Lee Trevino and Hula hips
 

In his book "Let me help your game", Lee Trevino writes...

"...take the club to the top of your backswing. At this point, AND BE CERTAIN TO KEEP YOUR HEAD IN ITS FIXED POSITION, start your downward motion by SLIDING the left hip laterally forward towards the target.

....

Your lateral movement should never be an exaggerated one. It should simply be a sliding of the hips out towards the intended line of flight.

To me this lateral movement is the name of the entire game. If your turning, instead of giving it what I call the hula shift, then there's no way you can drive the clubhead through the hitting area...

... hula it and you'll knock hell out of it"

His capitals, my bold.

Published in UK in 1972

Hula hoops are a common toy...but to describe the hip action as hula is unusual...anyone else know if it was mentioned by anyone other than Homer and Lee?? Not saying Lee read TGM...like I said...Hula hoops are common...

Not read all the book yet but it is very interesting read so far... so much to learn from him and his action. Clearly a very bright guy!

As a side issue, wouldn't it be great if you could fix a 1-on-1 interview - Yoda discussing technique with the classic players of the past - especially the self taught guys... they tell us what they think is important in their games and then Yoda introduces TGM concepts to them...kicking a few ideas around...just a few imperatives and essentials...:golf:

An Hour With the Master
 

I had just such a session today with Larry Nelson. He was working on using his right arm more in the backswing, and 'ol Yoda was there to help with the precision alignments.

More than once I wished I had my camera there and running.

It was a great time.

:)

Got the book . . . it's great . . . the prescribed pattern is somewhat limiting due to the way he aims the face. Pretty good for the short clubs but hard to hit it up with the long'uns.

You should read the latest gold digest . .. .he's got an article . . .actually talks about a "weaker" grip . . . I 'bout choked.

In the absence of a camera, words and stories suffice. Thanks for this and many others.



http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...t=larry+nelson

This is probably more humour than instruction.

Cheers


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Thanks OB, I hadn't seen this picture before!

Hi 12PB, it seems that Lee was quite a literary guy...had a few books out ( and these are just the instructional ones) :

I Can Help Your Game by Lee Trevino (Hardcover - 1 Jan 1972)

Groove Your Golf Swing My Way by Lee Trevino (Hardcover - 1976)

Swing My Way by Lee Trevino and Dom Lupo (Paperback - 27 Sep 1984)

the first one... is not too prescriptive about his personal style...this one is adapting his style to main stream golf...I think some of his other ones may spend more time telling you to do exactly what he did which,like you say, may be tricky for all clubs...the grip in this one is a pretty neutral one...not the strong one you kinda associate with Lee.

Sounds like a special time - even a top class major winning computer needs a little programming ... will have to keep an eye out for :-

http://www.pgatour.com/players/s/?/00/18/64/stats

It is interesting to compare his stats with the top 20 Champions Tour guys in GIR and driving accuracy... they keep the ball on the fairway!...but looks like Larry can still Putt as well as put some power in his driver...just a fine tuning of his alignments...BOOM!:golf: :salut:

Did these guys ever do any serious practice...



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I got two of the 3 . . . . I know in the Groove book he wants the face looking left . . . then in the I Can Help he wants the face open . . . .

Bottom line he hit it low so I think he had some issues with the face looking left and had to get the shaft leaning to get it to look more right to avoid hooking it.