Right forearm takeaway

[Yoda]

If a golfer has the flexibility to get to that position, then he should be in the perfect end-backswing position (for a swinger).

What do you think of my "method" of executing/teaching a takeaway action?

For the correct Right Wrist alignment at the Top, see my friend Mike Bender's alignment here:

http://www.pga.com/summit/2008/news/summit120708.html

In this unique hands-apart, no-club demonstration, note the right palm 'up' (to the Plane) and the complementary left palm 'down'.

Or, go here for a photo taken during my 'comeback' school almost five years ago at the PGA TOUR Academy in St. Augustine, Florida:

http://lynnblakegolf.com/cmps_index.php?page=academy

The young man on my left was (and is) one of the staff professionals. As you can see from his racquet's closed position, he didn't quite get it at first. But he soon did, and in the last couple of years has penned several authoritative articles for a major golf magazine.

That's what Alignment Golf, competent teaching and 'passing the torch' is all about.

[Jeff]

Yoda - I agree 100% with your position.

As I stated in another post, I am writing a review paper for my personal website and that composite photograph of capture images from a swing video is used to demonstrate only the first learning action - learning to execute a right clap hand motion, which only trains a golfer to understand how the right forearm and right elbow should move in the backswing (and not the right wrist). The second learning action re: the right upper limb requires learning how to bend the right wrist without allowing the right wrist to upcock - while performing the right clap hand action. That allows the right palm (and clubshaft) to remain on-plane during the backswing.

I am demonstrating that point here.



Stuart Appleby is doing a better job of demonstrating that action here.



Jeff.