golferdude54

So I found out Hank Aaron, the real HR king without steroids, would use the strongest hand gripper he could find and do 100 reps right side up and upside down, 200 total for each hand. He did this routine before and after every game. Very interesting…

It’s really just proper length and grip size at first, then shaft flex then a lie angle change if one feels their swing changes warrants a lie angle change. Stuff like bend profile, swing weight/MOI/frequency matching, FLOing/SST Puring, etc. that’s for scratch or better in my opinion.

Want to bring up another similarity between Mickey Wright and who Hogan respected enough as a ball-striker to test his clubs, Lee Trevino. It’s their left foot from start of the downswing into the finish. They literally never swivel after planting it down in transition. Mickey’s left foot was more stable than Trevino’s, and I can see why Hogan considered her to have the best swing ever. But Trevino’s left foot was more stable than Hogan who would swivel juuust a little bit with the driver but not nearly as much as say, Nicklaus.

This makes people try to get their left arm parallel to their toe line and directly over it at P5 with the shaft perpendicular to their spine with tons of external trail shoulder rotation. They think they’re doing it but they’re really not, they either just go OTT or have way too much side bend. Not one great ball striker who won a major has ever achieved that “hands out with shallowing shaft” position at all. Closest was Mac with CP but he didn’t win a major plus the shaft wasn’t perpendicular to his spine at P5.

This is very interesting… so one could balance their assembled clubs off a flat countertop and maybe on top of a ruler attached to the surface; see if they are MOI matched based on their balance points without needing to invest in a $600+ machine?

When I mean “aesthetic” I mean is there a visual appeal to players when it comes to capture speed in putting, i.e. dying at the hole versus ramming the back edge of the cup. If so, there has to be a certain capture speed that just looks “perfect” It could be a foot past the hole if it misses or Pelz’s 17 inches or whatever. I see studies on capture speed as it pertains to avoiding lip-outs, imperfections around the hole, etc. but never about how it looks as the ball goes in the hole.

Which is kinda ironic because Byron’s finish position was pretty dang straight up and down, more so than Hogan was. Sure he had the reverse C look well after impact with the head behind and driving knees but he never finished that way like players in the 70’s.

Push-fade, aim inside edge of fairway and green at a given club distance carry/total. Always have my start line on that line or towards the fairway and green. That way I know I’m starting it in the same initial direction relative to my stance line every time. If I pull it, I know I made a bad swing instead of making what felt like a good swing and double-crossing and getting confused, losing confidence in my swing, and trying to change it. That type of double-cross scenario happens a lot to pull-faders, turns out if you start the ball left, it will be more likely to end up left, who knew? It’s akin to shifting your focus/alignment on hitting to center field in baseball to aligning/hitting off the first or third baseline and making sure the ball never crosses the line. Lee Trevino did an exaggerated version of this in his prime but his club path was always out relative to his stance and the path was still pointed inside the edge of fairways and greens and he sure hit a lot of them.

I think you may be suffering from Posting Multiple Threads Of Your Swing Like A Wh*re Disorder. P.M.T.O.Y.S.L.A.W.D. is no joke, hope you can find help.

Did you ever get fit for lie angle with your irons? This sounds like they are too upright if you are hitting pull hooks and have not gotten a dynamic lie angle fitting.