![]() A part of it gave him the ability to relate to his young students at College of the Desert though he was many years their senior. Part of being an expert is having an open mind to different ways of experiencing golf and also to explaining it. Perhaps this is the final and best lesson of a true master of golf. What I was seeing was Tony working his hands to see if this was true or not.Īfter a while, Tony looked up and me and said, “You know, Paul…that’s absolutely right.” The writer said that only the left wrist truly hinged while the right wrist merely shifted right to accommodate that hinging action. Before we had gotten into the edits I had mentioned the premise of an article I had read concerning the action of the wrists during the golf swing. I was watching his hands as he read but I couldn’t figure out why he was moving them as he was. I was reading the book, out loud, to him while Tony silently read his copy of the draft. Once, I met with him in his office during a time when we were feverishly editing one of the final drafts of our book. I had the good fortune of working with Tony on his concepts many times over the last decade and each and every time I met with him in person, or when I spoke to him by phone, his mind was always on the game. Of course, Tony coached his College of the Desert team to no fewer than five state championships. Of course, Tony was an amazing player in his own right. In the end, as great a teacher as Tony was, as fine a player as he was, his real calling in life, his real gift, was as a lifelong student of golf. Yes, Frank Sinatra was godfather to his daughter.Įach of these are undisputed facts but what they don’t convey is what truly matters about Tony Manzoni. ![]() Yes, he had played alongside of the greats of our game. He fought the good fight and fought it with optimism and good humor but in the end cancer or the fates or God in heaven ended the game and now we are all left to face the world, and especially the world of golf, without him. Tony battled cancer over the last few years. Those many years have now flipped by as the days and weeks and months and years of the calendar are destined to and now my friend, Tony Manzoni, has moved on. Soon thereafter we met but it was years, many years, in fact, before our book, The Lost Fundamental, saw the light of day. The article was pretty sparse, and didn’t really get to the essence of what Tony was saying, but there was just enough there to pique my interest. ![]() I can’t remember if it was 2008 or 2009 when I first met Tony Manzoni. I know I was in the desert on a golf junket and that I had picked up a local desert golf magazine that had an article on Tony that alluded to his swing theory. Thanks, Fred, for providing the forum for me to share two of my favorite subjects with you and the entire GolfSmarter audience. I was very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about the release of the second edition of Tony Manzoni’s classic golf instructional book, The Lost Fundamental as well as the availability of my new book, John J. That ramped up my anxiety factor a little at the outset but once we got rolling the interview took on a nice flow. Fred’s a real pro and a great friend to golf. I did the interview cold I didn’t know what questions Fred would be asking in advance. The experience made me want to do it all again, but to do a little better job. He does an amazing job on the podcast and makes the entire process so enjoyable for the guest. It was really generous of GolfSmarter’s head-honcho, Fred Greene, to invite me onto the show. Johnston actually says that, “The left arm just hangs and is inert until the right arm stretches it and creates leverage.” The crucial part lasts about three minutes and is worth watching again and again to get the idea to fully penetrate thicker heads like mine.Įxciting News: Now you can listen to my interview on the GolfSmarter podcast here: Trying to avoid this tendency got me thinking (seldom a good thing when it comes to golf, but a really good thing in this case) about what some Youtube golf gurus had to say on the subject. The first video is from Steve Johnston and the fun starts at around the three minute mark. Now, the funny thing is that even though I know this, I sometimes find myself driving the downswing, and even initiating my takeaway, using the energy and force of my left arm. This was sadly not one of my father’s better golf lessons and it took me years to learn that the opposite was true. When I was a kid, my father (who was a really, really good player) told me I had too much right hand in my golf swing and that it resulted in my then-constant slice. Paul Cervantes on February 18: Another clear…
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