It’s funny because in general, the equipment changes of today should make it harder to make it hook IF they were the same swing weight as those of the past.
I think they try to fix the hacker’s slice by making the clubheads very light (which also increases clubhead speed that EVERYONE seems to be obsessed with) which lets them throw their hands at the ball easier and close the clubface with a swinger’s release.
Also, the article doesn’t go over the materials in a club or how clubmakers can distribute weight around the face to produce certain ball flights, which I’m sure could fill a textbook itself.
The article does briefly go over how general changes in clubhead shape can alter MOI though.
This may be a stupid question but it has been on my mind for a while now. My goal for a while now has been to switch from swinging to hitting. …There were posts earlier about swingers standing further away from the golf ball than hitters. So my question would be is there an optimum way a hitter can determine the correct distance to stand away from the golf ball?
Some quick thoughts:
I would think that the further you stood away from the golf ball the harder it is to bring the hands low and left and that’s why Moe was a swinger (he stood so far away from the ball) It would have been interesting to see what kind of release he would have had if he brought the hands further in.
To me the distance you stand from the ball is a big determining factor in what direction you want to go (hitting or swinging).
A pivot driven hit will be best performed with a level rotation of the shoulders. The farther the left shoulder moves away from the ball after impact the better. So get the torso more upright… helps to have more knee flex. The arms can basically hang down, so if the torso is upright, the hands will be in fairly close to the body. With good knee flex you can work into flat lie angles.
When all this is done properly, even taller players can learn to rotate their body hard and fast through impact.
One would guess the range would be from totally limp and unresponsive devoid of tension, to completely frozen tension with residual immobility. Unresponsive and immobility are effectively the same, but from differing etiologies.
I think it is that place in between where conception and process of task either assists or drives the outcome involuntarily. This perched cat ready to pounce from that place in between has a choice- engage in fight and take prey, or go completely limp on the spot and take a nap.
The cat feels it in the gut in order to fill the gut….survival.
