The two most important aspects of the golf swing are....

[Cool Hand Luke]

The two most important aspects of the swing.

 

1. Your transition

2. Your setup and backswing are good enough to allow a good transition to happen and they match your transition.

 

Impact is a result. It's why you can't really work on lag, shaft lean, open hips, etc., directly.

 

I agree with impact being a result, no question. Curious what your thoughts are on the Impact Snap training aid though? I would consider that working on impact position, wouldn't you?

 

cheers

[Cool Hand Luke]

You think all impacts look the same of all tour players?

 

May not 'look' the same across ALL tour players due to body types and camera angles but the mechanics are the same, i believe, yes. hands leading the club, shaft lean, bowed lead wrist, hips cleared, lateral bend, weight on lead leg, etc all leading to squared-delofted-compressed strike.

 

Can you at least acknowledge the irony in your post given your avatar?

 

Sounds like you have it all figured out then. We'll see you on tour.

 

Thanks for your confidence! I won't forget your contribution to my success ;-)

[MonteScheinblum]

The two most important aspects of the swing.

 

1. Your transition

2. Your setup and backswing are good enough to allow a good transition to happen and they match your transition.

 

Impact is a result. It's why you can't really work on lag, shaft lean, open hips, etc., directly.

 

I agree with impact being a result, no question. Curious what your thoughts are on the Impact Snap training aid though? I would consider that working on impact position, wouldn't you?

 

cheers

 

Not a fan.

 

[RichieHunt]

1. Your ability to control your hands

2. Your ability to control your feet

3. You ability to control your pelvis

 

 

 

 

RH

[Jim Waldron]

#1 How you use your Awareness and mental focus.

 

#2 Balance, including Balance at Setup.

 

If you frame the question exclusively in terms of Mechanics, then I will say this - a ton of threads on this board devoted to incredibly detailed mechanical analysis of positions, BUT often posters forget that the golf swing is a dynamic motion under the Law of Cause and Effect.

 

No point working on your Release into Impact swing segment if your Transition sucks.

 

No point working on your Transition if your Top of backswing is poor.

 

Meaning - as far as the swing motion - most important segment is Takeaway.

 

Transition is the most complex of the six swing segments, so takes the longest time to master.

 

After the the end of Transition, the speed of the body and club motion is so fast, there is really not a lot you can do skill learning wise to make things much better.

 

Impact is a result - it is not something you can achieve as and end unto itself.

 

I agree with all of your points, Jim. However, my original premise was more in the context of mechanics. As far as takeaway, i agree that it could be very important as it initiates the cascade of movements, but it seems like there are many different acceptable versions and all you need to do is make it fit your swing. The sequence of the transition seems less variable to me. You could make a beautiful take away but if your first move from the top is not correct then it doesn't matter. Also, the top of the swing seems the most variable to me among good ball strikers (ie Furyk vs Kuchar).

 

Correct. Performing any one of the six swing segments well (Takeaway, Second Half of Backswing, Transition to P6, Release into Impact, Followthrough and Finish) is no guarantee that the next segment or segments will be good. BUT - it greatly increases the probability that the next segment will be good.

 

In isolation - from a purely swing theory standpoint - Transition has the most influence on the quality of your golf shot. Problem is we don't play golf in Swing Theory world, so in fact the quality of your entire backswing, and before that even - your Grip and grip pressure, Setup (especially Setup!) and Aim will also have a tremendous influence.

[Cool Hand Luke]

 

In isolation - from a purely swing theory standpoint - Transition has the most influence on the quality of your golf shot.

 

Thanks for this, Jim. I don't mean to discount the other parts of the swing, as I said I know it all has to fit together to make it work.

 

Would you mind amusing me and the other readers of this thread and outlining the proper mechanics involved in the transition sequence, in your expert opinion?

[Jim Waldron]

In isolation - from a purely swing theory standpoint - Transition has the most influence on the quality of your golf shot.

 

Thanks for this, Jim. I don't mean to discount the other parts of the swing, as I said I know it all has to fit together to make it work.

 

Would you mind amusing me and the other readers of this thread and outlining the proper mechanics involved in the transition sequence, in your expert opinion?

 

Transition is complex. I teach it in three stages.

 

Stage One: while s girdle still has 10-15 degrees of backswing coil to finish, core/abs fire to the left at medium speed.

 

Stage Two: main points ( I am not going into detail and leaving out some secondary things) left knee "bumps" back to it's Setup position, followed by hip girdle shifting laterally left one to three inches (depends on club/stance width) toward the "west" or target; both knees increase flex by about one inch ( a bit more in right knee) ie Snead Sitdown move knees get further apart; right glute fires to stabilize right leg/hip; hip flexion restoration starts; hips rotate along with more lateral shift. Those are the main lower body points.

 

Upper body: Tilt Switch from left lateral bend to right; upper swing center/sternum may move back to it's Setup location (about one inch or so of lateral motion); core firing continues; s girdle/torso rotation starts at twice the RPM speed of hip rotation so the "gap" between them starts to get smaller; pivot momentum causes upper arms to move down, out and forward a tiny bit as right elbow starts to straighten gradually.

 

Stage Three: basically a continuation of Two,ie rotation of hips, core and s girdle/torso continues, right tilt continues, arms to chest SuperConnection happens by P6 or end of Stage Three.

 

That is an objective description and NOT something I am recommending folks reading this to "try" or "test" on the range or golf course, ie not "swing thoughts". Although having just said that, likely 90% of folks reading this warning will no doubt ignore it! ...just my experience with Internet Golf World....

 

There is a Huge Gap between swing theory and swing application - and those two things are very, very different animals.

[divot tool]

Too many important aspects really. . .I supppose they're all important, but since we're at it.

 

 

1. The grip in relation to clubface.

 

2. In general, the kinematic sequence.

 

 

[Silky]

Constrained to 2 items to describe a good golf swing, I would pick

1. Free hinging wrists to allow flailing action of a double pendulum through the ball

2. Instinctive throwing actions in our firmware, throw the club to the top of swing then throw the club far and high toward the target (without letting go of the club, of course)

[Golfjack]

1) Impact (as in good contact and clubface control) 2) speed. Sounds easy but so much goes into these two things.

[TB07]

Great, we identified the "most important ". Now how do you get there?

[Titleist-Golfer]

1. Tour issue gear

2. Being custom fit for Tour Issue gear

 

This is GolfWRX ... there's no need for impact, transition, grip or anything other than the most exclusive clubs and stiffest shafts that cost at least $999 each.

[Golfjack]

1. Tour issue gear

2. Being custom fit for Tour Issue gear

 

This is GolfWRX ... there's no need for impact, transition, grip or anything other than the most exclusive clubs and stiffest shafts that cost at least $999 each.

 

I got my x-stiff shafts in anticipation of the day my 120mph driver clubhead speed arrives. All ready to go!

[David C]

1 knowing how the club is designed to be used

2 timing

 

If you mean something technical, acceptable weight shift and acceptable lie angle through impact.

[notsohard]

Meaning - as far as the swing motion - most important segment is Takeaway.

 

Gold.

[Webby58]

#1 How you use your Awareness and mental focus.

 

#2 Balance, including Balance at Setup.

 

If you frame the question exclusively in terms of Mechanics, then I will say this - a ton of threads on this board devoted to incredibly detailed mechanical analysis of positions, BUT often posters forget that the golf swing is a dynamic motion under the Law of Cause and Effect.

 

No point working on your Release into Impact swing segment if your Transition sucks.

 

No point working on your Transition if your Top of backswing is poor.

 

Meaning - as far as the swing motion - most important segment is Takeaway.

 

Transition is the most complex of the six swing segments, so takes the longest time to master.

 

After the the end of Transition, the speed of the body and club motion is so fast, there is really not a lot you can do skill learning wise to make things much better.

 

Impact is a result - it is not something you can achieve as and end unto itself.

 

Funny that Bobby Clampett would disagree. According to him nothing else matter other then impact ??

[AlexCzervic]

Hands, feet and brains.

 

AC

[Strike Force]

Funny that Bobby Clampett would disagree. According to him nothing else matter other then impact ??

 

All good golfers (without exception) have learned to lag the clubhead from transition through impact. It is an absolute must for the laws of motion to work. It provides speed, force, compression on the ball, natural shaft lean, etc.

 

The transition is where all the magic happens (begins)...because the transition is where the shaft gets loaded. From the transition, the downswing must start with a loaded shaft. The golfer's task is to feel he delivers the loaded shaft completely through impact with the exact same amount of shaft load (without losing the load or increasing the load). Over-acceleration is the nemesis of lag because over-acceleration causes deceleration and therefore loss of the precious lag. How to sustain clubhead lag is counter-intuitive to most amateurs.

 

As Bobby Clampett tells you; 'Impact with a loaded (pre-stressed) shaft is the meaning of ‘Sustaining the Lag’.

 

The absolute most important aspect of the golf swing (from full swings to small, part swings and delicate chips) is 'sustaining the lag'. Once you understand what clubhead lag really is, it is easy to learn how to sustain it.

 

Bobby Clampett, Lynn Blake, Michael Hebron are excellent resources on the subject.

[toad37]

The absolute most important aspect of the golf swing (from full swings to small, part swings and delicate chips) is 'sustaining the lag'. Once you understand what clubhead lag really is, it is easy to learn how to sustain it.

 

 

 

Good stuff, thanks. Do you happen to have a video link that you like on this subject? There is a ton of stuff to wade through on Youtube.

 

edit - this one seems decent

 

[Strike Force]

The absolute most important aspect of the golf swing (from full swings to small, part swings and delicate chips) is 'sustaining the lag'. Once you understand what clubhead lag really is, it is easy to learn how to sustain it.

 

 

 

Good stuff, thanks. Do you happen to have a video link that you like on this subject? There is a ton of stuff to wade through on Youtube.

 

edit - this one seems decent

 

 

The problem you'll have searching for good information on this subject is differentiating between instruction (articles, videos, lessons) that talks about lag angle (the angle between the clubshaft and the lead arm) and clubhead lag. Clubhead lag is all about the load (bend/stress) of the clubshaft. In my view when you learn to carry (deliver) a stressed/loaded/bent clubshaft from the transition through impact things like lag angle (the angle between the clubshaft and the lead arm, which by the way is an effect) and things like swing plane, path, angle-of-attack, pivot, hip turn, shoulder turn, etc. typically take care of themselves...much like your body does when [say] throwing a ball. That said, most all amateurs work on all the wrong things, which is usually body position related or strength related. They should be working on what really matters and what really works, which is something even a child can do, and all men and women tour pros do - delivering clubhead lag through impact.

 

I would suggest that you think about how a golf shaft bends in the transition and you should only focus (when learning to swing with clubhead lag) on how you can retain this exact same amount of shaft bend throughout the downswing and beyond impact. Thinking about body positions (wrist c0ck angle, pivot, shoulder turn, etc.) are not necessary, and really does more harm and takes your focus off the task-at-hand.

 

The transition should 'gently' load the shaft...your sole swing focus is to sustain this exact same amount of load (clubhead lag) through impact. So, how do you do this? Well, you do not do it by working on body positions...any more than you would if you were twirling a weight around on a string. Your mind's eye and attention needs to be on first gently loading the shaft in your transition and then sustaining, maintaining, retaining (not a body part, but) the bend in the club shaft. When you do this, the body moves (and positions itself) naturally and things fall into place nicely.

 

If I gave you an easily bendable golf alignment rod or a switch from a small tree and added a bit of weight to the end, and asked you to swing it from your shoulder level to beyond low point at ground level while sustaining the exact same amount of bend/stress - could you learn to do it? Sure you could! Your duty in the golf swing is to not lose the shaft bend/stress, but not to increase it either. That's all you are trying to do when swinging a golf club!

 

The transition move loads (stresses) the golf club’s shaft merely by changing directions and nothing more. The club is moving backward in one instant and when the golfer starts to shift the weight and make the downswing the club resists this motion and bends. You only need to keep the shaft under stress!

 

All good golfers retain this bend or stress in the shaft through impact. To retain this loading of the shaft the left wrist should never break or fold. The best way to think about this is to retain that stress in the shaft as long as possible, even ‘trying’ to hold the ball against the clubface. In this way the golfer is more focused on retaining the critical alignments than engaging in unproductive ways to increase clubhead speed.

 

Clubhead lag is always present once the downstroke has begun. Good players use steady acceleration. Poor players over-accelerate, the hands reaching maximum speed before impact, thus losing the lagging load in the shaft. Any over-acceleration or pushing away of the club will eliminate the lag, never to be re-attained for that shot. Resist any attempt at throwing the hands at the ball or flicking the wrists near impact. The hands lead, the clubhead trails, and the stressed shaft in the middle is loaded with energy.

 

Good golfers don’t try to add force or speed during impact because they’ve learned it is ineffective to do so. Instead of sustaining the lag the duffer elects to actually try and consciously exert force to the shaft, and by doing so he causes clubhead throwaway (actually slowing down clubhead speed before impact).

 

Load or stress the club's shaft in the transition and then deliver the club to the ball while maintaining this lagging load into and through impact. Lag (a stressed, loaded shaft) truly is the secret of golf! Lag is the golfer’s downswing #1 priority, concern, and goal until well past the both-arms-straight, full extension position.

 

As Bobby Clampett says; 'If the power that you lag into impact is your precious cargo, the pivot is the transportation vehicle that carries the goods through the impact zone. That is why the pivot is the workhorse. It is imperative to focus on lagging the load through impact, understanding that the pivot is a critical component in achieving this. When successfully creating lag in your downswing, you should feel that the clubhead continually trails the hands and retains its stress, or load, in the clubshaft. The lag’s job is to store the swing’s power right through the impact zone. Quality of lag refers to how long the angle is retained into impact. The proper feel of sustaining lag is that it has no release point at all until well past impact. The transition is where all of the magic happens and if you are struggling, look there first.'

 

I would add that when first trying to sustain the clubshaft bend/stress from transition throughout the downswing - that the amount of shaft bend/stress is unimportant and the less bend, the better. If you increase the bend during the downswing chances are almost 100% that you have over-accelerated and will totally lose the precious bend/stress, which cannot be recovered. The good players use just enough acceleration to sustain the shaft bend that began during transition, the poor players over-accelerate. The hands reach maximum speed before reaching impact and this dissipates all of the shaft lag. "It is very important to only maintain or sustain the same amount of bend/stress you started with in the transition. Remember - over-acceleration is the nemesis of clubhead lag. Use only moderate grip pressure and let the right hand just go along for the ride. You will find that the downswing can feel the same speed as the backswing. Do not try to make the downswing go faster...don't try to add speed - let the laws of motion work. Your full mind's eye focus should be on what the shaft is doing...and your sole mission is to carry the shaft stress through impact. Once you feel (and see the results) of using clubhead lag it will bring a whole new life to your golf game.

 

Your mission is to carry the stressed shaft from transition through impact.

 

 

This article may help you better understand what clubhead lag is ► https://www.thoughtc...ead-lag-1564419

 

 

This Lynn Blake video may help you get the concept of sustaining the clubshaft load.

 

 

 

 

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[Strike Force]

Key aspect of the golf swing - sustaining the load stress of the clubshaft

[jecarnl]

Being able to hit the ball to your target and not getting analyzes paralyzes from this board. In medicine as in golf, please remember this....there is no money in the cure.

[ricklinens]

1. Getting in your own way so you can...

2. Grab the cash

[Bronson]

The absolute most important aspect of the golf swing (from full swings to small, part swings and delicate chips) is 'sustaining the lag'. Once you understand what clubhead lag really is, it is easy to learn how to sustain it.

 

 

 

Good stuff, thanks. Do you happen to have a video link that you like on this subject? There is a ton of stuff to wade through on Youtube.

 

edit - this one seems decent

 

 

The problem you'll have searching for good information on this subject is differentiating between instruction (articles, videos, lessons) that talks about lag angle (the angle between the clubshaft and the lead arm) and clubhead lag. Clubhead lag is all about the load (bend/stress) of the clubshaft. In my view when you learn to carry (deliver) a stressed/loaded/bent clubshaft from the transition through impact things like lag angle (the angle between the clubshaft and the lead arm, which by the way is an effect) and things like swing plane, path, angle-of-attack, pivot, hip turn, shoulder turn, etc. typically take care of themselves...much like your body does when [say] throwing a ball. That said, most all amateurs work on all the wrong things, which is usually body position related or strength related. They should be working on what really matters and what really works, which is something even a child can do, and all men and women tour pros do - delivering clubhead lag through impact.

 

I would suggest that you think about how a golf shaft bends in the transition and you should only focus (when learning to swing with clubhead lag) on how you can retain this exact same amount of shaft bend throughout the downswing and beyond impact. Thinking about body positions (wrist c0ck angle, pivot, shoulder turn, etc.) are not necessary, and really does more harm and takes your focus off the task-at-hand.

 

The transition should 'gently' load the shaft...your sole swing focus is to sustain this exact same amount of load (clubhead lag) through impact. So, how do you do this? Well, you do not do it by working on body positions...any more than you would if you were twirling a weight around on a string. Your mind's eye and attention needs to be on first gently loading the shaft in your transition and then sustaining, maintaining, retaining (not a body part, but) the bend in the club shaft. When you do this, the body moves (and positions itself) naturally and things fall into place nicely.

 

If I gave you an easily bendable golf alignment rod or a switch from a small tree and added a bit of weight to the end, and asked you to swing it from your shoulder level to beyond low point at ground level while sustaining the exact same amount of bend/stress - could you learn to do it? Sure you could! Your duty in the golf swing is to not lose the shaft bend/stress, but not to increase it either. That's all you are trying to do when swinging a golf club!

 

The transition move loads (stresses) the golf club’s shaft merely by changing directions and nothing more. The club is moving backward in one instant and when the golfer starts to shift the weight and make the downswing the club resists this motion and bends. You only need to keep the shaft under stress!

 

All good golfers retain this bend or stress in the shaft through impact. To retain this loading of the shaft the left wrist should never break or fold. The best way to think about this is to retain that stress in the shaft as long as possible, even ‘trying’ to hold the ball against the clubface. In this way the golfer is more focused on retaining the critical alignments than engaging in unproductive ways to increase clubhead speed.

 

Clubhead lag is always present once the downstroke has begun. Good players use steady acceleration. Poor players over-accelerate, the hands reaching maximum speed before impact, thus losing the lagging load in the shaft. Any over-acceleration or pushing away of the club will eliminate the lag, never to be re-attained for that shot. Resist any attempt at throwing the hands at the ball or flicking the wrists near impact. The hands lead, the clubhead trails, and the stressed shaft in the middle is loaded with energy.

 

Good golfers don’t try to add force or speed during impact because they’ve learned it is ineffective to do so. Instead of sustaining the lag the duffer elects to actually try and consciously exert force to the shaft, and by doing so he causes clubhead throwaway (actually slowing down clubhead speed before impact).

 

Load or stress the club's shaft in the transition and then deliver the club to the ball while maintaining this lagging load into and through impact. Lag (a stressed, loaded shaft) truly is the secret of golf! Lag is the golfer’s downswing #1 priority, concern, and goal until well past the both-arms-straight, full extension position.

 

As Bobby Clampett says; 'If the power that you lag into impact is your precious cargo, the pivot is the transportation vehicle that carries the goods through the impact zone. That is why the pivot is the workhorse. It is imperative to focus on lagging the load through impact, understanding that the pivot is a critical component in achieving this. When successfully creating lag in your downswing, you should feel that the clubhead continually trails the hands and retains its stress, or load, in the clubshaft. The lag’s job is to store the swing’s power right through the impact zone. Quality of lag refers to how long the angle is retained into impact. The proper feel of sustaining lag is that it has no release point at all until well past impact. The transition is where all of the magic happens and if you are struggling, look there first.'

 

I would add that when first trying to sustain the clubshaft bend/stress from transition throughout the downswing - that the amount of shaft bend/stress is unimportant and the less bend, the better. If you increase the bend during the downswing chances are almost 100% that you have over-accelerated and will totally lose the precious bend/stress, which cannot be recovered. The good players use just enough acceleration to sustain the shaft bend that began during transition, the poor players over-accelerate. The hands reach maximum speed before reaching impact and this dissipate all of the shaft lag. "It is very important to only maintain or sustain the same amount of bend/stress you started with in the transition. Remember - over-acceleration is the nemesis of clubhead lag. Use only moderate grip pressure and let the right hand just go along for the ride. You will find that the downswing can feel the same speed as the backswing. Do not try to make the downswing go faster...don't try to add speed - let the laws of motion work. Your full mind's eye focus should be on what the shaft is doing...and your sole mission is to carry the shaft stress through impact. Once you feel (and see the results) of using clubhead lag it will bring a whole new life to your golf game.

 

Your mission is to carry the stressed shaft from transition through impact.

 

 

This article may help you better understand what clubhead lag is ► https://www.thoughtc...ead-lag-1564419

 

 

This Lynn Blake video may help you get the concept of sustaining the clubshaft load.

 

 

 

 

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So wrong it's not funny!! The shaft changes it's bend/flex a few times in the swing without the golfer's ability to do anything about keeping it in one orientation of "stress".

 

It's amazing that this kind of advice is still out there. All one has to do is ask any qualified club maker what a golf shaft does in a swing or google it...geeez!

 

 

Some just can't let go of the method!

[Bronson]

http://www.harrison.com/articledetail/shaft-lead-n-shaft-lag

[Bronson]

During the golf swing, the shaft bends in so many ways and in so many places that we wonder how the ball can be hit straight. But it all works out. Read this description of something that looks simple only when we see it at high speed.

The clubhead of an iron weighs about eight ounces. The entire golf club weighs about fourteen.

 

When the club moves away from the ball, the flexible shaft gets ahead the movement of the clubhead; that is, the shaft bends in a concave direction in regard to the target. The clubhead remains in this lagging position throughout the backswing.

 

At the top of the backswing the clubhead catches up again just before the reversal of direction the swing. But as before, when the clubs starts swinging down, the heavy clubhead gets left behind, bending the shaft again, but in the opposite way than it bent at takeaway.

 

The downswing accelerates the clubhead, whereas the backswing it was decelerating. At some point in the downswing, the accelerating clubhead passes the shaft, causing the shaft to bend in the opposite direction, a concave shape relative to the target, as the clubhead approaches the ball.

 

The clubhead now behaves as if it were a freewheeling object. This bending of the shaft causes the clubface to be closed at impact by about 2 degrees. In addition to being bent a bit backwards, the shaft also bends downward, somewhat like a fishing pole bent downward by the weight of the lures tied to the line.

 

This downward bending causes the lie of the club to flatten out, and must be taken into account when the lie of the club is determined during club-fitting. The amount of the bend can between from 1 to 3 degrees, depending on shaft flex and clubhead speed.

[Strike Force]

So wrong it's not funny!! The shaft changes it's bend/flex a few times in the swing without the golfer's ability to do anything about keeping it in one orientation of "stress".

 

It's amazing that this kind of advice is still out there. All one has to do is ask any qualified club maker what a golf shaft does in a swing or google it...geeez!

 

Some just can't let go of the method!

 

It is acknowledged that the golf shaft bends forward toward the ball just an instant before impact, something that most seasoned golfers know. This shaft action cannot be felt or sensed by the golfer because the forward bend (in a good golf swing) happens just an instant before impact - something that cannot be felt or sensed separately from ball impact because the signal from the hand nerves take too long to reach the brain. The key point in this [most important aspect of the golf swing] instruction I posted is to 'feel-as-though' you sustain the shaft bend (or load or stress or pressure) well through impact. In doing so you will have accomplished the task that is so important in a good golf swing to compress the ball and provide natural shaft lean. Don't let the little things bother you and get in the way of what is really important...

 

 

Call (239) 236-5536 - Ask to speak to Bobby Clampett and tell him what you think - He'll inform you of the truth.

 

Send an email to Lynn Blake at lynn@lynnblakegolf.com or try to reach him at (770) 527-3841 - Lynn Blake will set you straight!

 

Call (631) 979-6534 - Ask to speak to Michael Hebron - He'll properly inform you.

 

 

Lynn Blake acknowledges (as do others) in one of his videos how the golf shaft bends forward toward the ball just an instant before impact, but that does not in any way negate what the golfer should do in terms of sustaining the shaft load from transition through impact.

[BenHoganSlam1953]

1.) Impact

 

2.) Looking smug afterwards

 

1) Looking smug beforehand (knowing before - now that is game)

2) Impact

[dan360]

Impact position

Repeatability.

[Bronson]

So wrong it's not funny!! The shaft changes it's bend/flex a few times in the swing without the golfer's ability to do anything about keeping it in one orientation of "stress".

 

It's amazing that this kind of advice is still out there. All one has to do is ask any qualified club maker what a golf shaft does in a swing or google it...geeez!

 

Some just can't let go of the method!

 

It is acknowledged that the golf shaft bends forward toward the ball just an instant before impact, something that most seasoned golfers know. This shaft action cannot be felt or sensed by the golfer because the forward bend (in a good golf swing) happens just an instant before impact - something that cannot be felt or sensed separately from ball impact because the signal from the hand nerves take too long to reach the brain. The key point in this [most important aspect of the golf swing] instruction I posted is to 'feel-as-though' you sustain the shaft bend (or load or stress or pressure) well through impact. In doing so you will have accomplished the task that is so important in a good golf swing to compress the ball and provide natural shaft lean. Don't let the little things bother you and get in the way of what is really important...

 

 

Call (239) 236-5536 - Ask to speak to Bobby Clampett and tell him what you think - He'll inform you of the truth.

 

Send an email to Lynn Blake at lynn@lynnblakegolf.com or try to reach him at (770) 527-3841 - Lynn Blake will set you straight!

 

Call (631) 979-6534 - Ask to speak to Michael Hebron - He'll properly inform you.

 

 

Lynn Blake acknowledges (as do others) in one of his videos how the golf shaft bends forward toward the ball just an instant before impact, but that does not in any way negate what the golfer should do in terms of sustaining the shaft load from transition through impact.

 

 

It changes bend/flex before that position more than once. Either you can or you can't sustain the bend and the answer is you can't and trying to is pointless as it has shown to be not possible. And your own words below prove that point!! Feel ain't real so....there's that.

 

 

"this shaft action cannot be felt or sensed by the golfer because the forward bend (in a good golf swing) happens just an instant before impact - something that cannot be felt or sensed separately from ball impact because the signal from the hand nerves take too long to reach the brain. "

 

 

It's those little things that do get in the way especially when they are not true that will bother you!