Three Barrel vs. Four Barrel - Forum Archive

hue wrote:

YODA
In real terms if you had a 4-barrel player go to a 3-barrel action and master it to the same level of competence. In your opinion, what would be the loss of distance with the driver be if he became a 3-barrel player, if say the guy could crank it out 300 yards with a 4-barrel action? Thanks.

This is a great question and a great post.

The answer is that the Three-Barrel guy would find his ball 290 on thesprinkler heads. The 300-yard Four Barreler likely would be four yards aheadand surrounded by a group of his closest friends...all in the rough..and allstill looking...

P.S. Attention All Four-Barrellers: Do not forget that a lotof what you think you are feeling as Right Arm Thrust...orDrive...or Right Hand through the Ball...or WHATEVER...isnothing more than your very powerful Right Shoulder driving the #4Accumulator through the Right Forearm Flying Wedge throughthe the Ball.

You may feel the 'Power' in your Right Arm or Hand...but the Sourceis your Right Shoulder. Larry Nelson told me this personally fifteenyears ago, and he knows zilch about The Golfing Machine. HeIS a Golfing Machine. Think about it.

Delaware Golf wrote:

Yoda,
You have your distances wrong, if the true 3 barrel swinger can hit 290 yards, the four barrel swinger will be able to hit it 310 to 340 yards. A good 20 to 50 yards better than the true swinger.

290 for the 3 barrel swinger, Yoda, you forgot to add that the wind was at his back and the ball caught a down hill lie!!!

Trust me, put up an accomplished 3 barrel and 4 barrel swinger together the 4 barrel swinger will out drive the 3 barrel swinger, no problem.

Yoda, even your buddy Tom Tomasello said, when the swinger uses right arm thrust he'll ad 20 to 50 yards to his tee shot, I have him saying that on video tape. Tom said it's kind of ridiculus that a right handed/sided person would play the game from the left side, so learn to use that right arm, you have been holding back all these years!!!

DG

Well, DG,

Regarding my yardages, I knocked off a few for the 4-barrel guy because hedidn't catch it flush that time. And I added a few for the 3-barrel guy 'causehis caddy had a strong right foot, which he exercised when the 4-barrelers wereall over in the gunch.

Regarding my friend, the late Tommy Tomasello, all I know is this:

The Man who wrote The Book taught Tommy everything he ever learned aboutTGM;and

The Man said this in writing in his Clampett swing analysis:

"Power Package muscle power (right triceps thrust) can make a minisculecontribution and only with great effort during a swing procedure."

That's good enough for me, and besides, this is where I came in on this one!So...

If you'll excuse me, I'm outa here!