What Not To Do

[12 piece bucket]

I'll pick two: Bobbing and Swaying.

The cure for both is to keep your Head Stationary from Impact Fix -- where the Head Location is established prior to assuming an Adjusted Address -- to at least to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position).

Per 1-L-21, "The relations of all Machine positions and motions can be described by a geometric figure." And the relationship of the Head to the Feet is a Triangle. Ideally, it is an isoceles triangle with the Centered Head at the peak of the triangle. It is not a right triangle (which is what you get when you tilt your spine to the right in an exaggerated attempt to 'put your head over your right knee and get behind the ball.'

How do you learn to do this? You do it and do it and do it while you look, look, LOOK to make sure you are staying steady. Use a mirror in drill and your shadow on the Practice Ground.

The Moe Norman sequence below illustrates the correct triangular concept. Moe never Sways the peak of his Triangle -- either right or left -- from Address through the Follow-Through. However, proving the rule that nobody is perfect, note that he does Bob -- he lowers his Head -- through Impact. He does so because his Knee Bend increases as he moves into Impact. He could have solved this problem by establishing his Impact Head Location as part of his Address Routine, but like most players, he did not.

Professor Turnip Greens,

The "fix" for Moe would have been to establish his appropriate knee bend and tilt at Fix and thus his head position? Through Fix the angles of the tripod are established and maintained by keeping the stead head?

I'm liking this.

B

[Yoda]

\The "fix" for Moe would have been to establish his appropriate knee bend and tilt at Fix and thus his head position? Through Fix the angles of the tripod are established and maintained by keeping the stead head?

You've got it, 12 Piece.

In life, there are lessons that take a long time to learn. Almost always, these are the simple things. The Golf Stroke is no exception.

[annikan skywalker]

Bucket,

How many legs you got????

..Can you name them????

[MizunoJoe]

Here's another way I look at it. There is nothing wrong with Pivot Controlled Hands if it's seen as a transitional undertaking or a stepping stone for the ultimate Hands Controlled Pivot procedure. It's a good way to train the Pivot. It makes your Pivot more sensitive to alignments and more educated. I call it 'Educated Pivot'. So when you hand the job back to the Hands, it's actually got something worth controlling -- an Educated Pivot.

In an ideal world I would agree, however, in the real world, the hands are like a micro-manager, who's not content to let each under him do his job and only give direction. The only way to educate this type of manager is to fire him.

[lagster]

I'll pick two: Bobbing and Swaying.

The cure for both is to keep your Head Stationary from Impact Fix -- where the Head Location is established prior to assuming an Adjusted Address -- to at least to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position).

Per 1-L-21, "The relations of all Machine positions and motions can be described by a geometric figure." And the relationship of the Head to the Feet is a Triangle. Ideally, it is an isoceles triangle with the Centered Head at the peak of the triangle. It is not a right triangle (which is what you get when you tilt your spine to the right in an exaggerated attempt to 'put your head over your right knee and get behind the ball.'

How do you learn to do this? You do it and do it and do it while you look, look, LOOK to make sure you are staying steady. Use a mirror in drill and your shadow on the Practice Ground.

The Moe Norman sequence below illustrates the correct triangular concept. Moe never Sways the peak of his Triangle -- either right or left -- from Address through the Follow-Through. However, proving the rule that nobody is perfect, note that he does Bob -- he lowers his Head -- through Impact. He does so because his Knee Bend increases as he moves into Impact. He could have solved this problem by establishing his Impact Head Location as part of his Address Routine, but like most players, he did not.

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Very nice posts by all!!

Steering is listed as the #1 malfunction.
I remember Mr. Yoda did a very nice post on the "inside-out cut shot" as an "anti-steering therapy."

Lets discuss this further!

[12 piece bucket]

Bucket,

How many legs you got????

..Can you name them????

Right, Left, Power Package and then there's that other one .

4?

[annikan skywalker]

Bucket....The Club...Your Left.... Then yer Right!!!...Set-Up the Tripod....

[lagster]

The "INSIDE-OUT CUT SHOT" is recommended as a "THERAPY" for STEERING. One takes this therapy on the range, however, not the course!