February 19, 2003

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How A Bona-Fide \"Hacker\" Turned A 40 Handicap into an 8 in
one season with two simple swing drills and can show you
his secret in minutes. \"It\'s so simple, it\'s embarrassing,\" he says \"and he INSISTS he can quickly teach his simple secret to you\" and show you how easy it is to swing a golf club, and add up to 70 accurate yards to every tee shot you hit for the rest of your life.
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Quote of the week:

\"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a
home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.\"
Melody Beattie
Author


Golf Quote of the week:

My ex-wife has never broken 150. I wish she would stop telling people I taught her how to play golf.
Bruce Lansky


Question for Sensei Mark Anthony:


Mark:
Somewhere in this letter there is a mention of double clubs. What are
they. Also why don\'t they have training clubs like they have training wheels
on bikes or double runners on ice skates?
Dick Learned

Dick,
Great question!
Here\'s my answer. The double-clubber exercise is simply an emulation of swinging an old time \"lawnmower\" sickle. Here\'s how to do them.

Be patient because I\'ve included an excerpt from the Body Golf book.
In fact, you may want to print this out...

Body Golf Excerpt:
Copyright, 2002 Mark Anthony Montaquila

Begin with the set-up posture as described in the last section. Hold two clubs in a baseball grip. Start swinging the clubs in a rocking motion with your shoulders. (Remember, the Base Movement) Hint: begin with a small swing and build up to a 3/4 swing. (More on the 3/4 swing later.) Keep your chin off of your chest! Your left shoulder should fit right under the chin. The secret here is to keep the movement going like a dance. Don\'t stop to reset it! You\'ll feel the weight of the extra club pull you up fully on to your left side. Make sure that:

A) You\'re doing a toe drag at the end of the swing
B) You\'re finishing very high with your hands.You’ll feel your left leg “lock out” at the end of the swing. Don’t worry. This is completely natural.
C) Be sure to keep the right knee bent during your backswing!

Do as many of these as you like. The more repetitions that you do, the faster you\'ll burn this movement in to muscle memory. It won\'t take long, believe me. After doing this drill, it only took yours truly a minute to know how the swing was supposed to feel. After that, all I did was put a ball in the way and do this exercise. It flew straight and true.

Later on, we’ll put a ball in the way of this swing and I think you’ll be quite surprised at the results. However, if you are focused on hitting the ball instead of swinging, you\'ll never be consistent. Your swing will end at the ball whether you are aware of it or not.Make sure that you swing, NOT hit. If you swing, your body will know instinctively what to do. With this drill, you\'ve just taught your body how to swing correctly! After doing the last exercise enough times, you should never need to think about mechanics again. In fact, whenever you get a little off and start slicing or hooking, just do this exercise. It should put you back on track. It works for me every time.

Critical Point.You must avoid jerking the clubs in and out of the swing at all costs! What people usually do with this exercise is rush it. What you need to remember is this. As you reach the apex or your backswing, ease into the downswing and ease out of the thru-swing. If you jerk the club in any way during the swing, you’ll be guaranteed to have every shot different from the last. Jerking the club will throw off your alignment and could even cause you an injury.

WHEW!!!! How’s that for a respond?! Let me catch my breath for a sec...Ok thanks.

One more thing OK? Pretend you are cutting long grass with a sickle. (Hehe, maybe I should\'ve said that from the get-go huh? Oh well...)

THATS THE MOTION! CUTTING GRASS WITH THE SICKLE!
Take care, good luck and get back to us.
Sensei Mark



How A Bona-Fide \"Hacker\" Turned A 40 Handicap into an 8 in
one season with two simple swing drills and can show you
his secret in minutes. \"It\'s so simple, it\'s embarrassing,\" he says \"and he INSISTS he can quickly teach his simple secret to you\" and show you how easy it is to swing a golf club, and add up to 70 accurate yards to every tee shot you hit for the rest of your life.
www.thinkandreachpar.com/tarp/bodygolf.htm



Comments from subscribers:


Your newsletter is becoming repetitive and boring. You are constantly trying
to push the same products over and over again.
If the newsletter doesn\'t change I am going to unsubscribe.
Sincerely,
Salomon Ojalvo


I\'m new to receiving you news letter. I like the tips offered. I suspect
one of these days I will be ordering a instructional tape. Just wanted to
offer a suggestion re: putting you may want to try if you haven\'t, and pass
on if you feel it is note worthy.

Recently, while I was practicing my putting, I was experiencing difficulty in
keeping alignment during the swing after being very careful to see that I was
aligned to begin with as I addressed the ball. Normally, I don\'t ground the
putter except perhaps during strong gusty wind conditions. I noticed that
for some reason or other I had started grounding the putter, and sliding it
back to begin the back stroke. As I did this, I found myself leaning forward
and slightly losing my balance. This I found was throwing my alignment off.
If a golfer grounds his putter in his set up, he should lift it and be sure
he is on balance before starting the back swing.

Best ever and good golfing, Bob



Reading the \"The Becoming Golfer, by Patrick Riley\" it worries me a bit to
hear about constantly changing your swing and trying the next swing trainer.
He also gave the example of Tiger Woods. But I think you should consider
Mike Weir\'s recent comment about starting to play well after a long stretch
of \"slump\" if I may call it that. He said the problem he had was that he was
looking for perfection and that actually destroyed his game! He stopped
doing that he\'s having a great start in 2003.

I think it\'s important to find a swing that works for you and stick with it.
Then just make minor changes to keep your swing in check and to keep any bad
habits from creeping in.
Just my 2 cents,
Thanks,
Yared


I agree with you Yared, but you also have to consider that 90% of all golfers never break 90. If someone isn’t breaking 90, I don’t think they can screw their swing up. And I also think they should keep trying different swings until they find one that will work for them. Of course, I know a great swing video that will help that 90% of them, if they would really give it a try.
Richard




Good Rules and Bad Rules
By
Joe DeLorenzo

Every sport needs rules to assure fair competition.
Good rules are intended to assure that skill is
rewarded and deliberate cheating is penalized. The
logic of some rules is questionable, but most any
dispute can be settled by the KEY QUESTIONS, which are
\"Was there any unfair advantage gained by an
unintentional minor violation?\", and \"Did this have
anything to do with skill?\". In other words, there is
a difference between the spirit of the law and the
letter of the law. The spirit of the law calls for
sportsmanship, the letter of the law, without
considering the context, is for lemmings incapable of
rational thought. Here are some examples:

Golf - A back issue of Sports Illustrated tells a
story of a guy in Arizona leading a local tournament
by 5 strokes. While walking up the last fairway,
victory assured, his young son runs up to him and he
lets the kid carry his putter up to the green, what a
thrill for the kid, right? As a result, the guy is
disqualified for having more than one caddy. Now read
the KEY QUESTIONS again, and you will have to admit
that there was no unfair advantage gained, and this
had nothing to do with skill, so the incident should
have been waved off, and in the interest of good
sportsmanship, the 2nd place player should have
insisted on waving it off. Instead, the ruling stood,
which means if you want to be a good lemming, you have
to follow all the other lemmings and jump off the
cliff into the sea because it is the rule if you want
to be a real lemming. I hope the poor kid does not
carry a scar for the rest of his life because local
officials did not have the guts to overrule this minor
unintentional infraction that had no bearing on the
competition.

Golf - Dan Forsman’s caddie was only trying to help
when he stopped a ball from rolling into a bunker
while Brett Quigley was taking a free drop due to a
plugged lie. The rule says after 2 drops that roll
away, you are allowed to place the ball, so the caddie
was just trying to save time. The result was a
penalty for caddie interference. So I guess you are
supposed to just let the ball roll and disappear into
a water hazard as well and lose 2 more balls to avoid
a penalty. Now read the KEY QUESTIONS again, and you
will have to admit that there was no unfair advantage
gained, and this had nothing to do with skill, so the
incident should have been waved off, unless of course,
the official is a lemming.

Golf is not alone when it comes to stupid rules, here
are some examples:

Basketball - A dribbler makes a good move and dribbles
past a defender to attempt a layup. The defender
prevents the layup by fouling the dribbler before the
shot. Hello, a foul is an illegal move, that\'s why it
is called a foul. So you can make an illegal move to
legally stop a shooter from making a basket. Hockey
has the right idea, allow play to continue until the
offense loses possession, then halt play for the foul.
Another example for basketball would be a defender
who braces for impact of an aggressive drive to the
basket, and the defender gets called for the foul
because she/he was not standing perfectly still.
Hello, who initiated the contact? Wasn’t that the way
the rule was originally written?

Hockey - A skillful puck handler weaves thru the
defense, only to get his body legally blasted by a
bigger stronger player. Where is the skill or finesse
in that? However, the fans seem to like that, and it
is a business, so when it comes to selling tickets,
what do I know? Soccer has the right idea, use yellow
cards and red cards for dangerous play.

Soccer – On a penalty kick, which is almost an
automatic goal, the goalie is not allowed to move too
soon, so as the kick is being made, the goalie has to
guess whether or not to dive to the left or right.
For pete’s sake, somebody change this stupid rule and
let the goalie have a chance by allowing her/him to
move sooner.

Football - You can legally hit a person hard enough to
knock off his helmet, but a penalty is called if a
player removes his helmet away from the play but
before the play is over. Just to be consistent (?),
the rule for pass interference is waved off if the
ball is deemed not catchable. Hello, the guy who
removed his helmet was nowhere near the play, so why
is that any different than the pass interference rule?

Golf and Football - The Raiders apparently beat the
Patriots in the playoffs to get to the Super Bowl.
However, upon further review, the obvious fumble is
ruled not to be a fumble, and the Patriots go to the
Super Bowl instead. Roberto DeVicenzo apparently
beats everyone in the Masters but there was an error
on the scorecard, not in his favor, so he was not
trying to cheat. In the name of rewarding skill, if
Roberto had gotten the same courtesy of a “further
review”, he obviously would have had his winning score
corrected, because the whole world saw the true score.
Roberto, to me you are a Masters Champion. For those
who do not think so, read the KEY QUESTIONS again and
then decide if you are a thinking human being or a
good lemming. (Oh boy, the purists are going to get
me for that one. Go ahead, let me have it!).

Bowling – Despite limited space on the ball rack,
bowlers who are successful because they can throw a
big nasty hook are allowed to change balls to shoot at
spares. Golf has the right idea. You cannot change
balls on the putting green just because the green is
too fast or too slow for you.

Local officials should have the right to wave off
certain rules when the KEY QUESTIONS justify the
situation. It’s all about fairness and rewarding
skill. Just because some rules are traditional rules,
that does not automatically mean they are good rules.
Hey, there are lots of examples of strange rulings in
all sports, especially golf. If you have heard some
of them, send them in and let\'s have some fun debating
them.

Joe DeLorenzo







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Things You Should and Shouldn’t Do on the Golf Course
by
Mac Stevenson
Always Do
* When you’re playing faster than the group ahead of you and they are courteous enough to let your foursome play through, put everything you do--chipping, putting, score keeping, and moving to next tee--into high gear. Nothing is more irritating than letting a group play through and then have some jerk take forever to line up a short putt. Thank them profusely, get off the green, and hit your next tee shots quickly. And then move out and get out of their way.
* Always let faster players go through unless the course is so crowded there is no place for them to go. Sometimes that’s the case, and then it’s just going to be a slow day for everyone because there’s one slow group on the course.
* Invite players who don’t have a game to join your group. If you know a player won’t do anything to ruin your day, don’t leave him standing by himself on the putting clock when you have room. This is touchy if it’s someone you don’t know; a guy that’s too slow or totally unskilled can ruin the day and you’re under no obligation to have him join your group. It’s no sin to ask him his handicap before you decide whether or not to include him. But, when possible, use some common sense and kindness in making this decision.
* Always make tee times in advance when possible. That makes it easier for the people running the pro shop and managing the course. Some courses require a starting time, but not all. It’s just a courtesy to all concerned to make a tee time when possible.
Never Do
* Be careful about too much needling of an opponent when he’s having a bad day. Remember, the same man that can make you laugh can make you cry.
* When you win a bet, don’t do a lot of gloating in the locker room. The guy you beat probably feels bad enough. It’s the easiest thing in the world to be a gracious winner. Being a good loser can be a bit more difficult.
* Don’t whisper or talk while other players are hitting full shots or putting. This can be very disconcerting to most players and it’s just being inconsiderate and rude. You don’t have to work your mouth every moment you’re on the golf course.
* Never drop a hint that you want a press bet. Don’t say something like this: “You’re out Howard, you gonna press or are we playing just for fun?” If your opponent wants to press, he’ll let you know without any prodding from you. And when you break this rule, you’ll usually make the guy mad enough that he’ll whip your tail on the press.
* When a player in your group is having a great day, don’t start that old, tired banter of asking him how he stands with par. Or what’s the lowest round he’s ever shot. If you do, it will probably work and he’ll mess up his great round. But why not try and encourage him to finish his exceptional round in style. It might cost you a buck or two, but it’s a thrill he’ll remember for a long time.
* Kidding is a lot of the fun on the golf course and there’s nothing wrong with it. Unless it gets too personal. The needle can become too sharp and what should be fun can turn into something entirely different. Never kid a fellow player about his job or his family. Keep it light and in good taste.
* Don’t hit a shot when you’re uncomfortable with it. That doesn’t mean to imitate the slow tour players and take forever over each shot. But how many times have you felt uncomfortable over a full shot or putt for some inexplicable reason, and then gone ahead and hit it? And you do it with the feeling that you’re going to miss the shot. This doesn’t happen often during a round, but when some seemingly insignificant idiosyncrasy is bothering you, step away from the shot and start over.

I think you have gotten your money’s worth in this issue, so I will leave it at that!
Good luck, and until next week…good golfing.

Dr. Richard C Myers

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