Second Baseman's Throw

Anyone who has read Hogan's Five Lessons knows my reference. In the hitting zone, the right hand is laid back and the right elbow is leading the right hand. It looks simple, but it's taken me six years to get to this point, and I used to play baseball. This is such an important concept. This is where most of your power comes from. This is where you have to be in order to extend the right arm, as all swing instructions advocate. This is how you get to that post-impact V that we players all try to emulate. This is how you get that tremendous clubhead speed that whips the clubhead around its arc and finishes somewhere behind your back. All these good things--all golf swing clichés-- will happen once you work this arm motion into your swing. And when you do this, you will take a place in the golf pantheon: only good golfers have this sequence in their swing. You will immediately separate yourself from almost every other golfer you'll run across at the range or on the course. You will establish yourself as a real golfer.

In the video below, you'll see me working on this move from several different postions, both in my back yard and then, finally, at the range, where--when I can do it--I hit my three-wood a good 220 or so carry uphill at the range. And straight. It's really quite amazing. Waiting is the key. You have to give your lower body time to turn, instead of trying to initiate things with your arms. And the feeling I try to get to is turning my upper body so that my left arm can use my left ribcage as a fulcrum on which to lever the left arm and really fire the clubhead through the hitting zone. I'm not near perfecting this yet, but, already, I can see the results, which are quite exciting. With this move, I can hit the ball respectably.