scotts33 When I first drove up to Milwaukee after we were together at the PGA seminar. he asked my why I came "all the way up" to visit him? I said, it's only 2 hours...
He asked me what I was concerned about most in my game, which I found as an interesting way to ask.
I told him that all of my misses were left of target and that I fought a brutal hook more often than not.
He asked me what was my worst offender. I said , maybe my driver. He said, perfect, pull out your 6 iron. hahahahaha
He said, do you see the first target out there? He said, you should it's only 95 yards from here. He then asked me to tee up every single ball that we were going to hit today, with my 6 iron.
I told him that my iron play at that time was pretty solid, He said, "Mike, the best thing about this wonderful game is that the ball doesn't know what it is hit with".
He said, I have you for an hour and I want you to hit your 6 iron, off the tee, NO FURTHER than the flag that is less than 100 yards from us and never, EVER, let a golf ball start to the left of the flag or end up left of the flag!
He said, "You can hit it 100 yards RIGHT of the flag, but one inch left and you are also buying lunch, That is something I assumed anyway.
The first shot was a half mile right of the flag. He said... "beautiful",
I figured he was happy so I hit the same shot 4 more times in a row.
He said, "Are you sick of hitting it so far right yet?"
I said, you were happy with it and that was my goal. He said, "NO!, No it wasn't, you specifically told me that your shots tended left with curve.
He got me there.
He asked me, "How close can you hit it to the same 95 yard flag, without it costing you a lunch?" I said , maybe 10 feet, he said "Beautiful", then instructed me to hit it 5 feet right, but again, NOTHING left of it.
He was laughing a bit and said, I want to make you a little uncomfortable.
Half the big basket of balls was gone and my longest shot was 100 yards or less. He then asked me, after all these balls now, how easy can it be for me to hit the RIGHT EDGE of the flagstick on the 95 yard hole?
I said with a golf shot or a bucket of water? He laughed.
He instructed me to do it on the next shot. It was about a foot or two right. He said "terrible", "do it again".
6 more six irons, 95 to 100 yards off a tall tee all just barely right of the flag.
It was now 45 minutes into our time together and this was all I was doing.
He told me to get out my 4 iron and hit the very next single ball to the 150 sign. No further but hit the right side of the flag. Again, about 3 feet right at 150 yards with a teed up 4 iron.
He was handing me my driver before that ball hit the ground. He said... 3 balls, off the tee, just right of the 200 marker. Again, all 10 to 15 feet right. None left.
He goes.... "Let's go eat lunch, it's on me". As we were riding in to the clubhouse for lunch he said.... Tell me again what your reason for coming up today? I repeated it and he goes.... "Hmmm, Can't help you as I never saw a single one of those... The french dip is wonderful".
I truly admired the man and he only took $25.
It has helped me every single time I hit a ball to this day. I miss him and our visits.