Hitting low driver?
 

My driver is going too high to be effective into the wind.

My only thought going through the ball is right forearm low and driving.

Any suggestions for bringing the trajectory down would be appreciated.

Re: Hitting low driver?
 

Drive the #1 pressure point well past the ball. That drive will keep the right wrist bent at impact. If the wrist flattens at or around impact, you will suffer from trajectile disfunction. :)

Re: Hitting low driver?
 

Luke

Golf having a lot of opposites, I will follow your Rx and use #1 to keep it Down.

Thx

My experience is that the layback of the Angled Hinge produces a higher flight along with the fade tendency. There IS a "little move" which will fix that.

And the little move is :?:

mizunojoe...

what is a horizontal hinge?

A counterclockwise "unscrewing" with the heel of the right hand along the axis of the thrusting right forearm while keeping the right wrist bent. Your right palm turns toward the ground through Impact. You replace the layback with more closing.

Wouldn't that axis be around PP1?

It's a twist of the right forearm such as you would do if you were unloosening a screw with a screwdriver. Except the right wrist is bent when doing it in the Hit.

rwh,

Rare calm days like today with a sunny 54 degs - why are you hitting the keyboard instead of golf balls?

Do you use a Hitting Stroke? If so, how do you move it R-L?

The Corkscrew Effect
 

In the first edition of TGM, 10-23-E (Automatic Snap Release) read:

"The corkscrew effect of the straighening Right Arm, if unhampered, will whip the Clubface into Impact position and the Hands into Impact location as calculated in selecting the correct Aiming Point and Triggering Type (or combination) to accommodate an Automatic action."

Whew! :-k

Yoda,

Thanks for that 1st ed excerpt. Why has it disappeared from the 6th edition?

From Corkscrew To Paddlewheel And Throw-Out
 

Homer Kelley's explanation of the Corkscrew Effect (of the straightening Right Arm) whipping the Hands and Clubhead into their Impact Alignments (Automatic Snap Release / 10-24-E) was maintained through the first three editions of The Golfing Machine.

Beginning with the 4th edition and maintained through the 6th (and last), he eliminated this all-inclusive term and referred instead to Paddlewheel Action (of the Hitter's Uncocking Right Elbow) and Throw-Out Action (of the Swinger's Uncocking Left Wrist). This change allowed differentiation (from Release to Impact) between the Hitter's Single Wrist Action(and its gradual Angled Hinge Rolling per 10-18-C-2) versus the Swinger's Standard Wrist Action (with its Swivel Action per 10-18-A).

In the as yet unpublished 7th edition, 10-24-E was substantially revised. However, the second sentence (referring to the Paddlewheel and Throw-Out Actions) was left unchanged.

Paddlewheel
 

Interesting. I could never envision this paddlewheel action.

The corkscrew action makes sense!

I'd like to see this demonstrated in slo-mo.

A horizontal hinge is a hinge that is mounted vertically on a door jam - but imparts a horizontal motion to the door. So, for us TGM'ers, the hinge is mounted on our lead (or left shoulder - for righthanded golfers) shoulder (again - vertically - just like a door jam) and this allows a horizontal motion of the clubface, controlled and guided by the flat left wrist. So.....hinging in TGM is the motion of the mandatory flat left wrist through impact - horizontal hinging is the left hand and hence, clubface, closes in relationship to the planeline. Like a door does.

Patrick

Horizontal Hinging and Trajectory Control
 

Horizotal Hinging is closing without layback. I believe changing ball position with horizontal hinging changes direction not trajectory. To drive the ball lower, use back ball position and angled hinging. Or a less lofted and stiffer shafted driver.