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Old 11-09-2006, 08:01 AM
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Re: compression

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Originally Posted by cmays
If you hinge the back wrist back and maintain it in the downswing you have lag, but the compression is not as great.

Slide a egg across the table with the hand or attack it from the top and crush it.

Now in a picture that I am about to show from Chuck Evans and how we compress the right wrist looks tight as bending the wrist back and holding, but the real tightness comes at impact.

1. http://golf.about.com/od/golftips/l/blclubheadlag1.htm
Cmays, great post! I think I read that article before and forgot about it. This time it makes much more sense. This could also be posted under the thread "what aren't they telling us" to explain, in part, the distance gap between the amateurs and the pros.

James
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