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Now that is a great question Doc. If its cleared already why or how does one clear it again?

My personal interpretation, with a little help from my friends, is that the first "clear" is a turn of the right hip, the second "clear" is a Slide of the previously turned Right Hip which Tilts the Axis of the Shoulders , gets the weight left and "clears" a path for a Straight Line Delivery Path of the Hands.

So in terms of the right hip its: "turn, slide" and then swing all with a centered Head. Slide with a Delayed Turn of the Hips. Mr Hogan's pattern is a fine example of this procedure. There was a cleared Right Hip in both directions, no "Roundhousing", NO!

OK when I was walking around St Andrews with Lynn I asked him about this one. We were watching Dustin Johnson hit a "quail high" knock down on 11, as I recall. Anyways........his response was something to the effect that.....

"The right hip must turn inside the right shoulder". He mentioned an instructor from yesteryear that discussed this in detail. Sorry cant remember the name.

The Hip Slide as the second "clear" of the right hip in 12-3, as I proposed above, while being a very useful thing, is not employed for non weight shift strokes where Roundhousing is just as destructive and so the answer to the question lies elsewhere.

Thank God for Lynn. TGFL.