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Our entire ‘Golf Body Machines’ (Human Machines in general, bone and soft tissue) enjoy broad spectrum stability, even while just walking. That is ‘Minimal Variables & Balance’!

Think of all the ‘Components & Procedures’ we each own ... especially the ‘Primary Articulating Joints’ (PAJs) They all tend to ‘Bending & Straightening’ in harmony or unison with getting both ‘Longer & Shorter’. Hundreds of parts doing this all at the same time is magical!

I try to watch all the golf events that show the warm-up and practice sessions. It is wonderful to see all those expected ‘Minimized Variables’. A fleeting and capricious endeavour!

We have ‘5 Alignment Axes’ that are ‘Primary Articulating Joint Oriented’ (PAJ). They are 1) Ankles, 2) Knees, 3) Hips, 4) Shoulders and 5) Ears. You will give this ‘Golf Teacher’ a little latitude herein, right? No ‘Ear Joints’ to date!

The ‘Primary Clubhead Path Controlling Axis’ is the Shoulders. A reason for this physiological reality is that the Shoulder Sockets are ‘Proximal’ or closest to the ‘Controlling Hands’. Those Ankles are some distance afar! (8 PAJs away - considerable moving parts to get errant)

If your axes are ‘Open To The Target Line’ for any reason, you still must swing along your Shoulder Axis. (Body Line) A quick glance at your Foot Line will serve as a guide for Set-Up adjustment. (see ‘Stance & Alignment’) Stance includes ‘Target Foot Flair and Width’. Your ‘Ground Stick will clarify ‘Alignment’. Use it to evaluate variables!

If you compromise your fundamentals, you shall invariably reduce ‘Clubhead Speed’ and thus your ‘Distance’. (and ‘Directional Control Elements’) Your ‘555 Team’ refers to this ‘Speed Loss’ as ‘Energy Erosion’. (see ‘Power Leakage’)

Similar deficiencies are Clubhead and Clubshaft being ‘Above Ideal Plane, Outside In Path and Over The Top’. ‘Casting’ produces challenges! The underhanded steelhead trout cast and bowling are good experiences. Master it! Think hitting power is generated in the ‘Bottom Half Of The Swing Circle’! (see ‘Bend & Straighten’)

Errant Clubhead Path generates ‘Negative Ball Flight Outcomes’. There is no point in knowingly tolerating ‘Negative Outcomes’. Sooner than later there is an ongoing ‘Train Wreck’!

We have all watched tournament competition on TV and in person. It really looks like a battle or 18 hole ‘Grind’. It really is but not primarily between combatants! It is a battle between the man or woman and the golf course. The challenge is against the golf course and ‘Old Man Par’. It can be looked upon as a war of attrition against Par. If it is a four day tournament, mistakes on day one often create a sting on Sunday’s last hole and the player‘s total. You cannot win it on the first few holes but you certainly can lose it early!

To maintain golf’s reputation of being ‘A Gentleman’s Game’ the ‘Handicap System’ was created long ago. If one can play to the course published Par (i.e. 72 strokes to get around the 18 holes), one is deemed to have played to Par, to a ‘Zero Handicap’ or to ‘Scratch’.

Firstly, the “Target Heel” is a part on the ‘Target Swing Side’ of our body.

When Mr. Nicklaus (The Golden Bear) was at the ‘Tob Of Backswing’ (TOB - Swing Sequence #5) his ‘Target Heel’ was lifted above or off the ground. What did this accomplish? It slightly extended his ‘Range Of Motion’. (ROM - The distance his Hands could move relevant to his feet … Brace Hand Travel Distance - ‘BHTD’)

Put yet another way, Jack’s ‘Swing Circle or Clubhead Travel Distance’ (‘CHTD’) would increase. This tended to increase his Clubhead Speed and Distance. If we can keep everything under ‘Pivot and Swing Control’, the same benefit would be ours as a result of ‘Lifting Our Target Heel’.

If you are not ‘Failing’
You are not trying!

What percentage of your golf strike attempts, Putting To Driver, are less than ideal or expected … deficient in ‘Outcome’? One is rewarded by focusing on ‘The Process’.

Even if you are not a formal ‘Student Of The Game’ (without lessons) just by being both logical and aware of your ‘Set-Up’ and accomplished ‘Ball Flight Line and Shape’, by performing a ‘Pre and Post Shot Routine’, you shall improve and have more fun. (see ‘The 5 Set-Ups’ - Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location and Alignment’)

Our “Around Force” refers to ‘Pivot Engine Rotational Force’. (see ‘Spinal Action’) Our Hip & Shoulder Alignment Axes are recognized correctly as ‘Around Force Elements’. (see ‘Horizontal Pressure’)(see ‘Round & Round’)

An underlying objective in making a successful golf swing is getting the ‘Sweet Spot’ onto the ‘Bottom Inside Cheek’ (BIC - Red Dot) at BOSA. (‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’)(see ‘Timing’)

The Clubhead travels ‘Back & Up in the Back Swing (Brace Side’) and Down & Out in the Front Swing’. It involves what your ‘555 Team’ refers to as the ‘Bend & Straighten Action’. (see ‘Up & Down’)(see ‘Primary Articulating Joints’ [PAJ] - Wrist, Elbow and Shoulder)

All our global ‘555 Round Table Family’ likely knows what the ‘Rapid Fire Drill’ is? Firstly, it is NOT too rapid … just fluid and repetitive. Warm up before you go to work with this drill! Set-up for a very normal #8 Iron strike. A couple inches farther away from your feet (Stance Sternal Pivot Center), set up another golf ball. Add six more for a total of 8 in the line.

You can come to a stop between the balls but, once you are in the groove, say your ‘Trigger Words’ (“Sweep & See It”) making a solid strike with your “See It” words. Total drill duration will be about 20 to 35 seconds. You will ‘Step In’ at each ‘Top Of Front Swing’ with your ‘Off-Loaded Brace Foot. Learn this sequence in ‘Slow Motion’ first.

To add a little ‘Ocular Acuity’ nutrition, set up 8 more golf balls, not in a line, but in random location is what will be about a ‘3 Foot Circle’.

You know our ‘5 Set-Ups’ (PGSBA) and ‘5 Essential Elements’ (CCCSA). They are your ‘555 Team’s Bread and Butter’! Try to make a great sandwich without these ten foundational ingredients! Rhetorical?

The baseline science and physics of Golf is ‘Compression and Line Of Compression’. What the heck does that mean? Hitting the ball solidly in a direction where you want it to end up! Prey tell, how do we manage that feat? We have to do it the ‘Old Fashioned Way’. We must earn it!

Let’s Keep It Simple?

A: Master One Golf Club … Your Putter First

New golfers must initially learn the generic golf swing … small to big. One can quickly improve on the driving range and golf course by just swinging one club for most of your current strikes and practice routine. For example ‘One Clubbers’ might play nine (9) complete holes with the #8 Iron. That means ‘Putting, Chipping, Bump & Run, Punch, Pitch and Full Swing’ with it! If you make your ‘Dance Floor’ strike or stroke ‘Thin’ it will perform acceptably end over end and find the bottom of the cup. This novel approach to mastering your golf game is FUN. Try it!

The goal of golf is to move the little, white golf ball a distance until you ‘Hole Out’. You need not keep score. Just play the hole as it unfolds for you! As you improve, add one more club and keep working. In this ‘Progressive Manner’ you shall comfortably get to your Driver.