Transfer of Power in Hands

[innercityteacher]

Kevin sent a diagram to me that helped me realize that even I can't screw-up the basic geometry of my body!

Tonight I just kept throwing PP #3 at the ball with a hitting motion. Front arm back to parallel, pp# 3 to the ball and there is a significant repetition in hitting the sweet spot and increasing distance.

Worked with woods, irons, chips and I'm sure it will on puts which is scary.

Before that, I simply dropped my elbow to my side and the ball went pretty far, but not as far as compared to using pp# 3!

Thanks!

Hey Patrick.

Luke aka Tuf, aka Ted Fort, aka PGA Georgia teacher of the year 2008, always likes us to say "Lag Pressure" as opposed to just "Lag". The former can be measured in psi, the latter having taken on a common golf speak connotation is often measured in degrees (of left wrist cock etc). They are not the same.

Lag Pressure is something you can (should/ attempt to) feel as it is a tell tale sign of good physics (acceleration, added mass etc) and geometry (flat left wrist, bent right etc). Since the #3 pp attaches to the club at the top of the Sweet Spot Plane the Longitudinal Center of Gravity it is the ideal thing to direct into the ball. It is both direction and thrust. Pressure Point awareness/anticipation can create these pressures even, where as pressure point black out tends otherwise. In this way Pressure Point awareness becomes golf concentration during the execution of the shot..........(planning , routing, praying etc having been taken care of earlier, in Preliminary Address).

Golf's secret is Lag Pressure. As such, when something is going wrong with your compression its the first place to look .... or feel.

[O.B.Left]

Kevin sent a diagram to me that helped me realize that even I can't screw-up the basic geometry of my body!

Tonight I just kept throwing PP #3 at the ball with a hitting motion. Front arm back to parallel, pp# 3 to the ball and there is a significant repetition in hitting the sweet spot and increasing distance.

Worked with woods, irons, chips and I'm sure it will on puts which is scary.

Before that, I simply dropped my elbow to my side and the ball went pretty far, but not as far as compared to using pp# 3!

Thanks!

In 12-5 Homer outlines the Basic (golf) Motion and a Curriculum for advancing from tiny little chips to mid irons, Total Motion. The short chips, Stage One, is harder than you'd think. I find that the difference between good shots and bad always relates to the presence of Lag Pressure at the #3pp. How did I form this opinion? Im always searching for the Lag Pressure, consciously. If I lose it , cant find it , start thinking about something else , the compression and the shot is often less than ideal. On the other hand when I put my mind in my #3pp (and have a clear mental picture of the target) and anticipate the Lag Pressure, find it and then direct it , trace with it..............the compression is good. Its an amazing thing to me. Truly. I clanked a lot of chips for an awfully long time without realizing how sweet they could be, should be.

Oh and you have to get to Both ARms Straight, or you wont feel compression to its fullest I find.

Glad your feeling it in all your shots but dont forget the little ones. The best in the world at this business, start every practice session, every warm up even checking out how they're doing in Basic and Acquired. Total Motion is easy if you have these going well.

[strav]

Homer: The Turning Rate of the Pivot Components especially the Shoulder Turn as actuated by Hip Action (7-15) - MUST be identical and synchronous with the #3 Accumulator Roll, else its Rhythm gets disrupted.

Tomasello: In other words he is telling you your left Hip has got to be synchronized with this Right Arm. The Left Hip is synchronized with the Right Arm because it is Hips which are going to pull the Shoulder - and the Right Arm goes right down the line.

[innercityteacher]

Ok, so what you are saying is that the hip bump/slight forward step leads to the shoulders rotating towards the target and the extension of the trail arm focussed in pp# 3 to the ball with full extension through the ball.