[O.B.Left]

Right forearm not on plane as Lynn's is with the driver.

Nice observation and an important alignment to adopt with every club, putter to driver. The on plane right forearm being perhaps the only give away, I know of, to a traditionally trained TGM golfer. Although some golfers like Hogan did it naturally. There may come a day when we see most people doing this at address. It is that beneficial in my estimation.

In my first lesson with Yoda we spent the better part of the morning on just this alignment. When I finally got it...it was harder for me than usual, I said something like "few, that took a while". To which Yoda responded, "and that may be all that you need to achieve your goals in golf".

I mention this only to illustrate how much importance Yoda attaches to the on plane right forearm at address. My guess is Brian Gay would probably agree. It is a mechanical alignment pure and simple, the vertical wall holds a weight better than an angled wall. You must get there at impact so why not start there at address? Short shots, especially, are so much easier without the necessary changes/adjustments required to make up for an off plane right forearm over such a short swing.

I came to LBG and Lynn with a knowledge, garnered over years of golf, of the necessity for a bent right wrist at impact. I hit a lot of little chips with just my right hand on the club. In my first few hours with Lynn he told me of three other necessary, mission critical components. This absolutely blew me away. I had been feeling pretty good about my one little discovery and now I had a total of four!!! Since then he has added a few more too. This guy is good!

What were they? (when chipping with just the right hand or not):
-bent and frozen right wrist (the other side to the flat left)
-the on plane right forearm
-tracing the straight plane line
-the nursing of the lag pressure sensed in the #3 pressure point.

If you achieve all of these, your one handed chipping and impact will be very good. One handed pitching too if you add the on plane right shoulder bringing the fully bent right arm to release. That makes it five! And counting.

ob