Is there a master hand in a golf swing ?

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Originally Posted by broomhandle

The idea of the hands leading is nonsense if taken as a factual mechanical sequence. It should be taken as a feel and as a learning sequence. Waggle the club. Swing the arms a bit. Swing the arms until the body has to turn. Let the body turn support the hand and arm swing rather than dominating it. I KNOW the lower body MUST start down first but 90% of the time I'm better off forgetting it and feeling like I swing my arms and the body shift and turn just happens.

Two things in response to that:

1) If that works for you, great. In others they have to feel the lower body doing certain things on the swing because they don't "just happen" for them.

2) None of what you've said is outside the realm of "modern instruction." I've given lessons that sound like what you're saying. That's what some students need. Not all.