[EdStraker]

Mike,

Per 6-M-1, the downstroke sequence is always knees, hips, shoulders, right elbow, left wrist uncocking and / or left hand rotation.

But it is the INTENT of bringing the hands down and out on-plane that will ironically bring about this sequence.

Food for thought - you will hardly see a good tennis player getting out of sync in their strokes. Is it any wonder that they focus only on what their hands are doing?

Its hard for most people to accept this line of reasoning until they play a round of tennis, observe their pivot reacting to the hands and then apply this procedure to their golf stroke.

Amateurs who try to trigger the downstroke in the sequence afore mentioned always manage to get it to fire the other way around.

Which brings to mind Mr. Kelley's timeless words, the hands are not educated until they control the pivot - 9-1

I think many people need to have the pivot trained to some point before they learn hand controlled pivot. The body might not necesarily react to the hands. For example, a student could move the hands toward the ball by moving the arms independent of the body, thus resulting in very little pivot. Once the pivot is learned, then I think it is easier to learn a hand controlled pivot.

I taught tennis through my college days and for a couple of years after graduating. Some of the students with an athletic background could learn "hand controlled" strokes immediately, but many people had to learn the rotation involved with ground strokes first before having a "hand controlled" stroke. If they didn't they would just move the arms from the shoulder and have an arm-only stroke.

Since the arms can be moved from the shoulder sockets without the trunk rotating, it doesn't mean the body will necessarily respond to the hands when first learning the golf swing.

I agree a hand-controlled golf swing is the way to go, but I don't agree that the body will automatically respond correctly to the hand's movement. I think it has to be trained to do this.