The Impact Zone!

[BrianW]

Re: The Impact Zone!

Only popped in to report todays round but saw this thread as well. Tommy Armour in "How do play your best golf" talks about this to the effect that there is no actual difference other than the perception of "grace" in the swinger - both types (and I guess he excludes 100+ lungers from this) have the club head moving at the maximum speed consistent with balance at the point of impact.

Anyway, back to today; played two 18s, 88 in the morning, 87 in the afternoon, both just outside my PB of (86) and in both rounds putted like a muppet (34 ppr).

However the point of the practice rounds was to work on "angle of descent" in particular with the driver which has been causing me so much grief.

In two rounds I only hit one atrocious driver - and that on the 17th 2nd time round when I had realised that a PB was on the cards - now I wasn't splitting the fairway with laser precise 300 yard rockets but I was getting the ball away decently enough to play two consecutive rounds to 18 which is a first.

A couple of times I even felt the open & close occur quite naturally and this might be the key for those of us still struggling with the skills - maybe we should lean more towards "let it happen" than "make it happen".

Great Knock Robin. I have a game tomorrow, looks like nice weather

[ubizmo]

Re: The Impact Zone!

I am trying to keep this discussion away from 3 skills verbatim. I understand that you have some coordination issues Tod but I would also like to steer away from specific individual cases and look at a general scenario.

Then I guess the question is, given normal coordination and normal athletic ability, could a person focus only on the three skills and expect his or her swing to take care of itself? I think that's a question that could only be answered by conducting a fairly large-scale study.

It would be interesting to compare Joe Hagen's approach to that of Bobby Clampett in The Impact Zone, since that book (which I haven't read) also purports to address the fundamental of impact, rather than "swing styles."