Tell me something I don’t know…

[golfsticks]

Don't drag the match out, go for the early win and drag the match out.

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Once you understand the arc, you start to see/feel the arc.. then you become the arc!   Steve Elkington

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On shaft stiffness:  

 

You can't time a telephone pole, you need something that has some feel to it.    Jackie Burke Jr.

 

 

[dpc]

On 1/15/2021 at 11:04 AM, golfsticks said:

When around borrows from down compression is found.

Logged in just to say this one is golden, but someone beat me to it.

[golfsticks]

Commit your club to the line before you commit your feet to the ground    Steve Elkington

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It is a fallacy to suppose that any particular part of the body, such as the arms or wrists, has to be very specially applied to the task of hitting the ball.

The whole anatomy should work as one piece of mechanism, with the club as part and parcel of the human frame.

 

Harry Vardon

Edited March 1, 2021 by golfsticks

[TheDeanAbides]

On 2/27/2021 at 5:07 PM, golfsticks said:

On shaft stiffness:  

 

You can't time a telephone pole, you need something that has some feel to it.    Jackie Burke Jr.

 

 

Mr Hogan disagreed. 

[golfsticks]

We're somewhat involved in assembling and we're participating in its spending.   Eric Meichtry

 

 

[golfsticks]

Threading the eye of a needle becomes easier when starting the thread's acceleration closer to the needle's eye.   

[Zitlow]

The right hip doesn't turn on it's own volition in the backswing.

[Blackett]

17 hours ago, Zitlow said:

The right hip doesn't turn on it's own volition in the backswing.

This

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@Zitlow

 

Get a load of this pro.    Love stuff like this, got the link from over on the ladies academy. I used to work with disabled golfers, great times.  I don't know if disabled is even correct wording anymore.

 

 

 

[golfsticks]

Good hand action comes from good body action.     Gary Player

[golfsticks]

Basically, my hands and wrists function as a hinge to store, then transmit the force created by my body and legs. So they come into play reflexively, with no conscious effort.      Jack Nicklaus

 

 

 

[TheDeanAbides]

55 minutes ago, golfsticks said:

Basically, my hands and wrists function as a hinge to store, then transmit the force created by my body and legs. So they come into play reflexively, with no conscious effort.      Jack Nicklaus

 

 

 

He also said to throw away the angles as quickly as possible from the top. Funny game...

[chipa]

I find that a lot of force can be generated by the right hand (but of course is supported by the rest of the body like throwing a baseball) but that in order to get the right hand into position the left hand and wrist must push back at some point the backswing away from the body and conversely pull back down to start the swing.

 

As far as I can tell the push movement of the left hand lines up the muscles in the left hand and forearm and creates structure that acts as a space between the arms for the right hand and arm to operate withing that won't easily break down under a vigorous right hand action. Basically the swing is a push - pull - throw action to maximize one's potential clubhead speed.

[BuzzCat]

I'll try and give my piece...good golf revolves around two things:

1) GIR: Get the ball on the green at all costs.

2) Five-Footers:  If you are nails from five feet you will always get up and down and you will never three putt.

 

Btw, I stole that five-footer line from Brandt Snedeker.  I saw it in this clip and it has always stuck with me.

Edited March 25, 2021 by BuzzCat

[golfsticks]

54 minutes ago, TheDeanAbides said:

He also said to throw away the angles as quickly as possible from the top. Funny game...

 

Nicklaus is quoted saying, in part,  you can't release the club too soon, but is there quoted material from him saying releasing means tossing angles.    Link?

[TheDeanAbides]

1 minute ago, golfsticks said:

 

Nicklaus is quoted saying, in part,  you can't release the club too soon, but is there quoted material from him saying releasing means tossing angles.    Link?

You're right, that's the quote I was thinking of. Releasing from the top is the same feel as attempting to throw the angles. It doesn't happen like that but it feels like it. 

[chipa]

On 3/9/2021 at 3:27 PM, Zitlow said:

The right hip doesn't turn on it's own volition in the backswing.

 

I think that maybe the case for many golfers but not all. I don't think about my hips at all and don't try to pull my right hip back.

[golfsticks]

30 minutes ago, TheDeanAbides said:

You're right, that's the quote I was thinking of. Releasing from the top is the same feel as attempting to throw the angles. It doesn't happen like that but it feels like it. 

 

Review his book, Jack did not toss or throw anything from the top to the best of my memory,  he felt a wrist hinge-c0ck increase up to waist high on the down sequence because he worked from the ground up,  then CF did it's part.   

 

 

[golfsticks]

Casting with the hand will not extend the arm, but extending the arm first will delay the hand.    Joe Norwood

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Keep the club last in line.   Tom Scully

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It's the lower body that sends the message-the upper body just delivers it.  John Redman

[golfsticks]

What do the hands do?  The answer is they do nothing active until after the arms have moved on the downswing to a position just above the level of the hips.     Ben Hogan

[Nard_S]

To shallow the club , go deeper with hips.

 

To shallow the club, steepen the chest