Bill Munoz is 88 years-young and playing tournament golf again thanks to the Peak Performance Golf Swing. Here's the question he sent in via Customer Service recently.
"In setting up for the swing, do you preset your weight to the right foot, or do you do so when going up on the backswing and up the tree? I am 88 and had to give up golf a few years ago due to back and hip problems caused from the rotational swing. After subscribing to your lessons, the pain went away..Now I am playing in tournements once again...THANK YOU SO MUCH!"
What Bill is asking about is one of the cornerstone positions in a solid setup: PLHR or the Pre-Loaded Loaded Heavy Right position. And since "Pre" means "before", it has to do with the setup phase of our swing. The PLHR position is a critical step in the never-ending battle to ensure technical excellence in the setup because without "TE" in the pre-phase, we cannot achieve technical excellence in our swing.
Remember my main Surgism "The Setup Determines The Motion"? This is far more than a catchy pnemonic device; it is a description of the principles of Newtonian physics that the Surge Swing was built around. Paraphrased, Newton's First Law of Motion states that "A body in motion stays in motion, in the direction that it was put in motion, unless acted up by an outside force". If you setup with a neutral weighting or even one that places more weight on the front leg, you are forced to begin your swing with an immediate weight shift to your back leg, which in my mind, opens up many unnecessary opportunities for swing error due to the complexity of stopping your rearward movement at precisely the right point in the swing and transitioning your weight back to the front leg in the Forward Upswing. All too often, the momentum generated by this superfluous move leads to over-rotation and improper torso and/or lower body movement that makes it difficuult or impossible to deliver the club head square to the target line prior to impact.
So Bill, follow the KISS principle and pre-load your back leg before you begin your backswing and you'll be well on your way to achieving technical excellence in all phases of your game.
Keep it vertical!
The Surge
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I work in the business, so I
I work in the business, so I know that the costs of paper and four-color offset printing are high just based on supply issues. In university text books, you have a lot of additional issues built into the cost structure, especially the cost of producing the intellectual property in the books. They go through a lot more rigorous checking than novels and pop non-fiction, and all those people need to be paid. Plus, there's the cost lost to the used textbook market, where the publisher and authors no longer get any of the money.
What a great video, this one
What a great video, this one really clears the air on PLHR. I persisted in being setup
centrally as I felt more balanced and natural in the swing plane asÃÂ I don't have much
power in my legs. Recently I've forced my self to be PLHR and while I'm still coming to grips with it, have recently hit my longest tee shot with a 3W x 220M, so it's starting to work. Thanks once again, Surge.
Exactly the opposite of stack
Exactly the opposite of stack and tilt, yes.
Thanks Robert. Good point
Thanks Robert. Good point
There ya go, T. Nice solution
There ya go, T. Nice solution.
Short game shots and or other
Short game shots and or other special shots the weight distribution will change. If you want to hit the ball extra high, you preload more, lower you preload less or even get to even distribution. For chip shots, your weight can get forward. All of those things are covered in the various Working the Ball, Situational Shots, and Short Game videos. Surge ask did a couple of dailies about controlling shot trajectory with weight distribution.
EDIT: One further note. It's important to remember that in all of the cases, you maintain your weight where you set it until the start of the FUS. You do NOT shift the weight to the right during the BUS.
You certainly got the skin on
You certainly got the skin on that hole, right?
On a completely different
On a completely different topic, I'm going to be really interested to see how the Reno-Tahoe Open goes this year since they've switched to Modified Stableford scoring.
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ÃÂ Being over the age of 75, I have changed my description from senior citizen to endangered species.
You don't feel the "coil"
You don't feel the "coil" because it's not what powers this swing, because the excess twisting is one of the major causes of back pain in the golf swing. The Hogan swing is a lot of turn and a little lift. The PPGS is a little turn and a lot of lift. We use the body's power laterally, and combine it with gravity to get all the power we need with improved control and no pain.
ÃÂ Yeah I was looking for a
ÃÂ Yeah I was looking for a clip of his baseball stance to see if it is as I remembered but didn't find much. Ran across that golf clip.
Pretty sure I remember his stance correctly anyway.
I think of the golf swing as a side arm to submarine throw. To deliver the ball on target my right palm has to be facing the target at release. Does a decent job of negating the palm up/palm down problem I have.
It depends on the specific
It depends on the specific flight you want for the pitch or chip. Just like you can adjust trajectory on a full shot by where you keep your weight, you can do it on chips and pitches.
WS
WS
Good job on the eagle!!!! WS
Good job on the eagle!!!!
WS
Hey Surge Nation,Don just
Hey Surge Nation,
Don just finished a senior tournament in Charlotte, NC today and he finished Tied for 15th with a double bogey on the 18th . I think it is pretty good since he has not played in a tounament since his heart surgery over 2 years ago. I tinink Congratulations are in order.
Hal
Must be doing something wrong
Must be doing something wrong, working longer and harder
than ever at 68, but allways knew I was a slow learner, Lol.
ÃÂ There is nothing that I
ÃÂ There is nothing that I would call "a coil" in the PPGS.
I would call it a stretch. If you truly keep outward pressure on your knees ,which limits the amount of hip turn possible in the back swing, once you reach the toe line with your left arm the muscles from under your left arm down to your hip will be under a pretty good stretch. Then before you reach the top of the back swing when the hips bump forward it creates even more tension. At that point the hips are going one way and the hands are going the opposite way like stretching a rubber band.
Then the hands fall straight down toward the toe line. The rubber band effect and gravity are all of the power that is needed during that phase. As the right elbow starts to get close to the ribs and hip and the knees are rotating toward the target the power of the arms is applied to swing UP to the finish.
The better the player the farther they can let the club fall toward the toe line before the power of the arms start to redirect toward the ball.
For example, I can feel like I am letting it fall FOREVER and videos always show that I am actually only letting it fall for about a foot at the most. DJ, on the other hand, continues to let it fall pretty much all the way through impact with the right hand powering through the ball. His left arm is vertical and pointing toward the toe line at impact.
(Not many people should expect to be able to do that).
Having recently made and
Having recently made and mostly consumed a banana cream cheesecake, I may have a different definition of heavy rear. ;-)
Robert in the last daily
Robert in the last daily "Hitting down the ball with your drive = Slice" , the surge says the following statement to Jon TrabanÃÂ "ÃÂ ÃÂ Make sure you set up correctly (Grip, Stance, Posture, Alignment, arms in the Master Setup Position). Next, get PLHR--Pre-Loaded Heavy Right by sinking down slightly on your rear leg. Then start your backswing with a slight move of the club toe up into the Catcher's Mitt and once your forward arm reaches your Toe Line, then lift the club straight Up The Tree." Do you think this means ÃÂ the PLHR ÃÂ is after the accordion?
My problem is transitioning
My problem is transitioning back to the left. I get my wait back to the right, but sometimes I stay there.
It was linked from their
It was linked from their newsletter today. One quick comment about what he shows, because we have not only a forward tilt, but a right side tilt in the PPGS setup, the forward shoulder doesn't get lower (or not much lower) than the back, unlike what he shows here. http://www.pga.com/golf-instru...
Congratulations, Surge!!!
Congratulations, Surge!!!
#15. You realise you actually
#15. You realise you actually have the same amount of hair as when you were a youngster only it has migrated from your head to other places on your body.
# 16 Taking a positive view of aging you understand there is something that stops your hair from falling, the floor.
# 17 Okay, so you can't see close well and you can't see far well. At least while losing your hair you are also losing your hearing. Huh?
ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ But you look marvelous!
As it has been noted, having
As it has been noted, having another pair of eyes, be it a friend or a video tape, we can learn alot about our swings through observation. Yesterday I had a lights on moment when my wife caught the reason I've been pulling my putts all too often.
I have recently switched to the long (broom) putter and am using a style simular to Adam Scott. After a couple of weeks of practice and mixed success I found that the lie angle was too upright and contributing to the putts finishing left of the cup. After bending the lie flatter I shot a 40 on the front 9 with a double bogie on #2. Then on the back 9 I started with a double on #10 missing a short putt pulled left of my line.
After missing putts on 11 and 12 Cindy noted that although my feet were lined up well my shoulders were OPEN at address. Really? Yes big time! You could say I was Xed out and pre -disposed for rolling it left. After a conscious adjustment I one putted the next 5 holes from 5-20 feet finishing with a back nine 41 and an 81 total. The only thing really holding me back from consistently breaking 80 has been my putting. With this new break through I am excited to see what future days will bring.
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ÃÂ Reminds me. At the golf
ÃÂ Reminds me. At the golf course they had some hamburgers and strawberry short cake and they talked me into eating more than I should have so there wouldn't be any leftovers.
I told myself I would put in an extra 5 miles this evening so I better get started.
One tip I'll throw out there before I go:
Almost impossible to out work a bad diet. It would take a 13 mile walk to get rid of a quarter pounder with cheese, an order of fries, and a Coke.
Somehow I doubt seriously if most people are covering that. Not to mention that fast food calories don't seem to satisfy hunger for long so a few hours later your are hungry again. ;-)
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