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Chapter One

Are you available?.

Hitting a golf ball well is “hard” if you don’t know something that you do need to know.

How we’ll be going about learning and doing.

Chapter Two

How Things Work.

     and how we learn, therefore establishing the order of the information here 

Separate assignments.

How Homo sapiens functions in a universe of mass, space, and force 

 

Chapter Three

What are you going to talk about, George?.

Your FedEx Box just arrived.

General overview.

There’s lots of ways to swing a club.  Look at all the different swings on tour!

Imprecision and insufficiency

There is no “try”.

The power of what’s in your mind.

Anatomical realities and other brick walls that do not move for you 

Am I even able to be a good golfer?.

What about golf injuries.

Chapter Four

Specifically, what’s next?.

Why, it’s your very first golf lesson, Joe

Details and specifications of our golfclub swinging machine 

Centrifugal force.

Starting position.

The forward press.

The backswing.

“Learning yourself”.

The Transition.

The Downswing.

The Release and Rollover

Chapter Five

The Follow Through.

Your follow through is the answer sheet

Faults Revealed By After-The Fact Observation.

A Review of This Routine and Its Purpose.

Chapter Six.

The Right Hand.

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

Best friend or worst enemy.

Contributions available from the right wrist

How your right hand can sabotage your swing.

About a violent backswing.

About the grip.

Throwing from the top.

 

Chapter Seven.

Holdups, Hangups and Other Enemies

The ‘hit instinct’

Action of the Hands During Rollover

The heresy of the flat left wrist

Teaching problems.

Cause vs. effect

Position teaching.

The power of words.

Stinkin’ thinkin’

Why do you disagree with everyone else, Hibbard?

Chapter Eight

Some more details,

(clearing up some more misperceptions)

About your grip.

The grip of the left hand on the club.

The grip of the right hand on the club.

How the two hands fit each other

The action  of the right hand into the ball

The completed grip as seen from different positions.

Coming “over-the-top”.

More about the wrists bending for the load-up.

Where the “hinge” of the golf club is located.

Aligning the club face for straight ball flight

The path of the club.

The illusion of “from inside to on-line to inside”.

The arms and shoulders of the golfer

The torso.

The shoulders throw the arms.

Gravity Golf

How the body will turn.

The forward press.

Maintaining stability.

Proceeding with your swing: the transition.

Chapter Nine

Some important informations, i.e.,

“critical details”.

Low point

So where DO we put the ball?.

Pullaway: a geometry lesson.

Slack.

Divots – the skinny.

A note about trial and error

About differences in clubs and conditions.

Chapter Ten.

Potpourri and other helpful necessaries

You learn how to swing by swinging.

Posture: the arms hang and the body tilts.

Practicing YOUR swing correctly.

Golf balls getting hit with this swing.

Am I “on plane?”.

The gyroscope effect

Practical help about swing plane.

The shoulders.

Shoulder turn.

2. Shoulder heave.

3. Maximizing the heave.

4. Shoulder action as response to intention.

A golf lesson from an unrelated television special

Installing machine parts into your swing.

Chapter Eleven.

Tempo and Rhythm.

Otherwise referred to as pace and timing.

Gravity again.

What IS Tempo.

Some physics.

Transitions.

Managing your motion.

Counting out1

Sensitivity to gravity.

Handling the stroke.

The critical nature of rhythm for the short game.

How to find your natural pace.

The “quiet top”.

Clubhead speed and timing.

Distance control

Chapter Twelve

How to hit the ball with your practice swing

Oops.  Wrong premise. We don’t hit the ball!

It’s about right thinking.

The reasons we cannot

Failure to understand the process.

A drill to eliminate anxiety.

Failure to profit from feedback.

Micro-adjusting is handled for you.

How to learn yourself with this drill

Mis-hits are gifts.

Misdirected shots.

The right golf clubs.

The necessity for a “decent working practice swing”.

EYEGLASSES.

The secret of the eyes for golf precision.

All the other reasons for mis-hitting.

 

Chapter Thirteen.

Putting

A sensible approach.

Aiming.

Distance control

Reading greens.

Calibration.

Slope.

Here’s the secret to handling slope.

Next on our list: Practicing putting.

Testing, and servicing your putting machine.

Your swing center

Ball position.

Priorities.

Path?.

The need of a perfect stance?.

Making a perfect stroke?.

The “straight back straight through” technique?.

The necessity for sweet spot impact?.

Your preference: one hand, two hands, left hand low

Choosing a putter

Your check list

Club head design.

Summary regarding loft

How to set up for putting, finally.

The manner of stroke.

The execution of your stroke.

Our friend, Walt Kelly.

Which leads to trust

Putting FACTS, putting PREFERENCES.

Your measured backstroke MUST BE TRUSTED...

Chapter Fourteen.

Chipping, Pitching, and Shots to the Green.

Scoring low.

Calibration.

Aiming carefully pays off

Summary.

 

Chapter Fifteen.

How to Practice

A golf swing is a dynamic reaction.

Practicing drills.

WHAT you should do in practice.

 

Conclusion.

What this little manual presumes to do.

 

 

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