[spike]

Spike,

Instead of focusing on the left thumb, try shifting your focus to the last three fingers of the left hand; the #2 pressure point.

Feel those last two or three fingers load at the top of your swing or alternatively during your start down.

Sustain the lag on pressure point 2 with your pivot motion until you get an automatic release. If you nurse this feel enough, you will feel a dramatic loading and unloading sensation and your awareness of your left thumb will slowly fade into the background.

If you want to manually uncock early, then use those last three fingers to accuate the uncocking motion. Pressure point 2 unloading is very sensitive to an early throw. It doesn't take much action to make it happen. In my opinion, its much harder to sustain PP2 lag load into an automatic release.

The role of the left thumb is primarily structural support. It should be inline with the #3 pressure point.

To be fair, I have to say that I do feel PP2 very much so. I see your point very clearly now that the left thumb is primarily for structural support. This makes a lot of sense to me. I now understand better the relationship of the left thumb to PP2. Wow! Very, very cool! This, I believe was the answer I was looking for all this time!!! Golfing Now!!!

Bagger, Dude, thanks so much!!!

Blinded by the Light! Thanks to you all!!!