Four members only, Golf Smarter Number 387, published on June 4, 2013.

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If you want to minimize deceleration of the club, then you're going to have to get busy

with your post-impact intentions to keep driving that thing through.

That's the key. It's not just over when you strike the ball. You've got to drive it through.

It's martial arts. I interviewed a champion brick smasher, but he said that the point of acceleration is always well past the first brick.

If he's chopping eight bricks, he's thinking about way past the eighth brick, all the way down to the ground, like he's going to move his whole body and move all the way down through all the bricks. And he has to focus on a point well beyond. This is beyond follow-through, though. Yeah, just all the way to the finish. Right, you've got to stick the finish and you've got to work it all the way through. And this is what the great ball strikers do. And if you know what to look for, you can see it.

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Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, John.

Yes, thanks. It's great to be back.

I love when people do that when we haven't done it. We've been here the whole time.

Bifurcation. I brought it up at the end of the last episode, and I find it a very interesting topic because I truly, yes, we all get to play

the courses. We can go play Pebble and Torrey Pines and there are public courses that

we get to play that we've seen on tour, on television and the pros have played. But the

PGA follows the rules as laid down by the USGA and the RNA. And then there

are some rules that the USGA says no bifurcation, but they'll go, yes, we're going to institute

this rule immediately for the tour, but for everybody else, we're going to wait four or five

years. Okay? So that is bifurcation, basically. Yeah. You know, come on, the wedges and the whole putter thing. You wait, you wait 30 years, somebody starts winning with a long putter, and you got to get rid of anchored putters. That's pretty ridiculous, isn't it? It sure seems that way to me. I'm against it, you know, I'm against banning the long putters, even though I don't use long putter and I don't like the long putters, but the fact that it's been around this long for them to just go ahead and say, it's banned. Without talking to anybody about it and just doing it. Yeah, I mean, the USJ's made a lot of big mistakes over the years. It probably started by allowing metal woods in the first place because golf was a game of woods and irons. I mean, for the entire history of the game from the very beginning was woods and irons. So when you talk tradition, woods and irons, right? All the way through it. Now, a baseball they're still hitting a wood bat right

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