[O.B.Left]

Thanks,O.B. as always.

I got caught up by the pulling versus pushing.
I thought that was LA vs RA, but the pulling could perhaps be more in in both hands like tugging?

I have probably not been pulling at all - more like OTT right shoulder throwing away... I'm sorry to say.. so this is mostly just a theoretical question on my part.. but I'm eager to learn..

The Hands are just clamps, hitting or swinging. The pull of swinging is with the body for pivot strokes, fuller shots. When you get the Macdonald drills going , flowing the body throws the arms off ........advanced MacDonald drills will have a little right arm pick up and a little throw at the bottom perhaps but thats for another day.

Take a golf club and with it approx parallel to the ground and behind you as if in Release pre impact hook the club head around something. A hand rail, the upright on a golf cart , your caddies hands . Now forget golf moves , de program all you know about golf. I want you to pull this club length wise like a rope in a tug of war game. Pull it . Did you employ some golf moves , spinning hips or something ? Don't . Pull on the rope . Homer said "pull with whatever you can pull with , pull with your ears if you want". Do you feel how your body is braced , your feet are planted and solid , how your using your weight and your core and not your arms only .


This is easiest to see with the imaginary tug of war rope parallel to the ground but in golf for the swinger this longitudinal acceleration , pulling on the rope length wise , arrow from quiver deal actually begins in Startdown . It is the opposite of radial acceleration and delays release so long as the club shaft is moving in a linear manner . Once it move outside the hands radially , CF throws the club head out.

So the "rope" you need to pull longitudinally , length wise , in Startdown is positioned more like in the following diagram from George Knudson. Here was a master describing Homers longitudinal acceleration , pulling , drag loading , downswing sequence in his own words. Body pulls arms. Is this pivot to hands? Not so long as you are directing with the #3 pp. See the top arrow in his diagram and the direction it is pointing in......away from the ball and target!!!! The hands here are moving 3 dimensionally BACWARDS, Down and Out. OTT moves would have the arrow pointed more at the ball the Hands moving FORWARDS , Down and Out. Shortening your backswing to 3/4 or Top will really help when ingraining a longitudinal pull. Try it with little shots first where your hands don't get far enough back to necessitate the "opposite direction" to the target or ball pull at Top . Start with Acquired Motion and then work it to Total Motion. You can even have a little longitudinal in longer chip shots..... in fact thats a great place to feel its magic. It will change your impact immediately. No more laying the turf over a chip via throw away. Simply put you can't throw away if you are in the process of pulling longitudinally.