Have used your method since September, and my tee strikes are safe fairly straight and long…most of my iron shots are great..but, just need that Surge effect..

Thank you Surge

Brian..Devon..England

The marketing splurge that you can learn the PPGS after hitting two bucket of balls was true in a sense for me because with my old swing I found it difficult to get through one bucket without my lower back giving me grief. The first time I went to the range to try out the PPGS after the first bucket there was no pain in my back and it was like in the PPGS introductory videos where Don was talking about the absence of his hip pain and that he was “feeling pretty good”. I think I ended up hitting about four buckets that day to try and get my mental memory going and try and shake off my old bad habits. The PPGS for my back it was almost like a therapeutic feeling.

I think also a big part of the problem when changing your swing is that your rhythm and timing are put out by thinking too much about the mechanics of the motion i.e. “into the catcher’s mitt”, “up the tree”, “skip the rock on the lake” etc. I’m not saying this is a bad thing because you need to develop mental memory of your swing. What I’m saying is that it is also critical that you retain a feel for the swing, ala the Ernest Jones swing the clubhead with the hands method, and that you can get caught up too much in the mechanical detail and start to introduce “leverage” into your swing which is a killer.

So my message is to persevere with the PPGS, my lower back will forbid me returning to my old swing anyway, and try to work on developing a pure fluid swinging motion of the club head with the hands.

Another bonus of the PPGS, which I relate to from an earlier blogger, is that I am losing far less golf balls now. To my fellow Sydney sider I recently played at Monash Country Club which has thick scrub lining a lot of the fairways (I’m used to playing on open Council Course type layouts). I was forever looking for my fellow playing partners balls (which I didn’t mind because being an up market private course all I could find was near new Pro V 1’s and Tour i’s) but we never had to look for my ball once.

Regards, Craig S

What a surprise to learn that you live on the fabulous Vancouver Island. We spent a couple of nights at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel in early June, 2008. We had a good look around the Island and its great attractions. Loved it! We were on a 21 day trip. Arrived in Victoria from Seattle by ferry. Spent 2 days on Vancouver Island then 2 days in Vancouver. Moved on to Whistler then boarded the stunning Rocky Mountaineer train, travelling in the Gold Leaf Class. Exited the train at Jasper, where we spent 2 nights, then overnight stays at Lake Louise, Banff and Calgary. We had a lakeview room at Lake Louise and the view was so enchanting that we didn’t want to go to sleep! We flew from Calgary to Seattle and boarded the Holland America ship for a 7day Alaskan Explorer cruise. The ship docked at Victoria for a few hours, on the return journey, so we had a pleasant reunion with the city. We were lucky to witness a re-inactment of a famous battle between several sailing ships. Thousands of people lined the foreshores, enjoying the ‘war’.

We were bug-eyed for the entire trip. Everything we saw was simply stunningly beautiful. Despite the adverse golfing conditions during the winter months, you are fortunate to live in such a spectacular part of the world. We are certainly envious of Canada’s abundant supply of beautiful, clear, fresh water – which is a priceless asset.

Cheers.