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70 Year Old Gravity Golf Founder Hits 75 3-Irons 185 Days In a Row

Why Is This 3 Iron In My Bag?

by David Lee

Teaching golf has not only been my profession for the better part of fifty years, it is also a vocational passion.  Any time since 1954, if someone had asked me which clubs were the most important in the bag, I would have quickly answered the driver, the putter, the sand wedge, the three wood, then all the rest, in that order.  If someone asked me the same question today – I would without hesitation answer – the #3 iron.  Really????  Yep, even though very few people carry one these days, in my opinion, they should dig it out of the closet, or buy one that matches their irons (I promise that this is leading someplace good where few people have ever been).  Next, go to the practice tee for only twenty minutes a day, and hit 75 balls, as hard as you can swing, from your normal swing mode.

Okay David – you’ve always been out there in left field somewhere, but this is a little far off the page, even for you!

I totally agree – but hear me out.  About seven years ago, I managed to trip over my big red dog one night in the pitch black dark and tear the medial meniscus in my left knee.  It has never been quite the same since.  Then last year, right before moving back to Florida, I managed to tear the medial collateral tendon in my right knee, which stopped me from playing golf for about five months.  Even after I healed, every time I would try to play or even swing the club, there was a significant ache, either in my lower back or one of my knees.  At seventy years of age, my range of motion in my backswing had shrunk to practically nothing, and needless to say, I was not having any fun. It felt like the right time to put my clubs in the closet or on Ebay.  Then a large miracle happened!  One day just over six months ago, totally exasperated with the way my body was feeling, and with a sense of desperation hanging over me, I grabbed my 3 iron from my bag and headed for the practice tee.  In retrospect, I’m not exactly sure what I intended to accomplish, but it was something along the lines of punishing myself for getting old.  I took a basket of 75 balls (75 was a totally arbitrary number, but 50 seemed like too few and 100, too many) and began swinging at them with all the core-speed I could muster.  That first day I hit about five solid shots, and all seventy-five of them hurt, in one part of my body or another!  It was like the scene in the movie Liar Liar where Jim Carrey was in the men’s room at the courthouse “kicking his own ass.”  For some weird reason, the pain of day one notwithstanding, I was obsessed with doing it again and came back the following day to torture myself some more.  The second day I hit a few more good ones, but was encouraged, and each successive day saw the number of good shots grow.  For the first sixty days, the improvement each day was very noticeable.  By that time, I was hitting the ball so well that the progress seemed to slow, yet the shot quality and distance continued to improve.  Today was my 185th session in a row without missing a day, and during each and every week, with no exceptions, I’ve had at least one or more best days ever!  Because of the continued improvement, I’ve delayed in writing about this, because truthfully, I don’t yet know where the “end point” in shot quality development and consistency lie. Here’s the really amazing part and why I am compelled to keep doing this, as well as sharing it with you.  Bear in mind that the only full-swing practice that I’ve done during this period has been the 75 daily balls with the 3 iron, yet when I play golf, every club in my bag has improved significantly, from the driver to the wedges.  Yesterday, I made the second hole-in-one of my life (the last was in 1965) and had two other shots on par threes stop within a foot.
 

My conclusions thus far are as follows:
    •    Most players go to the practice tee and hit a number of shots with different clubs. Each of the clubs has a different shaft length, a different lie, some variation in vibration frequency, swing weight, and requires a different ball position and spine angle.  Practicing with what is arguably the most difficult club in the bag to hit (since almost no one carries a 1 or 2 iron), allows the brain to avoid the confusion of club variability, and concentrate totally on the sequence of the physiological motor program (which is very demanding if you wish to hit good shots with a 3 iron).  Moving your body parts correctly and consistently is paramount if you wish to know where your ball is going.  A great pianist preparing for a show or recital would not practice on thirteen different pianos, but that is exactly what we do when practicing golf.  If the motor program in your body is good enough to hit consistent shots with a 3 iron, hitting a wedge requires only minute changes and is a snap cinch.  My thinking is leaning very strongly toward the opinion that removing the equipment variable, allows the player to highly improve the quality of his/her mechanics – especially when practicing with the 3 iron (the most difficult club in the bag).
   

      •    Swinging at maximum core-speed is very important.  There is a right way to hit a golf ball hard, and countless wrong ways.  By practicing at maximum possible swing speed, the brain is forced to deal with countless physiological details that need to be dealt with at a subconscious level, in order to establish perfect equilibrium at impact.  Learning to slow a swing down is far easier than making it go faster (the right way).
   

      •    If you wish to play at the highest level, it is my belief that doing this every day is very important.  The great Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz, said that if he missed a day of practice, he could hear it.  If he missed two days of practice, his wife could hear it.  And, if he missed three days of practice, the world could hear it.  Ben Hogan said that if he missed a day of practice, his golf swing backed up three days.  I fully realize that not everyone can hit 75 balls a day, but remember that it only takes twenty minutes.
 

Please keep in mind that this is a “road map,” not an order.  Many people out there are interested in becoming as good as they can be.  This is something I have never seen another golf professional do, nor have I done it in my own personal history (although I wish I had).  Although Tom Watson is said to have warmed up with a 2 iron, I don’t know that he hit it exclusively in his practice sessions, nor do I know how many 2 irons he hit each day.   Most pros that have worn a spot the size of a dime in the middle of their seven-iron, have a three iron that looks like it just came out of the pro shop.  I am telling you that doing this every day is making me feel as if my age is reversing, and my golf game is improving faster than at any point in my life.  If you are inclined to give this a try, I am inviting feedback and the experience of others.    

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Advanced Golf Lesson: The Plugged Bunker Lie

Hitting From a Plugged Bunker Lie

by David Lee

One of the many strange things about the brain is how it perceives things - and “plugged-lie” bunker shots are one of those issues that most people see backwards from the way they should. A ball buried in the sand can be hit from the bunker with no more effort than when the ball is sitting on a clean lie. Normal perception and instinct tells us that we need to “dig” the ball out of a buried lie. In reality, if the player tightens the arms in an effort to “force” the ball from a plugged lie, the tension increase in the arms diminishes the core rotation, reducing the foot-pounds that move through impact, and lessens the likelihood of getting the shot out of the bunker. Just as with a normal sand shot, proper technique requires that the arms start down in a state of pure dead-fall, and the turn of the body “excavates” both the sand and the ball from the bunker. In a typical trap shot, with the ball sitting on top of the sand, the club undercuts the ball to a greater degree, imparting more spin - and it stops quickly upon hitting the green. When the ball is buried, however, the undercutting effect is diminished, and the sand behind the ball pushes it out of the bunker with less spin. Since the carry-to-roll ratio is reduced, hitting from a buried lie actually takes less of a swing to cover an equivalent amount of ground.

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Why You Should Join the Driver Drill Club

Whether it's going to the gym or heading to the driving range to practice, we all have moments when it is hard to find the motivation to work on something alone. If you have ever worked out in a supervised group setting, you know how much easier it is to stay focused and get the most out of your workout when someone is there to guide you. Not to mention that little extra drive you get out of friendly competition. Here at Gravity Golf we are now offering you that same workout environment on the driving range with the Gravity Golf Driver Drill Club.

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Golf Lesson: Getting Out of Deep Rough

Bermuda Rough – Nasty Stuff

by David Lee

Anyone who has played much golf in the South, is well aware of the difficulty encountered when playing from the Bermuda rough. It’s a natural instinct to hit down hard and try to dig the ball out of such gnarly turf. Most players fail to realize that tightening the arms in an effort to extricate the ball, will stop the core rotation of the body and make it even harder to get out. A tension increase from the arms in the downswing actually diminishes the number of foot pounds that are actively turning and going against the ball at the point of impact. It’s important to feel that the body turns the ball out of deep rough as opposed to hitting it. Although it is counter intuitive to not dig, doing so has an exact opposite effect from what we were intending to do.

When hitting these types of shots, it’s critical that the arms be in a state of pure deadfall at the start of the downswing so that the rotation of the body is not impeded whatsoever. You can actually hit very delicate shots from deep rough around the greens with very little effort - if your technique is technically correct. Remember, when the ball is sitting deep in the grass, the clubface contacts the grass and not the back of the ball. Because of this fact, ball compression is reduced, just as it is with a greenside bunker shot. Both shots require extra follow through to make up for the fact that the ball is not “helping” due to its lesser amount of spring from the clubface. Turning the connected body mass completely through the impact zone assures that the ball will advance. Don’t forget – the key is to turn the ball out of the deep stuff, not hit it.

Here is a video example of this lesson. 

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Gravity Golf Lesson: How's Your Golf Posture?

How’s Your Posture – Is It Helping or Hurting Your Game?

by David Lee

If you were to ask the question – what is the "ideal" posture for my body in the golf swing – what would you expect for an answer?  Suppose you were looking at a human skeleton in an anatomy lab and trying to imagine all the potential angles for the various bones in a golf swing.  How would you describe to someone the perfect way to position each of those bones?  It wouldn’t be easy, would it?

For a golf swing to function in an ideal manner, mass rotation moving into impact should be over one axis only (left leg in a right handed player).  By so doing, all available body mass below the head goes against the ball - like closing a single hinge door.  If you have weight on both legs as you turn into impact, the body moves like a revolving door, where part of your weight goes against the ball and part of it is moving away from the ball and target.

With a driver, when the posture is correct at address, the feet will be close to shoulder width apart, with a slight bend at the knees.  The weight will be borne on the hips and hamstrings, with the knees being as much over the heels as possible.  Coming into impact, the body’s weight should be pivoting over the left heel only.  If you study the construction of your legs and feet, it is easy to see that the feet are attached in an "L" shape to the legs.  If you pivot over the "ball" of the left foot coming into impact, the left heel will be off the ground and the entire leg (or axis) will be moving away from the target.  This causes movement in the swing-plane and potential loss of power in the shot.

Posture is one of the most critical elements in the recipe for making a technically correct swing.  If you’ll study the Gravity golf "cross-footed drills" and the "heel-to-heel" transfer drills, they will teach you perfect posture for the address position and for the swing itself.  

Cross-Footed Drill

Heel-to-Heel Drill

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Golf Course Guide - Timacuan Golf Club

photo from Bugsy

Hello and thank you for reading our first Golf Course Guide blog. Here at Gravity Golf we've asked some of our instructors and long-time players to start taking some notes on the courses they play. The goal of these blogs is to give players a heads up on course conditions and some pointers on what holes they might want to watch out for. If you would like to contribute to our Golf Course Guide please email answers@gravitygolf.com, subject "Golf Course Guide."

The Golf Course Guide blog this week comes from Gravity Golfer Crickett Lee. This week Crickett played in an Orlando Woman's Golf Association tournament at Timacuan Golf Club in Lake Mary, FL. Her foursome placed 1st out of 16 groups. Crickett said the course was beautiful, and although there were a few soggy spots from the previous 48 hours of rain, the fairways and greens were in excellent condition. Here are a few of the tips she had for playing at Timacuan Golf Club.

1. Be careful of what club you choose off the tee. The Timacuan course features a few tricky dog-legs that have some difficult to navigate trees and hazards; don't automatically pull your driver out of the bag. Watch out for the yardage, and when in doubt, pick a shorter club to make it to the turn so you have a clear shot at the green.

Photo of hole #2 at the Timacuan Golf Club. Photo
from the Orlando Golf Examiner.

2. Watch out for #2. According to an article in the Orlando Golf Examiner, even Timacuan General Manager Tony Johnson says "there is no let-up in the hole until the ball hits the bottom of the cup." You only have one hole to warm up with before you're faced with this difficult to navigate par-4. There is a peninsula fairway to the right of the green, but to reach it you have to clear water in front and to the right of the green with more than a fair amount of accuracy. If you're less confident in your drive you may want to consider laying up in front of the water hazard and taking an iron or wood shot over the lake to the green. The green slopes from back to front, so try to give your shot enough space to roll to a stop - just try not to fly the green because the sand traps and trees to the left and back of the green are no picnic either. Crickett says she's seen players easily shoot 13 on this hole. Do your best to keep shots in control, and if you do lose a ball or two, try not to let it bog you down for the next 16 holes. For more on Timacuan No. 2 see this article in the Orlando Golf Examiner.

3. The course can feel a bit long. Despite her small stature, Crickett is known for the distance she can get off the ball, but she said that this course can feel a bit long for a lot of women. Make sure you spend time working on the accuracy of your chipping and putting to make up for the few extra strokes it may take to get to the green.

Number 18 at Timacuan Golf Club by Crickett Lee

Thanks for reading this week's Golf Course Guide. Good luck out there! And please remember to take notes and pictures of your next golf outing to be part of our Golf Course Guide. For tips on how to improve your game visit our website or our YouTube Channel. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 

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Setting Goals for Improving your Golf Game

The weather is beginning to cool off and a season shift is a good time to set goals for changing your behavior. As the chaos of summer fades away, and the temperatures become more tolerable, we hope you're finding extra time to spend on the driving range or golf course. But how efficiently are you playing and practicing? Today we would like to revisit something written by our friend and fellow golfer, David Geier. Spend a few minutes with David as he explains the importance of setting specific, time sensitive goals for your golf game. Then let us know what specific goal you're setting for your golf development this fall. For additional instructional information visit our website store or YouTube channel. And don't forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

By: David Geier, Certified Integral Golf Coach

SMART Goals move us towards a preferred future, usually based on a vision of where we see ourselves going. In the movie Caddy Shack, Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) tells Danny the caddy, “Danny, see your future, be your future, make you future.”

"See your future. Be your future. Make your future."

However, it’s interesting to note that roughly 90% of America’s population set no written goals for their lives or in their improvement in the game of golf.  10% create of the population has written goals, but only 3% set goals with time frames. Which category would you fall into? The 90%, 10% or the 3%? Start being a three-percenter, You’ll achieve more of your goals and they will keep you on course for the short term as well as the long term.

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A Guide To Outfitting For A Beginning Gravity Golfer

Picking up a new sport or getting back into one is no easy task. Whether you’re trying tennis or snow skiing, you have to consider purchasing equipment, properly training, and how this new sport fits into your time and monetary budgets. Golf is no exception. While being a sport that you can carry through many stages of your life, golf has one of the longest and most expensive lists of equipment – especially when you get into training aids and practice times. To make things easier for the beginning golfer, we’ve created a guide to get you started.

Clubs - Irons

Acquiring a set of golf clubs may be the most expensive and daunting process of your setup – until you get to the actual practice. But with a little research and knowledge of what to look for, it doesn’t have to be scary. For your first set of clubs, unless you are just dying to spend your money, it’s not a bad idea to look for a used set.  There are plenty of people who spend a ton of money on nice clubs only to use them a few times before they give up and sell them on Craigslist or at a consignment sports store – let their loss be your gain. We recommend that you start by looking for a set of forged irons. For more information on the difference between forged and cast irons you can check out this article from golfsmith.com, but we prefer forged because they are more pliable if you find that you need to change the lie angle on your irons. Some good brands to check out are Ping, Titleist and Mizuno – they all make excellent forged irons.

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The Benefits of One-Handed Golf Drills

Since the new U.S. Open champion, Martin Kaymer, was shown on the Golf Channel practicing one-handed drills – and because we at Gravity Golf use them as a fundamental exercise, I thought it would be an appropriate time to discuss them in further detail.

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US Open Champion Martin Kaymer Teaches Us the Importance of the Takeaway

If you went to sleep last night with sweet dreams of finding yourself in Martin Kaymer’s Adidas golf shoes, you’re not the only one. Any man or woman who’s ever picked up a golf club and hit even a decent shot, knows the fantasy of having a gallery cheer you to victory at a major championship. And eight strokes ahead of your nearest competitor? That would make it even sweeter.

Photo from GolfDigest of Martin Kaymer.

In reality, most of us will never know the hallowed victory of slipping on the Master’s Jacket or pressing our lips to a U.S. Open Trophy, but that doesn’t mean that a better, more consistent golf swing is out of reach. You can take the perfected techniques of a standout player like Martin Kaymer and apply them to your own golf swing – making you a more competitive player among your friends and club members.

One particular facet of Kaymer’s swing that is so important to his performance is “the heave.” The heave, more commonly know as “the takeaway,” is possibly the most influential movement in the entire golf swing, and it takes place in the first microseconds of the back swing. This is the moment in which you set the timing for the pace of your swing, and the only time that you want to engage muscle tension in your upper body.

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The Effect of Balance in the Golf Swing

It is widely accepted that balance is essential in all sports, especially golf, but how well do you understand the details of balance and how to apply it? What is balance beyond your ability to stay upright, and what does it feel like in the golf swing? Most golfers who have played for years will tell you that balance is the key to the perfect, effortless swing.

Let us take a deeper look at balance and how to understand its effect on your swing. In any sport that involves rotary motion, an athletes' arms and legs influence balance as they move around the body. In golf the primary limbs in motion that have the most impact on your balance are the arms. The average human arm is roughly 5.3% of total body weight, meaning that your arms comprise over 10% of your body weight. So now imagine the weight of your arms, combined with the weight of the golf club, swinging around your body. This is similar in effect to the motion of holding a child by the hands and swinging them around in a circle; the faster you turn, the farther you have to lean back to counter balance the weight of the child. If you do not spin fast enough, the weight of the child will pull you forward and "off-balance." If you lean too far back, your own weight will pull you "off-balance." The complete motion becomes a delicate dance of counter balance and speed. The faster you spin in relation to how far you lean back, the farther you can move from your original center of gravity.

The same can be said for the golf swing. We initially begin to throw ourselves off-balance in the back-swing, and then attempt to counter-act that motion through the down-swing and follow through. To the untrained body, this action often comes in the form of engaging tension in the arms in an attempt to shorten the distance between our body and the club head. This is our fatal error, almost inevitably applying the wrong amount of tension, and coming through the down-swing with the club head either above or below the proper impact point with the ball. Not to mention the decreased club-head-speed that is a direct result of that tension.

Imagine you could use the same principles of balancing a swinging child in your golf swing.  You can achieve this simply by moving your body deeper into the counter-fall, in relation to how fast you are moving through the down-swing. Instead of fighting nature with tension in your upper body, you can relax your upper body, and allow your lower body and core to maintain balance with a deeper counter-fall and faster follow through. This is a more natural movement for your body, and therefore makes the down swing less labor intensive. When you counter-fall properly, you'll attain full extension and rotation through impact, resulting in increased club-head-speed and a longer drive. Who doesn't want that?

So the next time you go out to practice, give your body a chance to do what nature designed it to do. Trust in the speed of your rotation and the depth of your counter-fall to bring the club to the proper point of impact. The club is merely an extension of your arms, and just like with the swinging child, adding tension will only exhaust your muscles and make the fight for balance more difficult.

Below is a video from the Gravity Golf YouTube Channel explaining the counter-fall. For more tools to help you understand the counter-fall, visit the Gravity Golf Store.

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Understanding the “Yips” and How to Fix Them

The “yips” are a malady afflicting athletes in a number of sports.  To golfers, they are a condition where the hands “flinch” involuntarily just before the club comes into contact with the ball on a putt, chip, pitch shot, or even a tee shot.  The yips are generally considered by many to be a mental or nerve condition, but are, in reality, caused by poor mechanics.  They will certainly work their way into your psyche, but they occur because the brain senses a disconnect between the core of the body as a power source, and the hands.  When the brain detects “slack” between what should be the primary power source (the core) and the club-head, it will attempt, at the last instant before impact, to cover the slack spot with a muscular flinch (tightening) in the hands and wrists.  It feels like getting zapped with a “cattle prod,” and is a horrific feeling when you are trying to apply a soft touch to a putt or chip.  They afflict many players, amateurs and professionals as well, and have driven many great golfers from the game.  The inability to set the downswing into motion, such as you see in Charles Barkley, or an inability to start the backswing, as we have seen in pros like Hubert Green, Sergio Garcia, and Kevin Na, are forms of the yips.

The body has a certain degree of potential slack in many of its joints.  The slack allows independent movement between our parts, similar to the way couplers do for train cars.  In a full swing, the backswing is long enough to provide time during the downswing, for the turn of the body to remove the slack and smoothly engage the club-head.  In a putt, however, this is not the case.  With a putt, the backswing is so short, that there is insufficient time for the slack to be taken out before the putter head reaches the ball.  What the brain senses, is a lack of a power source in the downswing, and tightens the hands and wrists involuntarily, in order to cover the slack and provide an internal source for moving the club.  Two of the most undetected areas of potential slack, are in the spine, which has great flexibility, and between the thorax and the shoulders.  By assuming proper posture, pre-stretching the spine to its maximum length, and slightly turning the thorax within the shoulders in the direction of the putt, all the slack can be removed.  Once this occurs, power can be applied properly, and the impulse to “yip” the putt will go away.  There is great subtlety in doing this properly, but once you understand how to keep your putting and short shots “slack free,” you’ll quickly gain total control over one of golf’s most dreaded “diseases.”   

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Greetings to Gravity Golfers

Hopefully, everyone has the new year off to a good start.  If you live in the north, you should be here in sunny Florida.  Although this is the first week of February, we just went through our first real cold snap of the season.  Thankfully, it doesn’t last long here and we are back in the eighties this week. We're doing our best to enjoy it for everyone =).

Danny and I had a great school a couple of weeks ago.  It was a full school with eight players, including an excellent professional golfer from France named Jean Remesey, a two time winner of the French Open, who was an inspiration to the entire group.  Everyone made significant progress, including our one lovely lady, who is a former ballet dancer from North Carolina.

We spent a good deal of time doing three-mode-drills, where you hit one shot with the right arm, then one with the left arm, then one with both. Changing modes with every swing, stops the brain from compensating, and forces the player to identify perfect power application. Developing drills that cannot be faked (they require perfect technique for successful execution) has been one of our major goals for some time now. Three-mode drills are great for taking onto the golf course as well.  There is a wonderful short course here at Orange County National called the “Tooth,” that is a perfect place for testing this drill on “real” golf holes instead of the range.  Targets are far more “magnetic” on the course and tend to pull the player out of proper sequence easier than on the practice tee where he/she gets many chances.  If you want to really know what’s going on in your body, take the three-mode drill to the course, and you will get a genuine “eye opener” about power application.

In fact, we are going to start a tournament with some of our students called the “Check Your Ego At The Door Open,” where everyone has to play from a three-mode through the entire round - right-arm, left-arm, then both arms - then start the sequence over.  You have no idea how much fun this will be.  If you want to join us, just send an e-mail.  We will pick a date soon.

The PGA Demo Day kicked off the PGA Show again as it does every year.  Demo Day is held annually at Orange County National and you can see the latest and greatest of all things (equipment-wise) that golf has to offer.  If you are in the area when it occurs, it is a don’t-miss event.

Keep us posted with your progress along with any questions - we welcome them.  Also, there are a couple of spots remaining for our March school here at OCN and in Southern California. This is a great place to learn Gravity Golf! Come see us, but if you’re from the north, leave your weather at home - there is a small surcharge for taking ours back with you.

Thanks again, and always our best,

David and Daniel Lee

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Happy Holidays From The Gravity Golf Team in Orlando, Florida

Dear Gravity Golfer,

We wanted to take a minute and wish everyone the merriest Christmas holiday and a very Happy New Year. We’re looking forward to a great 2014 in our new teaching home at Orange County National Golf Center in Orlando, Florida. The facilities are great here for teaching and playing. OCN has two beautiful courses where they’ve hosted the finals of the tour qualifying school several times and they have the largest driving range in the world along with a great practice course. The many attractions of Orlando are all nearby and add up to make this town a pretty jumpin’ joint. Anyone who can’t find something here to entertain themselves or their family, is in serious trouble.

Not to be making excuses, but our move to Florida has been exhausting. We will, however, be back on schedule with our twice-monthly newsletters and tips from our latest research and drill developments. You are invited to write us with suggestions on any subject you would like to see covered more thoroughly. We are very interested in the progress that each of our students is making and encourage you to keep us posted on how you’re coming along. Hopefully, you’ll make some good New Year’s resolutions about your game for the upcoming season that will result in that handicap going down.

Daniel and I have been working hard on the new Gravity Golf Curriculum. The writing of it is coming close to completion and we will soon be starting the filming. It is being written with beginner, intermediate, and advanced sections, and will have accompanying video for each lesson. This will be a great adjunct to our previous information, as it contains all of our new drills and some better ways of explaining things.

If your travel plans for the new year include a trip to Orlando, we will be honored if you pay us a visit. Have a great holiday season, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Our best,

David, Daniel, and Crickett Lee

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Right Elbow In The Golf Swing - By Gravity Golf Instructor Andrew Waple in Orlando Florida

Last week we spent several days at Orange County National working with Andrew Waple, one of our very advanced professional students who teaches near Manchester, England. Andy is a very fine, certified, Gravity Golf instructor, and an excellent player with a great swing. Anyone in Europe who wishes to learn the Gravity system, would enjoy working with Andy, either one-on-one or in a school. He is very articulate, easy going, and knows the golf swing inside and out. If you wish to contact Andy, his web-site is: www.andrewwaplegolf.co.uk

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The Arc Angel Putter - Created by David Lee of Gravity Golf in Orlando Florida

“Arc Angel” Putters

Golfers that understand and believe in the physics of putting on the “arc” instead of putting down the “line” should study the design and principles of my new “Arc Angel” putter. It is the fourth generation of putters that I’ve designed specifically to putt on the arc and this one is a gem.

Why do I keep building new designs – is it a ploy to sell more putters?  That answer might seem logical, but the reality is that until you build a prototype and go out and putt with it, it is impossible to know what the finished product is going to feel like.  My intention, like with most fanatic club designers, is to build a golf putter that makes everything – which we all know is unlikely to happen, but the goal remains steadfast.  In our less than ideal world, the best objective is to have a putter that rides the body’s natural rotation and feels as if it actually is an extension of you.  It is very important that the lie angle of the club, the amount of “trap” in the putter face, the overall weight, the balance, and the shaft are perfect – not to mention that the “look” of it “fits” your eye.  If these variables are correct, the attack path of the putter will be ideal, the ball will leave the putter face very slightly airborne so that it is not driven into the ground, and the tangent line of the putt to the arc of the stroke will be incredibly predictable.  The ball will roll as smoothly as you can imagine, with no bounce as it makes its journey to the hole, and the number of putts that you make will increase significantly.

When a player putts on the arc, over a single axis (one leg), more body mass goes against the ball than with a “down-line” stroke.  Increased body mass applied to the ball at impact, diminishes the required effort from the shoulders and arms, the club-head moves slower to the ball, and the hands are left free to provide feel only, not power.  The more you can separate power and “touch,” the more touch you are going to have.  Putting on the arc will improve your feel for distance control and the number three putts (that ruin your score) will diminish dramatically.

There is a great deal of science involved in the proper application of power when hitting a putt, just as there is in the design of the tools with which to do it.  If you wish to become a great putter, study our golf DVD entitled “Putting on the Arc.”  It will give you insight into some of the myths about this mysterious and complex facet of the game, as well as providing a pathway for you to become a super putter.  Oh, by the way, gets your hands on an Arc Angel putter and feel the ball roll like you’ve never felt it before.

Daniel Lee
Director of Gravity Golf Inc.

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360 Degrees of Balance - "Center Of Gravity" - Golf Instruction by Daniel Lee in Orlando Florida

When I think of athletes who have the best balance, surfers are the first that come to mind. This is because they have the best sense of equilibrium of any individuals I have met.

The golf swing involves throwing a significant amount of weight at high speeds around your body while trying to maintain balance as much as possible. If the person swinging is pulled off balance, or off plane (the swing path with the ball), the path will no longer match up to the intended direction. Here is an important question to ask yourself that will help you understand how balance is effecting you:

It is of high importance to grasp this concept.*

Question

"What is the first thing that happens when weight pulls on something?"

Answer

"It moves it. All the weight that you have on the front of your body that is moving in front of your precise "center of balance" aka "center of gravity" is going to pull you when you start moving it." 

Balance is created when the amount of weight and force pulling you in one direction can be equally opposed, by being pulled, pushed, shoved or even falling in the opposite direction before it moves ("Counter-Fall"). If you can grasp this concept you can figure out everything in your swing that is based on understanding balance.

Getting used to the idea of how we are able to balance ourselves is not hard to figure out. Try standing on one foot: by doing so you are putting all of your weight over the leg you are standing on at impact (left foot for a "right handed player"). How long can you stand there? Can you turn both directions without falling over? Do you think the leg would support you if you were swinging a club?

A great golf swing is only accomplished when the lower body fully clears at impact. "Every" great player achieves the same thing. What you are seeing is they have opposed the weight pulling on them from the front side of their body, with enough force in the opposite direction to rotate.

You are weak when you are turning! We all are weak when turning, just try hooking arms with a friend and then try to turn in the other direction. If you fall off balance in the swing when you have two feet on the ground, you won't become aware of it until you are in the down-swing and fighting for stability. You may not fall over, but your body will lock up in an effort to save your balance. Then you are left with a golf swing that has only the upper body moving.

To be a great player you must learn how to balance both sides of your body. There are ways to do this, and, regardless of your physical ability - you can strengthen your balance! Recently I have begun pushing myself to become proficient at hitting multiple drivers off one foot, first with my heel off the ground and then on the next shot with my toes off of the ground throughout the entire swing. While this is challenging and takes a deal of athleticism, it is teaching me to become more sensitive and better equipped at maintaining my balance. Regardless of your swing quality, becoming better balanced will strengthen your game.

The Gravity Golf drills in their most basic form, threaten your balance and make you sensitive to weaknesses in technique. If 1 footers are too strenuous,  try the  cross footed drills. They are still very  demanding, but less stressful physically.

Please leave you comments below and I will respond to as timely as possible. All the best and enjoy yourself.

Daniel Lee
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Learning To Read Greens - "Start by Rolling the Ball With Your Hand" by David Lee in Orlando Florida

This is the first tip in a short series on how to "read" greens - all of which can be of significant benefit toward lowering your scores.  To become a great player, one needs to master every facet of the game, but none more so than putting.  One of the most important issues to be dealt with on the journey to becoming an above average or super putter, lies in your ability to read greens.  It takes a considerable level of "want to," and a good deal of patience to learn all the nuances involved in properly reading greens, but the strokes that vanish from your scorecard will be well worth the effort.

My first suggestion is to take a dozen or so golf balls in a plastic bag or small bucket (they are going to get wet) and to walk around your course early in the morning before they cut the greens.  The dew will be covering the ground at that time of day and yesterday's cup will still be somewhere on the green even if the flag-sticks have not been put out yet.  Walk the entire circumference of the green and every ten or fifteen feet, kneel at the edge of the green and roll a ball to the hole with your hand.  The ball will leave a track through the dew on its way to the hole and you can study the effect of slope and gravity on the ball-path.  You can also see how much the dew-line changes as you vary the ball-speed.  Pay attention to whether or not the actual track that the ball leaves in the dew as it rolls across the green, matches the break you saw in your mind before you rolled it.  Obviously, the dew will not be there when you're playing golf, but you'll be amazed at how much this exercise will help in your ability to properly anticipate the break and speed when you are putting for real.

In the next segment, we will discuss the effect that the "grain" of the grass has on the ball-speed and break, and why reading it properly is a major factor in whether your ball goes in the hole or barely misses.

David Lee
President, Gravity Golf, Inc.

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