I was with Nick Mastrani when he interviewed Tom for the 1991 Golf Illustrated article. The two of us took lessons from Tom. My experience clearly was that Tom want me to pull down on the handle of the club at the same time as I was shifting weight from back to front foot. Tom said it really is all about rotary motion. I am sure he taught different people in different ways depending on what they needed.
This is how I remember Tommy teaching the Start Down Move (which, of course, is how it really works). In fact, this is precisely The Magic Move Harvey Penick taught in his now famous Little Red Book (page 96):
"To start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body."
There is a big difference between your recollection of Tommy's advice to "pull down as you shift" and DG's steadfast demand that we uncock the right elbow from the top and in advance of any lower body action.
P.S. And this would be my Post #7,000. Thanks for reading, everybody!
Thank you for writing 7000 Insightful and Educational Posts and developing our Fascination for this great game .
7000 educated posts and probably 7000 more educated hands! Thanks to Lynn Blake for your faithfulness, generosity and love of the Machine and the game. There will never be another'n like you.
I'm verklemt! Before I discovered your website I had a love/hate relationship with golf...now I just love it! Execution of what YOU have taught me is ellusive at times but it is a lot easier to embrace complexity than accept an unsolvable mystery. Without your articulate explanation of Homer's work TGM would still be that maddening little yellow book in need of color photos! I have also benefitted from your worldview shared in many "your take on things" posts. Simply put you are one of my heroes.
I think that Okie has expressed a widely-held sentiment very well when he stated-: "Without your articulate explanation of Homer's work TGM would still be that maddening little yellow book in need of color photos!"
I only started to study the little yellow book since April 2008, and as a neophyte TGMer, Yoda's TGM-wisdom (in the form of forum posts and free videos) has been a major source of my limited understanding of the TGM book.
II have also benefitted from your worldview shared in many "your take on things" posts. Simply put you are one of my heroes.
Congratulations on post 7,000.
I'd like to echo that statement.
Yoda, you are the best
__________________ The student senses his teacher’s steadfast belief and quiet resolve: “This is doable. It is doable by you. The pathway is there. All you need is determination and time.” And together, they make it happen.
This is a great place for learning, we are lucky to have these types of forums. Thanks L.B. for sharing.
__________________ Hitting the Ball is the easiest part of the game-hitting it effectively is the most difficult. Why trust instinct when there is a science."1-G.
You have given us all so much so it is only right that I should reciprocate even if it is in absentia and cost me nothing more than the thought.
In the end, though, it is the thought that counts. Words cannot always adequately express ones sentiments regardless of the varying degrees of eloquence demonstrated by those of us so deeply in your debt.
Sod it! I'm getting all emotional now so have another one and thanks for everything.
B. J. Hathaway, G.S.E.B., M.C.I.
I'm getting all emotional now so have another one 
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