[dsandridge]

My recent lesson with golfgnome was enlightening. I fight pulling. I guess tracing the plane line was inadequate to stop it. My devious brain had overcome the benefits of tracing and my alignments were screwed up. So he set up a hitting station with the yellow dowels and two dowels down the plane line set up a vertical dowel with a big orange noodle on it. I was stunned at how far left it appeared(I am left handed) with the driver. So now swinging down the plane line, tracing so that I can hit that noodle I feel more inside out. As I practice on the range others on the hitting line see balls hit the noodle and veer every which way. I am certainly the center of attention. But I am overcoming my problem. The plane line has an infinite set of points on it that can be "aiming points" . I place golf balls at various points on it and experiment. I use the left forearm as one guide. So now I see the "railroad" tracks with the plane line passing thru my distant target. But if I swing down toward that distant target I tend to pull. If I swing down and out at one of the selected points on the plane line I am straight. So when I am on the course what can I do. I am not sure I can swing at something in the distance on line with where a noodle would be two dowels down plane. So I am trying to swing at a point in front of the ball about a foot like nicklaus as my aiming point. I used to trace from the ball to this point, now I feel I go directly to it. Golf remains challenging, and the brain deceptive.