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Ive been thinking about 10-3-J Pause a bit.

Diane in the photo is employing Horizontal Hinging and as such her left wrist stays flat as the left hand and arm "pause" at the ball and the clubhead scoots past the hands early. So Id say this technically isnt throwaway as the left wrist is flat.

The pros often Vertical Hinge it however. Im thinking that here the left hand or arm "pauses" but the clubhead scoots past a bending left wrist. Intentional throwaway, with a maxing out of layback being the recipe for high, soft landing flops. You'll often see them choke way down on the shaft to shorten the radius and lessen the send. They'll bend the plane line way to the left of course with the clubface opened wide and pointing at the hole.

When you try it out the key is to pause the left side as allowing the left arm to separate off the chest will give you a more driving shot with less layback. I like to hit a bunch of balls alternating between pause and blast off, pause and blast off. Flop and drive. When you pause it, the rope like left wrist becomes the center of the clubs rotation and there is a real swing like feeling to it as you are now swinging the clubhead instead of the hands.

How Homer a 15 handicap, identified all of this cause and effect is beyond comprehension. Homer identified the geometry of the pure strike, maximum compression and in so doing also identified the effects of intentionally altering that geometry. The tools of the trade for the shot maker.

After all the work I did on getting to both arms straight with a flat left wrist, I never would have gotten around to trying this type of shot again. Id have left it as flippy wristed kid stuff if werent for................Mr Lynn Blake.