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Originally Posted by ringin
So if my swing is on the proper plane and the hips start first, then the hands / arms will follow, and that's where the lag is created? If you get the hips to far ahead, and you don't have quick enough hands, isn't there a tendency to have an open clubface at impact? Which means you really have to "flip" the hands through impact..and I've always been told that getting the hands over active is a bad thing.
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Hogan (and every good player) will tell you that it is impossible to throw the hips around too fast. When you create your front leg "post," your hips pull your shoulders around and if you made a correct backswing (with arms in sync with your chest) your arms and club will be whipped around perfectly, almost can't miss.
It is FAR, FAR better to err on the side of hip/leg action and weight shift than to lag back and repeatedly slice, then develop hand action compensations to counteract slice-- an error to compensate for an error-- the golf swing of 99% of amateurs. Gary Player strongly advised every Amateur to walk over, do ANYTHING but lag back and slice.
Instead just learn to make the transition weight shift and keep the clubhead inside the target line--and hit them straight!! No hand action necessary, no "timing" necessary, and that is how every good player does it. Our game is about consistency-- repeatedly hitting fairways and greens.
Larry