[innercityteacher]

Thanks everyone! Thanks Lynn! As you can see, I am carrying extra weight and still, Lynn's simple Alignment-centered approach really worked well.

The fabulous golfer Lynn worked with on the range, not me, was tall and slender. I am not. Nevertheless, Lynn's expert eye and encyclopedic knowledge of G.O.L.F. allowed me to experience two hours of very powerful drills that each built on the other and covered all three zones!

Lynn is humble, funny and interesting as he moves a person along the Machine. The rest of today was spent simply practicing the MacDonald drills and programming the Computer to value Standard Address and Balance above all G.O.L.F. virtues. It is still startling to me how a little marching move with heels up in Balance, can Lag the club up on Plane and Down, Out, and Forward again at great speed.

Thanks Lynn, again.

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As Lynn reported, I was fortunate enough to watch two fine pros on the putting green hard at work. Lynn had laid out his dowels to form a guideline and right angle for a 6' and 12' putt. At one point, one of the pros had slammed in 4/5 putts from both ranges.

Easy? How would you do with an uphill left to right breaker?

As the putting lesson went on, the concepts of "Defining the Space," Speed, Rhythm, and the Computer were revealed. Imagine a practice putting green with only holes and no markers and you are there. Maybe your at St. Andrew's or Augusta. Maybe you are a golf coach or instructor or at a inter-club match and visiting this strange course.

("Maybe it's the First World. Maybe it's the Third World. Maybe it's your first time around." Paul Simon)

Anyway, Define the Space and your Computer, if you trust it, will program a certain Rhythm and if you trust it, a proper putting distance will flow out of you as if by magic. Imagine you are having a catch with your kids or anyone. You have never thrown a ball that exact distance and yet, you casually flip the ball in a relaxed fashion to that person! The Space was defined and your Computer produced a backward and forward pendulum.

On this imaginary green, define the distance by imagining an image at your target hole. Use anything, like the proverbial green "Aim Point" line. Define the space further. Maybe imagine a red brick wall dividing that line in two (high side from low side).

Use it on the whole course! Thanks guys!


ICT