Alive Grip Revisited

Cradling the club with the right middle finger at setup is sometimes forgotten but actually it is very essential to the whole swing. When the whole weight of the club is cradled by the middle finger:

1. It can be the reminder that the swing is started fully by the right hand.
2. That a line can be imagined to be parallel to the target line.
3. That in putting, the imagined line can be like an arrow being pulled with the bow.
4. That the right hand pulls - but the forward energy is like a bounce back.  It is bounce from the coiled energy created initially by the right hand and continued by the shoulders.  There is no deliberate forward motion at all.
5. On putts, this can just be as subtle as the rebound from the left stiffened forearm muscles!

So what is the message?  That the forward motion is never a forward motion at all but it is a bounced motion.  And this motion is really initiated by a pull motion.

REMEMBER THIS ON PUTTING - very subtle muscle motions but the same as a full swing. Stiffen the left forearms and let the forward motion be a RECOIL motion.