Ludvig Åberg Demonstrating the “Magic Trick” drill during today’s Bay Hill Open
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Yep looks great. Not to diminish it, but a number of players can do that on short shots. Doing it with a long club at speed is a different animal.
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True! I certainly can’t do it with a full swing…yet.
Playing open to open during engagement within the functional plane through the strike, is that the ‘trick’? Here’s what I see.
For an image standpoint, using Billy Casper’s point of view, “but in the golf swing the right hand must go under as though you were scooping your soup from the side of the bowl” seems like a good fit. Some days I see the clubhead as a cross between a paddle and a soup ladle. 
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Open to open and still producing a straight shot. Squaring with the orbit pull.
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Now it makes sense 
It’s 100% about the force that is being applied to the handle many golfer feel once they are at the ball the job is completed but better players understand that there is still work to be done.
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It’s a rough hurdle for some in finding speed at the ball takes a back seat to speed through the ball in whatever manner that’s done.
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And yet Bhatia won this tournament with a 30 yard hook from 172 yards in the fairway, even with a modern ball, and a lucky bounce. That kind of luck with his swing ain’t happening on #12 at Augusta, I can tell you that much.
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But they were not playing Augusta he played the shots for the course he was on. Augusta has a very short list of the type players that excel there. We usually always see the usual suspects come Sunday year after year after year and that goes back 60 years easy. I think it’s one reason more players repeat at Augusta than any other major in golf. It’s definitely a certain type horse for a certain type course venue.
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