That’s true Bom, but I’ve loved some ugly women in my time.
This one sounds more like a one night stand with a stunner, and when you woke up she was gone, not even a bloody note… heartless wench, do they not know golfers have feelings too? 
Na, but there’s some lasses in Newcastle who’ll do anything after 12 Blue WKDs.
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I haven’t checked in for a while, and it was interesting to see the “chi energy” video in the p3-p4. Just in the last two weeks I have gotten into tai chi, and the application to golf was obvious immediately. It really improves one’s sense of balance and awareness. John has wanted me to add more knee flex for a while, but when I have tried it just felt impossible.
This was my most recent range session. I added lots of knee flex and was able to process it and rotate through. Indeed I rotated through better than I ever have. Note the pics at the end of the video. In the last the clubshaft reappears much lower and on a flatter plane than before, and then I shoot up to a high finish.
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Video clip not coming through, Grady. But no matter, I know where you’re at…I find I can access the chi much better when I bow to it…forward bend at address, much more than I think I might need. I don’t think you can access the chi line if you’re too deep, or too wide. You need both, in balance.
I’ve seen that video of the firestarter. I wish I could do that, would help me light the hibachi…
Great stuff!
Just think how much better that will be when you learn how to add up.
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Someone posted this on my thread on another site. I thought it was great, and so did John. He asked me to post here:
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Nice interview. Doesn’t it seem to match this that Gardner Dickinson said about Hogan? Won’t swinging the shaft, not the clubhead result in what Reggie is saying?
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Reminds of me of Ted Williams thoughts on hitting a baseball. Look at 00:04 of this video
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In Tschetter’s book on Hogan, Hogan used Ted Williams as a model. Hogan said of Ted Williams…“If you’re arms are close together and you start the downswing by turning your hips, the club will move inside on the perfect pane. You can hit it as hard as you want with your right hand.”
My lightbulb today was how wonderful it is to play a round of golf in under 3 hours walking. Al Barkow and I teed off at 1:15 and tapped in at 3:45 at Blue Rock Springs… Sure helps to play at that pace, no yardage books, no pin sheets… just golfing the ball on a nice day. Tapped in for a 68 and can’t wait to go play golf again! If only it was always this way! Slow play is very overrated.
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that depends where you play. having played Royal Melbourne West recently, i would be more than happy to be out their all afternoon. as i read the other day “RMW on a sunny sunday is the best 7 hours you will ever spend”
I can’t remember the last time I played in that amount of time. The second hole where I play is a par 3, and it really bottles everything up. I have a very hard time waiting on every shot. It’s not that I’m an impatient person, I just can’t establish a link with the course, the turf, the wind, the flagsticks. I have walked off many a time because of it. Or, if I’m in a cart, then I try to go around the backups and play holes, but that’s not playing golf. I might as well be stuck in traffic on the tollway, it’s the same feeling.
Slow play is a huge problem… and I don’t see it being addressed on tour or at the USGA level. The rules of the game IF properly adhered to, not only promote slow play, they insist on it.
Can you imagine how slow civilian golf would be if everyone was walking back to the tee when they didn’t find their ball or chose to take the option of return to the tee etc… it would go from a huge problem to a horrific one.
Playing with yardage books and pin sheets slows down the game.
I asked Barkow about it yesterday, and he actually is writing an article on statistics and how Zack Johnson has hired a statistician to find out if there is actually a statistical advantage to hitting more fairways or not on the PGA Tour. Al said when he recently talked to Jackie Burke about this, Burke simply said… “the only thing we worried about was the score we made on the last hole”
Al continued to say that the fact Zack would even ask such a question shows how sideways the game has gone.
Slow play is NOT “good for the game”.
It’s didn’t seem like we where playing all that fast. Just hitting shots and walking. I don’t consider myself a fast player…pretty average. I probably take a bit more time in my pre shot routine than most. But I guess I save a lot of time by not seeking out sprinkler heads or trying to externally calculate every yardage variable with numeric representations… then try to fit my swing to such an arbitrary number. I question the the benefit of doing that… especially for non tour players.
What if the tour pros were not allowed to use cheat sheets? Would it make the game more interesting or less? I think it would set a good example for quicker play… and show that there is a real skill set to playing golf more intuitively. I think Zack would 'get it" if he played more intuitively and learned that he has a much better ability to strike shots with good weight than he is giving himself credit for.