Listen For That Solid Shot

Janet

Glad to see back. Exhaustion is not a bad thing as long as you enjoyed yourself. Well... at least til you got to the WK part...lol. No apologies needed here. We'll support whatever you decide to do. Doc has put up with the same runaround nonsense for months so nobody will blame you.

Your offer to WK is more than fair so stick to your guns. If you decide to do this, please take a friend along. Preferably. A large ill-tempered one.

LynnF

I'm posting up here because there's no way I can respond to WK's latest comments about me directly underneath them (no "reply" button).

WK - Please stop bandying my name about. I had no intention of responding to you ever again, but you insist on twisting everything around. You have a very selective memory about what has occurred. You state in a recent post that you invited me to come down to Stadium yesterday and I didn't show up, inferring that I'm all talk and no action. Re-read your posts from yesterday. I said let me know when I can come and see you hit 300 yards. When I checked the blog much later, I saw you responded by saying "I'm on my way there now." That was not an invitation to come and see you. I'm sick and tired of you twisting everything I say (or anyone else here, for that matter) to suit your own purposes. You're a name-dropping-know-it-all doofus and seriously disturbed. Stop it NOW.

BP:

My late father was a Gemini and he could change his mind and attitude in a micro second - very changeable.

t:

Janet can always put her own club head on this shaft. With Janet we have the perfect means to test Doc's ideas. You seem unwiling to see a true head to head competition with the best Doc can do vs my fitter's club. Why is that? A head to head true competition is the best answer. Solves everything.

Dick,
I'm not getting to do much of anything but Matt is planning on staying down and turkey hunting either next Sunday or the one after. I try to get home and spend time with Josh, who is sick today, poor boy got a touch of a bug. There's nothing that will break your heart as you hear your 5 yr. old son cry out, "Don't let me Die!" as your holding him above the trash can as he is wrenching his guts out this morning. He had a fever most of the day but it finally has broken and he is asleep on the couch as the wife is watching television.
Okay, I'm almost finished updating and need to go spend some time with the darling bride now that Josh seems settled.
Happy week and God Bless you all,
Boog

Janet

Play with who?? Thomas Edison. Last time I checked he was no longer with us?

LynnF

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Janet:

I know the feeling -- I oncec played a round with a woman who possessed the greates short game I have every witnessed. Never hit a drive over 150 yards, on the perfect line to the green - but form the edge of the green to about 90 or 100 yards - everything took once bounce and rolled up to the hole - she "kissed the pin" on at least 8 or 9 hoels -- 2 of them fell in for birdies, the others were in the 6 to 18 inch range. She wound up shooting a 68 -- and beating the "best ball" of us three male players by about 10 strokes. Talk about humilation! LOL

Golf is not "all about distance" -- ACCURACY is at least as important as "raw distance". Granted that driving distance makes scoring easier - but only if you in the fairway most of the time. However, Phil the Thrill may be the exception to that rule.

Keep hitting them STRAIGHT and LONG

Amos

JS,
Do you swing vertical?

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You know I know exactly what they are going through, Dick. Back in 64-66 I only saw my Dad for two weeks. He was on Okinawa in 64 when his outfit was the first fighting Unit moved into 'Nam after almost finishing their deployment in Okinawa. Then again in the early 70s when he once again was there as the last fighting unit in country. I'll keep the whole family in my thoughts and prayers.

Great round, Dick! May there be many more like it.

Lynn

Being a music history major, I can say this with complete confidence. As Jerry Reed said in his song, " When you are hot, you are hot." Oh, never mind, I already went over that. Thanks Doc. At least you were out there, and you were playing golf. I did not get to hit one ball today. This working experiment is just not working out for me. Sounds like you had a good start on both sides. I don't mind playing in the cold. Dad and I played several times during the winter in the 40s. When it is that cold, because of my back and shoulders, I just can't play with much wind. It cuts right through me. The game that dad and I played last week, they were calling for I think 10-15 and we ended up with like 20-30 with gusts of 40. I told dad that I moved out of Florida to get away from the hurricanes. Then I come to Oklahoma and have to play golf in one. Being the glass is half full kind of guy, at least it was not cold that day.

As to your last comment, let me say this. As I write this, I am working on a helping of incredible short cake covered in fresh cut and juiced strawberries which have all been smothered in enough cool whip to clog up a jet engine. This was served to me by my loving wife along with a good night kiss.

Damn man, I have got it all going on over here.

Keeping it vertical, and stuffing my face, in Oklahoma
Dick

So WK, are you going to accept Janet's simple request to meet at a driving range so that you can prove that you can hit the ball 300 yards with your "magic material shaft"? Or are you going to continue to come back with, "well, call my buddy, you know, the one with the two hip replacements", or "first you need to talk to my fitness buddy", or "your driver is built by my fitter buddy and ready for you." All of your claims are a joke and all of your "buddies" probably don't even exist, along with this magic shaft material. Provide some solid proof, you know, NAMES where people can verify your claims and maybe, just maybe, you won't sound like a loon every time you post something on this blog.

Put up or shut up.

Mike, I've got a good drill for this. Get an alignment rod or any kind of long stick and put it on your toeline with at least a couple of feet sticking out behind your back foot. When you swing back and turn until your left arm (assuming you are a righty) is over the toeline, then lift straight up the tree, your left arm should be covering the stick, and you should not be able to see it. If you can see it, you have let your left arm angle back (and are probably crushing that cigarette pack in your pocket). Covering up that stick will get your arms away from your body.

to Janet:

As to:
" Here's my offer -- if the driver your fitter has built doesn't get me at least 25 additional yards, I'll pay you $150 and you'll be able to brag to everyone here that your miracle shaft beat Doc's and I'll have a new driver from Doc for $150."

Very fair. I accept. However there won't be a Doc driver for you if my fitter gets beaten by jb51, We need to test him out to see what he is made of as a fitter just like I see a need to test out what Doc says against the outside world of reality - other fitters. It is very easy to engage in group think and go along with the crowd, Classic study on that on how JFK messed up at the Bay of Pigs and Castro still runs Cuba. Everyone just went along and nodded their heads and no one questioned why it was being done, how it should be done etc.

Thanks Doc!

Janet: If you see this, remember, you are dealing with a man that has no oxygen going to his brain, by his own admission, and he is an idiot. I agree 100% with Steve and T. Medley that Billy is not well. If he won't participate on your terms, he is hiding something which none of us want to get involved with. Run away - fast. Be careful. R2

Wow, I forgot TEF could sing. I just remembered him from episodes of "I Love Lucy" where he played goofy Cousin Ernie.

Janet

So, let me get this straight. You went out into the desert, spent three days playing golf and drinking beer, and now you have come too you senses about the little troll. Good for you. Hope you had a killer time. You owe no one any sort of apology. You were just trying to make it easy for the little troll to show us his magic shaft. You have got to be plumb worn out from all the twisting and turning he has put you through. Now you have a little better idea of what Doc and the other guys the little troll has played with have gone through.

You have given him your intentions. Go have a great week. If he is still wiggling out of his previous offer to you, let it go. I invite you to join the rest of us and totally ignore the little troll.

In a lot of southern areas (I don't know if the folks up north do this too) we used to have a contest at county fairs and such occasions. There was a big fenced in area. Everyone in the contest was inside the fence. They would turn loose a pig that was small, fast, and covered in grease. The idea was to catch and hang on to the pig. You can imagine how hard that was to do. Well, I suggest to you all that the little troll is in fact the little pig. He runs around squealing at the top of his lungs, he is next to impossible to pen down, and everyone who comes into contact with him is left with nothing but a big mess to clean up and feeling slimy.

Welcome back
We look forward to seeing you post here often
Dick

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Bill K -

I will reveal nothing about your fitter or anyone or anything else. Heck, I don't even know what kind of shaft I have on my own driver except that it's gray.

Let's make this simple. Just call my # and leave a message stating where and when I can pick up the club. I'll try it on my own. Afterwards I'll give it back to you, if that's what you want. Maybe I'll have one of my female golf partners try it out, too. You and I don't have to even meet. Trust me -- if the club turns out to do for me what you say it will, I'll be on here telling everyone about it.

As for meeting your fitness buddy, I have no desire unless he's single and rich and generous and good looking and it's for dinner and cocktails.
JanetM

Dad was a Gemini and he's a chameleon.

Dick

I enjoyed hearing about your 78 almost as much as you did shooting it. My low is a 75 about 9 years ago and haven't come close since. I don't remember missing a fairway and made every putt in sight. I cut the dogleg of a par 5 by going over trees and hit the green in 2 and made the eagle putt. I was too new to the game to realize I wasn't supposed to be able to do that...lol. It hasn't happened since.

These are the things that keep us coming back. I'm lucky to get to that green in 3 now, but for that one time I was in a zone and the golf gods smiled on me. It's almost like some supernatural power takes over and you're along for the ride, so I know how you feel. As for you ever breaking 70, well who's to say? It may never happen, but it sure is going to be fun trying. I think sometimes I have to be careful about focusing too much on the goal and forgetting to enjoy the ride getting there.

I'm getting all philosofical here..must be that second brownie. Not sure the weather is cooperating this week, but I'm going to try to go and a lose a couple tomorrow. Anyway, headed to bed smiling about your day.

LynnF

Boog

I knew you would understand, being part of the Marine family. Since 1775 the Corps has been the same. First in and last out. The last US service member to lose their life in Nam was a Marine. As we say, "Old Corps, New Corps, as long as its the Marine Corps." I often think that the family members have a harder job than those of us serving.

Thanks for your prayers. I will surely return the favor.

Dick

The last time I recognized what a good shot sounded like, I was hitting a persimmon driver!

One of my drivers is an Adams Speedline Draw. It makes a terrific sound when striking the ball, almost like a gunshot.

Hit'em Long and Straight,
Bob

JanetM:

I emailed your info over to my fitter about an hour ago and your new driver is waiting for you ... it is already built and ready for you to give it a test drive. It is made out of this new material that I use.

Hi Don:

I don’t know if you saw the “Pre-Game Show” on the Golf Channel, just prior to the start of the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but Brandel Chamblee did a side-by-side swing comparison of Martin Laird and Jack Nicklaus. His main points were that (1) both golfers used a “flying right elbow,” (2) that using a flying right elbow is a great way to play golf, and that (3) you can’t get “stuck” (ala Tiger when he’s swinging poorly) using a flying right elbow. He also showed footage of J.K. Choi and mentioned that he swings with a “floating right elbow.” It all sounded like it’s right from the Swing Surgeon Playbook.

Now – on to my question. I’ve been working diligently for the last four months to convert from a rotational golf swing to a Surge Swing. I’ve watched and re-watched all of your videos, worked my way through all the information on your web site, and read and re-read your manual. Although things are going fairly well, I’m having a problem with not crushing the imaginary packs of cigarettes in my shirt pockets. More specifically, throughout my swing I can usually get enough separation with my right arm (I’m a right-handed golfer) that I could put a fist into my right arm pit, but the inside of my left arm (bicep) stays attached to my rib cage. Trying to lift my left arm away from my rib cage disrupts my swing and makes me feel out of balance. Although I am hitting the ball better than ever with my current version of the Surge Swing, I tend to hit slightly behind the ball at times. I’m wondering if this is due to my attached left arm? Could this be the problem? Are there any drills I can do to get to the point at which I could put a fist into my left armpit during my swing and not crush the cigarettes?

Many thanks.

Mike Radzicki