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After nearly a century,
"Golf's Greatest and Best Kept Secret is Finally Revealed!"

Through Private and Personal Instruction, you can now obtain knowledge of the most consistent and powerful golfing mental art technique ever in the history of the game. This technique has been proven and tested infallibly for over nearly a century.

 

Personalized, Private lessons

No matter how informative a book, no matter how well done a DVD, nothing is better than hands-on lessons from a fellow Yogi.  And not just any fellow Yogi, but the last one living who was personally taught by the Master himself, the one designated at Yogi’s last hour, as THE one to spread the method.

So, if you have a gut feeling that you should act now and quickly, you just might be lucky and get a place in line.

Because they are so useful and valuable, and because there is at present only ONE Yogi teacher in the world, lesson spots are limited and costly.  They are limited because they are one-on-one over a three-day period.  They SEEM costly until one understands the value.  Probably these lessons are in the range of prosperous individuals and private country club members.  Certainly, they are very inexpensive compared to the top teachers in the US.  They are almost a give away when one considers that there is only one Yogi and one Yogi teacher.  Finally, the private lessons include all the Yogi material in print, in DVD and CD along with the irreplaceable “Platform to Perfection.”   AND, amazingly, an entire set of irons, woods and putter are included, personally fitted to your new Yogi swing, of the highest quality, with specially fitted grips used only by Yogi golfers.  Finally, lessons take place in a wonderful Southern California private club, lunch included.  Lessons are the full swing, the short strokes (125 yards and in), and putting.

Now, you are equipped with new clubs, a new swing, a new short game and a new putting style all in just three days.  During the three days, there will be at least one, but probably two playing lessons, normally 9 holes.  This lesson will take place on a very difficult very private course, with super fast greens.  The conditions are magnificent, and the bar is well stocked.  Your new experience will take a lot out of you while putting a lot more INTO you!

You will become a very effective and happy golfer when you learn your lessons properly.  In fact, if you had paid huge fees in the past to a famous teacher, the Count Yogi personal lessons will seem a bargain. Of course they are a bargain.  We think they are a bargain at any price, because we agree with the Count: “…my golf swing is Creator – God – given…”  How do you pay for something God-given?  How do you acquire something that comes from inspiration?

We firmly believe, as did Yogi himself, that the Count Yogi System is ‘for everybody.’  We also have the realistic experience of not being able to teach every person.  Sometimes the student is not ready to accept Yogi.  Sometimes the potential student just wants a quick fix to the power swing.  No quick fixes are possible here.  Just a permanent fix!

Why is it important to say this?  Honestly and bluntly, some lessons must terminate at the first meeting. That’s school for you!  How often does this happen?  Rarely.  This is the ‘REAL THING’!  All we ask of the student is that he or she comes with an open mind, no, more: an open heart.

Did you know that Tim is the only golfer alive today who never went through all the confusion, aggravation, and shock of modern teaching methods?  He never pounded a million balls at the range.  He never ‘hit down’ on it with a straightened the left arm.  He learned directly from the Master, Count Yogi. The Master also taught Tim how to teach you and the next generation.  Tim is not Count Yogi.  He plays excellent, FUN golf!  He even likes golf- but not as much as surfing.  He promised at the Count’s deathbed that he would continue the work of offering this wonderful art form to the world.  He did not know what he had promised!

Slots fill up quickly, and the teacher only teaches around 9 months out of 12.

What You Bring To the Lessons:

The best single thing for you to bring is an open mind.  Put on hold all you think you know about golf and the golf swing.  Allow the ideas and lessons to transform your mind and body.  This willingness on your part will eliminate nearly all your old so-called problems.  On top of that, as Tim teaches the way Yogi taught and wanted Tim to continue teaching, he will begin with the common, traditional courtesies of golf and fill in the time with interesting stories about his time with Yogi.  Nothing like knowing your future heritage!

DAY ONE LESSON

As your first lessons begin, you will be struck that Tim is really interested in you.  He wants to know why you think Yogi can help you.  What do you want out of golf?  How many years have you played?  How often do you play today?  How many holes?  To which country club(s) do you belong?  Do you play with the same friends regularly?  Do you travel and play all the famous courses you can?  Which length tees do you tee off from?  Have you taken lessons from a pro?  Have you become discouraged or even downright cynical about teaching ideas?  Do you understand club design?  Are you able to put aside your favorite ideas for three days and put yourself fully into the Yogi swing?  What physical limitations do you have?

What would really please you to have in your game?  Longer drives?  Great short game?  Putting?  Fine 9-hole scores?  Ability to compete in your local and club tournaments?

Tim then will introduce you to the “Platform To Perfection” and show you how it is set up, and why it works along with its priceless five simple step “infallible mental routine” and the Yogi Full Swing.  This takes less than 30 minutes!  That’s it.  Then you practice and he talks it into you MIND, where the swing lives.  Even though the five-step method done with the platform is outwardly simple, it will LOOK and FEEL simple.  He will insist that, no matter how simple it (the platform) appears, you will actually use it over the coming years for self-fix ‘tune-ups.’

He normally ends the day around a drink or lunch with a discussion of clubs.  He needs to know what, if any, your understanding of clubs is.  He will describe loft, lie, swing weight, and flex.  He will show you why the clubs included in your lessons, are simply the best new clubs on the market, especially for Yogi style golfers.  He will also show you why the woods are the best.  The next day, Day Two, you get your new clubs.

DAY ONE COMMENTS

When people watch you swing, the main comment they make, unsolicited, is that it looks ‘so easy, so smooth.’ They have open eyes, because what they say is true.  But it looks that way because of the INTELLIGENCE of the swing, not the greatness (ha!) of your athletic ability.  I will say it took me personally some weeks to really sense how it worked.  You too will be surprised how you will immediately stroke (not hit) the ball very well when you do your first Yogi swing.  After Day Two and your second lesson, the strokes (or short shots) you will actually feel as if you are practically picking up the ball and setting it down right where you want!

Of course, all sorts of things will distract you (it is a mental process) as well as your own previous experience will sabotage you.  Tim and the Platform to Perfection will keep you on track and later, at home, you can continue to understand just what is actually going on.

Tim will have prepared you to receive customized irons and woods built around the requirements for the Yogi swing.  After this, if your mind is not over stimulated you might do some sightseeing or even arrange a little practice session by yourself.

DAY TWO LESSON

Tim Yogi will introduce you to your new clubs.  You will see how finely crafted the irons and woods are.  You are shown and explained why the Yogi clubs are very upright (called the lie).  He will show you why they are of such highest quality and slightly heavier than you are used to.  He will explain how the Yogi grips are slightly thicker under the right hand than you might be accustomed to.  He will step you through each club, including the importance of the height of the ball on the tee, when you use a driver.

Unless you are already a ‘strong’ golfer, you will be amazed that you can swing these clubs, designed for very low handicappers and touring pros.  The Yogi swing demands a strong, well-balanced club with excellent workmanship.  Tim makes sure his students experience Yogi at its best.

The next day he covers the short game.  But before he does, at this lesson Tim and you review everything you think you heard the previous day.  He repeats what he showed you and you and he discuss what YOU think is going on.  This is where Tim excels.  He has great patience and needs to have you feel free to express your delight or your confusion or both!  You will practice again on the Platform to Perfection while he watches and comments.

PLAYING LESSON!

If, in Tim’s opinion, you are comfortable enough to take it on the course, he will play a 9-hole round with you either at his country club or another. You go on two playing lessons and EXPERIENCE the ease and magic of the Yogi swing.  One on Lesson Day Two and Three.  This can be fun and you will have some shots you never thought you could make.  Some shots will be non-Yogi blunders, but that is part of the cost of learning.  Your short game will be at a level you never knew existed.

And!  It will begin to dawn on you while you are playing with Tim that you are NOT really worried about how to set up your swing or how to swing!  You are having fun and Tim is having fun.  You see into the future: your skills at Yogi Golf will be mature and practiced.  You will go out on a course, tough or easy, and never have a bad day.  You will make an occasional weird swing, since you don’t play all the time. You will choose the wrong iron, or underestimate the distance or read the break poorly, true.  But that is GOLF!  Even your worst miss-reads will be executed well.  Once you learn to swing the driver effortlessly and freely, you will have a complete game.

DAY THREE

Finally, you wrap up the third day with putting.  Tim sometimes changes the order of things to suit his mood and your needs.

This is the day when normally, the student is really looking forward to hitting the course.  There may be mental fatigue and even confusion as the new swing ideas replace your old, inconsistent ones.  Tim and you will review what you learned.  There will be questions and then a brief practice at the range.  Their Tim will teach you the Yogi Golf practice routine you will do for the rest of your days, along with the mental hand exercise.  Then you will go briefly over to the practice green.  After that you are off to another 9 holes of golf.

As you can see, the training is thorough and complete.  It introduces you to Yogi golf from the beginning, no matter how long or how well you play golf.  Everyone starts at the same place.

NOTICE THAT TIM is NOT showing you how to play golf, or make certain specialty shots.  He is not mentioning handicaps, tactics, distance, etc.  All that comes later, when you have confidence in your ‘TRUE’ mental golf state.

Some day we foresee several new teachers, certified by Tim, all over the country.  Some of those teachers will be low scoring tournament players.  Golfers who want consistent low scores Yogi style will go to them.

DAY THREE WRAP-UP and DAY FOUR?

On this day, Tim will review what you learned and how to maintain your understanding when you are alone.  You will have your Platform to take home for future use.  You can look at the three DVD’s that show Yogi actually swinging and teaching.  You will have the two books, which are rare collector’s items, and finally, you will have your new clubs and your head full of a brand new experience.

DAY FOUR?

Tim is NOT rigid, nor is his teaching methods.  If you need, or he thinks you need, a fourth day, he will give it at no cost to you.  If you are one of those blessed individuals who has so much enthusiasm, he might agree to make an extra day available.  If you have come a long way, love what you are doing, or even meet our criteria to be a Trustee or Friend of the Society, you can have extra instruction and play.

Finally, you will be sent home and a tentative schedule for the tune up will be made.  This is included in the lessons, but there are limits.

FOLLOW UP

In the past, Tim did not include follow up lessons as part of the package, owing to the ridiculously low price he charged.  He thought the public would overwhelm him with demand for private lessons.  But, in this new approach to teaching and saving the artform, Tim is including reasonable partly unlimited phone talk and hands on lessons for the first year.  If this is not abused, he will retain it.  The follow-ups have low priority relative to new lessons as well as his own personal and family schedule.  Phone calls are only received and can be scheduled at certain hours during the week.

In case you are one of those few persons who become Trustees in the Count Yogi Preservation Society, you have reasonable unlimited access to Tim.  He determines what is reasonable and unreasonable!  The reason for this is that the Trustees and Friends of the Society are committed in time and money to saving the Count Yogi Golf Method and thus have the highest privileges with us.

You will love your lessons and your whole golfing and personal life will change for the better.

Nobody wants you to ‘get’ it more than Tim as well as Yogi (with the Creator to whom he so often gave full credit), so please come prepared to learn.  We are ready for you!

SUMMARY OF PRIVATE LESSONS

Qualifications:

1)       Ability to travel to Southern CAL and remain for three days or more

2)       Willingness to put aside your own ideas and experiences with golf

3)       Be prepared, if successful with the first day’s lessons, to use pro line customized clubs specially fitted to your new Yogi Swing.

4)       Ability to pay

What You Will Receive

1)       A new and unexpected skill with the short game, the swing, and putting

2)       Practice at one of the finest and most testing courses in the Western U.S.

3)       Daily lunch at the clubhouse on us

4)       If you survive the first day’s lessons, you will receive your club set, at least a $1,500 value.  These are the best clubs made, Cobra pro-line irons, with perfect lofts, lie, swing weights, as well as a utility club (gap wedge). The putter is one of the best made (but you will eventually find your own)

5)       One or two lessons per day, including playing lessons on day 2 and day 3

6)       Knowledge on how to properly use the Platform to Perfection

7)       A full set of the wonderful and nearly impossible to get set of original Yogi materials:

a.       “Platform to Perfection” (mentioned)

b.       “Five Simple Steps to Perfect Golf” ©, by Count Yogi, 1972, Book # 3, out of print

c.       “King of Golf, Vol. 1” ©, DVD

d.       “Golf 1-2” ©, by Count Yogi, 1961, Book # 2, out of print.  Revised by Timothy Nicholls, 2006 and available as a PDF file on CD

e.       “Simple Set System” ©, DVD

f.        “Imitate Subliminal Series, Vol. 1” ©, DVD

g.       “Count Yogi’s Lost Radio Interviews”, CD

h.       Use of a very exclusive private club in Ventura County for practice and a teaching rounds

i.         Yogi certificate showing which level you began at and end at

j.         Tune up lessons, according to your situation

8)       Personal lessons track

a.       Introduction

b.       Yogi philosophy and fun

                                                               i.      Mental versus physical golf

                                                              ii.      How and why is this approach both an art form and different from current golf teaching

                                                            iii.      The three kinds of movements

1.        Full swing

2.        Strokes (120 yards and under, including artistic and delicate strokes just off the green and putting surface)

3.        Perpetual and consistent Putting

                                                            iv.      Why this is healthy and increases suppleness, eliminates injury, and makes for a fun time with no chronic frustration

c.       Grip

d.       5 step sequence (infallible mental routine)

                                                               i.      Step 1 look at the loft line while standing behind the ball

                                                              ii.      Aim

                                                            iii.      Place the club behind the ball while stepping forward with the right foot

                                                            iv.      Step around with the left foot

                                                             v.      Back the right foot up to square up stance towards intended target

                                                            vi.      Pull the clubhead down and straight back as far as you can go

                                                          vii.      Swing effortlessly and artistically up platform arrow

e.       Clubs, how they are designed and why you should use the pro line clubs, and the finest shafts

f.        How to use a wedge and issues on modern wedge design

g.       The putter and Yogi’s strong insistence that a blade putter or semi blade-mini mallet putter is still the best

h.       The driver and why you need a strong drive

9)       What you can Reasonably expect

a.       A huge measurable improvement in your short game and putting game in the first hours

b.       A significant improvement in your swing, but not perfection (takes time!)

c.       A good deal of mental strain trying to understand concepts that are new to you

d.       A pleasant learning experience for you, no pressure, and not a lot of detail.  Rarely a mention of the body at all, of the ‘physical’

e.       You will leave with a new game, a fantastic set of irons, and one of the the finest putters.

f.        You will have had three very intense and mind numbing days of mental training

g.       You will be equipped to practice on your own when you return to your home course and can consult with Tim by phone

10)    Costs

a.       You must get to Southern California, or in some rare instances, the teacher will come to your facility if it is comfortable and private and no negatives from other members or the pro.  Tim does not want to even appear to be treading on your head pro’s turf

b.       You must pay for your three night stay, although we will arrange a possible discount at a nearby seaside resort

c.       You take care of your breakfasts and dinners.  We buy lunch

d.       Our amazing fee for all this, including a full set of Cobra pro-line customized irons, and putter, all set up for the Yogi Swing, is completely limited to between 35 and 50 lessons per year, period!  So, we are looking for people who are really excited, who will work at it, and who are extremely interested in acquiring this art form.  The teacher, Mr. Tim Nicholls the adopted son and protégé of Count Yogi, was himself taught over a 10-year period by the Count himself.  The Count wanted Tim to carry on with the art form, so he taught Tim how to teach.  Tim can only do between 1 and 4 lessons per month, depending on his surfing schedule, and whether he can be persuaded to work more than necessary.  Repeating: the three days worth of lessons, the Country Club Setting, the full set of existing documentation remaining from Count Yogi (Platform, DVD’s, radio interviews, etc.) and a fully customized set of irons and a putter (at present Titleist/Cobra pro-line irons with Dynamic Gold steel shafts). As well as whatever it takes to send you home with a big grin on your face is only $10,000 with clubs, or $8500.00 without clubs.

                             i.      In the rare case that during the first day it becomes clear that the student is not ready for yogi, the clubs are not exchanged, and a full refund is given.

e.       The main cost is YOU! You have to come here with the following PRE-commitment:

                                                               i.      Willingness and excitement to adopt the Count Yogi method without any reservations

                                                              ii.      Willingness to ask questions, to understand the fun and tone of our approach

                                                            iii.      An open mind

                                                            iv.      Don’t come if you are ‘fixing’ your game.  We don’t offer tips and fixes.

                                                             v.      Don’t come if you plan to just check it out.  Tim is developing the future Yogis of the world and wants people who can commit to it, not curiosity seekers

                                                            vi.      Come if you just know down deep that Yogi is for you

                                                          vii.      Come if you would love to have fun, swing effortlessly, and enjoy your golden years at your own club without real, exhausting frustration.  Let the GOLF COURSE and the GAME of GOLF frustrate you, not your own clumsiness

                                                         viii.      Come if you also want to help us preserve this artform so the coming generation will have access to it.  Tim is the LAST teacher of Yogi and he is in a time squeeze.  This is much much more than a commercial operation.  It is a chance to preserve and extend Count Yogi Golf to the world.  We want all students and potential students to be future boosters of Count Yogi Golf.  And for those of you who become A+ yogi style golfers and are able to bring in super scores, we might even like it if you could be certified as a teacher.  But that is down the road

11)    What do you do next if private lessons are possible for you?

a.       Call Count Yogi Golf

b.       Discuss in detail what we offer

c.       Get the materials IN ADVANCE and try to understand and prepare for your lessons

d.       Arrange a time slot for your lessons

e.       Place a deposit to hold your position

f.        Discuss your present physical situation, so we may determine the shaft flex, left-or right-handed, or ladies clubs

g.       Get in a positive state of mind to learn from Tim Nicholls

h.       Show up on time and swing away.  It will be one of the highlights of your sporting life as well as a real treat to put bad habits behind you

CONCLUSION:

If you become a member of the Count Yogi Society or become involved as a friend of the society, you may have tune up lessons at no cost for an extended period.  Tim has little time to waste.  Fifteen years of selling teaching aids to the general public as well as private lessons hasn’t brought him or the Count Yogi experience more than inches closer to Yogi’s dream.  We need good and enthusiastic men and women from all walks of life, especially private clubmen, who will offer their time, money, and expertise and so on to preserve and extend Count Yogi to this as well as the next generation.

When you have experienced a whole new dimension of golf as a result of your lessons, when you feel that you desire to join with us and the Count Yogi Society to keep this fabulous art form alive, and when you feel you can help in any way that has an immediate impact, we will be glad to talk with you.

Finally, be assured that your fees will not be making anyone rich!  Tim had promised the Count on his dying day to continue to extend the 5-step system to the world and Tim has done that and is doing that. But, he is not a young man any more and time is pressing in.

Get your instructions while it is available!

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