Mark Evershed and plane

[diggerdog]

Mark is a big proponent of keeping the right wrist bent thru the whole swing. Confusing to me is he suggests the butt end of the club points at the target line on the takeaway, and the clubshaft should point to the taregetline in the followthru, with the butt of the club pointing to a line a few inches behind your feet. He talks of swinging the arms on plane, which he says they go left past followthru. As a pull-hooker, it takes some balls to swing this way, but my range session produced some awesome shots interspersed with some ferocious pulls. Any suggestions?

 

[drewitgolf]

Evershed is a former AI, who studied under Tom Tomesello. His reference to plane in what I have heard from him is explained in TGM under 2-F Plane of Motion (third paragraph from the bottom on down). He is a firm believer in a hand-control pivot and a bent right wrist (which gives you a flat left one) all the way thru the stroke. Even though the right wrist flattens after follow through, he wants you to re-bend it at finish. "He talks of swinging the arms on plane, which he says they go left past followthru".
Hooks, especially pull hooks, are not usually caused by over-rolling (arms working left thru impact), but from a bent left wrist at impact. Sustain the LAG on plane.

 

[David Alford]

You don't have to make an effort to rebend the right wrist after post impact flattening, it will do it on it's own accord if you have been concentrating on a bent right wrist thru impact.

 

[David Alford]

One other thing, the butt of the club doesn't point behind your feet. He describes a postimpact move that would feel that way done in slow motion, but it doesn't happen at full speed or even at 1/2 speed.

 

[6bee1dee]

quote:Originally posted by David Alford

You don't have to make an effort to rebend the right wrist after post impact flattening, it will do it on it's own accord if you have been concentrating on a bent right wrist thru impact.

But Evershed believes in a very tight inside square inside circle, one that never allows the right wrist to unbend, even at impact.
I like a more inside-out swing with a large circle back to the inside with the right wrist rebending - no effort because my hands know what to do.

But... Hogan never rebent his right hand on the follow thru. At this point of the swing it doesn't mount to a hill of beans which way your hands work.

Point... once you train your hands, you can stop thinking for them.