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bunkerputt Great Member

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Does anyone have any real, legitimate, clue as to what the heck this obscure statement means? I've heard it several times from people like Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, et. al. I've found that when I try to do anything with my right hand it screws everything up, usually starting with an OTT move on the downswing. The only thing that my right hand does in my swing is tell me if I've got a lot of lag from the pressure on my index finger and roll passively through the shot. In fact, I've found that I swing best when I try to "turn the volume down to a 1" on every muscle above my belly button.

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Does anyone have any real, legitimate, clue as to what the heck this obscure statement means? I've heard it several times from people like Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, et. al. I've found that when I try to do anything with my right hand it screws everything up, usually starting with an OTT move on the downswing. The only thing that my right hand does in my swing is tell me if I've got a lot of lag from the pressure on my index finger and roll passively through the shot. In fact, I've found that I swing best when I try to "turn the volume down to a 1" on every muscle above my belly button.

Sure, it's simple. The left hand guides the club, but the right hand powers it. The right hand "pushes" (closes) the club through the hitting zone, depending on how you want to think about it.

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I prefer not to think about the hands specifically. Doing too much with them is just a compensation for an underlying problem.

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Try the simple phrase "swing the grip". Think in those terms and you'll get a feel.
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Does anyone have any real, legitimate, clue as to what the heck this obscure statement means? I've heard it several times from people like Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, et. al. I've found that when I try to do anything with my right hand it screws everything up, usually starting with an OTT move on the downswing. The only thing that my right hand does in my swing is tell me if I've got a lot of lag from the pressure on my index finger and roll passively through the shot. In fact, I've found that I swing best when I try to "turn the volume down to a 1" on every muscle above my belly button.

The only way this makes sense to me is if and only if I get everything right in my swing and the club gets back down parallel around the hip, then my right hand is free to pretty much fire as hard as it can in that last split second through the ball (and I sense the momentum of the swing drives that more than I force the right hand into action, so it is still somewhat a result of a good swing for me) . If anything goes wrong in the swing between takeaway and that point, then any right hand action from at that point here is a killer. As you mention OTT, that is an example where the swing has already gone bad and firing the right hand more just makes it worse, staying passive in that case will lead to a better result. This is my opinion and experience only, others may disagree.

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