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Tomasello's pattern is not the "end-all-be-all" of golf stroke patterns. It takes a lot of work beyond watching videos and reading old articles to make this or any pattern work. My biggest problem with making this pattern work in the real world is understand how the pivot works. I think that 90% of the golf stroke is the pivot, and Tomasello totally washes over it, but insteads preaches this hands controlled pivot fallacy. What he says and does are completely opposite. Learn how to pivot first and then add you right arm. That is how golf is played and it doesnt matter if you are a hitter, swinger, or switter. The hands cannot logically ever control the pivot; the pivot cannot logically control the hands. It takes both. It is the pivot stupid

That is how I learned how to use my right arm in the golf swing, it is how most good players control the swing. Everything else is jsut theory and marketing.

Add a correct pivot and you now have a maximum participation stroke.

"Have at it." I have and the ball sails 290 + down the fairway with a draw.

Of course the pivot is important. A hands controlled pivot is NOT what you think it is. You have the wrong idea of the term- “Hands controlled pivot.” It is NOT an arm swing.

The pivot moves the hands. The pivot does the “work.” What the pivot does NOT do is control the, or think for, the golf stroke. The pivot is designed by the hands to delivery the club to the ball.

Although Zones 2 and 3 (arms and hands) supply the power to the ball. Zone 1 (body- the pivot) generates POWER. The pivot provides Throw OUT power like a rotor. Max out all the Pivot Lag you want and power it up.

The pivot components are 7-12 through 17:
Pivot
Shoulder TURN
Hip TURN
Hip Action
Knee Action
Foot Action

None of which hold the club but generate Lag and Throw –Out.

So when you hear the term Hands Controlled Pivot you know that it isn’t an arm swing but a well designed body motion that generates power (what ever amount is appropriate for the shot) to the arms and hands. Once the hands are educated and have designed this power pad- let it work for you.