Jeffrey Moore

Golf:THE greatest game ever invented by the human mind! Find your Centre; Cure your vision; Settle your state! Get my preSatoshi NFT. previously: @golftothecore

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

The Golf Shaman has rebranded to Lightning Golf.

Why?

1. I was surprised that the handle was available on X ... so I snagged it!

2. https://t.co/2qtUaJpFi2 was available as well ... so that is also secured.

3. After spending time in El Salvador and exploring NOSTR, I decided to de-centralize and claim ownership of my content via the Bitcoin model.

Plus:

The lightning network IS the killer app for expanding the adoption of bitcoin.

Lighting Golf on NOSTR:

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Zap me if I'm adding value. 10% of the accrued value in that wallet at the end of 2026 will be donated to charity. The remainder will be designated for building in El Salvador.

On December 31st, 2026 I will screenshot and post my donation. 100% transparency!

4. I was playing around with Grok for a new profile pic. It really got me thinking of the re-brand ...

The golf club is a mostly peaceful expression of the Samurai's sword in action.

Golf is an inner battle with ego, anticipation, aspirations, dissatisfaction, distractions, and so on.

We are all battling the goof within! ( See "Heart of a Goof" by P.G. Wodehouse )

The whole purpose is to settle the state and find the GRINDER within!

5. I truly am NOT a shaman. The name at first glance implies an aura of hubris.

That is not my intent!

My intention is to help you enter the awakened state by helping you create your own simple devices and practicing broad spectrum activities.

It my belief that the contemplation of these simple devices will lead you to an "aha" moment regarding the nature of your personal time signature, the essence or your expressed form, and the natural stoic disposition of a settled state.

You only need three simple homemade tools to bring out the aesthetic movement and clearly see the ball in real time. ( AKA "the uncarved block". See, "The Tao of Pooh" )

My original Intention was to urge the seeker to find their inner golf shaman ... their inner healer ... their inner warrior.

I make no claim of any secret knowledge or any thing like that. In fact, due to the simultaneous re-emergence of some old injuries, I rarely partake of the grand game these days.

I can't prove anything I'm saying outright!

I'm just revealing the results of my investigation into the world's greatest game.

All I ask is for the able bodied to prove it to yourselves.

These three simple homemade tools ( Open source everything! ) are like three Golden Buffalos, calmly and diligently grazing on the Great Plains.

They are NOT a stampede that kicks up the dust of fragmented thoughts.

The minutiae of tips and tricks only serve to steal time away from the moment.

The idea is to use your mind to unthink the game.

... and glossy golf magazines

Oof!

Everything you need to know is already known by you.

Lighting Golf implies the "aha" moment in golf. Like ... "it hit me like a bolt of lightning!" It's a re-framing of the Zero to One moment. That is really what I'm going for here.

So again ... not a Shaman ... I have never studied under a Master.

I have never partaken of the mixing of the plant and the vine. I have never smoked the DMT.

To borrow a phrase from Castaneda, "I am corroborating the rule in ordinary reality."

You don't need these psychotropics to pierce the veil, as it were, in golf.

Treating golf as a meditation will take us there ... if we let it!

The notion of the inner golf shaman was a play on Tim Gallweys "Inner Game of Golf."

He really explains well (from a Western perspective) how to settle the war between the observer and the experiencer.
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So that's it!

From the pseudonym of Taylor Spalding at https://t.co/5sMj26jKTg (circa 1995) to Lightning Golf now, the evolution of the brand is settled.

I dedicate this brand to the perpetuation of the perennial philosophy and to the inspiration of all future golfers in the generations to come.

Forever keep alive this great game!

Libertad para el bien!

Cheers!

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

Okay. Here is the full stack ... proof of work.

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

This is the result of my years of notebooks full of notes. Ai will help me fill this up after all these years.

This will soon be the "zero to one" golf book that moves the needle.

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

... the point of the last post in this thread is this:

For most players (myself included), to swing at the pace in the video above is unwise. It would likely result in torn hamstrings, shoulder dislocations, L4 and L5 ruptures, etc.

I'm being a bit hyperbolic, of course.

But as someone going through an extended injury time-out from the great game, it hurts me to observe this tempo.

Conversely, the extended pause of someone like a Cam Young can be equally destructive on, let's say, the mental level.

That "nod to the gods" moment is ripe for a Buffalo stampede of fragmented thoughts and speculations.

I happy medium is the answer ... dare I say a Golden Mean?

If you set your metronome to 63 and run it against the next loop, you will find that it cycles through and lines up with this metronomic number.

What is your swing number?

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

This battle between Cam Young and Rory McIlroy at the Masters today will exemplify exactly why the Metronome IS Hogan's secret.

If you set your metronome to 51 and watch this clip of Cam Young at the same time, it will eventually cycle through to the point whereby the sound of "tic" coincides exactly with the instant that the club moves away from the ball.

The sound of "tock" coincides exactly with impact of the ball.

https://t.co/3MmUhW7SUP

If you were to do this experiment with Rory McIlroy's swing, you would have to set the Metronome to around 76.

Everyone has their own unique number on the scale. What is yours?

When I appeared on stage with @maxkeiser at the @MaxAndStacyGolf invitational, we were mostly talking about how tying a pendulum to the center of a Bo staff could improve your golf swing.

What we did not discuss is how training with this stick and whipping the ball around your body trains your psyche into accepting a relative slowness of transition from "to" to "fro."

The only way to get the pendulum to work rhythmically around the body is to allow the ball to bump the opposite hip before transitioning around to the other direction.

The matchup of these two today in the final group will demonstrate that the differences between these two elite players is a difference in time structure and not one of physical form.

Great Golf is:

A time solution first
A motion solution second
A form solution third

Much gratitude to @BSN_Events

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

For example, if you run this swing on a loop and set your Metronome to 69 (and let it run against the loop), eventually the tick of the Metronome will lineup with the instant that the movement initiates away from the ball and the strike will occur on the next tick.

Because of the slight delay after the strike before it loops around again, the metronome will cycle through until it aligns. It's a bit of a challenge to find an exact number ... but we could simply say that the swing of this player is in the adagio range.

You can do this with any player. It takes some experimenting to find the right number for each player you're observing.

A player like Jon Rahm is in the andante range at 96 beats per minute. Cam Young, with is accentuated pause, is well into the largo range at 51 BPM!

In my observations over the years, most players are larghetto, adagio, or andante. Less common is largo. Very few are in the higher andante range as well.

The challenge in golf is that the "tension of correctness" (or the tendency to attach meaning to outcomes) encourages the larghetto player to get a little bit adagio in some situations. Even a slight uptick in tempo tends to disrupt.

Since the golf swing is a chaotic dynamic system, a little too much effort becomes way, way too much. This event leads to continuity breaks and a loss of connection between the center and the periphery.

Settling the initial condition is key.

The strategy for finding your own unique number will be presented in "Golf and the Golden Buffalo."

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

Golden Tempo ... I love the name! ... Then it dawned on me! That name really sums up what my future golf book is all about.

"Golf and the Golden Buffalo" is about helping golfers find that golden thread of efficient connectedness.

Here is a link to the article Max referenced when we had the opportunity to speak together on stage at the 2nd annual @MaxAndStacyGolf invitational.

Displaying powerful spontaneous repartee, @maxkeiser perfectly summed up the unique challenge that the great game of golf presents ... and the need to dissolve the urge to apply "brute force" ... and to

.... find your signature tempo

https://t.co/yDgVzEHgIm

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@MURPHSLIFE Looks great Murph! I will surely stop by on my next trip to El Salvador!

I was so close in January! I got shut down by the wind and a downed electric pole!

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

It was truly a joy to watch Maria José Marín win the Women's Amateur at Augusta!

Her play, and more specifically, her swing, perfectly verifies that the metronome IS Hogan's Secret.

She has a very slow and deliberate initial movement away from the ball and then wanes into the transition from "to" to "fro".

I measured her swing on the metronome today. Her metronomic number is around a 44. Most golfers are in the 60's or 70's on the metronome.

Folks such as Jon Rahm and Tony Finau are in the 80's on the metronome. Rahm actually may be in the low 90's.

Always remember that the sound of "tic" corresponds to the instant the club moves away from the ball. The sound of "tock" coincides with the instant that the club makes contact with the ball.

Everyone has their own unique number on the metronome. What's yours?

While observing her swing, I thought to myself that her motion away was like a ballet movement, of sorts.

Lo and behold, she talks about ballet in this video I found.

https://t.co/OjR1f1kIx0

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

The AA series of The Golden Swing Thing is now more rare. AA20 got chunked out at the center ... so it had to be destroyed.

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@stacyherbert Any virtual tickets for a stream of the sovAI event? ... I know ... it's not the same!

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

Ladies and gentlemen, inside this small wrapped box is Hogan’s secret.

The box is sitting next to one of the great books about the greatest of all games!

I had this little white box with me in my luggage when I traveled to El Salvador in January for the Max and Stacy Golf Invitational.

While I was there, I unexpectedly got on stage with Max Keiser to talk about a training tool that I developed. The contents of this little white box will make the training tool I demonstrated even more effective!

If I had more time to prepare, I could have pulled this little box out and used it as a prop for a structured presentation. The title of that presentation is, “How Can You Cure Your Ailing Golf Game with 9 Beverage Napkins, a Pen, and a Phone?” It's a silly little bar trick of sorts. And ...It is quite an eye-opener!

When I walk you through the process, what is in that box will make complete sense to you.

The contents of this box are "a priori" to figuring out your golf swing.

As I now use AI to help me finish the book that has been burning inside me for the last 30 years, I want to give you a sneak peek of some of the concepts that I will be developing through the arc of the book. The book is titled, "Golf and the Golden Buffalo."

Tomorrow morning (April 1st, 2026) at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, I will unveil what is in the box.

This is not an April Fools Day prank!

You may want to follow me and turn on notifications because I will be limiting the views to 50. Once the post reaches 50 views, I will delete it.

Stay tuned.

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@stacyherbert Exactly! Organic intelligence must still be at the wheel!

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

💯 the thorium approach makes sense!

This X space with @BrianRoemmele is a deep dive.

So I went back to the start of the project and found this podcast to be very helpful.

I must say that I never really took the Joseph Campbell/Jungian deep dive. But I have always believed that the hero's arc is a natural outgrowth of the human ambition to create value. Ai is redefining how the human being (at a mass consciousness level) will create value.

The escape velocity moment is really upon us. If you have children in their 30's (like I do), make them aware of this material. The psychological component of this paradigm shift cannot be overstated!

Listen to https://t.co/ShKXauVB5a: You Have 5000 Days. How To Navigate The End Of Work As We Know It. Part 1. on @rss https://t.co/PjEw7HkJfP

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@stacyherbert No nukes please

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@stacyherbert You are the Shaman!

[Jeffrey Moore @lightninggolf]

@stacyherbert This is getting deep! Thanks for the value speakers🙏