For members only, Golf Smarter number 409, published on November 5, 2013.

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A good golfer's arms never passed the body with Tony Manzoni.

This is Golf Smarter.

Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, Tony.

Thank you, Fred.

Thank you again for sticking around and recording, forget the recording,

for sticking around and answering more of my questions.

I just love it, Fred.

Oh, that's very kind of you.

So there's many things that you said in our last conversation that I want to, like, bring back and get more detail from you out of that.

Like, when you talked about being under pressure and hooking the ball, you said when you were playing competitively when you were young, whenever you were under pressure, you would hook the ball.

Now, 40, 50 years later, and you look back on that, do you know what that was?

Sure, I know what it was. As I got into learning to be more of a connected rotating or having a connected rotating swing,

I realized that the movement of the left arm and the right arm for that matter,

but the left arm, when you go back in the back swing, no matter how you take it back,

your left arm goes somewhat across your chest.

And it connects somewhere near the left armpit and the right armpit.

So that's why you see a lot of tour players will put a towel across their chest and then put their arms on the top of the towel and hit shots that way.

What they're doing, it's, you know, it's restrictive in a way, but they're teaching themselves that the body moves the arms. The arms don't move individually off the body and then back on the body. It's not to say that you can't do that, and there have been some good players that did that, but I don't think they had very long careers. Without naming a lot of guys, there's a lot of guys on the senior tour now that can't play a lick that were champions on the regular tour.

And it's because their game was based on disconnecting and connecting, swaying to the right

and swaying to the left, and so forth.

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