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Not magic but pivotal! Just ‘Bread & Butter’ with some honey! It stands to reason that a ‘Proper Set Up’ with all your golf clubs is an ‘Essential Element’ on the road to success. For one to enjoy golf to its fullest, repetitive procedures matter. Might I keep this discussion sensibly simple?

What if we were to ‘Set-Up’ all our golf strikes, regardless of which club we are using, (Putter To Driver) using the same basic technique and sequence with small variations as required for precise mechanics or execution due to club length? All golf strikes are well-served establishing and maintaining a precise ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’ (BOSA). Worthy of mention … our general, one-handed Target lateral location ‘BOSA’ is directly under the Target Shoulder Socket. The central location is ‘Sternum or Spinal Column or Axis’. ‘Mid Collar Bone’ commonly efficient.

We dedicated, current and proficient pilots often accomplish flight tasks “Habitually” by using the ‘Flight Deck Autopilot’. The process includes defining needs and selecting tasking. Turn the knobs. Then press the appropriate buttons! Our autopilot is like a spare flight crew … highly beneficial to reduced workload in the real world!

In an alternative parlance, we need to learn how to get or make golf procedures ‘Subconscious - Habit’ rather like a ‘Human Auto-Pilot’. Good conditioning (training) definitely means reduced stress and minimized fear! Good performance attributes when sitting in the left seat or swinging a golf club right or left-handed are within your grasp so reach out!

If we can understand ‘The 5 Set-Ups and Mastering Golf Basics’, we will be able to make sound golf strikes. With proper preparation and conditioning, if we can make one great swing and golf shot, we can make them repeatedly! How about some great drives ‘On Demand’? You up for that? Your ‘555 Golf Team’, as we have done for thousands of clients over decades, can show you the light and the way! Simplicity rules! “I Drive As I Putt!” is realistic and sincere! A drive is really a very extended putt. You will soon get this human truth!

Think about the ‘Upper Body Machine’ (UBM - Shoulder Sockets, Upper Arms, Elbows, Forearms, Wrists, Hands and the actual Golf Club). We must very much control this ‘UBM’ major golf aspect or cooperative. The sibling aspect is, of course ‘The Lower Body Machine’ (LBM - Feet, Knees, Hips, Core Vertebral Column, Shoulders, Neck and Head’)

When Set-Up at either Address Ready or Impact Fix, ones ‘Lever Assembly Triangles’ (UBM) must be very ‘Quiet’ and nonmanipulative. You do not want overly active Shoulder Sockets, Elbows or Wrists’. (see ‘Primary Articulating Joints’ - PAJ) If this errant blight infects your golf swing, you shall be overly challenged in making on-line or on-target strikes. If you visualize your ball flight in your ‘Pre Shot Routine’, you might as well stop wasting your time and energy! ‘Probability Of Success’ (POS) shall just be a cancerous myth! If you are fortunate, it might just be a benign participation!

UBM PAJ movements directly bastardize ‘Club Face Aim and Clubhead Path’. Of course, so much for ‘Ball Flight Performance’. You and the 555 Team agree that the game is really about ‘A To B’ or relatively straight lines? Strive to see and feel them cooperatively evolve!

Ball Flight Shape

A bullet discharging from the muzzle of a rifle desires ‘Stability and Shape’. We have physical ways of affecting ‘Golf Ball Control’. We have learned how to utilize our important tools to specific outcomes.

In golf we want to control ‘Trajectory, Parabola and Shape’. This involves ‘Three Axis Spin Rate’. When we want to alter ‘Clubhead Behaviour’ to change ‘Ball Flight Outcome’, it is prudent to alter ‘The Clubhead’ (Aim & Path) first and singularly. “Keep It Simple! Simplicity Solves Complexity!”

All our ‘555 Family’ are knowledgeable as to the ‘5 Set-Ups’ (Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location & Alignment). You also know ‘The 5 Essential Elements’ (Clubface Aim, Clubhead Path, Clubhead Speed, Sweet Spot and Angle Of Attack (AOA). The primary objective herein is again ‘Spin-Rate Control’, which controls ‘Orbital Velocity’. ‘Clubface Aim At The Moment Of Separation’ is a primary skill!

A good place to begin this short discussion is to use a dictionary or Roget’s Thesaurus. The opposite to ‘Release’, to stay with the flavour, is perhaps to ‘Hold On’ or ‘Retain’. To accomplish a ‘Golf Swing Release’ one must avoid ‘Tension’. Tightness virtually anywhere in the ‘Golf Body and Mind’ will preclude or oppose ‘Release’. Skipping rocks demands ‘Release’.

How does one ‘Master Making An Efficient and dependable Golf Swing Release?’ For many golfers, the swing release is envisioned as difficult or marginally beyond the limit of accomplishment … just out of reach perhaps? Well, so too was making simple ‘Impact and Compression’ not too long ago! Be efficient and resolute! Understand and execute! “Exhale!”

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Desire, Honesty and an Open Mind

We cannot pretend our path to and through successful waypoints and plateaus along our life journey! Determine, define and walk the advancing walk! Progress is truly at hand. You are blessed and time will reveal how much!

In order to energize our golf life, one must actually ‘Prioritize Golf’. “Get Lucky” is always sadly in short supply! There are game plans and solutions.

For example, our ‘555 Golf Academy’ product known as ‘The 4 Lesson Series’ demands at least two 60 minute practice sessions between formal lessons … three is optimal. How many followers have adequate ‘Desire’ to walk this walk? There are mitigating factors and circumstances, but the actual achievements are often sadly below optimal!

It has been offered by a substantial number of instructional authorities that “A Faster Back & Up Swing Produces More Ball Speed and thus More Total or Net Carry & Roll Distance.”

We must recognize that simply striving for more ‘Clubhead and Ball Speed’ is a ‘Fool’s Formula’. It invites a more common than desired ‘Soft Tissue Collision’. Our ‘13 Primary Articulating Joints’ (PAJ) do not like negative torque or high velocity ‘Start, Stop and Go’. That ‘Human Musculo-Skeletal Train Wreck’ this sport medicine teacher has referred to in the past.

Swing Sequence #5 is the ‘Top Of Back & Up Swing’ (TOB), where our Clubhead Sweet Spot Velocity is ‘ZERO’. Simple direction-change demands and produces this ‘Potential and Kinetic Energy profile’ reality. (see ‘Transition’)

Golf is truly ‘Science Based’ and a matter of quite predictable ‘Physics’. The above formula stands for ‘Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration’.

Let us see if we can help it make sense?

‘FORCE’ is ‘Pressure In A Direction’. The Force Of Gravity Is Straight Down’. The Force Of Hitting A Baseball Is Horizontal’, yet it involves ‘Gravity’ as the bat ‘At Top Of Back & Up Swing (TOB) is above the ball or Strike Zone. Our bodies add ‘Rotational Push Pressure’ towards second base or somewhere out there!

We know what ‘=’ (equal) means. (see ‘Quotient’)

‘MASS’, in this case is ‘The Bat, the Ball and the Lever Assemblies’ plus the entire human body.

My ‘Airline Transport Pilot’ (ATP) discipline equips me and our 555 Team members to generally perform at higher and managed levels. This is quite simply knowledge combined with ‘Check-Listing’. Golf loves both! Might your ‘555 Team’ suggest that you start your round with 3 to 5 ‘Pars as a strategy? We must all “Settle Into A Dependable Groove”. With these pars accomplished, we can manifest an expectation of making ‘Putts’. A ‘Birdie’ might just arrive? The alternative is that “Here We Go Again!” train-wreck with desperation following.

If you do not have the blessing of a professional ‘Pre-Shot Routine’ enabling your ‘Settling Into A Groove’, the wheels may come off. “Damn! Here We Go Again!” Do you know that failing to develop that ‘Check List’ degrades you into being a frustrated, wandering ‘Tinkerer’? Trusted skill provides warm anticipation of the ‘Putting & Chipping Processes’.

Simplicity is always a primary ‘555 Golf’ goal along with just ‘Having Predictable Fun’.

You know our ‘8 Step Putting & Chipping Pre Shot Routine’. It is innovative, fresh, proven and ‘Bullet Proof’. This attitude and behaviour can stand the ‘Pressure of Play’. You also know that we start ‘Putting Set-Up’ by placing the golf ball directly on our ‘Brace Big Toe’ under the ‘Captain Eyes’. (see ‘Crying On The Ball’)

If this ‘Ball Location’ procedure works for ‘Putting’, why not for the teed-up driver and long-shafted ‘Fairway Metals’? You know we want an initially ascending ‘Driver Ball Flight’. This ‘Hitting Up On The Ball’ enjoys the benefits of being ‘Teed Forward’.

To make this ‘Putting Discipline’ part of or similar to our ‘Universal Putting Set-Up’ procedure, let’s start with the Driver Tee ball’s being placed directly on the ‘Target Big Toe’. We must always recognize that every ‘Forward Swing’ (DOFT) has and accomplishes a ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’ (BOSA). This is almost always directly below the ‘Target Clavicle or Collar Bone’. This ‘Clavicular Discipline’ is a keystone truth. Be aware and use it with dedication.