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I. B. Nobody’s Philosophies

The great players

* Adhere to a few time-proven mechanical fundamentals and resist the passing gimmick

* Maximize their greatest natural physical assets in molding and maintaining a playing method

* Have the ability, while playing, to define objectives and then concentrate on achieving them to the exclusion of all else

* Have desire, intensity, focus

With regard to the golf swing (check out the swing photo sequences of the greats),

* They turn their shoulders 90 degrees on the backswing around a relatively motionless head

* They have a true pivot—their weight shifts inside the right leg

* The downswing is initiated by the lower body—having enough lateral motion to get the weight on the left side—and then drag the clubhead into impact

* Then facing target with their belly button at the finish and their weight off their right foot and on the tip of the big toe.

Some of the secrets of the game . . .

“You must learn to feel the sensations through your intellect and then forget them intellectually and leave them to your muscular memory or control system.” Percy Boomer.

“You must not think or reflect; you must feel what you have to do.” Percy Boomer.

“What we use imagination for is to translate theory into feeling.” Percy Boomer.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein.

Truisms of the game:

“The hands and arms are passive and the shoulders and hips are active.” Percy Boomer.

“What do the hands do? The answer is nothing active until after the arms have moved on the downswing to a position just above the level of the hips.” Ben Hogan.

“That complete relaxation and ease of motion is necessary to the accomplishment of a rhythmic stroke of any length, from the shortest putt to the full drive. One cannot start with the intention of making any stroke with the hands alone, or with the arms alone, or with anything else alone and hope to swing the club easily and with smooth rhythm. The effort to exclude any part or parts of the body from the action, to hold any part motionless, must set up a strain opposing the ease of movement that is so necessary.” Bobby Jones.

“The three basic feels of the golf swing—the pivot, the shoulders moving in response to the pivot, and the arms moving in response to the shoulders. These are the three basic movements of a connected and therefore controlled swing, and they must all be built into the framework of your feel of the swing.” Percy Boomer.

left brain right brain

Commands Pictures, feelings, abstracts

How a math teacher teaches How Picasso paints

In order to play respectable golf, one must learn the fundamentals via left brain and transform those thoughts—via right brain—into pictures, feelings, and on a much higher level, abstracts.