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12PB

Very good post!

I agree that the primary need is to get the hands down-and-out on the plane whatever the method of releasing PA#4.

It is very interesting that the golf style that keeps the left arm across the chest (keeping PA#4 loaded) for the longest time is the Hardy OPS. However, the Hardy OPS golfer manages to keep the clubshaft on-plane during the time period that PA#4 remains loaded because of the bent-over posture and their rotary pivot style where the upper and lower torso turn as a single unit.

OBLeft

Thanks for he advice. I have just received the Alignment Golf DVDs (which I haven't yet viewed) and I will look into the MacDonald drills.

Jeff.

Jeff . . . . Don't know much about Hardy's stuff . . . . but I would submit that this guy IS releasing #4 or at least it looks that way to me.

I think the holding on to #4 the longest pattern is the one that a certain someone says . . . . have your elbow seek your navel and have your head bob backwards as a result of having to get so much axis tilt to actually get to the ball . . .and then rotate the face to the ground and call it "hinging" or maintaining a flat left wrist. It is the one that raped me . . .