"Hands controlled pivot" got a new and much stronger meaning to me today.
I was playing erratic golf. It is a discipline I've practiced a lot this year. And as usual when I do that, I know and feel at address that the harmony is missing. And that anything can happen. And anything - or should I say - everything - happened today. When the machine is working properly I feel that I can produce any kind of shot at will. But this was not one of these days.
However, for the last few holes I changed my mindset from monitoring and adjusting to decision making and delegation. I told my hands what I wanted them to do. After all, I know what they need to do to produce a good stroke and that's what I told them. How they did it wasn't really my business. The marching order to the hands was produced and delivered in the form of pressure feelings in the left hand - at impact fix. Wouldn't say it was PP 1,2 and 3, but just about every contact point between the left hand and the club was told about the required alignments through the ball.
And it worked pretty damed good. Hit several fairways and produced a few good birdie opportunities through the last six holes. I even managed to work the ball a little in the end.
The lesson was this: Going from recognizing that the hands and the eyes know the difference between right and wrong to commanding them to do the right thing and give them full authority do to whatever it takes...
John Allen May article. Homer, Earnest Jones, Henry Cotton
Great story , BerntR
I relearn that lesson often. In fact I now consider monitoring the hands and the feeling associated with sustaining the lag pressure golfconcentration. Its way more magical than any one day wonder position thing. Lag pressure is the secret to golf after all. Let the motion make the shot. The three Stations. Steering as ill conceived illusion etc. They all relate.
I wish Drewit would start his own thread on all of this and the false logic of golf. It would be great, great, great but its presumptive of me to ask I guess, dont want to be rude or anything.
Here is an article by John Allan May on Homers "swing the hands' vis a vis Earnest Jones "swing the clubhead". I really like his note about the dangers of "swinging from the wrists".
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