Venturi
 

Did anybody see the review of Venturi by Jim Mclean on the
golf channel Monday. Looked like Venturi had a lot of TGM.
Mclean talked about Venturi's right side takeaway. Sounded
like he ment right arm but probably did not know the difference.
The discussion on pitching seemed right down the line of TGM.
Mclean noted that Venturi did not use left wrist cock or right
wrist bend. If Lynn or Ted saw the clip, would be interesting
to hear their review.

Kenny In Casts
 

Didn't see it, Donn. But I do remember years ago when Ken did a short game piece for Golf Magazine with both wrists and forearms in casts. This made the point of his article -- Zero Wrist Action -- pretty obvious.

I saw the show. Yes, no doubt the 'casts' are a great proxy for setting and keeping the flying wedges, although as has been discussed previously, I like the 'ace bandage' image better than casts, which create too much tension IMO.

The best part of Venturi's motion is his takeaway, I completely agree with McLean on that. He really shows a spectacular feel for his right forearm in his motion, far better than most with the exception of Mickey Wright, who was probably a touch better due to her address position.

Both are a good example of a slight 'lagging clubhead takeaway' and hence keep the right forearm and shaft in excellent alignments during the move away from the ball.

Sway
 

I saw it. The thing that struck me was his deliberate sway off the ball at start up.

venturi
 

I attended a clinic of his in the early 1980's. He preached both a right forearm takeaway, although not in golfing machine terminology and a flat left wrist at impact. In fact he heavily stressed that the left wrist must never break down and all bad shots come from that condition. Interestingly, his decline on tour came after experiencing numbness in his right hand, and a neck problem that resulted in a flatter swing plane.