There was an article in one of the golf rags, maybe Golf Digest, a few years back by a guy named Marshall Smith who advocated that very concept. He said " When you reach the top of your swing, simply switch directions and swing your hands - not yout shoulders, legs, or hips- down toward the ball. by leading with your hands from the top, you'll be sure to approach the ball from the inside". Isn't this what a beginner would instictively do when he first swings a golf club ? Of course, this advice refutes 99.9 % of all traditional golf instruction and fundamentals. As was said earlier, this might be the right advice for a particular student, but certainly, its not what happens in a good golf swing. Clearly, high speed photography and videos show the arms and hands have a passive and responsive role in the downswing. Jim Flick, one of the popular teaching gurus on the Golf Channel is sold on the idea that the lower body simply provides a support fuction for the arms and shoulders in the golf swing, and is not an initiating or driving force . This is contrary to what Jim Mclean, David Leadbetter, and others teach. But golf instruction has always had its share of contradictions. Just when you know how a golf club should be swung, some guy comes along and tells you that everything that your ever read or heard about the swing is wrong !