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Date Posted: 21:12:19 09/28/01 Fri
Author: BDW
Subject: The character of this board ...

Having recently stumbled across this board, and read down a few pages, I have to say I'm surprised by the intolerance, rudeness, and know-it-all-ism displayed by many regular posters. You would never treat each other in this manner on the golf course, why here?

I converted for a couple years to NG (I was a 3 handicap before, a 3 handicap during, and still a 3 handicap now that I'm back to a hybrid swing using conventional equipment). The bottom line is, NG can help most of you people who can't break 90 play better golf. The anonymous nature of a message board just seems to be bringing out the worst in some of you when you should be helping each other.

Bottom line: Golf is a game, intended for amusement. You are supposed to have fun doing it, and fun talking about it. Many of you are so wrapped up in technical/mechanical garbage I don't see how you could possibly enjoy playing! My God, arguing endlessly about degrees of swing path angle needed to produce a draw ... it would be funny if it weren't so sad. Truth time: Few if any of you are, or ever will be, good enough to implement any of the theoretical premises you are babbling about! So why bother?

Here's how I hit a draw. I stand behind the ball, pick out an interim target on the ground slightly right of my target, see the shot turning softly over from right to left in my mind's eye, address the ball with a slightly closed stance with my clubface aligned to the interim target, and then just make it happen. Part of the gripe I have with NG is it's tendency to want to eliminate all the "feel" and "instinctual" aspects of the game and replace them with robotic kinesiology. Granted, the science behind NG and other SA methods is sound and obviously superior to conventional teaching.

But in your effort to reduce a mysterious and lovely game to a physics argument, don't forget it's supposed to be fun.

BDW

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