Transition Move...Going in Opposite Directions?????

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Page 93 - "Initiating the downswing with the hips is of
such critical importance that many to-rung golfers, sensing
that their timing will be better accommodated, start to
turn their hips to the left a fraction of a second before
the club reaches the top of the backswing. There's
nothing wrong with this. It amounts to a permissible
personal modification and it underline, if anything, the
salient fact that that under no conditions should the
downsing be inaugurated by the hands."

For my own swing, I really began understanding this much more fully when I focused on using delayed hip motion and feeling more 'coiled' on the backswing. Moving to delayed from what had been basically 'standard' hip motion really made a difference in my stability and compression.

At first my tendency was to limit my hip motion both back and through, and learning to really feel what Hogan discusses above on the downswing was a big key in improving my consistency, really using that hip motion to 'fire' through.

Nick Price talks about this stabilty in his swing changes, thinking of the swing being 'split in half'. An image that really helped me feel and allow the upper body to work over a stable base. Stuart Appleby is a great swing to watch for this as well.