Thursday, November 27, 2008

I'm writing to Golf.com, which is basically Golf Magazine, to see if anyone there has ever heard about a golf technique which I hope I can claim as my discovery.   I would like to ask Golf Digest too, but they don't make it easy enough to send in a question; I can't find a way to do it.  

"Dear Golf. Com

I would like to know if anyone has heard of the procedure described below. Can you pose the following question to your experts and knowledgeable associates?  

The question is:

Have you ever heard of a procedure in which the distance from the hips to the hands at address is kept the same for all clubs?

This distance is measured between the lower belly and the little finger of the left hand, for right handed players. Although the actual distance should be optimized for each player, a typical distance might be around eight inches, which could be measured by a hand with the fingers spread out. The club should be held in the air in address position, just off the ground, so as to keep the wrist angles the same for each club (this regards the angle between the club and the arms as seen down the line).  As usual, the further the hands are from the hips, the more the torso must lean forward and the further from the ball the feet are placed. With a fixed hands to hips distance, the torso must lean more as the club gets shorter. If the hips to hands gap is successfully kept the same for all club lengths, then the torso, arms, and club will have the same geometrical relations to each other, not only at address, but during the swing as well. Because the arms and club are tilting with the torso, so is the swingplane.  So the arms, club, and swingplane stay in the same relation to the torso, regardless of which club is used. This simplifies the golf swing in the upper body.  It helps for sidehill lies as well, where the effect is especially apparent.

Do you know of anyone who tried this, advocated this, or mentioned this? 

End of message to Golf.com.