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When golf was first introduced in America, and this was less than 100 years ago, emphasis was placed on the pronation method of play. Under this method, the left hand pronated * the club away from the ball on the backswing. In the pronation type of golf swing, there was no place for any body action-in fact, the slightest sway with the body took the player out of position and a very stern "hold your head still, don't use your body" policy was established as the correct procedure in golf.
As time went on, there was a letup on this strict rule of no body action in a golf shot. It was suggested that on longer shots with the wood clubs there could be a certain amount of body action, but there was a prevailing contention, which still exists in some quarters, that when it came to playing iron shots there was to be no body action. Definitely there was to be no body action on the very short pitch shots (and this, incidentally, is the prime cause of shanking).
* Pronation is a medical term which explains the movement of one's hand. If the left hand is turned towards the thumb so that the palm of the left hand is facing down, the left hand is in a prone position, just as a person lying face down would be lying prone.
By comparison, if the left hand were turned in the opposite direction, away from the thumb, away from one's body, so that the hand is facing up, then the left hand would be on its back, so to speak. If one were lying on one's back, his position would be supine, hence such a movement of the hand is supination. The same movements can likewise be done with the right hand.
When it came to putting there was to be no body action whatsoever. This to my way of thinking is the greatest contributing cause to the difficulties encountered on the putting green. Why a player should lock and freeze himself into a rigor mortis position when he is negotiating the most delicate shot in the game has always disturbed me, but more of putting later.
In recent years, to a very large degree, the above attitudes toward golf have changed, and it is being recognized that there is such a thing as a pivot action of the body. If power is to be developed in a golf shot, it can only be secured through a larger and bigger use of the body. However, in practically all references to using the body in a golf shot, it has always been suggested that there must be a bigger turn. I myself have been guilty of the same error, and in many of the lessons I have given, and in much of my writings on golf, I too have referred to the action of the body as being a turn. continue the new concept of body action in the golf swing...
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