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O.B. thanks for sharing your Journey with the Drills.
I felt the same way that you did starting out.
I know that it will take time, but I am willing to
make the effort. One concern, at the present, is
combining the drag with the Right Arm Pick up. Don't
want to create a swaying problem. I will keep you posted
and would certainly apprecated your insite.
Donn

Centred head is good. A right side pull of the pivot or a right forearm pickup doesnt preclude a centred head. Remember its not a sway to the right that loads your right side.....its more about pressure . You "load" your BRACED right side by pressuring your right side , you load it with the momentum of your swinging arms and club, your turning pivot. Hence the walking thing Lynn loves to demonstrate , the lifting heals thing. He always demonstrates it with a centred head. You dont move your head to the right when your weight is entirely over your right foot when walking (when the left foot is in the air). Moe talked about loading into his right side but not over his right side. Imagine a weight scale under your right foot. Make the needle jump but without swaying your head! With force along the inside edge of your right shoes sole. Like an inside edge when skiing or footing a door say.

You could if you want try that little Hogan kick in of the right knee which braced his right side ... pretty hard to sway your head without breaking that brace. You can kick the knee in and try to leave it there while turning your right hip out of the way. "Clear the right hip" , 12-3 #13.

Speaking of Hogan , he once described the initiation of his swing away , lagging takeaway as a "rebound " off of his full body forward press. Old skool I know but his early lag in startup was a product of this rebound. He swung the club back with lag and drag established early. The rebound being IMO a description of the early momentum provided by the pivot going to Fix if but for only a brief moment then "rebounding" in the other direction. The pivots mini change in direction causing a mini lagging clubhead as it does to a much more noticeable extent in the transition from backswing to downswing.

Its so hard to talk about this, describe this business ..... unless you're talking to someone who knows how it feels. Feels in the hands. How the sweetspot seems to seek out the ball magically as in the Melhourn drill when lag pressure is present.

Do the Melhourn drills until you see, believe in the link between lag pressure and sweet spot impact. Then conclude to seek it , lag pressure , out in all normal shots. (intentionally skulled wedge shots aside) . Feel the lag pressure on both sides of the swing , make no adjustment for impact (12-5 and the Three Stations). For compressions sake. Again even from Fix , even when putting you can feel this stuff.... even when the hands stay in impact condition and the clubhead doesnt actually lag.

You know Tiger's 3 continuous passes with the putter before he sets it behind the ball? Kinda Melhourn drill in a way is it? Only the Melhourn choir would agree to this song perhaps. It does sound outlandish.... at first. IMO there's lag pressure present for a nicely stroked putt. And probably none present for a yipped four footer.