Post by utahgolfer on Oct 22, 2019 0:23:57 GMT -5
A drive hold release is the most stable release pattern leading to both accurate and powerful golf shots along the entire continuum, from putting to driving. The faster the club head travels, the harder it can conceivably be to drive hold and not allow the club shaft to pass the left arm through the immediate impact zone to at least p7.5, through both maintaining an intact left arm flying wedge and by not allowing excessive left arm supination beyond what is necessary to square the club face at impact. Many top PGA golfers, such as Dustin Johnson, Cameron Champ, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, and Jordan Spieth, drive hold release across all golf shots, including their fastest driver swings.
My questions to the forum regarding this topic are:
1. Can elite players drive hold release automatically? With their exceptional hip and torso rotation and right lateral bend from p4 to p7.5+, does this sustain the speed of their left arm, make it easy to maintain a bent pitched right elbow and dorsiflexed right wrist, and make their drive hold release an almost automatic consequence (assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release)?
2. As golfers progressively decrease in their ability to rotate the hips and torso and right lateral bend from p4 to p7.5+, it is obvious that this would progressively decrease their ability to drive hold release (still assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release). However, as golfers progressively become less and less able to drive hold automatically, would this require progressively more isometric muscular force from impact to p7.5 to sustain a drive hold release?
3. As golfers progressively become less and less able to drive hold automatically, would the necessary isometric force needed to drive hold come from the left forearm flexors to prevent left wrist dorsiflexion, the right forearm extensors to prevent right wrist palmar flexion, and the forearm supinators and pronators to prevent excessive forearm rotation?
4. Is the ability to maintain a pitched bent right elbow to p7.5 the most important variable in determining one's ability to both maintain a dorsiflexed right wrist and drive hold (assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release)? Of course, a right pitched bent elbow to p7.5 is only made possible from proper body rotation and proper right lateral bend.
5. Muscle force can be either isotonic (cause movement) or isometric (prevent movement). Could it be possible that Ben Hogan was referring to isometric force when he said he wished he had three right hands? He indicated that the left hand was as important as his right hand. Could he have been referring to hold type force and not movement based force?
6. Has anyone heard of any modern elite pros who drive hold mention anything about grip tension through the impact zone?
Personally, I play decent golf but do not have elite-level body rotation or right lateral bend. On some driver swings I can automatically drive hold when my body is moving well, but, as a rule, I like to apply some left and right isometric hand force to the grip through the immediate impact zone as an insurance policy to ensure a drive hold release in the event that my body rotation or right lateral bend is sub-optimal. I apply some isometric force through my hands on all shots, from chips to drives, but apply a bit more isometric force when hitting my driver.
Any forum comments or insights would be appreciated.
UG
My questions to the forum regarding this topic are:
1. Can elite players drive hold release automatically? With their exceptional hip and torso rotation and right lateral bend from p4 to p7.5+, does this sustain the speed of their left arm, make it easy to maintain a bent pitched right elbow and dorsiflexed right wrist, and make their drive hold release an almost automatic consequence (assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release)?
2. As golfers progressively decrease in their ability to rotate the hips and torso and right lateral bend from p4 to p7.5+, it is obvious that this would progressively decrease their ability to drive hold release (still assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release). However, as golfers progressively become less and less able to drive hold automatically, would this require progressively more isometric muscular force from impact to p7.5 to sustain a drive hold release?
3. As golfers progressively become less and less able to drive hold automatically, would the necessary isometric force needed to drive hold come from the left forearm flexors to prevent left wrist dorsiflexion, the right forearm extensors to prevent right wrist palmar flexion, and the forearm supinators and pronators to prevent excessive forearm rotation?
4. Is the ability to maintain a pitched bent right elbow to p7.5 the most important variable in determining one's ability to both maintain a dorsiflexed right wrist and drive hold (assuming no interfering muscle force input such as added right hand or forearm rotation force to cause a flip roll release)? Of course, a right pitched bent elbow to p7.5 is only made possible from proper body rotation and proper right lateral bend.
5. Muscle force can be either isotonic (cause movement) or isometric (prevent movement). Could it be possible that Ben Hogan was referring to isometric force when he said he wished he had three right hands? He indicated that the left hand was as important as his right hand. Could he have been referring to hold type force and not movement based force?
6. Has anyone heard of any modern elite pros who drive hold mention anything about grip tension through the impact zone?
Personally, I play decent golf but do not have elite-level body rotation or right lateral bend. On some driver swings I can automatically drive hold when my body is moving well, but, as a rule, I like to apply some left and right isometric hand force to the grip through the immediate impact zone as an insurance policy to ensure a drive hold release in the event that my body rotation or right lateral bend is sub-optimal. I apply some isometric force through my hands on all shots, from chips to drives, but apply a bit more isometric force when hitting my driver.
Any forum comments or insights would be appreciated.
UG