[Bagger Lance]

Jay,

I've shot video of my swing for years and the vast majority of the time, I'm dead on the TSP without any downstroke shifts. I haven't done any video lately because most of my practice is out on the course, but the procedure I use is:

From the end, the right palm stays flat up against the plane, left hand down.
I use the aiming point procedure and attempt to direct lag pressure in a straight line delivery path to the aiming point. The actual "point" is on the low point plane line and it's location depends on the club. For instance with wedges my aiming point is about 3 to 4 inches in front (target line) of the outer circumference of the ball. That's where I want to take the chop without feeling a need to manually roll #3.

I've started taking the left hand (my focus), flat against the plane much deeper recently and I like the results. It still surprises me that I can attempt to keep palms against the plane very deep into the swing and get an automatic "snap" (A very descriptive term for an automatic and fast left wrist roll) that sends the ball on a laser trajectory. I know all of the mechanics behind this, but it happens so fast that there isn't anything I can do but aim and hold on.

I overheard Ted Fort one day during a lesson. He said "as long as the hands are rolling and the pivot keeps moving through impact, it's very difficult to bend the left wrist". In this case, the hands roll so quickly there doesn't "seem to be" any way for the left wrist to break down and I get a nice horizontal hinge motion and feel.

From my perspective, once the hands are on their way to the aiming point, the only thing left is to continue tracing the baseline of the plane into follow-through and complete the finish.

I'm not too excited about shooting a video because as history has shown, what seems as if, usually isn't. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see a circle delivery path and sweep release. I have some extra time this week, so I'll shoot a video and let you know what I see.