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Great video of Jackie Burke, thanks Anton.
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James Tucker,

I find great interest in the way that Bubba learned and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with block training.

Phily / Anton,

I am going to think further about what you guys are writing about. I need to skedaddle for the night.
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Regarding the potential - and suspicious - ineffectiveness of block training, I submit the following synopsis of how Bubba Watson learned how to play golf.

"The seemingly miraculous 160-yard wedge shot that Watson hit Sunday to win the Masters—the ball started out low under a tree limb and then hooked a sharp right onto the green—was just the type of shot he hit by the thousands growing up in Bagdad, Fla., hard by Alabama and Mississippi on the state's panhandle. When his...
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David C,

I have hit range balls with my eyes closed, but only once. I teed up about twenty or so balls, shutting my eyes after getting set up, and let 'em rip with the driver. I played around with this during one range session and one range session only. It felt wild. Disorienting. I kinda' felt like Luke in Star Wars with the visor down.

I guess what I was referring to in the post above was swinging in the dark (not pitch black, mind you) with my eyes wide...
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