There has been much ado lately about which Pivot Center to use: The Head (recommended by Homer Kelley) or its alternate, the Point-Between-the-Shoulders (referenced by Mr. Kelley, but not recommended). What seems to have been lost in the shuffle is the really important point: That the Pivot have a Center in the first place.
All art forms -- and the necessary Human Element makes the Golf Stroke an art, not a science -- need their grounding Center. Picasso was an accomplished portrait artist long before his 'modern' forms emerged. Does that mean his earlier structure and disciplines were lost? No. In fact, they enabled his artistry to manifest itself.
The Discipline of Art.
Think about it.
Western music is characterized by seven tones -- doe-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti...
Don't ya just want to hit that last repeating 'doe?'
These seven tones repeat in twelve keys, including half tones, from A to G. In other words, the tones sound the same, just a bit higher or lower. In fact, starting anywhere, these keys move progressively in a circle until they arrive once again in the beginning key. Each new key is exactly five tones higher -- ascending, the old 'so' now becomes 'doe' in the new key -- or descending, four tones lower ('fa' becomes 'doe'). Ascending, for example, think 'Twinkle twinkle little star...then begin your next verse -- and new key -- on the second "twinkle."
But at the end of the day...
'Doe' -- in any key -- never changes.
What does all this have to do with Golf?
The Pivot has a Center...
Or it does not.
That Center can be the Head...
Or the Point-Between-the-Shoulders beneath the Head.
That Center can be located "precisely between the feet" (Homer's ideal) or 1/2 inch left or 1/4 inch right or pick another number.
Your call.
Just have a Center.
Please...
That's the message.
Unlike most all golfers on the face of the earth...
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