[Theodan]

You can see some great stuff in these pics. Check the Right Forearm right on Plane. Look at how anchored he is as Yoda has advised. The right heel is still on the ground. You can see the Level Bent condition of the Right Wrist, the point of the RFFW. Check out the Tripod. Head is centered between the feet. No perverted axis tilt. Shoulders are pretty level.

You can have an Open stance line but still have a Plane Line that is Square to the Line of Flight. Don't have the book at work. But it's in there for sure.

I think I heard somewhere that he learned to swing in his house. He couldn't take it all the way back to End because he would bust right through his roof. You gotta love this geometry.

Yes. That is why I captured those particular frames. I posted them months ago on another board (I think I did here too) as a retort to the ubiquitous query that "If TGM is the right approach, then why don't any of the pros do it?" My counterpoint being that Doyle's swing is not assembly line looking, but his swing is representative of a mastery of Homer Kelley's core competencies (Imperatives, Essentials, Flying Wedges, Magic of the Right Forearm etc). And he basically beat the daylights out of everybody in his age group in GA from 1978, till he turned pro at age 48 (circa 1995).

I use the Square-Open (10-5-B) for my mid to short irons. Can't do it for the longer clubs, because I end up on my toes. Go figure. Work in progress, I'd like to come up with a standard guide line for all.

As a teen he practiced his swing in MA. Long winter seasons and a low ceiling generated that swing. He had misgivings about turning pro, because he saw the pop swings of the local lions and on the Nationwide. Taking a local sage pro into his confidence, he couldn't figure his swing standing up to theirs. "Yeah, but none of them can beat you."

The guy can get up and down from a landfill in the next zipcode.

Late night prattling,

Charlie