In this segment, I'm going to talk about Arnold Palmer's release, or maybe the non-release. Many years ago, I was experimenting with Arnold Palmer's swing, and I was hitting the ball well. I was trying to imitate his address position, his swing, but one of the things that I found difficult was timing the release. In other words, when your hands turn over, the club head is square for a split second, and you have to time that split second to hit the ball where you want to go, because if it's a little open it goes to the right, if it's square it goes straight, and if it's a little closed it's going to go that way. And I met with Arnold Palmer, and I and I said to him, Mr. Palmer, if I could please ask you a question, what do you do to time your release? I told him I was experimenting with his swing and one of the difficulties that I was having was timing the turnover, and he said to me, I try not to release. If there's any way to release, it's not turning it over; it's more in the direction of the target. He's trying not to turn over his hands, which I found very interesting. So if he started like this, bang. And that, by the way, leads to his follow through, but he didn't try to turn over. He tried to bang, the release, if anything, was towards the target. So with Arnold Palmer's arm swing, if you're going to try it, it's not the traditional turnover release. It's a release towards the target, bang, and not turning it over.
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