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Particularly I love the idea of hitting the ball with my pressure points. I am trying hard to get better at feeling the lag in pressure points #1 and #3. I absolutely love using pressure point number 3 in my chipping..."

"Mind in the Hands" is a video I made for Lynn- it talks about hitting the ball with the PP of the Hands. PP#3 is the clubhead- be careful not to be too active with it as it will produce "throw-away."

One of the things I noticed in watching Hitter's Row video is that Lynn Blake's wrist angles near the top of his back swing, are much more acute than Ted Fort's. I wonder what Lynn does when he hits instead of swings. Does he change to a hitter's lag techniques, or does he use what he already does so well? Anyone know?

Lynn uses Standard Left Wrist Action which in the back swing turns the wrists to the right past Top to the End - a Swinger's prodcedure. This allows the Hands to roll with the the Wrist Throw and Drag Loading to produce CF.
Ted- a Hitter uses Single Left Wrist Action which has no wrist turn and loads to the Top (shoulder Height). This is what Lynn and all Hitters do. The Single Left Wrist Action loads Lag at the Top- shoulder height.

Something else I really really like from Bobby Clampett is that he believes a golfer should take a divot that continues 4 inches in front of the impact point. That concept has resulted in a significantly improved ball flight for me. It particularly works especially great out of the sand trap. I do a drill in the sand trap where I draw a line in the sand, and then concentrate on hitting the line (the ball) and taking a 4 inch divot had of the line. I guess that means that I am aiming for mole heads significantly in front my impact point instead of just in front of impact. Do you strongly disagree with Bobby Claimpett suggestion?

I have not read Clampett's book. A divot is produced in front of the ball becasue the ball is located UP PLANE and you are striking DOWN Plane to Low Point that is located just in front of the ball. As long as the Line of Compression is through the ball heading to Low Point- the length of the divot is not important. It would vary from club to club and ball location fro that club.
I would not impact the ball out of the bunker the same way you strike a ball on a fairway.
Ben Doyle has drills in the bunker that teaches the student Lag, Thrust and Impact Alignments because the sand makes for a great visual aid. The drills are not meant to produce bunker shots- just teach. Ben teaches in the bunker all the time but not bunker shots.


Explore the Flying Wedges, take the Hands out of the shot and rely on the Machine's alignments to produce great G.O.L.F. shots