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♦ All motion starts with a weight shift, slide, bump, parallel to the delivery
line, either the base line or cross-line when using the angle of approach,
i.e. 11 degrees (or whatever) out to right field.
♦ Failure to Clear the Right Hip during Start Up produces a Right Elbow-
Right Hip conflict and is a problem epidemic in the Golf World. The Hands
resolve this conflict without fanfare simply by going around the Hip.
Unfortunately, that means you are now above Plane and must re-route
the Club at some point to return correctly to the Ball. Most offenders
never make it.
♦ Hence, Homer included 'Clear Right Hip' as an important checkpoint in his
Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3 #13).
♦ Lynn Blake - Sit Left & Rotate
♦ More hip rotation on back stroke to get club on plane
♦ Proper sequence of the tailbone release will go a LONG way toward
holding the flying wedge longer.
♦ Be sure that when you're adding tilt it's not just moving the upper COG
back. The lower actually shifts forward to keep the upper centered and
create tilt. Otherwise you're shifting low point and changing your release
sequence around as you mentioned.
♦ Rotate Hips While Moving Them Forward & Legs Keep Head Back
First, a little history: Until the 6th edition, the Slide Hip Turn was defined as a
Slide (in both directions) with no appreciable Turn.It is the action demonstrated
in Photos 10-14-B #1 and #2. It is also the action that unfortunately remains
described in the Chapter 11 summary (11-14-B). This oversight originated with
Homer Kelley and has yet to be corrected by the current publisher.
As you have noted, the amended definition in the 6th and 7th editions is a slide
with a delayed turn (in both directions). This new definition differs from the
Standard Hip Turn in that it emphasizes a more exaggerated Slide parallel to
the selected Delivery Line (normally the Square Plane Line / Target Line) prior to
the Turn.
An example would be the Slide Hip Turn of Colin Montgomery. Take a look at
the linked Swing Sequence, and the differentiating features of Slide versus
Standard will be readily apparent. Note especially how the exaggerated Hip
Slide (even though coupled with a Delayed Turn) moves Collin's right leg to
vertical in the Backstroke and left leg beyond vertical at the Finish.
http://www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/Golf/v...ence-Golf-Tip/
For the record, I continue to teach the more conventional Standard Hip Turn,
even though the Slide Hip Turn is now the listed 14th Component Variation in
both the Drive and Drag Loading Basic Patterns (12-1-0 and 12-2-0) in the
posthumously published 7th edition. However, if a student came to me with a
well-executed and integrated Slide Hip Turn, I would not change it. LYNN BLAKE