Opening sequence features a voracious swing befitting a two-time National Long Drive Champion. The ball meekly runs out of gas at the 360-yard marker. He also drives a ball 250 with a putter. Practicing with three balls, swinging first at 50 percent of power, then 75 percent, then at normal swing speed. Marries arms with body, builds balance, keeps swing in sequence.
Baseball ruins the golf swing.
On the splendidly tight par-four 11th at the TPC at Las Colinas, home of the Nelson, The Art bounces one over the green, a blast of three hundred yards into a wicked cross wind. Turn a driver over, grip and swing it. Fundamentals mixed with quips, Hogan stories, almost Beat-like freewheeling technical instruction theory and a measure of old fashioned pop feel good. He seems tired but takes it up several notches accentuating the folksy positive gospel. They simply reverse their roles.