[purehitter]

Mike said, "I have a six inch left arm", what he is referring to is the shortening of the swing radius through the impact interval which causes the rapid acceleration of the clubhead. A similar move can be seen in baseball, referred to as the "jut", when the bicept of the lead arm juts against the rib cage and the top hand passes the bottom hand.

Mike would say things even if you were not doing them.

This is why it was hard for most golfers to learn from him.

I had worked with Mike over 14 years and knew his way of teaching.

We were working on the right shoulder working more down than around.

He figured if I was pulling it was causing the around he did not want.

You have to understand that I was teaching a Jimmy Ballard swing and learning a Mike Austin swing. They do not mix well.

The real cause was the Jimmy Ballard right side pivot drive that I had mastered.

If I fired the right side a little early with the hand action of Mike’s swing I would come out a little.

That is it.

I made the change in the pivot and it was right on after that.