Your left hip gets beyond your left knee and foot fairly early on in the downswing (left hip nearer target than left foot - weight transfers too much too left side and not enough rotation of left hip...means tendancy to swing clubhead along line).
Compare with Hogan in the sequence Bucket posted....just after impact his hip is further away from target than his left foot....he has lots of left hip rotation....allows him to swing on plane ( or "swing left" if you want).
My feeling (personal and unproven) is that the pronounced hip slide towards the target that you have ( and me - or I hope used to have) is associated with a reactive early release of acc. 2 (left wrist uncock) so that you have a fairly early release.... I think that this may be due to a reactive balance issue...if you slide your weight to target too early in downswing you automatically throw something in the other direction to retain some sense of balance.
If I feel that I pivot "down" and not towards the target then I get a later release and a greater sense of then pivoting "up" during impact.
If you have Percy Boomer's book then read it again and again...
That is what I think...may be wrong... but seems to make sense to me.... so many early release people have a big hip slide...and vica versa...
When I pivot "down" I slide less, I delay my release more...and I feel the planet earth pushing back up through my feet ...and that feels great!
Good post . .. But keep in mind if he didn't have a bunch of hip slide his hands would fly way out over the plane. The steeper the plane you have to slide more. Flatter planes require less slide and more rotation.
Getting the hands more "in" and the plane flatter will make the pivot more rotary by necessity. If he spins his hips on his current steep plane he's WAY OVER THE PLANE. Right now he's on plane just a steep plane.
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