DJ Reports from the Arnold Palmer Invitational

Janet, Maybe a video camera, it would be nice to finally get a look at WK and his swing that produces these 300yd drives. It would also be nice to see his VERTICAL swing with the longer shaft. I'm betting it will look more rotational than vertical. I just wish he had enough confidence to have put something on UTube by now. Even Bin Laden makes videos, and we're trying to find and kill him.

Great shot, DJ. Stuck a wedge to 1'10" on #10. Keep it up.

Good luck this week DJ. The putts are gunna fall, I can feel it!

Janet

If plan A does not work out, you can always fall back on plan B. We want a video of that too, if it comes to that. This could be like 48 hours or something. We could send Dog-The-Bounty-Hunter with you.

Dick

Dick

I just don't understand sometimes. There are funny things we say and do that they just don't find any humor in, go figure. BTW...old dogs, contrary to popular opinion, CAN and do learn new tricks. I may have a few and with the snow time to dream up a few more.

Lynn

Bruce--another thought came to me. Have you ever been in a slump in a aport, like a shooting slump, a hitting slump, a serving slump, etc? A lot of people tell me that they stay confident and try to hit their way out of the slump, that eventually, they'll start hitting again. On the other hand, I know athletes that tel me that they tried this but it didn't work. They couldn't hit their way out. They had to figure their way out. The benefit of the latter--they tell me that when they get out, they come out stronger than when they went it because they learned things about themselves that the didn't know going in. Hitting your way out seems to be faster--score one for that if you can do it.

One time at a tennis tournament, a 12 year old gal asked her friend, "How do I beat the #1 seed?" Her friend said, "Easy, just hit winners." From what I know, it doesn't work that way except for the truly gifGlxxted. Hmmmm, DJ is probably one of the truly gifted, so maybe your way will work. Glad we're having this conversation. I'm learning.

As to:
Second, I can't comment on the Mississippi kids because you present your data in an iffy manner. Anyway, SAT scores are crude predictors of academic success. Any certified college counselor will tell you that, but SAT scores are very good predictors of other college performance variables (I taught college for 36 years).

If these kids are mostly not even taking the SAT then the point is that even fewer will go to college. if you have ways to motivate kids via sports tell me more. When I was doing my VR/American history project I could see real fast that as soon as the kids hit puberty they turned off input from parents and teachers. So I figure those who like sports can still be reached. Kevin Johnson, former Sun and mayor of Sacramento was on C-Span yesterday discussing charter schools and how to generate improvement in low performing communities.

>The Ryan Leaf story has been told before. It makes interesting small talk, but it is most interesting in hind-sight is 20-20 talk.

When zero of a type is ever successful as an NFL quarterback I would say that is a good predictor.

>By the way--it is hard to determine a person's personality type by simple observations.

Vic says his buddy can figure out all 4 letters within 2 minutes or less of meeting a person.

My daughter thought I was cheating because my score was a virtual identical match to her own. What a cool kid she is!

>The problem is this--if I know that many of the things you cite about personality type are partially true but not totally true, what about the other stuff?

Have you heard of something called "fuzzy logic" - reasoning between zero and one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

if you take a bite out of an apple is it still and apple or not an apple.

I put my clothes in the clothes dryer to dry them. Then I take them out when they are dry. So what is it in the lint filter?

>So, I’ll be following the grant you pointed us to, and so far, it seems that it is mostly medical, related to parkinson’s disease with small portions devoted to general learning. I reviewed research proposals and manuscripts for reviewed publications, so I'm comfortable reading research abstracts and trying to see what they are trying to conclude.

I talked to the guy who runs the Autism Foundation on this and he was ready to pop for a grant. He sees it as a way to map actual brain function.

Also check out:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/p...

Molest Conviction Unravels Gene Pioneer's Life
By Jennifer Kahn 09.25.07

The celebrated career of French Anderson collapsed suddenly in July 2004.

The deal is to understand the principles behind signal propagation in the brain and link that back into gene therapy. Anderson was headed in that direction until his legal problems.

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Good luck, Deej! We are all in your corner. The putts will start falling! Remain patient -- we are! Again, good luck.

I wonder how Vic Braden concluded that ENTPs have trouble turning? ENTPs have very flexible minds and can "turn on a dime," figuratively speaking. In fact, I would expect that research would show that ENTPs and ENFPs could turn on a dime more than any of the other 16 MBTI types. I would say that ISTJs and ISFJs would have the most trouble turning, not because they can't, but because they wouldn't want to. I also can't see why having an ENTP personality would explain why a person would collapse at the Masters or any other big tournament. Personality type is a preference; it doesn't pre-determine or determine behavior.

I am close to an ENTP personality type, my brother is an ENTP personality type, I have coached several ENTP tennis players, and almost all of them are quite willing to turn. One can't, but he says that it is because his dad was an alchoholic and had to grow up faster and shed his ENTP outward behaviors. So, if he has trouble turning, it isn't because he is an ENTP but because he wasn't allowed to grow up as an ENTP. In fact, now that I think about it, I believe that ENTPs want to turn too much and must control this desire.

You must mean something else. It is often dangerous to cite personality type as causes of behavior unless you are certified to do so (I am). You also have to look at the sample size of the data that was used to determine that a particular personality type (not a particular person of that type) will do a particular thing or exhibit a particular behavior. For one thing, the relationship beteen personality type is relational, not causal, and it is only probabilistic.

Having done research in MBTI personality type for about 25 years, I can provide an arm's length of papers on effects of personality type on learning and behavior. I'm willing to debate this. I've been invited to give talks on this to coaches of high school tennis teams and at national conferences of applications of the MBTI, in sports in my case.

Dick,

Thanks. I am using the Dave Pelz Almost 3 balls - foam rubber with a solid core. They don't break too much. However, if you look closely at the right taillight of the silver Caddie ... That was before the Surge Swing when I couldn't get the ball up in the air. Now, they go so high, I've got all this rain here in Alabama.

Kevin

Bkelso52--I hope your peptalk is something DJ can use, but for me, DJ's manner of talking on today's video was ok. I saw it as a guy trying to figure out something, doing some reflective thinking, talking to his family. For awhile, it sounded like he was talking to me, one-on-one, using me as a sounding board.

I know that your approach works, so I hope DJ gains something from it, but when I read the first few lines, I didn't know where you were coming from. By the time I got to the end, I knew, and I thought you did fine. I just hope that DJ reads it in the best way possible as he heads into the weekend.

Has anyone become fed up enough with WK to quit reading these blogs? Just some food for thought - Could WK be trying to drive people away from Surge's website and blog? Possibly because Surge goes against everything WK has ever been taught about golf and if he were to agree that Surge is right, he would have to go back on everything he has based his golf existence on. Just something to think about. I have a friend who has suffered from this for quite a few years.

Peace, Janet,

WK is not worth it. Just do what you can and do not fret yourself over his idiocy. If you manage to work out a meeting with this guy, great. We can all finally find out the truth. If not, don't waste your time. I think you would agree, as would Doc, that 18 posts to try to get through to him, is 17 too many. You have way more patience than I do. I would have already sent someone to take care of him ;-P

Kevin

Dick
Looks like you had a geat day. I did too, if you like building snowmen...lol. I know old Al is a close personal friend, so could you ask him to send me some global warming please. If I can break 100 on a course I've never seen it's a good day, you were lights out in my book. Remind me not to challenge you any time soon...lol.

I'm on Dad's side in this fight. I can no longer compete in the distance race so I have to use treachery and a short game to git er done. Like they say "Don't pick a fight with an old man that only owns one gun, he probably knows how to use it...lol.

I saw your post about the country song.."I'll just be sittin here cleanin my gun". My youngest daughter has 3 girls. one 4 going on 24, and twins just over a year. We were discussing just how much fun their teen years were going to be and she jokingly mentioned that my son-in-law figured he have to get a gun and just sit cleaning it when any boy came over. That song was exactly the one I told her to pass along to him as his new theme song.

Hope you get some golf in tomorrow as we are in for MORE S... tonight. It's a four letter word for a reason.

LynnF

I understand why stories like the one about Vic and the Korean accountant would be interesting, but it is still a guess. Knowing type only increases the odds of being right. One time, I was plaing a tennis match in a tournament, and my opponent had clearly defined mechanics that demonstrated type. After deducing his type from his mechanics, I could predict his strategy, then looking at this tennis close, I could deduce his occupation among two or three possibilities. Then I could generalize and tell him what kind of car he drove, but only two two different cars. Type isn't that predictable. He laughed and said, "I didn't have a chance, did I?" Of course, I have also been wrong before, but I usually only tell of my success stories. We all do. One time, I was making predictions of people in a Psychology of Coaching class at my university based on their type. When I got to one guy, who was an INFP, I was stumped. I couldn't figure out why he was in that class. I said he should be in art class, and the class roared in laughter. I thought they were laughing at me, but they were laughing at how accurate I was. They said his book back was full of his art. So, art is who he was; physical education is what he did. Great lesson in life. Type does not limit what you can do. If you knew my type, you would say that I should never know this stuff.

Have to agree with Golfcat. Actually I have read about aimpoint and that may be good advice for any of us to look into. But really you lose credability when you make statements about DJ's distance. He was 6th today(with over 2/3's of those already finished). Surges putting advice is all spot on by the way. I have both putting programs and have seen excellent over-all improvement in my putting. There are several super putting drills I have used from Surge and Jack that are helping see more putts go in.
Your whole back and forth with Doc Griffin has been somewhat entertaining and sometimes pathetic. But really, you're going to find very little (perhaps zero) respect for your suggestions if you say dumb things about his long game.

DJ, it's snowing on my parade today so here's hoping the sun shines on yours.

Charlie

I hope you can get a picture of the kind of man dad is. Ever since Kelly Jo and I got married dad and mom have treated me like their own. We really like each other. I never got to play golf with my father. I joined the Marine Corps when I was 17. I got out of the Corps in Jacksonville Florida. I stayed in Florida for 35 years until I moved out here to Oklahoma last July. I was able to go home a lot and got to spend a lot of quality time with him, but he did not play golf. I wish we could have played. He was a great athlete. I am sure he would have been great at it. He passed at 87 1/2 years. He still walked a mile and a quarter every morning right up till the day before he went to be with our Lord. He was a Pentecostal preacher for his whole adult life. He set the compass for my life. I have to live my life the right way, because I want very much to spend eternity with him. As much fun and as good for us as it is, golf will certainly have to be available in Heaven. I bet I will be able to shoot better there, as I know my scores down here are from hell.

Sounds like your dad was the kind of man we would all be well off to pattern our lives after. My new dad out here is probably 5-08 and if he is lucky he weighs 140. I was afraid he was going to blow away while we were playing yesterday.

You are so right with your last paragraph. I stayed away from home to long and missed the chance to be around my father more before he passed. Kelly Jo's day is almost 76 years old. I told her a couple of years ago to move back here to spend time with her parents. We moved her up here in Oct of 2009. Then last year I closed my business down in Florida and moved up here. I am glad we did. The people are wonderful and down to earth.

Hope you get that dance with you mom. You both deserve it.

Dick

Dick

I got the video out to Doc today and a little snowbird told me he has a secret supply of pixie dust. Soooo, I'm looking for 30 more yards when the "Magic" driver arrives. Don't tell anyone though because eveyone will want one.

Lynn

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As to>Sorry, I can't help you there. I don't see why he would need to bring a club along

Doc has already agreed. Why you want to run cover for him beats me. I want to see whose driver goes farther with the same guy swing the club.

D. J.
Your right in the hunt, keep listening to your Dad and stay in the hunt. We are all proud of your play. Just keep up the good work, and our best wishes.
Joe

Charlie

He did not study personality issues. He is a personality issue.

Dick

Dragonhead

I am glad I caught your post before I hit the rack.

You know I love that song. That was back when you could understand what they were saying in a song.

I learned a long time ago, don't mess with women in a fight. They don't fight fair.

I grew up dragging guns around before I could even pick them up. The first time I shot a 12 ga. shotgun, it knocked me right on my butt. I always thought everyone knew how to shoot, until I got to boot camp. I learned that most people did not know the first thing about guns and how to use them. I scored high shooter for my battalion. I got a free set of dress blues for my trouble. The captain asked me where I learned to shot like that. I said "That wasn't sir, that thing wasn't even running through the woods or shooting back. I loved the military because they would give me all the ammo I wanted, and all kinds of cool stuff to shoot. I was blessed to be able to shot long range rifles in the Corps and I served as my department's range officer and sniper for several years. I love shooting almost as much as golf. Sorry Surge. Lucky for me, I play golf a lot more than I shoot now a days. I used to have a T shirt with a skull with a bullet hole in the forehead and it said ".308 holes make perfect souls." The chief asked me not to wear it around the station anymore. He said it did not send the right message to citizens. I said it was sending exactly the message I was trying to send.

Out here in Ok you will find people out in the country with a par 3 hole in their yards, right next to their pistol range. Is this a great place or what? This country is loaded with real people. Not like the beltway area around the capital. If we were ever going to give this nation an enema (or how ever you spell it, spell check could not fix it this time), that is where the hose would go. See why I love it out here so much?

Don't ever sell yourself short for having been a medic. There are a lot of real tough guys that would not still be alive if it weren't for the medics and Navy corpsmen. If anyone ever messes with a corpsman or medic when the Marines are around they better be ready to get a whipping. We love our corpsmen. Corpsmen are the only non Marines allowed to be full members of the Marine Corps League. Guess that should tell you how important they are to us.

I also love the song about the over the road trucker. It goes "Six days on the road, and I am going to make it home tonight."

Well you old war dog, I am dragging my tired old butt to the rack since it is dark and I can't hit any balls. Talk with you later.

Keeping it vertical, and in the bulls-eye, in Oklahoma
Dick

Hi, Dick, I hope I'm not embarassing one of my golfing friends by relating a story that goes along your Beetle Bailey story--we were playing at his course, where they have a gal driving a snack cart round and round. They also have a gal on the grounds crew who drives her work cart with rakes and water casks on the same route. He got them confused and flagged down the worker gal to get something. We all laughed. I'm sure that the grounds crew gal was confused by all this.

Dick

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

LynnF

You may want to look into some sort of ankle brace, or maybe you can find high-top golf shoes. ;-) The left ankle is a tough one, as it makes you hesitant about the weight shift in the Forward Upswing.

If you happen to have a glass sliding door somewhere on your house, it can function as a mirror. That's what I use all the time for actual swing practice.

Dick

Big NASCAR fan, huh? That didn't surprise me. I was SHOCKED...lol. You and my wife...she hates Kyle and loves Carl...lol. Me, you guessed it, I like the ol guy, Mark Martin. You are right, golf and racing are alike in that you hang in there keep plugging along. Now if you'll get rid of my snow I could become a fair weather fan.

LynnF

He ignores the ones that he can't dodge - Dodge, twist, ignore or smokescreen are his trademark

Not a bad idea! (I mean, videotaping WK and his swing -- not finding and killing him.)

Robert Meade--sorry for the late reply. I didn't quite feel up to turning on the commputer, but I feel as good today as I did when I was released from the hospital. Trying real hard to stay upbeat, positive, and happy, and hlep my immune system help the antibiotics fight the infection. I'll be back from time to time.

N/A

Dragonhead

I have fired the British .303, and the Springfield .308. Either one of those rifles would kill a deer on either end. Those almost straight stocks made them kick like a mule.

Dick

Lynn

I know what you mean. Sometimes I shoot off what I think is going to be a great funny line and as soon as it is said out loud I can tell by the look on her face, I have just stepped in IT.

My father used to say "Son, it is ok to have an unexpressed thought." I should have listened to him better.

I get cabin fever real quick. I don't do well penned in. I am an outdoor guy. When I can't ride my Harley or play golf I feel couped up. I can get myself in trouble real easy when I get bored. I usually think of something "dumb" to get into.
Dick

I'm not a psychologist, nothing that sophisticated. I spent 25 years in the golf business from the pro shop; grounds maintenance; certified golf course superintendent; director of golf at the Champaign County Forest Preserve District & MBA. I loved the business and still love the game.

Probably a fat chance that DJ will even see the post. I just hope he is thrilled to be able to do what he's doing. I've listened to interviews in the past by people like Payne Stewart who was in a "slump" for a long while. I think it was after the birth of one of his kids that apparently triggered something within him to make him relax and enjoy the game more, enjoy life more. That "trigger" is sometimes related to the activity and sometimes not. But you've got to keep looking.

Personally, I developed the yips, and was contemplating quitting cuz I couldn't score. I told my wife that I'd be spending a lot more time at home on the weekends to which she replied "have you tried one of those long putters???" I didn't know whether she was trying to be helpful or keep me out of the house on the weekends. But the bottom line here is that I kept trying different types; long, belly, saw grip, pencil grip, claw. You name it, I've tried it. And now I've got something that works. It works well enough that I'll be playing in the senior division in the Ilinois State Amateur this year, if my Handicap stays at 2. I'm confident that it will if not go down. I'm gonna have fun doing it though.

Confidently yours,

Bruce

Janet:

I forwarded this message to my fitter and he is wondering if you are serious about wanting more distance.

Ok guys, here is my after action report from our game today. It was just dad and I for the game.

We played at one of our favorite courses. They have a north and south course. We usually play the north course. I have only played the south course once since I got out here, until today. The other time was about a month and a half ago. I shot a 97 the first time, and dad kicked my butt. Today was a much different story. Today I think I drowned the pigeon. As usual the weather man completely missed the wind. They were calling for a mild wind. What we got instead was 20-25 out of the north. Guess I should pray for more wind from now on. Dad had a pretty rough day. Both with the wind and me. I shot a 45 of the front 9. I thought he might try a come back after the turn, so I did not take my eyes off him. Somewhere around the 12th green he looked over at me and said "uncle, uncle damn it." I had a rough hole on 13. Did what Surge tells us to do, and just thought about hitting the next one right. I had 5 pars on the back 9. 4 of those came in a row on 14, 15, 16, & 17. Dad thought he had me on 17. It is a 500 yard par 5. He was lying on the green about 30' from the pin after his 4th shot. I was lying 4 about 20 yards in front of the green. The green on that hole is big, real big. The pin was cut in about 70' from the front of the green. So, I was looking at about 130' to the pin. I could see that look in dad's eye. He said he was going to get back a couple of strokes right here. I told him to stop talking while I was getting ready to shoot, or I would send him to Surge's school of golf manors. I chipped it, and it landed about 10' onto the green. Just like Surge teaches us. It rolled right up that green hit the flag and fell straight in for my 4th par in 4 holes. Dad just dropped his putter. That seemed to take the rest of the wind out of his sails. He ended up 3 putting for a 7. He said "Well I can't do anything with you today." I ended up with a 44 on the back side. That is only the second time I have broke through the 90 barrier since I started playing again.

In a month and a half I went from shooting a 97 on that course to an 89. I think I will have to start playing the south course more often. For the nay sayers out there, this swing works, if you are willing to put in the time and effort to work it. It ain't a magic shaft, it is better. On my first game, when I started playing again in September of last year I shot 118, today I shot 89. That is better than any magic shaft.

Lads, I am going to go take the wife horse riding (Steve) for a couple of hours for her birthday. What a gift, right. I will try to get back on a bit later, if I can stay awake that long.

Hope all your days and your games were as blessed as I was today.

Keeping it vertical, and letting the Surge cut strokes off my game, in Oklahoma
Dick

Charlie

We all sail together, or we all fail together pal.

Dick

Kevin

I see that now. That right there is funny, I don't care who you are, as Larry the cable guy would say.

I see you changed your name line. Is there a story that goes with the name change?

I am part Indian. Maybe I should try hitting them high out here. We are a bit short on our rain this year so far.

I am going to have to get set up to film my swing. Should be good for hospitals all over the world from guys coming in with problems breathing and fall injuries from all the laughing.

Dick

Great round today DJ,
keep using that great mental strength, ok so you made a few bogeys but hey some great birdies and text book pars leaving you in a good position to attack day 2. Like you said its a tough course but its going to be tough for everyone so keep the faith and we are all right behind you.

go Deej
Lee.

Mr. Bill,

Sorry, pal, but you're dodging. If I can pay half, why is it too expensive for you to pay the other half? I agreed to bring my driver. I don't need to Fed Ex it out there. I will bring it! Now, you're asking others to pay for what you agreed to? That's absurd. Totally absurd!!!!! Can you not afford $1000? You at one time were willing to bet that sum of money that your driver would hit the ball further. How about this: I pay half of the ticket, you pay half of the ticket. Then, we'll have a bet for $1000. If you win, you get your $1000 back and I will have paid for the whole fare. If I win, we'll call it even since you'd have paid $1000 on my ticket. No need for you to pay for a rental car. No need for you to pay for my food. No need to pay for a hotel room. (I'm not going to stay the night as I don't want to leave my wife by herself at this time) (and no, I'm not going to bring her with me as she has not desire whatsoever to fly across country for no reason). So, there it is again. I think I've been more than considerate in my willingness to give you an opportunity to prove your magic shaft and possibly not have to pay one thin dime.

Also, how are you going to be getting Janet going on Sunday when I believe she's out of town this weekend or did you forget that fact already?

Wait, I just had a brainstorm (yes folks, it did hurt just a bit). Since you're willing to pay for an AA SuperSaver ticket, why not buy it for yourself and fly here with YOUR driver and let's see what it can do? Heck, bring your fitter and THE BUDDY WITH THE TWO HIP REPLACEMENTS, by the way, how does a fitness guy get in such bad shape that he has to have BOTH hips replaced, maybe a new line of work is in order?) We'll film the whole deal and put it up on the blog!

Ok, now, you have two proposals from me. How about it?

You could be right. 20-something years ago, while I was in the Army, I broke the left ankle a second time, by getting hit with a golf ball. This happened on the Thursday before I was scheduled to play in a really big tournament on base. I had some athletic tape, like what I taped my ankles with for football, so I bound it up as tight as I could stand it without cutting off circulation. On Saturday, I played in the tournament, thinking only, "Don't do anything to make it hurt worse." I had the best round of my life ( I didn't know about the Surge Swing then, but it was what I used) and shot a net 66. On Sunday, I shot a net 69. Those two rounds qualified me for the next level tournament in Panama City, FL, a month later

By then, of course, I was pretty well healed and went back to my old swing. I shot 114 and 116 :-( I should have learned, but it took me another 29 years to find the Surge. My only question to the suggestion of the ankle brace is, "Wouldn't that be a rules violation in a tournament?" I think I'll look it up. Anyone know the answer before I find it?

If I read Rule 14-3, its exceptions, and the Decisions on Rule 14-3 correctly, the brace would be permitted if I have a medical condition, I have a legitimate medical reason for its use, and the Committee is satisfied that its use does not give me an unfair advantage.

On that basis, taking into consideration the way I played when I have used one before, it would constitute an unfair advantage and I would not be allowed to wear it. Correct?

Kevin

Lynn

I was saying the same thing about fat boy just a few weeks ago. I told everyone I know to leave their SUVs running all night, just to warm up the planet. Yes, it is a 4 letter word. But, then so is golf on some days. The short game saved my butt a bunch of times today. Guess all that time I have been chipping and putting is starting to pay off.

I love that song. Heck, I love most of them. I like both kinds of music, Country and Western. I did not come up with that line, it comes from "The Blues Brothers." That is one of my favorite movies. I can watch it any time, and I know most of the lines. I can just about do the whole movie.

Several years ago I was at a friends house when his daughter was going on her first real date at 17. She is model beautiful. The boy was a hot shot, captain of the football team and all that. You know, the guys the rest of us hate. Bob is a pretty strict father. I guess that explains why she was just going on her first real date at 17. Any way, Bob told him to have her home at 11 Pm. The kid says "It is Friday night, why can't we stay out till midnight." Bob says "Ok, since it is Friday night, then you have her home by 10:30." The punk says "As long as we don't run out of gas." I told the kid that Bob was a staff sgt in the Marine Corps and I was a sgt, that we had used all those lines a 1000 times ourselves and he did not know any other tricks that we had not already used, and that there was a shovel and a shotgun behind the front door and that no one would ever find his body. I also mentioned that I am a police officer and that I would be dusting her for finger prints when she got home so he had best keep his hands to himself. The kid was white in the face when they left. Bob and I were sitting in his living room building a radio controlled air plane when they came walking in at 10:15. He did not stick around very long. She said he never tried anything. She said "Thanks a lot uncle Dick." I never was sure if she really meant it or not. He never asked her out again. Haha.

I pity my little 8 year old grand daughter. Her other grandfather, daddy, older brother, and myself are all rednecks, real big on the old 2nd amendment and life members of the NRA. She might be out of college before anyone gets through our picket line.

Keeping it vertical, and locked and loaded, in Oklahoma
Dick

Robert Meade:

if you got the chance to ask DJ if he wanted lots more accuracy and 30 more yards to boot what do you think he would say? RR says he may be open to finding out the material I use .... I will have a driver made up for him out of the material I am using for free so he can see for himself. All he has to do is show up in San Diego and supply the club head of his own choosing.

As to Aimpoint ... they give clinics all over ... Janet can take one at Stadium on the 26th:

http://www.stadiumgolfcenter.c...

Stadium Golf Center Sat. March 26th
10am - BASIC Course - 1 hr
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1pm - LEVEL I Course - 2.5 hrs. Contact Jason Goldsmith 760-415-4864
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The AimPoint Green Reading Method currently used by top 100 instructors, PGA Tour pros and caddies is the most effective way to read greens ever developed and teaches exactly why and how a putt breaks. Never guess at the direction or amount of break again. In the BASIC course, you will learn:
• Putting is Predictable • The Three Primary Green Shapes • What Zero Lines and Inflection Points Are • Break Direction • Materials Provided: Handout of Basic Concepts
In the LEVEL I course, you learn all of the BASIC concepts and:
• Green Reading Decision Process • Putt Geometry • Angular Reads and Extended Angular Reads • How to Measure Green Speed and Estimate Slope • How to Use the AimChart • Exactly How Much Break to Play for Any Putt Inside of 20 ft • How to Handle Optical Illusions

The level 2 course (I haven't taken) gets even deeper into the applied physics of putting.

As a thought experiment ... let's say that DJ has ability on par with Scotty McCarron and applies the Aimpoint system (we've all seen the line this system puts on when we watch a tournament on TV). And let's say that DJ improves as much as Scotty did as a consequence.

Let's also speculate that DJ was 30 yards longer with no swing changes but his accuracy increased 50% over where his ball winds up now (plus his misses are a lot lot nearer the fairway)

Tell me what do you think would be the consequence to his scores? I can apply the same ideas to myself and never get anywhere close to DJ's ability (except if he decided to stick to his current driver shaft - in which case I could likely outdrive him from time to time every once in a while) in any category of golf. He is a gifted PGA touring pro and I am a 2 bit hacker by comparison.

The fun of golf is that every once in a while any of us can sink a long putt that Tiger or Phil might miss. The one area that we can never normally match a PGA pro is distance and accuracy off the tee. If I got a ton better using a new material Doc has never seen and everyone I give this very same driver also sees amazing increase in distance and accuracy with it too then maybe ... just maybe that DJ would similarly get a boost in distance and accuracy using it.

I was hitting balls side by side with a guy from the Torrey Pines HS golf team at Stadium a couple weeks back. I was carrying the ball a tad farther or the same as him and some of his were a tad longer than mine. We said nothing to each other. (Since then I have added 20 yards with a new swing technique based on improving my balance - dynamic - and changing my CG at impact). Both of us were in the 270 - 280 range -- he is around 17 and I am 66.

So when I finished hitting my shots as I was leaving ... said "here, try this driver." And he did and he hit is shot dead at the target and the ball flew something like 305 in carry. Sea level. Not much wind as I recall - around 60 degrees. The ball just stayed in the air like forever.

I can't respond to all of this because my span of concntration is affected by other things.

You should stop saying that if zero of a type has ever shown up as a quarterback in the NFL, then it is a good predictor. Of course, you can say it, but it isn't as true as you want to make it. If it were true, it probably would also be true at the All-America level. If you were to see the types of point guards in the NBA, you would probably be surprised at the diversity of type.

True, there is this feature called "self-selection," where different types self-select themselves into different kinds of activities, but this is only probabilistic. Self-selection only shows dominant modes, not exclucivity. In a study or world class marathon runners, the two two groups had completely opposite type letters. They just trained and ran with opposite strategies, but both sets of strategies worked. If a person from one group is trained in a manner suited for the other group, he/she will probably quit.

Fuzzy logic doesn't apply so much to personality type You seem to know enough about fuzzy logic (maybe) and enough about personality type to try to put them together. If you were doing statistical analysis of personality types on large clusters of people, you might be able to use fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic is more applicable to control systems such as car transmssions to choose shift points and the control of other equipment when you don't know exactly what kind of roads you will be driving on, who will be driving, what kind of surface you have. You can apply "fuzzy thinking" to personality type, but you only get "fuzzy results". You don't get highly predictable results. There is probably a chapter of the American Society of Psychological Type in your city. You should to go to meeting and listen to the correct way to use type.

As for Vic Braden's claim, I can do the same. What he doesn't say is that the guy can't do it in each and every casse. I can't. But some people have what is call "clear type," and any experienced type researcher might be able to do it.

A person shouldn't apply either fuzzy logic or fuzzy thinging to an inidividual--that would be unfair the to person. You could be giving incorrect information and confuse the person. Sometimes, hours of counseling is required to determine if a person's "test" score describes himself. It took my a year to realize that mine was me. I'm so good at doing things that aren't me that I thought I was some other personality type. People who observe me always guess wrong on at least two letters. If a counselor was trying to counsel me with his/her guess, the treatment would be wrong, and I would come out worse.

Here's the best thing I ever did. I gave the "test" to the son and daughter of a friend. I never met the kids. I ask for some information on their hobbbies. I then said, "I think you wish your son was more like your daughter and your daughter was more like your son." He was shocked. Not only did I tell him things about his son and daughter that I could not know, but I was able to tell him how he felt. Some of us can do things like this, but we know that it is only case by case. When people try to generalize as if they can do it repeatedly, members of the APT would just laugh.

By the say, one of my colleagues has a knack for telling if someone is telling a lie or the truth. I've seen him in action.

Studies on mapping the brain have been published for years. Of course, there are different ways of mapping the brain. I think I'll keep it a secret for now. You can find it, though.

Thanks for taking the time to talk with us DJ. As I posted in the IC, the most important thing, I think, is that you start having fun again. Leave all the crap of the last few months in the past and just enjoy some golf. I know you have the early start tomorrow (so early that you'll already be on the course by the time I get to my desk at 5 am Pacific and put on Shot Tracker to follow your progress). I look forward to tracking lots of great shots and wishing I was walking the actual course following you.