September 4, 2002

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Question Answer from Sensei Mark Anthony

I have your Tao of Golf video and have been doing the katas. I have also ordered your Body Golf video and book.
I have a bad habit of dramatically coming over the top and divorts are deep and point left of target. I get a pulled fade on longer clubs and with both and short clubs I am robbing myself of distance.
What in your process would be the best for me to spend the most time on in order to eliminate this ingrained bad habit? Thanks,

Larry
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Larry...
If you\'re coming over the top, you\'re probably \"trying\" too hard.
Here\'s what you want to do:
1. Go to the video and re-learn the \"3/4 Power Swings.\" This should help you get the \"kill it\" mentality out of your system. What I think you\'re doing is anticipating impact. Remember, let impact surprise you.
2. Do lots of swings with extra weight. In fact, the more, the better. Whether you do double club swings or get a couple of those weights to swing with. You\'re pulling the club through instead of swinging it. You have to SWING - not HIT. And also...swing without jerking into and out of the swing. Remember this. EASE into the swing and EASE out of the swing. The weighted swings should help. How many? You should go for a few hundred this week.

Hope that helps.

Sensei Mark


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Quick Golf Tips
Judging distance when putting

You must accelerate through a putt, so it is essential to have the correct length of backswing: on that is too long encourage you to decelerate into the ball, whereas one that is too short will make you use your hands to flick at it at the last minute. It is also important that you learn to strike the ball from the middle of the putter if you are to become adept with a fifteen foot putt. you hit it out of the heel and it pulls up well short of the hole. On the second green you have a similar length putt. Having been short on the first green you hit it a bit harder, but this time you strike it out of the middle green knowing no more about the pace of the greens than when you started, and are thoroughly confused.

Therefore, it is important to work on a good strike in developing your putting, rather than becoming too concerned initially about holing the putts. In fact, you might strike the putt well, but read it wrong-this tends to improve with experience. When I have a long putt, I always try to view it from the side, since this gives a better sense of the true distance. I stand with the ball on my right, halfway along the line and try to imagine the pace at which the ball will leave the putter in order to finish in or near the hole. I stand beside the ball and have a couple of practice putts looking at the hole, and imagining the ball rolling along the line into it. I then use the same strength putt to hit the ball. You may think that his routine is rather time consuming, but you can look at the putt while others are putting, or while you are walking onto the green.

Obviously, the longer you play, the easier it becomes to compute quickly how the pace and slope of the green, together with the length of the putt, determine how hard you should hit the ball, but this can only be calculated if you test how purely they strike a putt, or hey should hit long putts, where such imperfections are highlighted. On a three foot putt you may well get away with a putt not hit right out of the middle, since it has not far to travel, but a 30 footer out of the heel or toe will pull up well short of the target.
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From two subscribers

Richard, I want to thank you for your helpful pointers. I am happy to inform you that I have lowered my handicap five strokes in the last month. Usually I shoot 95/94, my last few rounds have been 86, 88, 85, 90, 90 and today 88. Thanks again. Rick Kennedy, New York.


Thank you for the series of lessons. I am a senior lady golfer
who is struggling to maintain my distance & accuracy even
though age has taken its toll. I think the tips you gave will help.
Lois Waller
Kingman Az
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The BOMB putt

There are so many experiences in a round of golf that keep you coming back for more. Some shots make you feel so good, you forget about the lousy ones you had been hitting for the previous two hours. That is why golf is a mental sport.

How many times have you stuck an iron shot on the green a long ways from the pin, and three putted or worse? We\'ve all done it. It\'s the, \"So close, so far\" syndrome.

Just hitting the green makes you feel good inside, but that feeling pales in comparison to draining that next putt or leaving yourself close enough for an easy two-putt. The problems for many arise when there is an expanse of green; say 30+ feet, before you get to the cup.

Two tips that can greatly improve your game are the \"manhole\" technique, and the \"rolling ball\" technique. Both techniques prepare you for the difficult long putt, and shelve those evil voices saying, \"THAT ball is too small to go THAT far into THAT cup.\"

The \"man-hole\" technique merely requires you to think of the pin as the center of a manhole cover. If you can get that 30 footer in the manhole, you have either sunk the putt or left yourself a great chance for a two putt.

The \"rolling ball\" technique trains you to regulate your club speed. First, concentrate on the hole without your putter. As you stand at your ball mark, pretend that you are going to try to roll the ball in the hole. As you make your motion, time the swing in your arm. Say, \"One,\" on your backstroke, and \"Two,\" on your release motion, keeping in mind all variables such as break and turf conditions. Repeat two or three times until that pace is set in your head. After you set your line and position yourself, use the same tempo with the backstroke and release of your putter.

Most golfers are aware that the short game is where you shave strokes. By making golf a mental game, maybe you can join that elite 10% of the world\'s golfers that shoot consistently below 90, if you are not already a member.

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Richard\'s Thoughts

Down here in the South, the summer sun shadows are cast deeper as the katydids suddenly go still. The day\'s lingering warmth, falls like a warm blanket through the woods and the fullness of the day whispers with sweet promise at the coolness of dusk. That is how I would describe this time of year here in Greenville, SC.

Late August here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the weather has cooled off, and it is just about perfect. Out on the course yesterday, you could feel the hint of autumn in the air. The leaves have that slight hint of changing to brilliant glows of autumn reds, oranges, yellows, and browns. Highs near 80 and lows in the 60s. Near perfect for golf, and almost anything else.

Eating is wonderful too as a large portion of our menu comes from the garden this time of year; tender lettuce, rich sweet onions and baby potatoes, corn so sweet it does not need to be cooked. Squash of all types, beans, peas, bell peppers, and of course luscious, most delicious tomatoes. (Like the song stated \"ain\'t but two things money can\'t buy...that\'s true love and home-grown tomatoes. :) This is a feast enjoyed on our open-air deck with the creek rushing below. Throw in a little corn bread and we have a wonderful afternoon meal.

In the evening we usually eat lightly. Ayurveda, the Indian science of health, shows us that we have three cycles twice a day (air2-6, water 6-10 and fire 10-2. The best time to eat our biggest meal is at the highest point of the fire (12 noon) when the digestive fires are most bright (noon). Then in the evening we eat lightly and early so the body can use the second fire cycle to burn up accumulated toxins from the day.

Here in the South, when it use to be all agricultural and just about everyone worked in the fields, just to survive, our fore-fathers always ate there largest meal in the middle of the day. Not always eating the healthiest, (alot of foods fried in pork fat, etc from the animals and produce raised on their farms) they had very little problems with being overweight, because they burned so many calories with physical labor, working in the fields. Then in the evening, they would eat a lighter meal before retiring for the night. Not like that any more in the South. People don\'t work like that any more; therefore we have to be careful of the calories we consume.

Now, my wife and I usually eat lightly in the evening. Often during the summer, our evening meal is a fruit pie. Judi and I sometimes whip up a wonderful blackberry cobbler, and this is not an unhealthy food if you don\'t overload it with sugar and white refined flour. Judi and I often have a nice piece of this cobbler instead of dinner. This is a great summer food and fits our diet perfectly.

We use half soy or protein powder and half flour for the crust and stevia (go to www.stevia.net) as a sweetener, you have a delicious, balanced, low calorie meal.

Keeping the caloric intake down is one of the most important things you can do for good health and longevity. This has been scientifically proven and an article by Dr. Mercola \"Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects\" explains why this may be fact. This article suggests that insulin is one of nature\'s great balancers. You can read this Dr. Marcola\'s article at www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/insulin.htm

Anyway back to the blackberries. Take fresh cleaned blackberries (we use the organic ones from the health food store, or go out to an organic farm and pick our own blue berry\'s or blackberries) and add a bit of stevia...it sweetens yet does not raise the blood sugar level. You can squeeze a bit of lime over them. Then add a crumble top, famous in England and Georgia! The crumble is made from equal parts of flour and protein powder with some organic milk to moisten. Cover the top of the blackberries with this mixture, and then add just a smidgen of mint tea (from the mint that grows wild in our yard) with this at day\'s end. It is a pleasant change.

Now what does all of this have to do with GOLF? A whole lot! Of course the better health we are in the better we can perform in our golf game, but also the better health we enjoy, the more we can enjoy our lives, work, family, etc. Like many, I am guilty of eating the wrong things, at the wrong time, in the wrong amounts. But just as in our golf, if we don\'t try to improve, if we don\'t try new things, if we don\'t practice more, if we don\'t try different methods, we are not going to improve. Of course, just as important as proper eating and diet, is a proper exercise program, that will be the subject of a future article.

We must have written goals. We must educate our selves and try new methods to improve all segments of our life. And like the man named Sharp said \"The Choice Is Yours\".

Until next week...good golfing.

Richard

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