Power Accumulator #3

PA#3 or #3 for short this is the angle formed between your left hand and the club shaft. The term and numbering system comes from "The Golfing Machine" written by Homer Kelley. Homer was a engineer by trade who loved the golf swing. Sound familiar? He broke the swing down like a physics book. Numbering power accumulators, pressure points, aiming points, very scientific. I have not read the book because I am worried I will get lost in the scientific detail. Sometimes all you want to do is hit the ball close to the hole, not worry about how you accomplish it. 

I am aware of some of the terms because the stack and tilt guys use them. I can tell you one thing, I struggle mightily with #3. My first lesson that I posted shows that prior to starting with those lessons I never loaded #3. This caused me to lose the lag on the start of the downswing. Even in my latest swing I have struggled with #3. In the S&T swing we want #3 to be loaded by the time the left arm is parallel to the ground. 

In the photo here, I have still not properly loaded #3. The club is not at a 90 degree angle to my left arm. When I am really struggling my club is even worse than in this photo.

I have gone out and started to do some research on how I can do better at this. My research led me to Mac O'Grady. He was a tour player in the late 80's and has one of the most efficient swings I have ever seen. Lots of leverage. He does a great job loading #3 as you can see in this photo.

His club shaft is perfectly parallel to his left arm. A perfect job of loading #3 at the perfect time. So I looked a little deeper into his swing sequences and determined that he was starting to load #3 right from the start at his address position. 

His hands seem lower at address which would help him load #3 much faster. As you can see in my address position I have a long way to go to properly load #3 as Mac does.

I will start to try to incorporate this into my swing to help load #3 better.