Originally Posted by airair
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The hands are virtually smarter than the pivot?
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The hands are virtually smarter than your
brain. That's how it feels to me anyway.
They seem to know the flaws in my swing even though I'm not aware of them myself. And they seem to know the outcome of any stroke before I start moving the club back and what compensations are required to prevent disaster.
I often have a flaw in my putting stroke that makes me close the putter face between address and impact. The amazing part of it is that when this flaw is on, what I see a straight line towards the hole when I address the ball is actually a curved line that compensate for the difference in club face orientation. I don't make many putts when that appears, but it is still a fascinating compensation. And I can still two putt from a distance with it.
Lately I've began to use this as a warning sign. I double check the line. When I see a curved line as a straight line while standing over the ball I know that I am not set up correctly to the ball and sometimes I can eliminate the misalignment by starting all over.
My hands aren't in full command of the pivot. Far from it. But the hands seems to be quite capable of making (almost) the best out of the pivot at the time. If I have swing issues and the score is ruined already I can switch into "fix the swing mode" while I play. From time to time then, I can fix something that enables me to hit shots with lots of swing speed and lag pressure, good balance, a full finish and all that feel-good stuff. Bet even though everything feels perfect the shot starts out towards right field and slices some more! Or snap hooks. But distance is good, though
This is pivot controlled hands to me. An extreme version of it.
But usually, when I'm in scoring mood, my hands will not allow me to do that. I am more likely to flip, quit, lose my balance, do whatever it takes to give the ball a fair chance of finding the fairway. Usually, when I start my round, I can score pretty well the first 5-6 holes with a stroke that is totally unimpressive and that feels disgusting. But eventually I get caught up by the flaws unless a good stroke clicks in.
What I do when I manage to rescue my score for the time being is very hands control oriented. I only think of impact, what the hands must do and the pressure they must feel through impact to get the job done.
There are a few occations where this hands controlled mental triggers a really good stroke pattern. And that would be my finest moments out on the course, and also the closest I've ever been to hands controlled pivot. When everything clicks in I *know* that I am going to hit the ball exactly as hard as I want to before I start taking the club back. And I *know* that I will get close to the target.
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