While I Still Can

Best spring break blog post ever! I am going to go ahead and call that while I still can. The putting stroke of young Jamarkus is glorious and deserves the most elegant of prose. Hogie has done just a wonderful job breaking it down for our audience. I saw that 21 people viewed our blog yesterday! Well OK it had 21 views. There are probably just a few of you #diehardfollowers who read it more than once. Or maybe your computer froze and you had to refresh the page. I don't really know. There is no way of knowing. Maybe, and this is probably most likely the case, there were only 21 page views, but multiple people were reading on the same screen. Probably entire families crowded around an i-phone to read this blog yesterday. 21 families, extended families. Figuring conservatively at 13 people per extended family yields an audience of 273 viewers. Inspiring stuff, I know.

To honor the author of this landmark blog post, I will honor the new-born politico my giving an analysis of his   golf swing.

Matt Butler so politically aware. The most aware.

Harvey Penick famously wrote in his Little Red Book, "a follow-through is a reflection of what has gone on before it." Here we see Butler is his finish position. His weight is leaning sharply to the left which matches is political ideology, even though he will tell you he is a moderate. His chest is not fully turned through the shot, but his hips have rotated nicely towards the target. The shot has likely faded softly into the right rough approximately 237 yards from the teeing ground. Butler would go on to shank his next shot somewhere near the green, and then get the ball up and down from a terrible lie for  a pretty standard par.

Hogie: A new-born politico

Growing up in rural-West Texas, MB didn't even know he had a government. He was, to put it nicely, woefully politically unaware. This all changed when the Italian Butler arrived at Macalester in the fall of 2008. His wrist was broken from an accident involving a ladder and gravity, and he was recovering from wrist surgery. He couldn't play golf, so he spent is free time learning about this thing called government  . By fall break he had learned there was to know. Here (left) we see him giving testimony regarding voter ID legislation at the state capitol. There a few things I would like to draw your attention to. Matt's stance to the podium is absolutely square. His spine is also very perpendicular to the ground. I'd like to see him tilt just a little bit more to the right, both politically and with his spine angle at address in his actual golf swing. His arms, of course, remain perfectly relaxed.