"The Release" equals personal best

[mgranato]

To me, the release information allows a person to play golf....not golf swing. I have made some great swings on the range that look great on video. A lot of lag, accumulators dumping, but in my heart of hearts, I knew there was no way I could take that to the course and play.

I really believe there is a difference between a playing pattern and a sexy looking range pattern.

With the range sexy pattern, I could hit shots that were so pure, sublime, nirvana like, scrumtrulescent....whatever you want to call it. However, it was tougher to go low. While trying to release earlier, and using a CPP type of pattern my scores were lower this summer than they ever have been. I don't have as many sublime feeling shots, but the scorecard looks better. Now that there is a name for this information, I am pretty excited to see where it goes.

I can bear witness to this claim. I’ve not known you to make many bad swings, but your release now is just solid and free. There’s thump and speed to it without it looking like you’re trying to create some thump and speed. Horrible golf speak, I know, but it just looks (and performs) great. Although, I would never call you "sexy".

 

[dschultz6072]

Is this guy off the hook then?

 

[Keefer]

If you only look at the club and it's angle in relation to the left arm, I think the early release hacker with no pivot and better pivoting golfer that tries to get the hands in front of the ball will be very similar. They will both have a shaft that lines up with the left arm too soon.

The flipper will flip the club head past the hands in a effort to square the club and the hands ahead of the ball pivoter type will drag the handle across the ball trying to maintain a FLW and shaft lean.

I think the release Bmanz and MJ are refering to is the opposite of both, lag wise.

Maybe it's semantics, but we're talking about the release and maybe there are different interpretions of what release means. For me it's what Nicklaus describes in that he in no way tries to delay or hold off releasing the club from the top. He's not trying to create any angles between his arms and the shaft.

Right from the top he is releasing the club. This doesn't mean he's casting or trying to throw the club at the ball as quick as he can. He's just not creating any angles in an attempt delay the hit.

Again, not everybody was on board with trying to create lag and a flat left wrist thru impact. If you were on board with this then this revelation is a welcomed surprise. For those of us who never tried to create lag and delay the release it's nice to see this way as being confirmed by science as an optimal way of swinging the club.

 

[counterfall]

This is hard to put in words, but my "feel" is like I am putting my hands down by my right thigh and stopping their forward (towards the target) movement and then letting them go (or "flick"). I'm sure on video that everything releases sooner, but that is just what I feel. The key difference to me is kind of like the old kinetic chain topic that used to float around here. I feel like my hands have to slow down and then the club can accelerate off of the slowed down hands.

I should also add that I'm not trying to hold onto the release until my hands slow down. It is really just my normal/natural swing with the thought of where to slow down my hands and the flick/rotation around the coupling point just kind of happens.

I like this description of the 'feel' that you are getting. I am feeling something very similar as far as the point where it seems as if everything starts to unleash toward the target. The image that I use is from some of the Bobby Jones youtube clips of his chipping and full swing. I just tried to imitate the relaxed, rubbery wristed motion that I see in those clips. I even started to chip very similarly to how he demonstrates. It makes me stop thinking and simply do it.

 

[ekennedy]

Geoff Ogilvy certainly appears to be nearly a poster child of the described CP release. Plus, he hits the ball long, high and has one of the most beautiful pitching motions in the game.

 

[dschultz6072]

His poster isn't as big as Freddie's though.