[O.B.Left]

Start Down is the cross-roads, the place most of us lose what we should actually be paying attention to. The Hands monitor all three elements of the club. If you lose that attention (focus), your hands quickly become uneducated. The Hands have a purpose. It is what the whole book is about.

Nice one.

It occurs to me that TGM, while about how to correctly use the hands was written in an era when golfing greats were advising people to use big muscles and employ "passive hands". ( Pivot to hands?) The hands as the "great destroyers" of the golf swing etc. Maybe these pros already possessed educated hands but didnt know it? Or perhaps they were unable to describe what their hands did and didnt do and so they advised passive hands for the novice. No doubt this was preferable to uneducated hands doing the wrong things with the club. The hands can do some serious damage after all.

Sadly the passive hands thing could take the novice only so far. Sort of like a typing teacher telling a new student to "never take you eyes off the keys", "just hunt and peck". That will work really well at first for sure but is not the best road forward to touch typing. A kind of over riding of proprioception and its potential benefits. A turning off of the pressure points the nerves and senses with a loss of information supplied to the brain.

Only Homer told us how to fully and correctly use the hands. The hands with their sensory ability being the brains #1 ally in most things we do in every day life and our only attachment to the club.

Be it golf or typing there is a physical skill that the hands ,brain, body, limbs need to learn before it becomes automatic. After that you are free. Just you and your senses doing it like only they can.

Hands to pivot. Swing the hands, the pressure points not the clubface.

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