Waggle Weight Wisdom™ Original

It is taken for granted here that everyone, at any age, wants to perform and score his or her best while swinging and playing golf.  Sophisticated adults might pay close attention to whether they are “swingers” or “hitters,” on the correct “swing plane,” employing “proper wrist hinging,” whether their arms and the golf club are “at the proper angle” during address, and a multitude of other swing-related technicalities.  Contrarily, an unsophisticated child has no conception of these “advanced” topics, simply wanting to hit the ball any way he or she can, combining more fun in the course of still wanting success.  But wait just a minute!  Maybe I have that backward! 

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If I were to gather up about a dozen typical three-year old kids, put an appropriate baseball bat in their hands, tell them to hit the ball I will throw to them, and then start to pitch underhanded, the results would

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In Part One, I divided playing golf into three primary skills comprising learning how to swing, the fitting of equipment, and on-course experience.  On the surface, there would seem to be somewhat of a natural instinct to learn the game in this presented order.  To illustrate, when I have gone through periods of just plain hitting the ball lousy,

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Regardless of whether one is a total beginner at golf, a tour player looking to refresh their fundamentals, a teacher of the golf swing, or involved in the fitting and making of equipment used for play, I shall initiate this blog, Waggle Weight Wisdom, by stripping away most of the advanced details and hype concerning how to play the game of golf, and start with a more simple approach toward playing and playing well.  Before getting into deeper specifics of certain golf subjects, it is important here to lay some basic groundwork and develop an outline from which to expand on later.  By keeping these elementary principles firmly in mind, which contain the nucleus of how to develop and maintain one’s golf game for a lifetime, more complex ideas and analysis should be easier to comprehend later.  These primary goals will be referred back to often when discussing more detailed golfing matters in future dialogue.  While this broadest of framework is open to variations in wording and the number of sub-topics, I consider its central theme to be “Playing Golf” in its absolute form.

Playing golf well requires paying attention to three fundamental areas.  The first and most obvious task is

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