[innercityteacher]

WOW City. Lookie what can happen when you use a wonderful system rather than a method, band-aids, a wing and a prayer!

Great job my friend!!!

Kevin

What do you do when you get out of the car, load your bag on the cart and realize you have about five minutes to tee off on a 203 yard uphill par 3, trees left and sand and trees right?

I practiced swinginging slowly and keeping a stationary head and taut EA. No worries! 16 degree rescue hybrid (Thanks, Jerry) to front fringe, chip on a rope to 1 foot, par put, easy peasy.

And then I got the rabid hooks! FORE LEFT!

I'll spar you the details of the next 8 holes and 46 shots behind every tree and sand trap on the left hand side of the course.

I adjusted everything, including my bra and found no help!! But two little bread crumbs kept appearing on the path.

My chips, loaded with EA, were turning my almost certain TRIPLES into pretty remarkable DOUBLES. I hit a few poles from 20-30 yards away (10 yard deflections, of course). I dialed the chips back to Basic Motions. "Every stroke, even a putt, has a start, top and finish," according to Yoda.
So what was causing the hooks and pull hooks?

I was using an angle hinge. I tried my usual sweeping downstroke (driving the Primary Lever). I tried dropping the right elbow in from top and that gave some relief from the hook. I kept practicing the Basic Motion on the tee. I gave in to the temptation to use Acquired Motion off the tee with the 3 wood and hybrid. And, chances at par started to appear.

More Basic and I started to realize that pp# 4 was a great comfort and very, very dependable! I WAS COMING OVER THE TOP!!!!


SOLUTION!!! Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy!Slow and heavy! Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!Drag the mop!
Drag the heavy, wet mop!Drag the heavy, wet mop!Drag the heavy, wet mop!Drag the heavy, wet mop!

PP # 4 + Heavy, wet mop = 0 hooks, and 0 draws!


Hole 10, 3 over (no insights, lots of trees!) Hole 11, 3 over (hook disappears on pitch and I balloon a wedge 30 yards short, putt with EA into next county.) Holes 12 and 13 (# 1 hcp and # 6 hcp) "Hello Mr. Par! Holes 14-15, 2 over (I had to give up the hard EA on putts and dialed that back as I could not feel the line of the putt. So, I discovered a gentle EA putt and started burning edges. Using EA on putts makes the sweetspot terrifyingly powerful! A silly little 3 inch swing will send the ball 10 feet through breaks, in and out of cups and almost into the guy tending the pin 20 yards away! ). Hole 16 and 17, 4 over. (Pushing the ball right into trees and traps, ugh.) Hole # 18, 2 over ( I got greedy and dumb, and I shot right at the biggest sucker pin in the world! The 8 iron hit the par 5 elevated green and bounced straight left down the hill. Shortsided in 4 inch deep rough! ) I shot a 46 that should've been lower.

We had a little 9 hole skins game which followed. Two club champs (champ and "B" flight, 3 hcp. and 14 hcp.) and an 18 hcp who shot an 80 in the morning round. On our third "9", I was 7 over, and won/tied 4 holes.

On plane with pp # 4 is the plan!!!!


Patrick