[MizunoJoe]

"I really cannot take seriously all this stuff regarding TENSION OF THE LOWER BODY causing the upper body to move and am greatly surprised that, in these enlightened times, anyone else does."

Burner,

The tension which tugs the Shoulders into action is in the MID BODY.

Hogan's words - "he(the golfer) wants the mid-section of his body to be tightened up."

Here is Hogan doing a slo-mo demo of this "stuff", which you don't take seriously -

http://www.megspace.com/sports/moeto...demo_clip.html

This is a small bite of a video with sound in which Hogan is showing and telling how the hip turn initiates the shoulder thrust because of this "tension connection" between the hips and the shoulders.