[Yoda]

Master Yoda,

It's Bagger hanging out with Mozart in Vienna.

There is a wonderful picture of you and Hogan on the Gallery homepage demonstrating your respective start down and release sequences.
Can you touch on the "sag" element of Hogans start down and how extensor action is applied during this motion?
It would be music to mine ears.

Danke Shun,

Bagger

Guten Tag, Herr Bagger!

There is a letter floating around the Internet (of doubtful authenticity) in which Ben Hogan describes the 'sag' of the Left Side as the Club moves away from the Ball and the Head remains still. I don't disagree with that description, but again, I would not attribute it to Hogan without further investigation.

So, the 'sag' attributed to Hogan is Backstroke 'sag'.

And then there was an imminent figure in golf in the 1920s and '30s named Seymour Dunn. And Seymour -- I wonder what his buddies called him! -- was a major advocate of Downstroke 'sag', the increased Wrist Cocking of Accumulator Lag during the Start Down.

It is to Seymour's sag that you refer, and it is that I will address. In my next post...

'Cuz dinner is ready, and I've got to go get it!

BTW, Paul Bertholy called Downstroke Loading -- Seymour's 'sag' -- the Master Move.

And as I wrote earlier today, Homer Kelley said the average guy is hopeless because he lacks Educated Hands to get through the Start Down.

It's all the same thing.

Later!