Between doing more rehab on the shoulder and the pivot action upon which I’ve been working, I may be trying a swing session on Friday.

I’ve been extra-careful in making sure the shoulder muscles are strong enough to withstand the forces generated by full swinging, and since I’m able to swing the Momentus Heavy Iron now with full swings, I believe it’s time to test out the Post-Modern Golf Swing model.

As I’ve said before, I consider the Late Hogan pivot action to be the transitional pivot action from the traditional Classic Golf Swing and the Post-Modern Golf Swing models.

That was reinforced today as I was making my swings – now that I’ve figured out the precise action to get the full “post” position into the trailing or right leg, when I get to the top of the back pivot, I feel like how that Ben Hogan illustration from his “Five Lessons” book looks:

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Not in the above-the-waist position, because I will never have that flat an arm angle, but in the hip, leg and foot area.

The funny thing is, Hogan’s top position never looked like that in real life – perhaps it was what he felt was ideal, but in his actual swing, he always had the separation leading heel, so he looked more like his “before” picture than the “after” illustration:

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That “before” picture is actually the Late Hogan pivot, and I don’t have to prove it by doing anything more than showing his top position from a similar angle:

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We all know that the “before” of Hogan’s pivot action had a higher heel lift:

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… and he reduced that heel lift with the transition to what I call the “Late Hogan” pivot (post-accident and in the 1950s).

Dunaway’s Shift & Post

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So, if you take out the head shift by watching Mike Dunaway swing down the line, I wonder how close to his pivot action my model will look, because Dunaway was truly the only person I’ve ever seen swing with the pure “shift and post” pivot action while still having his leading heel flat on the ground.

It’s not even that one has to try to keep that leading heel down – it simply works in a way that one can get full hip and shoulder turn without having to lift the heel or hyper-twist the lower back.

So, I have to tell you all, this model would have to be the perfect swing model, or the optimal one, mechanically, according to how the human body is constructed and moves.

It’s not that my own swing would be perfect with this model, as there’s no such thing to perfection when talking about people, but in breaking this swing action down, I can’t see how else you would improve the action by changing anything.

I will know pretty soon how I look swinging with this model, and I can’t wait – just to be swinging again!!

More to come.