Full Swing Template the Harmon Way (wrong)

Butch Harmon was quoted that anybody can play golf. One just have to bring the club up with the left hip going around the right leg and hit the ball by pulling the club with the right hip going around the left leg.

Now that I have learned the takeaway, I can now concentrate on the swing. I intend to fully use Harmon's advice above.

Just remember that I should just consciously only think of the left hip and right hip - not necessarily the takeaway which should be on auto mode.

As far as the takeaway, it is the alive grip. However, the left arm pushes down on the grip to bring up the club before the left hip takes over on the upswing. Note that during play, the proper fulcrum balancing of the right middle finger has to be experimented first before attempting the shot. The angle of the club being brought up must synch with the left hip as it takes over on the upswing motion. Find that compatible slot to bring the club up and the swing becomes a breeze.

26Jun2015:  The above does not work.  It makes my swing like a retiree - short.  Let us go back to what I posted when I was in the Philippines:

"If there is anything that I can call the secret to my swing, it should be the full cocking on every shot.  It actually twist my shoulders automatically and at the same time makes an automatic pull.  When the downswing is automatically initiated, it is just a matter of twisting my right hips towards the target. I should remember that the right hips is really the game changer tip but I cannot execute it without fully cocking left hand (and the ensuing shoulder twist)."

Add to this the Dustin Johnson takeaway note to keep the right arm higher than the left arm when the shoulders turn upwards.

3JUL2015: Found some good stuff in iGolfTV in YouTube.  Exactly the same as I am exposing here - use of the big muscles to get a repeating swing.

How to become a PGA Tour Player (Complete) Total Swing Understanding

Basically, what I liked from the above is his teaching about the left shoulder bringing up the club - without the need for a wrist break at the top (cocking). That really is custom made for my type of swing.  I went to the driving range and it worked for me.

14Jul2015: DO NOT FORGET THAT LIKE IN PUTTING, THE RIGHT HAND IS DOMINANT ON THE TAKEAWAY. IMAGINE THE WAITER TRAY.

The Chip - Unlocking the Secret of the Takeaway

The takeaway is the recent unsolved part of my swing. It is always and still that part of my swing that I do not own.  Every outing there is always something new to tinker and something new to learn and something learned to swear by. But every outing seems to be a "new" outing.  Well here I am again at it ready to swear by a new discovery!

Recently my game is very unstable. I am having a problem bringing my driver up again. It seems to be connected with topping the ball which leads to corrections to steepen up my takeaway which leads to changes on the grip which in turn leads to a meltdown of the swing. It is an interconnecting circle of bandaid solutions that exacerbate the problem.

But the solution may be right before my eyes and I have ignored it. How can I have solved the way to chip when I cannot do the same for a full swing - I asked myself? What am I doing in the takeaway in chipping that I am not doing in the full swing?

Well I learned in putting is just to bring my putter back and let the big muscles do the forward motion. I applied this to the chip and it worked so I retained the same technique to my entire swing. But while it works totally on my chips it is a work in progress with the full swing. When I started dissecting my chipping, I realized that I was just breaking my wrist backward on the takeaway while I was not consciously aware of this fact in the full swing. I was so engrossed with correcting the grip to steepen the plane when I should really just concentrate on breaking my right wrist backwards.

Topping the ball which started the merry-go-round corrections should really be secondary to the proper right-wrist-breaking takeaway. The topping can really be corrected by the alive grip.

I actually already found the solution but ignored the importance of it. "Another way of doing this using the left palm and pushing it downward while the right middle finger (alive grip) is used as a fulcrum." 16JUL2015: DO NOT FORGET THE PRECEDING!

Copied from a previous posting:
THE "FLICK".  THE FLICK IS ACTUALLY JUST THE ALIVE GRIP WITH THE LEFT PALM PUSHING DOWN WHILE THE FULCRUM FINGER PULLS AND PANS THE CLUB UP ALONG THE PLANE. THE RIGHT HAND GRIP IS EXTREMELY WEAK AND THE LEFT HAND MUST CONTROL THE CLUB ON THE FORWARD SWING UP TO THE PICTURE PERFECT FINISH.