Easily said, but maybe not so easily done or else we wouldnāt all start by blowing lag in the down swing, right?
This drawing confuses me though. The concept is solid, but is Sam saying in the drawing that the point in the swing in which you see the illustrated hand is when the right hand starts firing? Because I really would have guessed it would be the 5th or maybe 6th set of hands back from impactā¦ thatās where Iāve worked so hard to start feeling like the right hand is going to town on the ball.
Ahā¦ wait a second. Now I get itā¦ the darker (or more filled in) the right hand is, the more Sam feels he is āpouring it onā. Now that makes sense. I missed that the first time around.
Yes similar principal of the depth of the shading showing the depth of pressures in Hoganās 5 lessons I guess.
Cheers,
Arnie
Snead gif from setup, slotting, through the ball, beautifulā¦
Thanks to NRG 
In my opinion
Snead pulled it because the right hand worked down and flattened from hip high to hip high (and also Mac OāGrady did this and also had a similar CP fade pattern from what I can see of his 1980s stuff) this sends the face and clubhead up and in. And encourages a slightly over the top and out to in path to defend the ball going left. But it suggests a long left miss. Hogan comes from deeper and more laid off and has his right hand working over and on top, in comparison. It has to. Both have to have their respective club and wrist attitudes.
They both look and share being synchronised (donāt really like that word, sequencing is what happens) in terms of the main components are still in motion all at the same moment - hips, shoulders, knee and elbow flex, wrist motions, clubhead and clubface motions. Dissipating forces across several joints, some of which are not just hinges and therefore reducing stress on the body. No surprises they played until a ripe old age.
But also enabling them, especially Hogan, to release the whole works (unless deliberately trying to retard motion for a particular shot) and especially under pressure. Assuming a normal shot and a golfer using the right hand passively, aka automatic (TGM) or āswingingā (ABS) well, the same forearm muscles are still contracting and relaxing in the same manner as in an active release, you just forfeit the additional power.
The issue is when people shut down or run out of range of motion in body components prematurely. Has to happen at some point in order to transfer energy (the kinetic ārippleā/chain) to the outer part of the āsystemā. Especially proximal body components. Then the distal takes over. Which at the wrists causes a closing of the clubface. Too much out of sync motion in the hands will flip the clubhead and close the face.
If you held off the clubhead and face and were all pivot the ball cannot go left. If you hold off the pivot and are all hands and clubhead the ball cannot go right. If you blend both, the ball canāt go too wide of straight.
In my opinion thatās why when Hogan says if you get the left hand in the correct attitude, and hit hard with both, and donāt let the left go to sleep, he wishes he had three (could have said three thousand) right hands. Because youāve locked in the strike. He had more twist about the shaft rotation so gave himself more range of motion in the hands, rotationally, by adopting a weak grip and palm-finger left hand grip, bent open clubs, reminders at 5.30 etc. modern driver you have to have a more neutral hand action in terms of twisting about the clubshaft.
Anything other than hitting with the right hand at that point just places a drag on the clubhead.
The biggest insurance policy in order to correctly hit hard with the hands is a post impact pivot intention (and reality) and range of motion in the forearms.
So you have a choiceā¦ passively swinging the club and gain consistency as long as you donāt juice it under pressure, but forfeit yardage.
Orā¦ actively hitting with the club, and gain the additional power and consistency, as long as you donāt ārelaxā.
I think both can be trained, the first requires you to relax under pressure the second requires you to be a bit keyed up and focused as a baseline state when playing or practising.
I remember an interview with Snead I saw at some point years ago where he talked about the right hand adding āthe crackle at the bottomā or some sort of description like that. I donāt know if Iām remembering it properly, but I always think of Rice Crispies, āsnap, crackle, and popā when trying to remember it.
It reminds me of a Christy OāConnor Snr. line where he said āthe speed is at the bottomā. He also said, when talking about the backswing, āitās back, not upā, which I thought was very clever, though something youād think should be obvious by the name!
Based on Hoganās undeniably consistent and āaroundā release, Iāve started to consider what release actually means - maybe this is controversial or obvious, but I think subconsciously, consciously, visually, etc, Hoganās āfull releaseā was around (not down) and included the hands and forearms only. Said differently, the right upper arm need not throw, flip, extend, because itās not included in the logic of his āreleaseā. Therefore, use your right hand (forearm) aggressively- you have to from that superior open (letās call it full loaded ;)) position.
Brilliant clarification here, nice one.
Reading your posts, you seem to have an appreciation for words and descriptions, very cool. Iāve often thought that the āopenā description used here isnāt all that helpful, or accurate.
Calling that position āsquareā would be the way to go imo, or āABS Squareā. For me, the club is āaliveā in that position, itās not open. If the face is closed on the way down, or the toe is ahead of the shaft, itās hold and manipulate all day from there. Itās like square to square putting, disaster - and if it doesnāt work on that short a distance, itās hardly going to work at 100mph.
Itās also curious, and Iāve talked about this stuff on here a long time ago, how open and closed, in the traditional sense, are different depending on what youāre talking about - if the shoulders are pointing right, theyāre closed, but if the clubface is pointing right, itās open.
That sort of stuff is chaos for the subconscious imo. Sqauring up a clubface with āclosedā shoulders and an āopenā clubface, itās meltdown stuff for the brain.
Excellent observation and point made about āopenā. As Johnny Miller would say, thatās āgood stuffā.
I thought that too when first digging some stuff out of the dirt, but also thought maybe back swing could mean using the bigger muscles of the back for moving the club away, but anyway, I sort of finalized on itās back to get up, not up to get back.
BTW, did you ever hear the cause of death for OāConnor Jr. I was looking into his instruction for a while and couldnāt seem to find out what happened. He was in a clinic video opening Mount Wolseley Golf Academy and there was a large visible lump adjacent to his left lat. Just curious is all, love the OāConnor boys, pure gemsā¦
I donāt know, Double R, it was said that he died in his sleep, not sure beyond that. I havenāt seen that clinic, must look into it.
I often thought the death of his son had a terrible impact on him, as you can only imagine. When Christy Jnr. died I wondered if it was inevitable in some way, a broken heart maybe.
Iāve been looking at Couplesā swing a lot lately, and I keep seeing Bobby Jones in there. I came across this one which I thought was interesting.
āThere is nothing new under the sunā¦ā
