John Dunigan

Anyone visited John Dunigan's site www.golfbetterproductions.com. Seems to have quite a bit of TGM in there. Talks about educated hands and anyone who uses those terms has gotta beleive in TGM. Is he an AI?

Vikram

Ummm.... I doubt hes an AI - too many inaccuracies in his text which I skimmed.

I bought his book. Good concepts but not TGM. He advocates pushing with the hands. Very big on swing plane and lag. His first move down is a backward push with the hands. I enjoyed his book.

I've read his book, a while back, and didn't quite understand what he was trying to describe. I would guess that it is a move similar to what Tomasello describes, but his seemed to me to also include a plane shift of some kind.

I can see from the photos that he can strike a ball well, it was just a touch unclear exactly what he wanted folks to work on.

From what I've seen, he's big on the plane. He wants a double shift - from the elbow to the turned shoulder back to the elbow plane. I'm sure what he's teaching will fix most slicers but if he gets a good player I'd have to guess that they will start fighting the hooks.

Basically, he either a) doesn't know you can have a zero shift; or b) doesn't like a zero shift. Everything in his book is regarding a double shift. His ball-flight "laws" are also completely backwards from what I remember. Pretty much the exact opposite of what really happens. Says clubhead path determines starting direction and clubface dictates curvature. Thus an out-to-in path with an open face means you'll hit a pull-slice...when we all know what will really happen.

Originally Posted by djoc I bought his book. Good concepts but not TGM. He advocates pushing with the hands. Very big on swing plane and lag. His first move down is a backward push with the hands. I enjoyed his book.

Here is a quote from Tomasello's 1991 Golf Illustrated interview...

"....once you have the set the flat left wrist and the bent-back right at address, the hands do absolutely nothing throughout the swing. That is a major hurdle for most golfers; to do nothing with their hands and wrists feels foreign, because they've been manipulating them so many different ways throughout their lives".

Doesn't sound like the move djoc decribes above is what Tomasello taught...

DG