Hogan’s HIT release was rock steady

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If you look at this video by Paul Wilson he is demonstrating a full-roll hand release action through impact . You can see that through impact from a face-on view that the clubshaft is almost immediately bypassing his left arm from a ‘rotational perspective’ (where his left ‘arm/forearm’ are rotating through impact with a flat left wrist).

GOLF WRIST RELEASE DRILL FOR MORE CLUBHEAD SPEED - YouTube

This is not a drive-hold release and the ‘Rate of Closure’ of the grip and clubface would be large just ‘before/during/immediately after’ impact. The clubface is closing very fast relative to the clubhead path.

Now look at this Athletic Motion Golf video

Golf Swing Timing: Pros vs Ams - YouTube

Unless I’m mistaken, the Pro is actually a ‘Drive-Holder’ where the clubface has remained square to the clubhead path for several inches post impact ( from a face-on view) and the clubshaft will not have bypassed the lead arm from a rotational perspective (unlike what Paul Wilson is promoting).

Also check the ‘Amateur’ hand release action which looks like a flip with a bent left wrist where (from a face-on view) the clubshaft would also have bypassed the left arm (but not solely from a rotational perspective). Obviously , golfers can do a flip-roll at the same time which would make the 'Rate Of Closure ’ of the clubface even higher.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post on another thread , current research measurements haven’t found any correlation between ‘Rate Of Closure’ and dispersion of the golf ball but there are questions regardiing how dispersion is measured and why they didn’t check for correlations between grip strength. For example, one might suspect that golfers with a strong grip wouldn’t need to rotate the clubface as much as a golfer with a weak/neutral grip . So woud less rotation of clubface affect the rate of clubface closure? More research is required.

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You don’t need to be a researcher to realize that rapid clubface closure is as unpredictable as a 20-sided dice. That’s why the greats like Trevino, Hogan, and Knudson are known as being great. They all share a common ground in the swing - a pivot-driven move.

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The high finish is caused by ‘out’ force on the club. ‘Up’ at that point of the finish is the same amount ‘out’ at impact.

It doesn’t look like that in a pivot driven swing because a forceful pivot with connected, packed upper arms contains the force, like a hammer thrower puts energy in the winds and opposes the forces before flinging it.

You need to be ‘up’ and also ‘out’ at any point in between those points. More outwards, due to time lag.

So to be shaft vertical ‘up’ at right forearm horizontal in the followthrough you also need some amount of ‘out’ too, and the direction of that ‘up’ force needs to feel more backwards and outwards, than directly up.

At roughly 4’ post impact you need to feel 45 degrees out. To feel 45 ‘out’ at post impact, you need to feel half that ‘out’ at impact ie force going away from you, and that happens to be roughly the line of compression through the inside quadrant of the ball.

To feel 22.5 degrees ‘out’ at impact you need to feel an extra 22.5 degrees ‘out’ at delivery (shaft parallel before impact).

And to feel 22.5 out at delivery, you need to be 45 degrees back moments before.

If you stood in a clock, 45 degrees back at that point would be roughly half past 4.

So there you have it, to get up at the finish, you have to hook your way in from 4.30, apply as much force with your hands and forearms (levers) as you can muster ‘out’ because if you don’t, and you work the pivot hard, you will wipe and cut across the ball instead of balancing it out.

And if you don’t pivot hard, and don’t lead the clubhead with the right elbow, and don’t stay connected, the direction is now way right, the arms will separate and extend and the club will flee and escape outwards away from you.

Lots of people manage that fleeing and arm out extension and play golf that way and that down the line sling.

Others pivot and sling the club, they don’t come from flat and 4.30 so much - they can’t because the ball would shoot right or hook without and muscular rotational effort from the forearms (as I believe you train to ingrain on module 1).

The way that has more pivot work, IF the arms are connected, and has trained forearms subconsciously and aggressively rotating the club into the strike, also connects the club to the rotational power of the body.