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Taking Homer seriously about what he said about the importance of clearing the right hip to avoid the dreaded "round house effect" (which I believe to be factually based!) I made an observation about the connection of waistbend and knee bend to round housing that I am looking for confirmation on.

It seems that most golfers stand too tall to the ball with insufficient waist bend as well as too little knee bend, particularly with longer clubs. Most of course have no concept of what impact is supposed to look like, especially the on plane forearm, which neccessitates a lower head position...which would necessitate more waist bend, as well as more knee bend. So I guess what I am trying to figure out is if the waist bend and knee bend are sufficient enough to allow an on plane right forearm and a properly set head...would this degree of bend facilitate (at least on the backswing) a clearing of the right hip automatically? I find merely telling a student to clear the right hip unhelpful, but changing the amount of hip and knee bend (i.e. no thought of clearing anything) to be helpful. What do we think?