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Hybrid Stance – How It Ties In The Other Lessons

The Hybrid Stance relies on the other Letter Lessons to be effective. By this I
mean that a change of the the other Lessons would alter your Hybrid Stance.
This goes for the other Lessons interact with each other.

While you are behind the ball and visualizing the shot in your mind, the
trajectory, high or low and the shape of the flight of the ball, fade, draw or
straight, you want your body to settle into your Letter Lesson A, the Correct

Address.

Everything thing that you envision in your mind about the upcoming golf shot
would be as if you would be going on a trip. You would have planned to

know where your destination would be first. You would sense how you would
finish your golf swing. So it is with a well executed golf swing.

In my golf swing I can see my one piece handless takeaway that is giving me a

club path, and the shape of my swing. I know where my head is in my
address which would be from my Letter Lesson H for steady head position. I
have a mental awareness of the upcoming shot.

As you can see, that no one letter in the Letter Lessons work independently of
the other.

If you change one of the Letter Lessons, for example your grip or Letter Lesson

G, you would change all of the others. Mr. Hogan said to Kris Tschetter that if
you change your grip you would change the entire shape of your swing.

This is what happened when Mr. Hogan received a lesson from Henry Picard.

Mr. Picard convinced Mr. Hogan to weaken his grip to get him fading the ball
and to stop the hook. Mr. Hogan was also influenced by Jimmy Demaret in
that he could control the ball with a fade trajectory with the utilization of this
grip change.

Mr. Demaret had a narrow and slightly opened stance that worked with his
strong forearms and that created a controllable ball flight. Mr. Hogan made his
changes to his grip which changed his entire golf swing.

In the Address you do not want to be tight. Especially in your arms and
shoulders. You want to relax when you play golf and want to find ways to
take the tension out of your body and your golf swing. You want to be like a