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Old 01-19-2005, 07:27 PM
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Mechanics to Feel Alignment Golf: Golf Talk With Tiger And Butch
Originally Posted by Range Rat

Last night during the Golf Channel's 10 year golf academy live special, I caught the number 1 viewer "Golf Academy" Live segment with Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon (April of 2000)....couldn't believe my eyes....Tigers description of his current golf swing then was equivalent to the right arm swing....Tiger said he was starting the club with the feeling of dropping his hands and arms at the beginning of the downswing instead of using his hips...anybody see that segment??? Classic...

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I did not see the segment. Even so, I'm not sure where 'Right Arm Swing' -- using the Right Arm to accelerate the Club longitudinally per 7-19 -- comes into play.

A "Vertcal Drop" of the Hands (from one of the Shoulder Planes to the Elbow Plane) is the catalogued procedure of the Angled Line Delivery Paths (10-23-B and -D). However, the Right Arm Swing can be accomplished on any Plane Angle, e.g., the Turned Shoulder Plane, and thus may or may not require a vertical drop of the Hands. It may also be accomplished with Zero Shift (10-7) which once again would invalidate the 'dropping Hands' Feel.

Also, Float Loading (10-19-B) is the catalogued "gentle, even lazy" Start Down that only then is followed by either Drive Loading (Hitting) or Drag Loading (Swinging). While this procedure is available to Right Arm Swingers, it is equally available to Left Arm Swingers and Hitters. Certainly, all players using this procedure could sense Float Loading as a 'drop of the Hands' preceding the Pivot's Downstroke Loading of the Power Package (10-21-D and -E). So maybe Tiger and Butch were working on Float Loading and not on Right Arm Swing. Or vice versa. Or maybe on both. Or on neither.

The unfortunate thing is that we in the viewing audience will never know. We can never know exactly what Tiger and Butch were talking about -- or even if they knew what they were talking about! -- because they did not identify the precise Mechanic. Indeed, they could not identify it, at least not in concrete language. The fact is that we 'at home' were provided only with a verbal Interpretation of Tiger's Feel of an imprecise Mechanic. Therefore, 'the Move' must forever remain a mystery.

Wouldn't it be nice if Tiger and Butch had used the precision terminology of The Golfing Machine? That way, we could all know exactly what was meant. And, equally important, what was not. That precision Mechanic could then produce a Feel unique to each of us...one that we could depend upon to reliably reproduce the Mechanic. This dual process is Homer Kelley's Star System of G.O.L.F., and it is available now to all who study...

The Golfing Machine.
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