LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - The cause of Yips. Thread: The cause of Yips. View Single Post #3 03-26-2007, 05:49 PM dkerby Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 244 The "yips" Per David Lee - Gravity Golf Here's what happens. The problem begins when the takeaway is made with the hands and arms instead of the back and sholders. By not originating the takeaway, the shoulders and back will usually be too relaxed when the takeaway begins. When the back muscles are stretched by the arms going back, being elastic, they (back muscles) will naturally rebound slightly when the top of the backswing is reached. When the back muscles rebound they cause the clubhead to rebound about an inch or so also. When this happens, the TRUE top of the backswing is the position of the shoulders, arms and the clubhead AFTER the rebound has occured. Not having anticipated this rebound of the club, the brain senses that the delivery is lever deficiency. In other words, the backswing is now TO SHORT for the club to come up to adequate speed by the time it reaches the ball, for the shot to reach the target. Sensing this leverage deficiency coming into impact, (tighten) in order to make up the leverage loss, and the results are disastrous! The ball will either explode off the clubface and go to far, or the swing-plane reversal may cause the player to hit behind the shot - possibly even double hit the ball. Note: Some say that the procedure is pivot controlled hand instead of hand controlled pivot? Both Jack N and Lee T have been to see David Lee about putting. dkerby View Public Profile Send a private message to dkerby Find all posts by dkerby