alosso:
russellfahey: then the argument of their need to hold the meter to make it smoother doesn't hold water to me,
It has been a popular advice against a stuttering meter as long as I've been around and has been testified in this thread by Woodo and Courteney and RM and MB (citing Andyson) and YJ and alanti and myself, even JC (arguing against himself nicely on page 6), and Barry acknowledged it.
What else do you need to understand that it's common practice to hold the backswing, making the proposed backswing time count a useless witchhunt?
This is what i was talking about as regards ppl taking snippets of a post to make there point have some validity!!
Now Alosso try reading the whole part of what i wrote again pls and then respond to the question i asked at the end of the statement.
My point is this if they are taking on average 2-4 secs per drive but then taking 15 seconds on there approaches on sometimes a critical part of the game or mp,then the argument of their need to hold the meter to make it smoother doesn't hold water to me,as surely you need to hit the f/w on your drive to allow you to play a good approach shot,rather than being in the rough of say 30-40% 190yrds from pin or even worse if your playing Merion,don't you agree?
The point i was trying to get across,was that it's all about looking for consistency in how a player plays/executes his shots as regards the whiteout method throughout the entiire round.This is where Jeffs post comes in,but like i have already mentioned and agreed with ppl that it is not a foolproof method!!!!
I know it's also common practice to hold the backswing to make the meter smoother,i have no problem with that but if this is the case then why aren't they doing this on every shot if there meter is a problem?? i only become suspicious when the time gets nearer the 15 second mark as anything under 10 seconds i don't really worry about, as i see them as holding there meter due to the cpu issue.But these players are only taking 2-4 seconds to drive off the tee,can you not see why tis may arouse my suspicion??
If that makes me smug and Elitest as RM likes to portray me as then so be it,i mean come on RM is so unreproachable i must surely be in the wrong to dare to have an opinion that is different to his.
Russell