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Informative post OB, thanks! I am currently working on keeping my left foot flat...it rolls a bit.It took me a while to figure out that what the hips do (or actually fail to do) is key. However I never considered Knudson's idea on the relationship of the left foot to low point. In fact I have worked diligently to match my left shoulder to the inside of my left foot, so that I can reference ball position in relation to low point using my stance. So Knudson beleived that the left foot should be positioned target-side of low point? Interesting wrinkle, thanks for sharing.

Hope it helps Okie

If you are interested Knudson had a couple of other foot related, pivot insights.

He really believed strongly in what we would term the three Stations: Address, Top , Finish. When playing for score he said he only thought of attaining a balanced finish, which for him had the left foot flat and the body in perfect balance, facing the hole exactly (he believed the ball went where his core pointed). Here is the trick, to attain his Finish he would get a student to pose at Finish to determine how comfortable it was all the while adjusting the splay of the left foot. All of our feet are splayed differently and so he reasoned that we all need our own particular amount of left foot splay at address. Just enough to let us get a comfortable Finish. Any less and our bodies wont want us or let us get there without some compensation.....saggy knee, spin out etc etc.

The other main one was to drag the right foot slightly towards the left through the shot. Its ensures getting left as you cant drag it if it is weighted. The amount of drag being flexibility dependent. By dragging the right foot the aging, inflexible golfer can have the Finish of young man.

I dont know whether he sought Hogans advice on these things or not. He didnt say. But Hogan did do a little right foot drag himself. George's was very pronounced in later years. Its sounds weird at first but try it and see if it gets you left and firms up your left side automatically. It does for me anyways.

So load up a flat foot or see something else further up the chain react in compensation. The central command center doesnt want to load an unstable base. Trying to fix the saggy knee or whatever is pointless, it only sends the problem somewhere further up the chain. Fix the bottom end of the Machine where it attaches to the ground. Anchor the Machine.