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The ‘Lever Assemblies’ are called ‘The Target Side and The Brace Side’. They are made up of very strict components … the Shoulder Sockets, the Upper Arms, Elbows, Forearms, Wrists, Hands and the actual Golf Club, which is part of the ‘Target Lever’.

What primarily do they do! What is their tasking?

The Target Lever has three specific jobs … 1) To Control The Clubhead, 2) To establish and maintain the ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’. (BOSA or Swing Radius – The Length Of The Dead Rope) and 3) to receive Pivot Pressure provided by the ‘Pectoralis’ against the ‘Biceps’.

The Brace Lever has specific jobs as well. They are 1) To provide stability to the Target or Swing Lever, (swing the Target Lever to the Top Of Back Swing (TOB) and hold. It will not be in a very stable configuration. It will easily fatigue!

As you well know, our ‘Putting Stroke’ is a ‘Stage 1 Procedure’ and requires ‘No Wrist Cock and No Pivot’. It is the simplest of ‘Push Basic Strokes’ wherein ‘The Brace Shoulder is the Up & Down Engine’. This is the ‘How & Why’ we refer to the ‘One Piece or Triangular Take-Away’. (see ‘Connected’) If we only had it permanently perfected!

We are well-served by using our ‘8 Step Putting & Chipping Pre-Shot Routine’. You know this!

All members of the ‘555 Golf Family’ know that ‘A Chip Is A Putt With A Hop’! Logically, a ‘Bump & Run’ is just a Chip with a longer ‘Back & Up Swing or Take Away’. (see ‘The Balsa Airplane Concept’ .. The Tip Of The Propeller Windes Up The Engine Rubber Band’. The ‘Brace Hand’ facilitates our very small ‘Accumulate, Load & Coil’)

Want to have some fun ‘Discovering Cause & Effect’? You can tinker with ‘Hitting Fat & Thin’. Do so deliberately! Set-Up perfectly in a manner that makes ‘Pure Strikes’.

Now, change one element or condition at a time and make a couple more swings. ‘Dropping your Tallish Chin’ in the Down, Out Forward & Through (DOFT) segment will cause ‘Fat Strikes’ … divots starting behind the ball! Observe the anticipated outcome differential for each deliberate error. Write notes!

With a perfect ‘Set-Up’ how can I deliberately ‘Hit Fat’ or behind the ball.

I am not going to ‘List’ every swing variable and error, just going to stimulate your ‘Tinkering’. It is more efficient for you to discover ‘Swing Error Cause & Effect’ than for me to write all about them! There are various discussions in our archives.

Here is just one key point you will benefit from.

To progress at a pace that will make you happy, you need …

1. Desire, Honesty and an Open Mind
2. Knowledge of some ‘Golf Ball Flight Laws
3. Knowledge of fundamental Mechanical needs
4. To know ‘The 5 Set-Ups’ (Posture Grip Stance Ball Location & Alignment)
5. To know ‘The 5 Essential Elements’ (Clubface Aim, Clubhead Path, Clubhead Speed Sweet Spot & Angle Of Attack (AoA).

Have you ever been in a boat and docked in calm conditions? It is not complicated and clearly manageable! Now add a ‘Strong Wind’ as well as a ‘Current’ as there will be in a river. Totally different situation, right?

‘Zero Wind Golf’ is benign! If you are a straight ball hitter (Minimal Curvature) ball striking at precise targets (Landing Points) is just ‘A To B Golf’. Go through your ‘Pre Shot Routine’. This will identify the ‘Intermediate and Far Targets’. If you have picked the optimal ‘Club Selection’ for ‘Distance’ you are a ‘Smiley Faced Golfer’ … lower scores and more fun!

Now add wind! To deal with this ‘Mother Nature’s Element’ we need to understand how a ‘Moving Fluid Air Mass’ actually behaves? Often not quite as one might perceive. It is fairly easy to determine how wind is behaving in your immediate vicinity, within 100 to 200 feet laterally and ‘Ground Level’ to 50 feet vertically.

What is “At ‘15’ Inches"?

All you ‘555 Round Table Members’ know that we have three ‘Ocular Targets’. (VRBP #1, #2 & #3).

What are these ‘Three Ocular Targets’?

1. The first ‘Ocular Target’ is the ‘Ballistic Point’ on the Bottom Inside Cheek (BIC) of the ball. How precise is our ‘Focus’? Look at ‘One Dimple’ and not at an area of the ball. You will, of course, have properly marked your golf balls with our ‘555 Golf Line and two (2) red dots. If we want to get and be precise, we must utilize our ‘5 Set-Ups’ and have a dedicated ‘Pre-Shot Routine’. (PSR) Aim Small … Score Small!

DETAILS … DEVIL and the DEEP BLUE SEA
How many variations is enough?

How many ‘Shades Of Gray’ are there? Reminds me of the movie title ‘50 Shades Of Gray’. Now to ‘Golf’. I have a point your ‘555 Team’ refers to as ‘Just A Simple Game Of Numbers’!

Perfect #7 Iron (my 150-160 stick with an average ‘Pivot Pressure’) … Perfect ‘5 Set-Ups’ (Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location & Alignment) … perfectly balanced strike profile and force … it is a ‘Green Light 155 Yard Golf Shot’ … ‘A One or two Hop Stopper’ into ‘The 5, 10 or 15 Foot Landing Circle’!

If you were ‘Iron Byron’, you would not have ‘50 Shades Of Gray’, but one! Your ‘Consistency’ would be off the charts … ten (10) balls on a babies blanket … ‘One Putt Opportunities’?

PUTTING & CHIPPING
To Get Better, You Have To Improve At A Task!

This ‘555 Work Smart Formula’ demands a ‘Game Plan’ that is applied consistently, with some regular dedication! Don’t leave home without ‘IT’! ‘Perfect Practise Makes Permanent’. “Wishing & Hoping” won’t improve your performance, scores and happiness?

A little basic information … ‘A Chip is a Putt with a Hop!’ This ‘Hop’ is created with the ‘Factory Loft’ and not with any manipulation!

Here are 9 tangible ‘Putting & Chipping Tasks’ for YOU.

Your ‘555 Team’ is always thinking about terms like ‘The State Of Our Energy Realm’. Are we in the ‘Active & Passive’ or ‘Static & Dynamic’ modes? Are we increasing or decreasing our ‘Energy Level’? Are we ‘Accelerating or Decelerating’ … going faster or slower?

Our entire ‘Golf Swing’ is about ‘Components & Procedures’ … Parts and their Purpose.

When this writer views the golf swing, especially with today’s very common, hyperactive ‘HSVC’ (High Speed Video Capture) whereby we can view ‘The Real-Life Sum Of The Parts’, he is observing the ‘Going & Stopping Relationship’ of the ‘Components & Procedures’. If something is ‘Accelerating’, another part is relatively ‘Decelerating’. (see ‘Basic Newtonian Laws of Physics’)

For a moment, please consider or recall our ‘Power Line Delivery Sequence’ … Accumulate, Load, Store, Deliver & Release’ or ‘ALSDR’. This is very much about ‘Going & Stopping’.

We are benefitted by knowing how difficult our golf courses are on a consistent local, regional, national and international scale. The operative word is ‘Consistent’! It is good to know how we played in Scotland, Canada or in the neighbouring county and community compared with on a similar pitch?

If you look at your score card to the left side of the ‘Set Of Tees’ you will be playing … back/longer more difficult and front/shorter a bit easier … you will see two numbers.

They might look like ’72.4 / 136’. The ‘136’ is referred to as ‘The Slope’ or the difficulty of these 18 holes when compared to the global perspective. This ‘Slope’ ranges from 55 to 155 in even whole numbers. 120 is about the average. Until we know this ‘General Broad Rating’, we do not really know how difficult the course is compared to other courses.