1-F Right Arm or Left

[Yoda]

Thank you Yoda, I eagerly await your reply. I'm a little lost as to how you can push with the right hand, but steer with the left. [Bold by Yoda.]

You 'steer' the Clubhead with the Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point Tracing. You align the Clubface with the Flat Left Wrist and its preselected Hinge Action. Study their respective definitions and assignments on pages 237 and 235 of The Glossary (6th Edition).

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Yoda

The benefit of this drill is that it trains independently but coordinately: (1) The Right Hand and Forearm to sense Clubhead Lag Pressure and Trace the Plane Line, thus controlling the Clubhead and its Line of Flight through the Ball; (2) The Left Hand to Hinge and Swivel, thus controlling the Clubface and the Rhythm of the Stroke, i.e., the Clubhead Overtaking of the Hands during the Impact Interval (from Release to Finish Swivel).

The right hand controls the clubhead and its line of flight through the ball
The left hand controls the clubface

My question: there's a common drill that you see in golf magazines and books, where you hold two golf clubs, one in each hand, and you make practice swings and you work on keeping the clubs parallel to each other throughout the swing.

HOWEVER, if my right hand controls the clubhead, and the left hand controls the clubface (hinge and swivel), then isn't this fact incompatible with this common two-club drill?

When the training emphasizes the correct alignments, the drill you mention should yield valuable results.

Each Hand has its respective function and should be trained independently to perform it. Left Wrist Action controls the Clubhead position (See the subheading of 10-18 ) on the face of the Inclined Plane. The Left Hand Hinge Action controls the Clubface alignment in relation to its selected Plane of Motion -- Horizontal, Angled or Vertical -- through Impact. The Right Hand (through Pressure Points #1 and #3) provides the Active Drive of the Clubhead -- actually the entire Primary Lever Assembly -- for Hitters and the Acceleration Control of the Clubhead for both Hitters and Swingers. When combined with the Right Forearm Tracing of the Plane Line, it also controls the essential geometry of the Clubhead's Line of Flight through Impact (2-N-0).

In doing the drill you have described or any related drill, understand these three things:

1. The Shaft Rotates around the Sweet Spot (and not the other way around);

2. The Hands Rotate about each other; and

3. There is a definite Clubhead (Sweet Spot) Overtaking of the Hands during the Impact Interval.

An intellectual understanding of these points is one thing. Knowing them is another.

Their Clarion Call is Rhythm (See The Glossary and 6-B-3-0).