It was so strange and so good at the same time. Another beastly hitter at the range commented on my compression and said "Hogan, right?" I gave him the official LBG red hall pass to the website
All my shots were very good, though my driver was so-so.
If you have anytime, sometime, could you explain why pros do not do that grip and how they get the pp # 3 so well trained? Do they all have an orange power-point they take off during a round or (and this is probably the case) do they have a sublime sense of feel and balance on plane with their clubs or a special PGA decoder that allows them super-human club manipulations?
Patrick
So you had the knuckle on the top of the grip and the first joint on the aft? Is that what you mean?
To answer your question about why all pros dont use that grip............there is no one way! But for all good players there is Lag Pressure sensed in the hands at some point or other. Whether they acknowledge it or not. A lag pressure consistent with their chosen Lag Loading procedure. Drive or Drag. 10-19.
You dont see Hogans grip everywhere but you dont see his Drag Loading everywhere either. Hogan had the ideal grip to go along with his ideal Drag Loading. He was like a work of art, that guy.
I'd venture that a strong right hand grip wouldnt have allowed Hogan to Drag Load like he did , not for that long anyways. That he'd have started to push a little given that his elbow wouldnt have been so pitch and when the Left Hand rotated off the Inclined Plane he'd have released earlier. Something those other pros you mention probably do and quite effectively too. Nothing wrong with a Sweep Release.
In short the physics associated with the manner in which we apply force to the handle reveals itself in the alignments we display. Show me a Pitch elbow and Ill show you a knuckle riding on top (most likely) as it just goes with bending the shaft along the Top /Bottom axis during Drag Loading, Active Left Wrist, Left ARm Flying Wedge, Swinging etc. Show me a Punch elbow and Ill show you a grip aligned for pushing (most likely) bending the shaft along the For/ Aft grip axis, the Right Arm Flying Wedge. Homer recommended a 10-2-B grip in either case but in the field you see variety. Grip changes are hard to make for a seasoned golfer.
How do the pros train their #3? Id say that by and large without even knowing of the #3pp, they associated a feeling in their hands with good contact. A feeling that comes and goes but something they seek out. Something they discovered as kids probably. What is that feeling? Lag pressure as well as the other pressure points too. They all speak to us, tell us their different stories. The #4 tells us about how the pivot is doing, the #2 about the Left Hand wrist cock etc. Some guys, especially the ones with "trigger fingers", would have a strong sense of what we'd call the #3pp. The others just have it despite the fact they dont really think about it. Id imagine, I dunno.
With Hogan's grip you get the knuckle and the first joint ,one on Top one on the aft. Ready to take the load and sustain it, direct it as you bend the shaft sequencialy along its two axis, if you wish to. I can imagine not loading along the top/bottom axis at the knuckle but every good golfer senses lag at the first joint or there abouts. Thats the top of the Sweetspot Plane, the Longitudinal Center of Gravity. Without it the clubhead has passed the hands. Ill have to ask my cross handed buddy about what he feels and where. If he can articulate it. Whenever I ask him about things like that he starts to talk and then just says "aw.......I cant describe it, forget about it". He can pipe line it though.
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