Standard Hip Turn / Slide Hip Turn

[KevCarter]

Would you please tell us the benefit of what you would teach now, vs. Mr. Montgomerie's 8 time Order of Merit swing? Is there a physical problem with that sway, for example, or usually lots of power leakage?

I wouldn't mind winning the Order of Merit twice before I'm 60! I promise to put lots of LBG logos on my tour bag and wear all the hats and golf togs you care to send me. I will sign autographs after each round saying "If LBG could help me, just think of how it can help you!" I'll probably get a rubber stamp for that one, though and just sign my name.


ICT

Patrick,

Just variations, nothing wrong with it at all. Try to switch Montgomerie, are you kidding? One of the greatest players ever.



I'm just trying to learn the book, and what pieces work with others. That is where that answer was so important to me...

No right, wrong, or best, but you need to understand why.

Kevin

[Par71]

Thanks, Yoda. Your answer absolutely cleared the fog for me.

The "exaggerated" slide that Montgomery displays is what I've always tried to avoid like the plague. Much too difficult to control for me. I find it astonishing that 12-1-0 / 12-2-0 now recommend this slide for the non-expert player.

[Yoda]

Thanks, Yoda. Your answer absolutely cleared the fog for me.

The "exaggerated" slide that Montgomery displays is what I've always tried to avoid like the plague. Much too difficult to control for me. I find it astonishing that 12-1-0 / 12-2-0 now recommend this slide for the non-expert player.

In a full week training personally with Mr. Kelley and a year of telephone calls before and after, I never once heard him recommend the Slide Hip Turn. During his lifetime (and in TGM's first six editions) the listed 14th Component Variation was the Standard Hip Turn. Ne'er the less, the Slide Hip Turn is now the listed Variation in the 7th edition, published 23 years after his death.

Emulate the Pivot illustrated in Photo 10-12-A #1 of TGM. Use Exercises 1 through 4 here to learn it: http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4435.html. It is not the only way, but it is a sound way. In fact, it is the pivot of a list of great champions too impossibly long to cite.

[BerntR]

Hope I'm not thread jacking;

When you teach the Right Forearm Pickup - does it all start with arms or is there any hip action and/or shulder turn involved.

I'm strictly interested in the geometry and physics here; What really happens and not where you put your mind.