Center Pivot Forces You to Slow Down... The Athletic Shift That Lets You Hit Hard!
Golf Instruction · 8/17/2026 · 6.2K views · 93 likes
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Center Pivot Forces You to Slow Down... The Athletic Shift That Lets You Hit Hard! Try to center pivot and you almost have to slow down just to keep the club from getting thrown behind you and creating chaos in the downswing. Turning around a post is a twisting action... it locks you in. The athletic version is turn into this post, shift, turn into this post. A counter movement... recenter in transition... then throw yourself and the club hard into impact with the braces held. It's straight out of Jim McLean's eight-step swing and it's what you see in really good players. You can't add speed to a center pivot. You can add a lot of speed to this.