[12 piece bucket]

Hello Mr. Yoda,

Re the acute PA#3 angle, you mentioned the more acute it is, the more power is lessened because of more clubhead travel to release the clubhead. Is it possible to instead focus on this, I mean maximize the clubhead travel and turn it to your advantage?

My "compensation" is this. I release right from the top of the swing. Sweep release. But my rlease just focuses on the release of PA#3 and PA#4, with everything else done to preserve the PA#3 angle as much as possible. I release PA#4 by firing the hips aggressively to start the DS from top and then aggressive turn of shoulders and arms. I release PA#3 with an independent and intentional supination of left forearm/wrist. The everything else are flat and level wrist at impact fix, pitch elbow, weak grip, bent right wrist/PP1, flat lies, low hands, butt of grip under the heel of palm, early elbow plane, and long thumb.

I don't feel a power drain on this. I achieve and ENSURE lag, greater clubhead travel translates to more momentum I think, so faster clubhead speed at impact, and best of all, tremendous accuracy. I never thought supination as fast as I can won't make the ball hook. Slight pulls, yes, but no hooks. And in a 56 degree wedge, I added 20 yards. Supination, as said by Hogan, in deed result to cleaner strikes as well, so more consistent sweet spot strikes, with the delofting of face resulting to lower shots/anti-wind shots, hence longer balls.

Anything you think is/are amiss in the above?

Sincerely.

Good stuff in this thread....a few things to watch/monitor in this regard....

1. How is the clubface aligned in your hand when you grip it? If it is closed/shutty when you grip it that could cause the pull issue.....pay attention to how much "shaft lean" you program into your grip...if you program in a considerable amount of lean in your grip i.e. take the grip with the shaft leaning waaaaay more than vertical then if you don't deliver that amount of shaft lean to the ball...pull city.

2. Pay attention to your hand path....remember it is the CLUBHEAD that is thrown out to the ball....not your hands...if your hands are getting "out and away" from you and you focus on "releasing #3"...you could get pulls and wipes....not saying that is the issue but if it is try this drill...you want the left arm staying "in" and the hands "in on plane" as the clubhead travels out on plane to the ball. So take your grip left hand only. Place your right hand on your left elbow and pin it to your body where it would be at address. Now just take the club up like a chipping type motion with your left hand...from there use your left hand to THROW the club head out into the ground..out to the plane line....no pivot just isolate the #2 and #3 accumulators...so you are basically just going to throw/dump the club into the ground well back of where the ball would be...you would be hitting a huge fat shot...have the sweetspot looking at the ground earlier...not out to the right...throw the sweetspot into the ground well behind the ball with your left arm pinned.....you'll isolate how #3 has to work with your hands in and not out away from you....

from there the question becomes...how do I get to the ball...that's where your pivot comes in...your right shoulder moving forward and out to the plane line will bring all that #3 and #2 motion forward....but the drill is just to isolate how the work as your left arm/hands to race out and away from you.