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Golf: Find Center - Enter the Circle
Introduction
In golf, the implications of finding “center” could be in the arena of the individuals physical prowess. Or, could it be that in finding “center” in golf and golf activity as a group, a catalyst in redeeming favorable social characteristics that society cherishes, be found?
Can we find an environmental “center”, in golf, as refuge that endures and sustains the higher good and higher Self, such as the American Indian had done entering the sweat lodge? Isn’t there a thread of connectedness between the family, the tribe, and the nation seeking harmony and equality reflected in golf’s foursomes and the golf games natural environment, plus life skills that endeavors to assimilate the mindfulness accrued from golf activity, for the collective- the family?
“Center” includes various levels of golf activity and unique characteristics for those involved. Peter Kessler’s article, Masters ignited Hogan’s Fabulous’ 53, Golfweek Magazine, Apr. 5, 2003, epitomizes an individual singular effort, by Ben Hogan, comparable of climbing Mt. Everest, understanding the art form - golf.
Kessler’s description of Hogan goes on.... “When he changed his game in 1946, Hogan placed his hands in neutral position, the right leg retained its flex” (“centeredness”), ...”the club never reached parallel and his hands never got higher than the tip of his right shoulder. The club head and the hands started back together”, (centeredness ie., belly and hands) ,...”the swing plane flattened”, (this depends upon the selected golf club determining the flatness or uprightness, which Kessler did not indicate), ...“the club was slightly laid off and he no longer broke the swing plane with his hands.” In other words, “Hogan had found a way to center”.
Center must be known. To find center, I believe golf can be fully equipped only with a properly trained specialist in the lie variables of its discipline. I believe, too, that every golf school or learning center which aims to prepare its students for superior play in the world of golf, which is theirs to partake in, must have on its staff, a professional, competent in circular energy forms and 360 degrees of lie variables and angles included therein. Hence, the Swing Doctor and the “Crooked lies” invented force work in tandem with each other at Transcendental Golf. They’ve evolved together after excluding the linear golf mat design.
Other “centers” to be found are ongoing. Those found are investigated and a dialogue setup. The purpose is to live in the moment - design for the future.
Could it be, to stay in the present moment to moment, and design for the future, may evolve in progression ie. future moments to advance future design? The design of Transcendental Golf, a golf practice facility - learning “center”, has altered an overview of environmental prerequisites. This internal undertaking equips a golf facility so the environment eases the way to finding center paralleling neurolinguistic programming “entering the circle”.
The teacher said, “Take the good ones and put them in a circle-(she was alluding to good experiences). When you are experiencing negatives, step into the circle. Become refreshed ! The circle holds things done well.”
The Eastern Indian woman was giving a class in 1991, for the WPGA on Neurolingistic Programming for golf professionals. “Does your student learn through hearing mainly, or is she/he visual, or kinesthetic - by feel, like in golf? , she asked
“Which one of these three predominates for you? What’s your read on your students? Will you learn the subtleties, as you figure your students out?”, she continued.
At Transcendental Golf the artifical golf mats are circular. One doesn’t have to imagine the premise. The physical presence, “circularity”, in this undertaking, is there. However, the circular golf mats have not cornered the market with striking the ball perfectly! They have offered two positives entries however, that linear mats have not - correct alignment procedure and club path.
At this juncture, in class, there was a twist. An interesting question about how to handle a student out of sorts before the lesson begins. Manuel asked, “What if my student came into the first lesson of the morning after experiencing a near collison on Range Line Road just outside the entrance to the club? What do you do in fractured situations?”
Jack was sitting next to Tom Befera, Kenosha C.C. Tom said, “Yup, I’ve had that situation!” Jack said, “Put ‘em in the bunker. You and the student get two for one that way!”
The class roared, but there is more truth than fiction about this one. This is “finding center”.in continuum. How can environmental devices counter - imbalanced situations in other life activities?” The bunker’s environment related to the arena of golf and the emotions of the moment. Why? Because of golf’s diversity, of course. You wouldn’t be doing three foot putts even if they were a failing aspect of ones golf game at that moment.
To find “center” one must turn inward. The purpose of this book is to gather and guide beginners as well as experienced golfers to an environment which provides information that extends beyond the physical golf “swing” into social and cultural parts of their lives using the conduit - golf as a metaphor.
The possibilities of finding harmony inherent in the game of golf may be a challenge and an education as one directs their inward search for center.
Staying present moment to moment we can use our golf experiences by ourselves independent of the group or within a group, and mirror what the Danes had developed over centuries called livskunst---the art of living. In the magazine Science & Spirit, an article, Conspiracy of Good, renowned resilience researcher Emmy Werner conveys an interesting fact that 99% of Danish Jews were still alive when World War II had ended. The entire Danish people were awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations”.
Doesn’t golf’s environment manifest what the Danes society have developed? It’s a society where people cared about one another, where individual differences were respected, and where self-reliance, cooperation and good humor highly valued.
Testing good humor vs bad taste; freedom of speech and respect for all religions, is happening right now! A cartoon depicting many things for many people has found its underlayment difficult to remain neutral. At the moment this is a painful experience. People lined up quickly. Some have used the incident to further their own cause.
Civil liberties and the Patriot Act are in question in the USA.
Freedom of speech in a Danish cartoon tested the Islam culture and the Danes. What was considered an act against the Koran, as viewed by Islam - held Denmark at fault, not the Danish publisher. Could it be that understanding different cultures may become more complex, and more and more urgent? Are we to experience speedy indiscretions as cultures clash? Can cultures reduce isolation, tension,.and keep a balanced pace sharing the art form golf? If not golf, what will the world stage look like?
In the mid-ninties, after the King of Morocco died, knowing his love for golf, and not wanting Moroccon enthusiasm for golf to diminish, the Pyramid Tray and Stacker System was sent to Morocco’s golf professional, at the King’s course as a symbol of brotherhood through golf.
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”, Robert F Kennedy.
“It would be a more peaceful, harmonious world if the
various religions and religious denominations ceased
condemnations of paths different from their own.” *
“If we are peaceful,
If we are happy,
We can blossom like a flower,
and everyone in our family,
in our entire society,
will benefit from our peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
* The Second Coming of Christ,
Paramahansa Yogananda
Discourse 40
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Angle & Awards Of Golf
(1) Sat. 12/10/08
Jack Thomsen
Angle and Awards of Golf - 3 Parts
It has taken approximately one hundred and ninety years to figure the hybrid golf club as an addition to the game of clubs. Who’s the conductor? Who’s the composer?
Slowly, it has occurred to us that the space between the “steep angle” (the wedges), and the “sweep angle” the longest clubs of golf equipment, is a safe place to inject an implement of high quality, causing a marked improvement in a game that has suddenly discovered a centered portion of itself, one third being the hybrid clubs.
Did I say, “Slowly?” “One third?” “Nearly two centuries?” How many centuries have we played war, and sometimes awarding ourselves in doing so? At what cost and who’s angle? Materialism? Where does matter stop and spirit begin?
The natural state of angle held in golf ( the clubs and the ball’s lie angle ) blends into various angles and awards! Think of the playing field. Isn't it so? What’s the challenge? Is it the tools, such as, the “steep ‘n sweep” hybrid, elements - wind and rain, and the terrain? How does one practice such irregularities? What will we uncover after another century? “ Crooked Lies “?
If political systems and there politicians were to educate themselves in sporty surroundings, such as golf, one wonders if their experiences, by participation, would be beneficial and bring new paradigms for social and cultural improvements? One may agree on “slowness” as a shared political/golf similarity , both seeking creativity.
(2)
Would this be a new angle for awards, and awards have
a better angle for world participants?
“ When two elements approach each other in such a way that the scope of what they can achieve together far surpasses the total of what they could achieve separately, they are acting with synergy”, says the 30th Pa Gua, of the I Ching.
“ Tell us about your marketing ideas and Win an Award for your creativity”, says Golf Range Times magazine.
Their “annual Innovator Awards will recognize driving
range owners and operators - for their marketing achievements and celebrate the best practices that advance the industry”.
Is this a materialistic angle? Check the terminology. Have you not wondered what’s happened to the word “golf”? Perhaps, “ best practices” is paradoxical. Worst practices is rotten diction. At times we miss the obvious. Marketing ideas may not be any simpler. Golf is the core. Awards to be given follow this premise.
Part Two My angle is to create a synergistic formula that includes inventiveness in product line design ie., training aids/teaching aids - combined with journalist work - quietly and diligently done, giving personal attention to the player/reader, in a golf magazine previously noted for Travel & Leisure.
Awards abound in golf. Who is worthy of an award, in golf, and what is the criteria for it to be so? Shouldn't’t the foundation of the event be stable to sustain the exercise?
(3)
When awards are given, could it be that the mark may be missed, in part, because of self sustaining interests only? Does an economic interest include the art form for its philosophical content? Is the stream of interest lacking qualitative individual awards,and not awarding quantitative materialistic participation of the industry only?
Innovative awards could find a starting place with the PGA of America. Golf is a game that offers a variety of awards for many reasons. Firstly, golf’s diversity arranges awards from the golf range and the golf course. The teaching professional is highly regarded. The PGA Teacher of the Year award is an award given as an entry for educating. Where is the classroom? Golf’s classroom is the golf range and the golf course. The teacher brings these two areas closer together, and they extend to community partnerships.
Another highly touted award in the PGA arena is the PGA Professional of the Year, which is a composite of total golf activity.
One thing to be noted about golf through the years is segments of golf cause confusion. Golf is so multifaceted within its structure communicative skills are difficult to keep in tact. Golf, unlike other sports has separation embodied by design - the course, range, and equipment.
Unlike other sports, which unify practice and play areas - baseball, bowling, boxing, billiards, basketball etc.- offer practice and prepare for play as a connected form leading to the main event. Golf separates itself physically. Golf clubs follow the player from course to range, and from range to course, but what of the ball? In basketball or baseball, one gets the “feel” - the warm-up on the same court, or field. A cohesive environment helps us play the game when play and practice stay connected.
Part Three
Be inclusive! To help ourselves and the game of golf, be
connected by asking, “What’s the correct ball for me?”
We know this through “feel”. The golf course and golf range need to be equipped to suit many needs. Weather changes compression of a golf ball. Do you always use the same ball in all weather conditions? Of course not! So why alter your “feel” in practice and play?
Kick your car or truck tire January 29th, in Wisconsin, and again July 29th, and you’ll know “compression”! The golf ball industries position could be as supportive with their ammunition, rewarding their consumers an award winning practice, through better distribution of their product,thereby tying the game and the practice together.
Transcendental Golf (a golf range) equips itself with ammunition suited for weather variables and consumer choices has been offering 80, 90, and 100 compression golf balls from three golf ball manufacturers for over a decade!
This could be a “boon” for the golf industries ball hawks !
If the ball manufacturer chooses to avoid compression variables as a suitable angle for practical practice - they remain the provider of ammunition whether they like it or not! It’s only a matter of collecting ,sorting, and striping.
(5)
If anyone has had a shag-bag it consisted of a variety of balls. How the golf balls came out of the bag found a certain formula! Short shots - low compression. Start here! Long shots - high compression, so it is.
Could awards, to be achieved by excluding separation of the ball’s “feel” in practice and play (the range ball vs the golf course ball) increase ones ability? If not, could this in part be, the reason why we’ve continued to lose “feel”, sapping ones ability? As is the word “golf” in the total golf arena. If your not the composer, watch the conductor.
Why not feel more deeply for the game of golf by using the words that define it? This angle has - everyone as an award winner including the golf industries promotion of products, and golf publications as well.
“ Through the wave you can see the ocean if you are not concentrated on the wave.”
Jack Thomsen Tuesday, Dec. 09 -08
Jack Thomsen
Angle and Awards of Golf - 3 Parts
It has taken approximately one hundred and ninety years to figure the hybrid golf club as an addition to the game of clubs. Who’s the conductor? Who’s the composer?
Slowly, it has occurred to us that the space between the “steep angle” (the wedges), and the “sweep angle” the longest clubs of golf equipment, is a safe place to inject an implement of high quality, causing a marked improvement in a game that has suddenly discovered a centered portion of itself, one third being the hybrid clubs.
Did I say, “Slowly?” “One third?” “Nearly two centuries?” How many centuries have we played war, and sometimes awarding ourselves in doing so? At what cost and who’s angle? Materialism? Where does matter stop and spirit begin?
The natural state of angle held in golf ( the clubs and the ball’s lie angle ) blends into various angles and awards! Think of the playing field. Isn't it so? What’s the challenge? Is it the tools, such as, the “steep ‘n sweep” hybrid, elements - wind and rain, and the terrain? How does one practice such irregularities? What will we uncover after another century? “ Crooked Lies “?
If political systems and there politicians were to educate themselves in sporty surroundings, such as golf, one wonders if their experiences, by participation, would be beneficial and bring new paradigms for social and cultural improvements? One may agree on “slowness” as a shared political/golf similarity , both seeking creativity.
(2)
Would this be a new angle for awards, and awards have
a better angle for world participants?
“ When two elements approach each other in such a way that the scope of what they can achieve together far surpasses the total of what they could achieve separately, they are acting with synergy”, says the 30th Pa Gua, of the I Ching.
“ Tell us about your marketing ideas and Win an Award for your creativity”, says Golf Range Times magazine.
Their “annual Innovator Awards will recognize driving
range owners and operators - for their marketing achievements and celebrate the best practices that advance the industry”.
Is this a materialistic angle? Check the terminology. Have you not wondered what’s happened to the word “golf”? Perhaps, “ best practices” is paradoxical. Worst practices is rotten diction. At times we miss the obvious. Marketing ideas may not be any simpler. Golf is the core. Awards to be given follow this premise.
Part Two My angle is to create a synergistic formula that includes inventiveness in product line design ie., training aids/teaching aids - combined with journalist work - quietly and diligently done, giving personal attention to the player/reader, in a golf magazine previously noted for Travel & Leisure.
Awards abound in golf. Who is worthy of an award, in golf, and what is the criteria for it to be so? Shouldn't’t the foundation of the event be stable to sustain the exercise?
(3)
When awards are given, could it be that the mark may be missed, in part, because of self sustaining interests only? Does an economic interest include the art form for its philosophical content? Is the stream of interest lacking qualitative individual awards,and not awarding quantitative materialistic participation of the industry only?
Innovative awards could find a starting place with the PGA of America. Golf is a game that offers a variety of awards for many reasons. Firstly, golf’s diversity arranges awards from the golf range and the golf course. The teaching professional is highly regarded. The PGA Teacher of the Year award is an award given as an entry for educating. Where is the classroom? Golf’s classroom is the golf range and the golf course. The teacher brings these two areas closer together, and they extend to community partnerships.
Another highly touted award in the PGA arena is the PGA Professional of the Year, which is a composite of total golf activity.
One thing to be noted about golf through the years is segments of golf cause confusion. Golf is so multifaceted within its structure communicative skills are difficult to keep in tact. Golf, unlike other sports has separation embodied by design - the course, range, and equipment.
Unlike other sports, which unify practice and play areas - baseball, bowling, boxing, billiards, basketball etc.- offer practice and prepare for play as a connected form leading to the main event. Golf separates itself physically. Golf clubs follow the player from course to range, and from range to course, but what of the ball? In basketball or baseball, one gets the “feel” - the warm-up on the same court, or field. A cohesive environment helps us play the game when play and practice stay connected.
Part Three
Be inclusive! To help ourselves and the game of golf, be
connected by asking, “What’s the correct ball for me?”
We know this through “feel”. The golf course and golf range need to be equipped to suit many needs. Weather changes compression of a golf ball. Do you always use the same ball in all weather conditions? Of course not! So why alter your “feel” in practice and play?
Kick your car or truck tire January 29th, in Wisconsin, and again July 29th, and you’ll know “compression”! The golf ball industries position could be as supportive with their ammunition, rewarding their consumers an award winning practice, through better distribution of their product,thereby tying the game and the practice together.
Transcendental Golf (a golf range) equips itself with ammunition suited for weather variables and consumer choices has been offering 80, 90, and 100 compression golf balls from three golf ball manufacturers for over a decade!
This could be a “boon” for the golf industries ball hawks !
If the ball manufacturer chooses to avoid compression variables as a suitable angle for practical practice - they remain the provider of ammunition whether they like it or not! It’s only a matter of collecting ,sorting, and striping.
(5)
If anyone has had a shag-bag it consisted of a variety of balls. How the golf balls came out of the bag found a certain formula! Short shots - low compression. Start here! Long shots - high compression, so it is.
Could awards, to be achieved by excluding separation of the ball’s “feel” in practice and play (the range ball vs the golf course ball) increase ones ability? If not, could this in part be, the reason why we’ve continued to lose “feel”, sapping ones ability? As is the word “golf” in the total golf arena. If your not the composer, watch the conductor.
Why not feel more deeply for the game of golf by using the words that define it? This angle has - everyone as an award winner including the golf industries promotion of products, and golf publications as well.
“ Through the wave you can see the ocean if you are not concentrated on the wave.”
Jack Thomsen Tuesday, Dec. 09 -08
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