I am currently working on maintaining EA while tracing the plane line. There are two approaches I've used. Firstly focusing on the right forearm initiating the backswing. Secondly having both hands moving together to trace the plane line with my right index finger.
From reading this thread I am wondering with a RFT whether I should I start by clearing the right hip? I haven't been doing that consciously, just letting my body do what it wants to make way for the forearm to trace the plan back and then through.
I have been working with the both hands option as an alternative to the RFT because I find myself with an RFT having different amounts of left forearm rotation on the backswing and so I get inconsistency of face alignment at contact. I often get an open clubface at impact with RFT and not so much with taking both hands back together. When I take both hands back together - still tracing the plane line with my right forefinger - I get more consistency with squaring my clubface.
For me tracing the plane line is simply what was stated by someone earlier - pointing my finger at the plane line and then moving my hands back and then forward still pointing at that line, which is usually the target line. In a swing because the right forefinger is bent that means my first finger joint is doing the pointing because my finger is curled around the grip.
This is something I have only been working on for a week or so but I am finding that if I maintain EA while tracing the plane then I really don't think about anything else in the golf swing. Like some others have said I feel that I actually have a lot of EA, not the "straightening the cuff" level of push, quite a bit more than that. And so my swing feels a little stiff. But it isn't and I am getting very good power and so far good chipping and pitching results. Only had one session at the range full swing working on this, so still got to see how it goes. Promising start but the reality was that most of the shots I lost EA and my mind jumped out of my hands. So work in progress, but very positive short game results.
Very interesting post Weetbix! Where are you feeling the pressure of EA, PP #1?
I will be very interested in hearing updates as you go.
When you look at:
12-3-0 MECHANICAL CHECKLIST FOR ALL STROKES
Extensor action is mentioned at 9 of the 12 sections of the golf stroke, yet no one outside of those who understand the work of Homer Kelley teach it.
Good stuff Weetbix!
Kevin
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Hi Kev. Haven't bumped into each other for a while. I hope you are well. Have a great Christmas.
Where do I feel the pressure of EA? I feel it through my right tricep, and on the top of the left thumb. But mostly the tricep pushing away from my body.
What I find about EA is that it actually helps a lot of things, including helping me not flip through impact. But I am still getting used to it. Today it reinforced that I need to keep my mind in my hands. I lose EA if I don't, and I get flippy.
I read this thread with great interest as I've struggled getting the club to "lay on the line" for years. Lynn and I have worked quite a bit on this, and during our school at Pine Tree last week, another contributor to being "under plane" in startup/backstroke came into view.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
Moral to the story: Use 12-3 Mechanical checklist. The answers are there!
I read this thread with great interest as I've struggled getting the club to "lay on the line" for years. Lynn and I have worked quite a bit on this, and during our school at Pine Tree last week, another contributor to being "under plane" in startup/backstroke came into view.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
Moral to the story: Use 12-3 Mechanical checklist. The answers are there!
funny that you mentioned this. somehow the exact problem that i had when i saw lynn a couple of weeks back in atlanta...
after worked a little bit on it the pushes and left hocks seem to have no chance ..
but sure have to work on it for quite a while so the old habits don´t creep in again...
thx again for having me play your wonderful course there in florida
all the best to you and to you lynn of course
michael
Glad you made it back to Munich safe and sound, Michael*. Long way to travel for some Yoda-time!
Interesting and coincidental that your five-day trip to Cuscowilla was followed by more time in South Florida. Glad Dan Malizia, PGA and Head Professional, Pinetree GC, could arrange for you to play the course. It really is a terrific layout -- perennially a Florida 'Top Five' -- and I knew you would enjoy it.
Thanks, Dan, for making it happen!
* Michael Wirth is a German PGA teaching professional in Munich, Germany. He has made several trips to the U.S. in the past few years to train under some of the best known 'names' in golf. He also has earned the designation, Golf Stroke Engineering Master (GSEM) from The Golfing Machine, LLC.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
I have some questions, sir, if you don't mind, for my own struggles.
If you start at Impact Fix, are you staying there to start the swing or simply rehearsing that positon?
Does your RFT vertically cock your left wrist or were you consciously trying to stand the club up vertically, or were you dragging it with hip motion?
I'm not trying to insult you, just discover my own answers to stupid things I try to do from time to time.
As you come down to the ball and to Both Arms Straight and to Finish, how are you aiming your shot? Are you Tracing the BLP? Sighting down your forearm or covering your front toes?
Thanks.
ICT
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