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Hi Bucket. For me, I don't care much for recreational golf. Mostly
I play to help my practice. Want to figure out the nuts and bolts
of the golf swing. Then I will make my move. At 68 Ha! but still have
dreams. Frank McGee, the owner/director of the Moonlight Mimi tour
has an interesting observation. Aspiring Drumman Futures tour players
should play his development tour until they are ready for the LPGA
tour. When the girls shoot par nothing is said. When they shoot over
par then they get a thumbs down. When under par they get praise.
When their game is consistanly par or under then they can try for the
LPGA where they can make a living. One really needs the game before
trying the higher levels. One time Hogan went to the tent and said
that he had to pull out of a tournment because of health reasons.
The director said, "I am sorry that you can not play", then Hogan
said, "thats all right, half the field can play either".

For me, playing is mostly a way to learn how to score better and
get your handicap down. Not the real place to find the geometry
and physics of the swing that Homer Kelley aspired too. I will bet
that Homer would never have developed the Golf Machine if he
had spent most of his time playing golf with his buddies. Haing in
there Bucket, your improving insite into the golf swing is due to
your study, not your trying to get into the 70s or to lower your
handicap.

I am probably missing the geometry of your point! I have discovered over time that if you don’t get it intuitively , then you must get it mechanically...then know it so well that it appears to be intuitive.

The best example I can come up with is the plane. Every shot has a target line. The plane of every stroke must be pre-selected with relationship to that target line…depending on the shot at hand. The stroke then must comply to that plane…with visual reference to its base line. There are many things that champions have in common…a good one is their ability to visualize a straight line as vividly as if they had created a base line with neon spray paint for each and every shot.

My experience both personal and in observing others is that few actually pick targets! The highest compliment you can pay yourself as a player is to select a target…albeit by faith! I find that compatible alignments (geometry) is the more cerebral and useful of the twins, the other being its brutish sibling, physics. I call them Euclid and Kronk! Other than sustaining lag pressure and extensor action, I do not give much thought to physics , but I focus heavily on the geometry, especially before I pull the trigger. The evidence of this at the highest levels is the meticulous way in which pros organize themselves at address. Homer Kelley gave us proper and correct geometric relationships. I mean…just soling the club correctly per 2-J-1 highlights the primacy of alignments, right? So what I am trying to say is that we take the geometry to the course and verify it to some degree on each and every shot. When people tell players not to think about IT I take that to mean don’t think about the motion, not the geometry. I think the physics flows through a conduit, namely the geometry. I say think about nothing else but alignments…and not just limited to standing square etc.

Not a criticism to what you said, just a piggy-back attempt.