SD and NHA Pattern

[rprevost]

Is it possible to combine the NHA backswing with a SD downswing and follow through? What would one expect to be the problem with that combination? Thanks for any insight?

 

[Kevin Shields]

I think you'd get under it pretty bad or if you didnt, you'd pull hook it way left.

now the SD backswing and a little NHA downswing is a very good pattern. Neutral ballflight. Furyk-ish.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

I think you'd get under it pretty bad or if you didnt, you'd pull hook it way left.

now the SD backswing and a little NHA downswing is a very good pattern. Neutral ballflight. Furyk-ish.

I agree.

 

[rprevost]

Thanks for your response. I was hoping for better news, but . . . . . Part of the background to my question was trying to figure out how to get a fade with a SD downswing. BManz has said, I think, that Nicklaus used a SD pattern, and we know that he played a fade. What would you have to do with the SD pattern to get the fade?

 

[Kevin Shields]

Aim left and open the face

 

[rprevost]

Aim left and open the face

That simple? I will give it a try.

I want to hit a fade. However, I am caught between SD and NHA because for years, I thought I was doing right with, what amounts to, the NHA backswing and the SD downswing. We will see . . . .