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bill reed · #60 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 09:06 AM

hi Brian
what i was trying to say was if you had say a 110 degree turn on your shoulders and say half that with your hips then if you open your stance the you restricted how much the hips can turn but you don't restricted the shoulders as much as you shoulders are still in the same line up but your hips are turned more to the left in a open set up.
that will give you more separation between the shoulder turn and the hip turn.
i think that when you do get this extra separation you then have to have that hip shift to bring you back on to a flatter plane on the downswing.
looking at many clips of Hogan and Trevino both seem to start the downswing with a hip slid before the back swing is complete. in moat clips you see the hips move as the hands are still going back. tiger does this too and you see his club shaft bend as he starts the first few inches of his downswing.
i still think at first with Hogan and Trevino that the hip slid was done actively but later it was so ingrained that there is no thought about it.
i know when i was learning the Trevino swing you did have to think of the hip slid as many golfers think of the right knee kicking out and the shift of weight from let foot to right.
once you have it you no longer think of it.
i think its a bit like 3SK in you need a swing first then you can concentrate on ball contact but if you don't have the basics of a swing then you wont be able to contact the ball sweetly, you need the basics first and i think thats the same with Hogan he worked on the basics and and put some of the thoughts in his book the 5 fundamentals but added do what i say not what i do.
cheers
bill