Posts by pound puppy

  Quote: Originally Posted by saevel25  Lets not get what is a fundamental, we had this dicussion in anothe thread. I love though how this all comes up over and over, and more people have there pride hurt....

I will admit that everything I can find on the subject does indeed say that face angle is the most important part of launch path.  For some reason it looks like the vectored forces would favor the swing path because of the high...

  Quote: Originally Posted by iacas    I could be wrong, but you don't seem to have a grasp of the ball flight laws: http://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/ball_flight_laws...

Look up the Jimmy Ballard video on Youtube where he explains how to draw the ball without all the grip, swing, rotation, etc changes that everyone suggests.  He explains it in less than two minutes, there are no swing...

I don't have time to look it up, but my guess is that where you drop your ball will be more dependent on "nearest point of relief, no closer to the hole" than it will on whether theh drop happens to improve your lie. 

I think it was Lee Travino who said, "Drive for show, putt for dough...but if you can't drive, you won't be putting for much dough".  Lee was the Yogi Berra of golf.

I agree with phillyk.  You can control a nice smooth flowing swing much better and much more consistently.  For most people, increasing swing speed means just swinging harder, and that makes things hard to repeat, which is...

Give his method a try.  As you can tell by what's going on in the PGA, not every instructor is for every golfer.  If he can teach you how to do what he does, it might improve your game. ...

I shredded my right rotor cuff muscles about three years ago and believe me, your arm will get no where near horozontal...in front or to the side, if you damaged yours.  It is also my experience that the rotor cuff isn't...

Here's what I see in my own game when a new person joins.  If the newbie is AT my level, I tend to push things just a bit physically...a bit harder swing to try go gain an edge.  This MAY get me through the round 1...