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Thank you, for some reason I could not find it yesterday. I can imagine the Joe Daniel being irritated after this video that misrepresent what the book is.

I remember a video where McLean was criticizing The Golfing Machine.... Stretch: just awesome !

Mike Austin has a few followers that don't teach the swing exactly in the same way. Recently Jaacob Bowden has put a long video on youtube about his vision of the Mike Austin swing (caveat: I don't know much about the Mike Austin swing and I have only looked at the first few minutes of the video)

Since were're talking aimpoint and throwing the club, here's another exemple from a pro (Gregg McHatton) teaching the same approach as Ben Doyle (Bobby's mentor): Go directly to 1:40 to see the pro doing the drills. There the club is thrown to somewhere on the baseline close to where the ball would be. I'm not sure this is for everyone but I found the drill spectacular,

I am currently reading it, nicely written, also as for a 1/2 day school of damage control. Fun thing to practice with friends. I think I'll put a few practice rounds dropping another ball in trouble spots for the fun of it.

When I work on my swing I usually hit 160 to 200 balls (buckets of 40), the first bucket in 1/2 swing wedges to various targets then I work mostly with the 9 to 5 irons then hit about 20 balls with longer irons then a few woods.

Kind of sad for Robert, looks like he was back from the slump of the last couple of years when he had eye problems.

The LHC was also built for precision measurements, like the measurements of the top quark and the W boson masses (the current best measurements come from FERMILAB experiments). In the Standard Model they are linked with the Higgs mecanism and Higgs mass. Now that we have a Higgs we can test if they are compatible with the Standard Model. The LHC was also constructed to search for new particles, like those predicted by supersymmetry, an extension of the Standard Model that may solve some of its shortcoming and could be a first step towards quantum gravity.

To be founded for such a large international project, the scientific case is often a combinaison of 1/ measuring better what we know exists 2/ we think hypothesis (e.g. the Higgs for the LHC) is true and we can prove or disprove it 3/ We have hypotheses on what else could exist (for the LHC that would be a theory more fundamental that the Standard Model) and we can investigate And yes, the Higgs bosons has a mass (around 125 times the mass of a proton if what was since is indeed the Higgs).

I'd do a lot of chips and punch shots, 1/2 swings.

Squeeze the thumb and the index finger actuates a muscle in the top of the forearm and makes it difficult to pronate and supinate the forearm (not true for the other fingers by the way). That does not go well with some swing styles and I suspect this is why your instructor has you grip lightly with thumb and index.

Do you play left or right handed ?

There are few real "links" golf courses in France so people usualy play in "muni" or "parkland" style of courses and my guess is that they prefer tree-lined courses. Golf is far less developped in France compared to the anglo-saxon world and we lack the kind of cheap municipal courses that you can find in the US (I lived a couple of years in Chicagoland). In the greater Paris area, in the north west and south west green fees are too high for most people. North west and south west are visited a lot by british golfers that are used to pay more, so I guess "too high" is relative.

I agree with Mike, the book is a tough read and targeted at instructor or students of the swing. Having an AI explain the concepts is invaluable. If you have the book, chapters 1& 2 gives the general mecanical concept of the swing, that's already a tough read and the figures need careful studying (and would benefit from a modern graphic treatment for clarity). Chapters 6 is probably readable and 7 is important but would benefit from directions from your AI.

I've noticed that "running out of right arm" can cause flipping, as Mike said, this can be weight transfert, pivot, shoulders etc..

I am wondering if the bowed wrist does not help him keep the wrist cock a bit more in the downswing.

Excellent find !

Centrifugal force is essentially inertia and one cannot eliminate inertia. One cannot stop the downswing and expect the clubhead not to continue without applying force to stop it, as you said. Whatever its speed is, the clubhead just "wants" to continue at the same speed.

You don't need to keep the shaft in line with the left arm to beat centrifugal force, in hitting one does cock the left wrist. You only need to cock and uncock it actively instead of passively via centrifugal force. It is not cocked or uncoked as a wrist action though. With the proper flying wedges setup, the left wrist is cocked when the right elbow bends and vice-versa.

I'm trying to learn a TGM swing just by myself (there's no AI close to where I live), but if I ever give up I think I would keep anyway this concept of the Flying Wedges, it really improved dramtically the quality of my ball contact.

There are several aspects in the book : A model of the golf swing, "The Machine", mainly in chap. 2, and from that the statement of the golf swing imperatives and essentials. That will be the foundations of the approch of the swing in the book. A décomposition of the swing in 12 sections and 24 components. That would be useful to anyone interested in the swing and in particular to instructors Throughout the book, a description of prefered golf swings (swinging and hitting), with some aspects that I don't see in other swing systems (like the right forearm takeaway, the magic of the right forearm) That said, the book is a very tough read. Since H.K. wanted it to be a field manual for instructor, he kept it short. Many aspects are only mentioned once, sometime in a single sentence. There are no explanations of the reasons behind the statements, something I miss very much. All in all, I'd say that for most people it would be a several year journey to get most of what's in there (and I'm only through the first year...). Yes, I think you wil benefit from reading it, in particular since you want to become an instructor.

There are several aspects in the book : A model of the golf swing, "The Machine", mainly in chap. 2, and from that the statement of the golf swing imperatives and essentials. That will be the foundations of the approch of the swing in the book. A décomposition of the swing in 12 sections and 24 components. That would be useful to anyone interested in the swing and in particular to instructors Throughout the book, a description of prefered golf swings (swinging and hitting), with some aspects that I don't see in other swing systems (like the right forearm takeaway, the magic of the right forearm) That said, the book is a very tough read. Since H.K. wanted it to be a field manual for instructor, he kept it short. Many aspects are only mentioned once, sometime in a single sentence. There are no explanations of the reasons behind the statements, something I miss very much. All in all, I'd say that for most people it would be a several year journey to get most of what's in there (and I'm only through the first year...). Yes, I think you wil benefit from reading it, in particular since you want to become an instructor.

I guess that center-shafted putters are more beneficial to SBST style of putting, in addition the one I tested were all face-balanced.

The first thing I would check are the fondamentals, mostly grip ("weakness" and pressure points) and alignement, they tend to ever-so-slightly change with time and need regular checks. If you can practice on turf, with a stick or a club to fix the alignement, I suggest to check the divot that would tell if the club path is out to in or if something else is going on.

I have the '01 Apex+ and I haven'd found any other iron that would make me want to replace them (well, I loved the feel of the Mizuno mp67 and the McGregor pro-M but I know my swing not consistent enough to play them). I found the Mizu mp62 to be roughly equivalent.