June 25, 2003

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Quote of the week:


\"Don\'t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It\'s
the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.\"

Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American Industrialist and Philanthropist


Golf Quote of the week:

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
Tom Watson

Comment from subscriber:

Richard

I have been golfing about three years and usually shoot around 106. I recently purchased your Full Swing video and it has made a huge difference in my iron shots. In six weeks I have taken 14 strokes off my handicap. But I am still having trouble making decent shots with my driver and fairway woods. Can you offer me any helpful hints to work on to improve these clubs?

Thank you.

Bill


Bill,
Most all of us have trouble with the longer clubs at one time or another.

However, here is an idea that might help you.
You might be swinging too hard. Remember, the loft and length
of the longer clubs is what makes the ball go further, not you swinging
out of your shoes. Centrifugal force is what helps you hit the ball a
longer distance simply because the clubhead is further away from you.

Most people think they have to be like Tiger and swing from the
heels all of the time. The thing that these folks don\'t realize is that
Tiger has been playing golf under CONSTANT supervision for his
entire life.

Most of us are not Tiger\'s, so stop trying to be one.

Try this… With longer clubs, use the \"Three-quarter power swings\"
from the Full Swing Video. That should get you back on track to
your regular swing. The ¾ swings help you because they remove
the tension from your swing which will perfect your alignment,
increase clubhead speed and reduce your risk of hitting bad,
out-or-control shots.

Also do a lot of \"no peeks swings\" at the range. Doing No peeks
swings will get you from a results-oriented mindset to a
make-the-best-swing-possible mindset.
Forget about the ball and how its flying! Make a good swing
and the rest will take care of itself.

Let me know how you do.

Richard



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Good article from
Joe DeLorenzo

Do Balanced Golf Balls Really Help?

In theory, a balanced ball will go straighter on all
shots and putts than an unbalanced ball. To
illustrate, take a cheap volleyball and roll it, and
you will see that the ball will curve toward the side
that has the air-fill hole due to the extra weight
needed to support the hole. Golf balls however are
much better balanced than volleyballs, yet most golf
balls are not perfectly balanced. To prove this,
partially fill a small bucket with water and keep
adding salt until the golf balls float. Use a
waterproof permanent ink marking pen to put a spot on
the golf ball where it touches the surface. Then spin
the ball in the water and see if the same spot arrives
at the top. If it does, then the ball is not balanced
because the heaviest side of the ball will always face
down. I tried this with all of the balls in my bag
and none of them were balanced, several different
brands.

On the course, now that the ball is marked, the theory
says that you keep the mark along the plane of the
target line, and the ball should go straighter than if
the mark were sideways to the target line.

If you do not like getting the balls all wet, there is
another method using a small battery operated ball
spinning device called \"Check-Go\", available at many
golf shops for under $30. If there is a heavy spot
while the ball is spinning, that spot will work its
way to the equator of the spin if you let it spin for
several seconds. While it is spinning, you can
lightly touch the ball with a permanent ink marking
pen, and you will have the equator clearly marked to
line up your ball for all shots and putts. This also
is a good identifier for your ball on the course,
because most other players do not do this.

Wilson has advertised their \"True\" ball as being
perfectly balanced, so to test that, I put a few Trues
on the Check-Go device and marked the equator, and
then spun it again with the equator out of line, and
it worked its way back to the same equator, which
indicates to me that it is not really \"perfectly\"
balanced. Hmmm! Well, in all fairness to Wilson, the
balls may be better balanced, but nothing is perfect.
Could the extra ink along the equator make that much
difference? No, because I then put a fatter false
equator on the same ball, but the ball spun back again
to the true equator.

Then I wondered if the balance characteristics might
change after hitting the ball for a few rounds. The
results were, for all brands, that the equator arrived
at the same spot again, so hitting the ball did not
change its balance.

Any ball marked with the Check-Go equator, should
float in salt water with the equator mark straight up
and down. If that does not happen, maybe the ball is
closer to being perfectly balanced.

Have my scores improved since I began marking the golf
balls? Am I hitting the ball straighter? Are my wild
shots any less wild than they used to be? Unless you
swing with a consistency like Iron Byron, how can you
really tell? Am I making more putts? Are my missed
putts due to a bad read, or a bad stroke, or an
inconsistent putting surface? Any or all of those
factors are likely to be more significant than the
precise balance of a ball.

We humans are imperfect beings. All we can do is to
use as many factors to our advantage as possible.
Therefore, here is the real benefit. Marking and
lining up the balls to the target line not only helps
your alignment while standing over the ball, but also
lets you feel a little more confident, because you
just eliminated a potential balance variable, however
small it may be.

Joe DeLorenzo



Richard\'s Thoughts


I have told you about my friend Bruce Walker that I play with occasionally.
Bruce plays 3-4 rounds of golf per week, pretty much, 52 weeks a year.
He is retired and lives right on the course, therefore it is easy for him to
jump in the cart and start hitting the ball.

Up until last fall Bruce was shooting at his best in the mid-ninety\'s.
He purchased the Body Golf Video\'s last fall and saw immediate results.
Over the Spring, Bruce has been improving, and when I played with
him yesterday, he shot a 78!! Bruce swears that he will be shooting
par by the end of the summer. And at the rate he is going, I believe him.
Congratulations Bruce!

In talking with the pro over there, Roy Lane, he says he has never seen a mature golfer reduce his handicap like that. Manner of a fact, Roy gave me his credit card number and ordered himself a set of the videos.

Am I bragging? Yes sir, I sure am. I love it when someone buys my videos and uses them like they should, and does well with them. Manner of fact, Bruce promised me that he would send me a testimonial that I can put up on the site. When he does, I will publish it right here in this newsletter.

Enough bragging, here\'s this weeks thoughts:


Stress

Golf involves stress and at times, this stress can be detrimental to your game.
It may influence your behavior in negative ways and get you into a negative
thinking process, which only deters your skills. Remember that a certain
amount of stress is needed to facilitate your performance but too much stress
can manifest itself in negative ways. Players need to learn how to objectively
assess their levels of vulnerability to stress and how to set up appropriate
strategies to compensate them.

It is important to remember that the grandest quality of the true achiever
is persistence. This often means fighting off discouragement and difficult
times and in playing through slumps in performance.

There are several strategies that may be helpful in assisting you to maintain
a standard of confidence and a winning attitude. They are balance,
positive thinking, respect, vision, goal setting, commitment to continued
improvement, and character.

I will touch on each of these for you next week.

Until then…Good Golfing!!


Dr Richard Myers
www.thinkandreachpar.com

100 Gilderbrook Rd
Greenville, SC 29615

865.675.0038


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