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  1. My experience. I'm a 78 year old hacker who was an arm swinging swaying sliding bag of swing mechanics that managed to play to a 9 handicap a couple times in my golfing life. Then I discovered Darrell Klassen a year ago, and I've learned a lot and am improving rapidly. I understand the game more and am able to detect and correct my problems quickly thanks to his teachings. I'm thinking I might be able to get back to that 9 handicap from the 20 I had a year ago. Mostly due to a much improved short game and hitting it much longer and keeping the ball in play. My approach shots still need a lot of work but improvement there also. I've immersed myself in Darrell's teachings and understand we were all born with a natural golf swing weather we've played or not. The results of each of our swings will all differ. When we introduce a golf ball into the equation things change. We've moved from an unconscious movement of our body in a natural swing to focusing our conscious mind on aggressively attacking the ball resting at our feet. Everything has changed. Muscles become tense, our mind becomes cluttered with thoughts, we focus on far away tiny targets and hazards surrounding the target line. Darrell spends a lot of time on the psychological parts of the game that is so destructive. The battle between the conscious and sub-conscious mind. What if I could relieve myself of some of that baggage, wouldn't that be a good thing? Darrell has taught me to pull my focus away from the ball (not easy) and swing freely in a totally relaxed manner through the hitting area, not at the ball. He teaches this by starting with using relaxed wrists, hands and fingers to chop down to the ground under the golf ball (not the ball) and hit it a few inches. It's all about spin and contact. Using my hands, wrists and fingers and trying to chop down and hit the ball few inches farther, I notice my arms unconsciously moved also. Hey, there's one less thing to think about, it just happened. WOW! I gradually moved that to a full swing and found the follow through and finish just happened unconsciously too. One more thing I don't have to think about. Just wrists and hands up, wrists and hands down throwing the club-head down and feeling it whip beyond the ball dragging me along to a full finish. One of the most important things for me was tilting my spine back at address, stay tilted through the back swing and maintaining tilt at impact. No sliding. Now I have to figure out how to control the ball. Darrell teaches that in an easy to understand way using physics, not swing mechanics. If I'm lined up to my target and my shots are going left, I must be swinging too far left. Two solutions, either swing more to the right or open the club-face and curve it back right. The mechanics method could possibly involve changing grip, stance, shoulders, elbows, hips, feet, ball position, body tilt, moving closer or farther from the ball on and on and on. This endless list of mechanical changes create more problems than they cure. After going through that list no wonder we get worse and eventually quit the game out of frustration. Unlike Iron Byron, our swing path is not always down the target line. We rotate and our swing path rotates too and it doesn't always point down the target line at impact. Most of the time for right handed golfers it's left. I've chosen Darrell's simple method, change the path of my swing at impact to get the ball flight on line. Envision a hula hoop resting on the ground at the golf ball, tilt it back representing the golf swing plane then point it left and right of the target line. Iron Byron doesn't have to deal with that, but we do. I'm not going to be a scratch golfer but I'm a better golfer striking the ball better than I ever have and still improving and having more fun than ever. I step to the tee with a single swing thought and see what happens and know what I need to do to correct any problem. As Darrell says, "Move the ball forward relax and have fun". He's got lots of free content out there on the Web, YouTube and Facebook.
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