If you ignore some other factors and concentrate solely on maintaining a bent right wrist (or flat left wrist, for that matter), you probably will tend toward STEERING.
Remember, LAG is the secret of GOLF. You want lag to be sustained so that it does not allow the right wrist to flatten or the left wrist to bend. LAG has no release point. Concentrate on lag pressure through the pivot train, from the feet up, and find a way to make your hinge action of an angular motion operating on an inclined plane so that rhythm, balance and stationary head are not disrupted. Keep your wrists completely relaxed and make a TOTAL MOTION that maintains lag and does not unload too soon. If your wrists become tight to try to maintain the BRW or FLW, you are steering.
I know because I have done it (STEERING) for many years. I read where Homer said that if you could learn to play with a FLW, you would break 80 tomorrow, so I started holding my wrist rigid through impact and it killed my swing. What Homer did not say, but is understood, is that you must learn to play with a FLW while sustaining LAG.
Maintain the bent right wrist by maintaining lag pressure which is not done through effort but by accelerating the club in a manner that is not beyond your pivot capacities. That is, do not try to swing the club faster than you can turn.
Having said that, I still cannot figure out how Kenny Perry can hit the ball as hard as he does and not pivot that hard or fast on the downswing. Seemingly though his rhythm is slightly compromised, from photos I have seen, but not to a degree that prevents him from being a premiere ballstriker on tour.
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"In my experience, if you stay with the essentials you WILL build a repeatable swing undoubtedly. If you can master the Imperatives you have a champion" (Vikram).
The reason you can't sustain the lag is because you are so eager to make the club move fast (a reaction to the intent of "hitting it far"). So on a full shot you throw it away too early, which doesn't happen for your short chip. (bts)
I figure as long as that right arm is straightening I ought to be OK, right?
New Goal Revision
I hereby do solemnly swear to hereto-henceforth-forthwith keep my right wrist bent and level while straightening my right elbow through the utilization of either centrifugal force or the use of muscular thrust etc. etc.
I figure as long as that right arm is straightening I ought to be OK, right?
New Goal Revision
I hereby do solemnly swear to hereto-henceforth-forthwith keep my right wrist bent and level while straightening my right elbow through the utilization of either centrifugal force or the use of muscular thrust etc. etc.
I like that one better.
Jeff really had it right when he said:
Originally Posted by golfgnome
Extensor action and body rotation create the finish swivel and allow PP#1,2, and 3 to remainglued to the shaft.
The reason I posted what I did was that I did not want you to make the same mistake I made. The first time I saw Ted, he had me open the book to chapter 9 and read out loud:
"EMPHATICALLY, the hands are not educated until they control the pivot."
So, while the HANDS are the only part of the body that touches the club, the feet are the only part of the body that are connected to something that does not move. The swing has to get from the base to the hands through the pivot. That could be part of what Hogan meant when he said that the secret is in the dirt; the "dirt" is the foundation of the swing.
Hybrid Mode
