Well I tried it. I strutted into Gold’s gym at 0530 this morning with my 7 iron in hand and went up to the yoga room, which is has wall to wall mirrors, and proceeded at my attempt to make it through Chuck’s 300 slow motion golf swings. I was only able to make it
“300 Workout” – Best Golf Lesson I’ve Ever Given Myself
I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen the movie “300″ but those guys were put through a grueling workout to get themselves into the phenomenal physical conditioning they were in to play the part of the Spartans. A couple men’s health magazines put together some workouts called the “300 Challenge”. I’ve kind of done the
Day 2 Progress – Rotary Swing 2.0
A lot more work poured into my swing today, I’m beat, mentally and physically. It’s tiring working so hard on changing a golf swing and rewards often come in only small doses. Today’s rewards were small, nice straight ball flight, decent speed and I’m getting closer to some positions that I wish to achieve, but
Clubhead Speed Prediction
Is it too early in the race to make a prediction? Given how far out they start calling the President victory, I think this will be ok. After my work over the past couple days with Alison, my own work on the range and some more in the studio tonight, I have made a prediction
120 mph average clubhead speed
Last year when I did the “Bomb Your Driver” research with McChicken from the forum, I spent 3 months hitting nothing but drivers. By the end, we had discovered the perfect driver shafts, heads and launch conditions and I could regularly hit 330-340 yard bombs. After a while, I decided it would be helpful if
Day 1 Progress Report – RS2 Swing Changes
Tiger Woods took 2 years to feel fully comfortable with his swing changes under Hank Haney and Tiger works much more on his swing than I do, so I’m going to keep that in mind as I make these changes. In all, I have a dozen or so changes I’d like to make and I’m
Lesson Learned…I am a Mental Midget….
Well my journey to greatness hit a little bump in the road yesterday. I had my first poor round in a couple weeks…shot 86 (gave myself a bogey on the last hole because we didn’t finish too dark). Thing is I really did not hit the ball bad but the biggest disappointment was that I
Many ways, but only one biomechanically correct way to swing the club
In my estimation, I’d say there are atleast 8 valid, complete golf swing models out there that someone could take from beginning to end and successfully strike a golf ball. But there is only one way to biomechanically use the body as it was designed to function. Of course, my preference is for my students
Everything is Ship Shape
and just in time for the end of the season. I belong to a group of golfers known as the ‘snow bound’. Few options exist for us. Escape to the sunny south. Difficult without means, and timing is often everything. If you can only escape for a week, the middle of January is a horrible
Tiger Woods Rotary Hitter Release – Throwing the Right Hand
Tiger Woods swing through impact is the absolute ideal model for the Rotary Hitter. No one demonstrates a better free-wheeling throwing motion of the right hand and clubhead than Tiger. In this swing sequence, you can see how, like a Rotary Swinger, the clubhead works left after impact, but does so because of the release
Sugarloaf Mountain Named 10th Best New Club in US
Sugarloaf Mountain, home of the Rotary Swing Golf Academy, was named the number 1 new golf course in Florida and number 10 in the country by GolfWeek! The impressive elevation changes and great architectural vision of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore have created a very playable and fun track with numerous options for shots off
Do You Believe in Miracles?
Posted on 13 October 2008 I do now!!! Well I don’t know where to start…I guess I can say that it is a good thing that I listened to Ray and changed the name of this blog from 12 months to greatness to journey to greatness because it only took 4 days Quick background…I
Leggo my EGO!
When I wrote this I was done. I had no confidence and was utterly embarrassed to hit a ball in front of anyone. So posting my sequence for all to see was a very big first step for me. Posted 9 October 2008 This is the most difficult thing I have done in a long
Down and Out
I am copying all my posts from the blog section in the forum over to here. This is how the journey started… 9 October 2008 For the last 2 years I have been playing some really good golf. Shooting mainly in the low 80′s to mid 70′s mainly from the blue tees mixing the tips
The Transition – Working with a Student
I was giving a lesson to a student and good friend, Ed Mylett, yesterday and it was very timely that I had just put out the video on the bump transition because that is exactly what we worked on in his swing. In the screen capture below you will see his swing on the left
