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urodoc

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  1. Thanks for the reply, Pharaoh. I don't want to belabor a point, but what does it mean that it was "based" on Byron Nelson's swing? Did Byron Nelson swing in a perfect circle and was he on the exact same plane everytime? Of course not, this is a machine not a person. Even if it did look like a person, it would not swing like one. If I wanted to build a machine to hit golf balls the same every time I would not even look at a human swing because of the inherent inconsistancies. No matter how you, Wilson, or the originator want to romanticize it the machine has nothing to do with any one person's swing. My point in this blog is to point out the inanities in this type of golf "instruction"nothing more. I am curious, thought, you claim to be a "0.0" handicap (I guess that is the same as "0"), why would anyone with your level of ability, if you are telling the truth, be involved with trying to learn swing mechanics from someone who ostensibly can't play any better than you? If you're that good, why not hire a coach, or just practice your short game?
  2. Am I missing something here, or what? The "Iron Byron" is a machine. I seriously doubt it was based on any one golfer's swing unless that golfer had no legs, no right arm, no torso, etc. I would assume that the name "Byron" was thought about because of Byron Nelson's repetitive swing characteristics, but more likely it was used because the two words rhyme (somewhat). Sounds catchier than "Iron Sam" or "Iron Ben" doesn't it. Does Wilson really think they deconstructed someone's swing to produce a machine that swings in a perfect circle in a perfect plane every time? This is a testing device, nothing more. The fact that someone like Wilson would try to extrapolate this mechanical movement to humans shows how desperate he is to break into the lucrative world of selling nonsense to the unsuspecting. I do applaud his zeal, but this is right up there with the AJ Bonar's of the marketing world. I guess they will never stop coming. To anyone who thinks this idea is new, I have news for you, this was a method that was touted in the early 1990's in the Philadelphia area. It was a teaching method that was begun in a retail golf chain. Exactly the same theory with the "Iron Byron" as the model. It died a quick death; I understand that this is also not the first "go around" with this concept for Wilson either.
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