| With the early backward break you do not get a | | | | You are not moving it by breaking your wrists. So, |
| bouncing effect at the top. From the time the hands | | | | since you have brought the club back with your body |
| are hip high only the arms, actuated by the shoulders, | | | | and shoulders, the natural thing to do is simply to |
| are moving the club. The club itself is not moving fast | | | | leave them in command and start the downswing |
| as it reaches the limit of the backswing, and there is | | | | with them. This is exactly what should be done-the |
| a noticeable but not violent pull on the hands and | | | | hips sliding laterally, and turning and rocking the |
| wrists when it gets there. | | | | shoulders to bring the club down. |
| Hence there is no rebound. The club starts down | | | | The wrists leading at impact with no temptation to |
| solely in response to the shoulder and hip action-and | | | | pronate or supinate are accounted for largely by the |
| we are off to a late hit instead of an early one. | | | | position the early break puts the hands and wrists |
| Since the late hit is the true manifestation of good | | | | into, aided by the fact that the body is swinging the |
| timing, you have, right there, one reason the early | | | | club during a large segment of the downswing. With |
| backward break promotes good timing. The fact that | | | | the perfect late hit, when the club catches up with |
| there is no rebounding from the top, and no hurried | | | | the hands at the last possible moment, the hands will |
| effort then to get the club head to the ball, is also | | | | always be slightly in front at impact. The club has |
| why this system makes it easier to establish a good, | | | | caught up enough to strike a straight, solid blow, but |
| even rhythm. | | | | it doesn't get exactly even with the hands until |
| But, you will say, the pros have no trouble with the | | | | slightly after the ball is hit. |
| late break and this rebounding of the club head. No, | | | | This will vary among the top pros, but pictures of |
| they don't, because they subconsciously time their | | | | many of them, taken at impact, show the left arm |
| movements with it and also because they "tame" the | | | | and the club in a curving line, not a straight line. Bill |
| club head by keeping a tight grip at the top. This grip | | | | Casper and Wes Ellis are two examples. |
| is tight enough so that the club never gets away | | | | The fact that a solid contact is produced on the |
| from them. But for the average player the timing is | | | | center of the club face is, really, the cumulative |
| much more difficult. | | | | effect of many of the movements which have |
| The feeling that you have to move the body to get | | | | preceded it. Whenever the hit is late and from the |
| the club down to the ball, has its origin in the fact | | | | inside the contact is much more likely to be accurate |
| that for the last half of the backswing you are | | | | than if we hit too soon and/or from the outside. |
| moving the club largely with your body and shoulders. | | | | |