Switting

[bts]

Since studying TGM, I have increasingly become convinced that a golfer should either be a swinger or a hitter, and not a switter? Do you think that I am wrong and that I am being too narrow-minded in my thinking? Can anyone provide a rational argument for consciously choosing to become a switter, and explain how one synchronously combines left arm pull power with right arm push power?

Jeff.

It's ideal geometrically and physically for the "machine" to pull the club from the top, which optimizes the clubhead speed at impact, and push (the grip, or pp#3, to bend the shaft) at impact, which optimizes the ball speed at separation.

Both arms and hands can pull, and both arms and hands are needed to push (or bend the shaft against the clubhead and impact).

So, you can pull it fast (without running out of the right arm fold and right wrist bent) and set it up for a pushing-hard. Boom, you'll feel the ball jumps hard and see it goes far.

Good luck!

[Jeff]

bts

You wrote-: "It's ideal geometrically and physically for the "machine" to pull the club from the top, which optimizes the clubhead speed at impact, and push (the grip, or pp#3, to bend the shaft) at impact, which optimizes the ball speed at separation".

This is the key point that needs debating. You are implying that a swinger needs to pull the club down to impact to generate clubhead speed. I agree.

However, you then argue that an additional push force is needed to push against PP#3 to stress the shaft at impact, thereby optimizing ball speed at separation. That's where I think that you are mistaken.

Ball speed is only a product of clubhead mass and clubhead speed at impact, and any additional pressure-force/weight pushing against the shaft at impact will not help increase ball speed. My reason for believing that fact is based on this myth-busting argument.

http://nmgolfscience.tripod.com/collisions.htm

The only factors that affect ball speed are i) clubhead mass, ii) clubhead velocity; iii) ball mass; and iv) CER.

Jeff.

[bray]

I'll contribute to this argument. As a teacher I do not believe in switting. The player will have a dominate tendancy through impact. They will either feel more push or pull. If they feel more push they are hitting. I also agree with Jeff Hull the alignment of the machine is what's important. No matter if the player is hitting or swinging they must have their flying wedges in tact tracing a straight plane line with a hinge action that produces the desired shot.

What BTS describes is hitting.

Sorting Throught the Golf Nut's Catalog.

B-Ray