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(and other colleagues) could use to analyze Tour players' swings for the viewers at home. "It allowed me to see the swing in a new way," Clampett says, "so I really began to study the best players in the game. You look at Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk and Sergio Garcia, they have wildly different swings, but they are all effective. In trying to understand why, I kept coming back to their position at impact, which was almost identical." In 2007, Clampett published the instruction book, "The Impact Zone: Mastering Golf 's Mo- ment of Truth." It developed a cult following and established him as a fresh thinker on an old topic. "Every golfer is always trying to get better, but most of them never do," Clampett says. "It goes back to the outdated model of instruction that I call opinion-based teaching. When you take a lesson, the teacher tries to conform you to what that teacher thinks is the best style of swing, even though it might not be the best for you. And philosophically, it could be the complete oppo- site of what the guy next to him on the range is teaching. It opens a Pandora's box of confusion for the golfer. What we have developed with Impact Zone Golf teaching is objective, measur- Photo: Courtesy of Bobby Clampett A lifetime of hard-won knowledge was distilled into Clampett's influential instructional book, "The Impact Zone." Photo: Courtesy of Bobby Clampett Clampett now brings his hands-on teaching to golfers of all ages, including at the Impact Zone Golf Indoor Performance Center in Naples, Fla. 118 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 2 0 Clampett's mentor was Ben Doyle, an eccentric genius and leading interpreter of "The Golf Machine," Homer Kelly's instructional tome that still has a cult following.