Hi Bobby,

I sent this to David and he suggested I subscribe to this forum and post here....so here goes!

Hi David,

As you know I recently purchased "the simple golf swing" and have thus far enjoyed the course. I have gone from 115 to 107 the last time I was out and so believe that over time I will get much better. There are however two points that I am having considerable difficulty with and wondered if you could expand or give me something else to work on with them?

Firstly, because the set up and back swing are slow deliberate actions and can be checked for correctness as you go, I don't think these are what is causing my problem? It seems to be, that either, as soon as I start my downswing or somewhere through it, it goes terribly wrong and I am not getting the "consistency" that we know (especially at my stage) is everything. When it all goes right.....it feels right and does, as they say "what it says on the tin"! I have re-visited, on several occasions, "timing" but the chapter is a bit vague and I appreciate the comment about over complicating the swing but it really is (I think) the cause of my lack of confidence when I set up to the ball about "striking it cleanly". No improvement in this area yet (confidence), I only know from the less than predictable result, that when I "get it right", it's very good, and I now "get it right" much more often than I used to! May be you could suggest something for me that might help, even at the risk of a tiny little bit of complication?

Secondly, and I haven't concentrated on this area as much yet, for the reasons given above and your advice "master each step before going on to the next", is the idea of crossing the hands over at impact. My problem is that in trying to understand the mechanics of this (you allude to understanding what we're doing with our swing as being extremely important so that we know what's right and of course what isn't). You see it seems to me that by "turning over" at impact I'm striking the ball "into" the ground and so I think my minds eye is compensating in some way because I have never managed this yet......admittedly though, as previously stated, I haven't spent a great deal of time on this yet. Maybe a close up of the club and the ball at impact or a bit more explanation of "why" turning the club face over increases distance/power?

Any way, thanks for the book, it was a "considerable" investment for me, given my current financial position at the moment, but thus far think it will be worth while?

Kind regards


Robert