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matt you are absolutely correct.you can still stay centered and transfer weight to the right.imagine a baseball player trying to hit a 90 mph fastball with a his weight on his left foot.not going to have much power in his swing is he.you guys need to just keep working on a hand controlled pivot and forget the rest.listen to the true tgm guys and we all know who they are

Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett advocate a centered Head. For those who follow Homer Kelley and his recommended Stationary Head, that is is a good thing (1-L-#1/#2, 2-0, 2-G [7th edition] and the Head-marked photos in 9-1 and 9-2). Unfortunately (in my opinion), in their pursuit of Centered Arc and a spine that stays vertical ("over the ball"), they apparently abandon the Backstroke Weight shift that has for centuries been the mainstay of conventional Pivot instruction (7-12 and 10-12-A).

Also, their recommended target-wise tilt of the upper body (Plummer, page 130) and steep Backstroke Left Shoulder Turn (it "turns down, pointing almost toward the Ball") ignores the fact that the Inclined Plane is inclined. Remember, it is a 'through the waist' Plane of Rotation, and in order for the Right Shoulder to be On Plane at the Top, the Right Shoulder Backstroke Turn will ideally move as directly, i.e., Flat , toward the Plane as possible. Except with the shortest Clubs -- and even then it is either only relative or restricted to the low-power Minor Basic Strokes -- a steep shoulder Turn is not compatible with this geometric objective.

The good news is that you can have the Head Pivot Center (with its Centered Arc) and the Weight Shift (with its additional Power). For proof, check out frames 3 & 4 of the V.J. Singh Swing Sequence in the same Golf Digest edition (May 2007). Note that his Hips and Shoulder Turns are "stacked" and that there is no 'pie,' i.e., an angle of the back from the vertical. Alternatively, click on this on-line view of V.J.'s swing:

http://www.golfdigest.com/instructio...ijaysingh.html

In The Golfing Machine, Homer Kelley coined the term Hula Hula Flexibility to describe this ability to Shift the Weight while maintaining a Centered, Stationary Head (7-14).