Originally Posted by Jeff
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The dancer performing the horizontal eight dance certainly has hula hula flexibility.
What drill would you recommend for a golfer who has had spinal fusion surgery where all the lumbar vertebra were fused together preventing any rotary movement at the level of each lumbar vertebra? How can that golfer perform an active pivot golf swing that requires a moderate level of hula hula flexibility?
Jeff.
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Jeff to answer your question in brief I would have to say.....MacDonald drills.
To answer it more fully I would say: Forget X factor, rotate your hips like Jones, Nicklaus or Snead (they did OK) and lift your left foot off the ground on the backswing. Understand that golf is a motion, a dance and that lag and pivot lag however small is what you are seeking.
I had the pleasure of spending the greater part of last week at Cuscowila with Lynn and my older brother, The Judge. (As some people from the Homecoming will know him). The Judge is mid sixties and twenty five years into a lower lumbar spinal fusion that was thought to last only ten years. Since the Homecoming and formal lessons from Luke and Lynn and informal lessons from Augusta Golf and Paul Hart the Judge has totally revolutionized his pivot. A thing he thought impossible given his flexibility.
My brother loves the MacDonald drills. For him it has been the answer to a
15 year fight with his pivot.
FYI Lynn is always saying that nobody is less flexible that himself. In your most recent photos you are actually taking farther back than Lynn are you not? Farther back than many accomplished golfers.
O.B.