[Daryl]

So I need a pivot? Hmmm? What if I stay aligned left? I read the "Lean and Load" article and that person speaks about lining up slightly closed to balance the pivot. Anyway, more pivot and pivot research and practice!

Onward! Thanks Daryl.

Well, I won't get in the way of Kevin or Gerry but I'm in the school of thought that the Left Foot may be flared only ever so slightly, if at all. Only a touch but the Right foot should be straight.

About a month ago you wrote one of the best thoughts I've ever read about the pivot. You said that sometimes you feel like you get "lost on the Right Side". WOW, that's monumental (I'm thinking about getting that stitched into the side of my Golf Bag). I took that to mean that you had difficulty using your Pivot to start the downswing (among other things). Well. you can't start the Downstroke with the Pivot if you get "lost on the Right Side".

The McDonald drills are perfect for teaching the Pivot. The Hula-Hula is much more than flexibility or keeping separate identities of the Shoulders and Hips.

Do the step in place marching drill. Watch the knees bend and straighten and as they do, the hips go back and forth, away from and then toward the target line. The Shoulders go up and down. The Shoulders and Hips coordinate but have separate identities and separate geometry . Hip Action isn't the Hips simply pulling the Shoulders, it's the Hips ability to DRIVE the Shoulders Up-Plane or Down-Plane..

Did you see that recent video where Lynn Blake was demonstrating TGM to some pro's? Remember the walking and swinging drill. When they walked forward while swinging the club, did you see them rotate their hips left and right? Not... I think that they thought it was kind of goofy. OMG, they were being handed the keys to the kingdom and they didn't know it. He handed them 100 years of wisdom in 15 seconds. They wouldn't discover that on their own in a lifetime of effort.

Most golfers view the pivot as the hips turning to the right and the shoulders turning to the right and then reverse the motion for the Downstroke. This couldn't be farther from the truth. With that point of view, the Pivot will never bring the Hands into release on the Turned Shoulder Plane. In fact, I'll state that no-one can get their hands to a snap release location on the turned shoulder plane with that kind of pivot. With these rotational type pivots, the Elbow Plane is the best that you're going to do.