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Date Posted: 23:58:12 10/28/01 Sun
Author: Chazman
Subject: Tom Sanders gave me the best golf lesson of my life!

Took a full day class with Tom Sanders today, he traveled up to Bloomington Ill. to give a class and I drove two and half hours south of Chicago to take the lesson.

Unfortunately the weather was miserable, 40* and 30-40 mph winds, and four others who had signed up for the school on Saturday and Sunday had crapped out on him.

So it was just me, Tom and his brother (btw, his brother only plays a couple times a year, and still hits it like he is single digit, using Tom's method!) for a full six hours of instruction, with a lunch break and some serious kibitzing.

Tom teaches you his SA swing through four easy to learn drills. I can see why he was NG's top instructor when he was with them, the instruction is easy to comprehend, and not overly complicated, basically it's Simple!

Tom stresses keeping your trail wrist bent through impact, although he states that the club will release, it will happen automatically, and you should "try" to keep the wrist bend past impact.

I was suprised that my grip, set up and execution was not what I had thought it was, and there really isn't anything like having a trained set of eyes watching what you do.

After I made his recommended modifications, grip it more into center of trail hand palm, wider stance, ball further back in my stance, bend further from the hips and have upper arms resting more on top of chest, I started hitting them real clean.

I did not embarass myself and Mr. Shanks stayed away for the day! By the end of the day I was used to this new set up and for the first time in a long time was hitting the ball without "thinking" about mechanics, thanks to his last drill, the target drill!

A cannnot tell you how impressed I was with his instruction, it is light years ahead of the two NGCIs I had taken lessons from previously.

I strongly recommend anyone who is interested in the SA swing, to seek him out for instruction, or at least buy his tapes if you physically cannot make it to where he teaches. The tapes show all of the drills, and they do work!!!

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