though you were raking heavy piles of leaves in the fall, in your slightly bent position, lean on out and around (the takeaway and backswing) for all the leaves you can gather under the rake, then bring them (continued next page - http://www.golfremedies.com/STILL_MORE.html
Main thrust of it all IS in the right hand column below \/ . . . . Thus, while the assiduous and aspiring to excellence golf enthusiast will surely study the full treatments on the left, just as he would any textbook material, he or she may the more frequently choose to simply browse through the synopses on the right as refresher. Also we suggest these synopses may prove useful to parent golfers seeking to impart to their very young child or children some simplification (in the parent's own best and most knowing language) of material a little too detailed and thorough for pre or early schoolers to themselves parse and absorb.
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<-- golfer doesn't SWING the club
<-- most basics are mental BURDENS
<--(except for one ESSENTIAL basic)
<--so-called 'top' of the swing has MANY appearances
<--Relativity of assertions
<-- RELIEF FROM WORRY!
<-- just ONE sole basic even more vital than moment of truth however.
<-- and that is AIM <- for practicing we favor a golf ball secured to a short tether.
<<--AIM is more thoroughly treated elsewhere on this site.
<-- parodoxically,though ..if there's going to BE error, let it be IN aim, not the more dynamic actions!
<-- PRESUME aim to be PERFECT!!
<--aim=ONE thing to be practiced frequently (gr or NO gr!)
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these are hollow metal balls,about 3" in diameter;apropos of nothing specifically on the left here. But when you get into our treatment of GR AIM, you'll understand.
<---DON'T WORRY. YOU WON'T FALL!
Be careful,
very careful
HOW you practice.
sloppy, unmanaged
'practice'
can be worse
MUCH WORSE
THAN NO PRACTICE WHATEVER!!
BEARS REPEATING
Be careful,very careful
HOW you practice.
sloppy, unmanaged
'practice'
can be worse
MUCH WORSE
THAN NO PRACTICE WHATEVER!!
