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Greg's Hands do go Back, In and Up as they must to be plane compliant. The fore mentioned Up of Three Dimensional Startup , Backswing is not the same "up" Mr Mchatton is referring to I dont believe. The "up" he is referring to is the up of heavy lifting , something normally done by those who employ a Shoulder Turn Takeaway or Left Side push away.

When the Left Arm and not the Right is in charge of taking the club Back, In and Up it gets to a point during the backswing at which it is poorly positioned to lift any more , which requires tremendous help from rest of the body. Better to just take it back with the Right Forearm which can get the job done with ease.

Greg employs a Swing Back with a Lagging Takeaway and tosses the club Back , In and Up. The last bit of club travel is momentum alone as opposed to muscular effort or lifting. A nice way to do things, it also goes really well with Float Loading on the way down.

Do an experiment where you try to take the club to Top with just your left arm attached to the club and see how hard it is.....It'll probably take some lifting. Most guys who struggle with the game lift it to Top or End and then start down with the Hands or Arms instead of their Pivot. Normally requiring a lot of Pivot Motion to get all the lifting going. Greg wants you to "grease" the last bit of the backswing and Startdown. You could call this Pivot Lag I believe. By not lifting you're able to calm your PIvot down some too. No more over turning on the backswing.