The left heel or more accurately the spot directly under the left ankle is a stationary post with the left foot open hips knees and shoulders parallel the head is a stationary post right forearm is on plane the arms maintain their structure and checkrein action always with extensor, the grip is placed in the left hand directly in the first crease of the hand closest to the pinky. Right forearm moves with extensor with the shoulder turn to lift the club on plane with the back turned to the target the point furthest from the hands now leads the pivot train and hands like a fixed gear which is the left ankle through low point all the way to the finish. This is what hogan was doing, this is swinging from the feet i can see it now and feel it now i can swing as hard or soft as i want the right index finger sensing the amount of lag pressure. My course management and strategy went from idiocy to brilliance and with this golf swing no golf course has a chance. My chipping is very good my pitching is good sand play mediocre and putting mediocre. My plan with putting is using a face balanced putter on a chalk line on my putting plane to groove the stroke when my putting gets back to how good it used to be i will destroy any golf course
I think its important though to realize that although the hands control the pivot the pivot must move in a precise way because without the pivot train the hands cannot move with any real force and if the pivot train is moved in a vague sloppy way the hands will have no precision. I think of tgm golfers get too much concerned with the hands movement and accumulator lag and forward lean when really zone 1 the pivot is so important and with extensor will transport the hands with power and precision. The pivot is not everything but if the pivot doesnt move precisely and and the hips dont lead the shoulders in the downswing all the way through you can forget about educated hands unless you like hitting the ball with no power and little precision Zone 1 is so important!!!
Absolutely not. Dont get caught in the errors that plague too many tgm golfers who interpret hands controlled pivot to mean that if you move the hands they will move the pivot they dont and wont! My main concern in every full swing is to make a smooth motion that is always led by the hips.
I should correct that really you are right in that the zone 3 components essentially dictate how the pivot (zone 1 components) should move but they ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE THEM thats the part where i think tgmers often get it wrong.
The example Lynn Blake uses is picking up the keys from the floor - with our hand(s) - the body does what it must to make this task possible - your hands got an assignment and your body responded to the demand of the hands - if that makes any sense?
That is the exact example of what im tryig to emphasize is the problem, it doesnt work that way! Forget that! I like how joe daniels put it " the body takes you to the door, the hands turn the key" the hands alone will not create any pivot lag, sequence of the pivot train or nor the the backstroke pivot! Remember the pivot is thr giant motor that drives the power package! Nowhere in the book does homer say that moving the hands will move the pivot
Either you misunderstand this - or I do (which wouldn't surprise me). The hands are not doing the work - they are just clamps. But the work that the body has to do is carried out as if the hands were the boss giving orders what to do. "The mind is in the hands" But the work is done by the body/pivot (zone 1 ) and the arms (zone 2). But they don't do this according to their own will - it is an assignment that is given them. That's how I have understood this - or misunderstood this.
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