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From the mouth of Peter Thomson 5 time British Open winner to my ears..Hogan's hands slid around on the grip.
Did he actively drop his right thumb off..Ludicrous

Great story Pistol, please tell us more about your talk with Peter Thomson. Love his swing.


Ive been looking at more photos and Ill be danged but his right thumb would appear to be on the move. Its easy to spot if you know where to look....... Hey that reminds me of something.............not sure what .....

Anyhow, take a look at these LIFE photos. Im seeing the right thumb move to the front of the grip when the left wrist cocks.



But at impact during what appears to be the same swing, the thumb looks to be back in place.



This would maybe suggest that the right thumb movement is a product of the left wrist cock and uncock. This would be possible if the grip pressure at the thumb and forefinger allowed. Which would be consistent with Mr Hogans assertions in the Coleman Estate video:


"......very little pressure on the index finger of the right hand and thumb. You get the pressure of your right hand with this butt pad of your index finger. Going throug. It isnt any pressure down or around the shaft, its just forward" He then demonstrates the pp#3 with the right thumb off the shaft going through impact.




There are photos I can find where after impact the thumb seems to have dropped off. Both of these photos would appear to be on shots where Mr Hogan is "holding it off", swinging left or whatever. Not sure what the thumb looked like at impact but Im thinking it was off the club and intentional. A different release type enhanced with a grip change that promoted a steady, constant nursing of lag pressure at #3?









Interesting. What do you guys think?

I bet Yoda has some insights on all of this. He has a pretty nice right thumb in this photo too although he was employing a 10-2-D grip here. 10-2-D excellent for cut shots, the right palm paddle wheeling on plane, towards impact with no Separate Rolling Motion until after impact etc .




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Edit : How do you drop photos into the text properly??