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SteveT
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In order:
(a) I followed your link. If you helped dlam, then it was only through a classic example of the misappropriation of scientific terminology and concepts that you claim to despise. Read your own post and come back and tell us how a fulcrum might absorb momentum?
Simple ... a right hand fulcrum is supported by the right forearm directly under the hand ... whereas the left arm is essentially a cantilever hanging in the air from the left shoulder and depending on shoulder muscle structure to carry the load of the left arm and the momentum of the club.
That's a lot of loading and potential instability .. and then to dump all that golf club reversal momentum into the protruding left thumb ... well that's mechanically stupid if you ask me ...!!!
I hope you won't ask me to calculate all the force moments and torques ... and please recall that Sarazen wrapped his left thumb around the handle .. so he had to use a right hand fulcrum .. to win all those tournaments.