The Natural Golf Swing by George Knudson, Lorne Rubenstein Page B

aninvoluntary response to the force that put the clubhead into a powerful position at the end of the loading motion, and to your intent to transfer weight to the finishing position.
    Your right arm, as indicated, straightens during unloading from its folded position while loading. Your weight transfer to the finishing position while in balance and with full extension – due to your starting form of relaxed shoulders, arms, and hands – ensures that this occurs. You are allowing the arc to be maximized. You don’t need to do a thing for this to happen; just allow it to happen.
    The unloading motion begins when we transfer the body weight to the finishing position. We transfer weight from the right foot to the left foot, the two pivot points in the swing motion. This causes a number of very good things to happen during the unloading motion. These are, of course, involuntary. They
happen
because we transfer weight.
    First, the wrists are put in a maximum cocked position due to the weight transfer to the finishing position.

    Top
, position of the left foot at the completion of the loading motion.
Bottom
, stabilization of the left foot during unloading.
    At impact, the arms become fully extended while the hands and wrists return to their natural form, that is, square to the target for a straight shot. The right elbow, meanwhile, returns to an extended form at impact.
    Beyond impact, the left elbow will fold midway to the finishing position while the right arm extends. The right elbow will foldat the completion of the swing motion.

    Involuntary hand action before impact, at impact, and after impact.
    The unloading motion is truly a simple, responsive act. It’s a matter of trusting that what has come before is correct; if you set up the starting form correctly and then make the swing motion I’m presenting here, you can be sure it
is
correct.
    Give up control to gain control
. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There’s no need to force things in the natural swing. Just let yourself be. You’ll have flowed through to a complete, graceful finishing form because you won’t have interfered with the motion.

8. The Finishing Form
    T HE FINISHING FORM is one in which you face the target at natural, full height. Your body faces the target – feet, knees, hips, shoulders, torso, shoulders, and head – and all of your weight is on your left foot. There’s a natural flex in your left knee, while your right knee is also flexed. Your right foot, having shifted forward due to the weight transfer to your left foot, has come up.
    Given that you have not controlled the club at all during the motion, it will now flow where it may, probably completing its travels somewhere behind your back. We don’t care where it goes; centrifugal force carries the club until it has spent its energy. At the same time, the hands and wrists are in the same form as at the start.
    I once asked a thirteen-year-old gymnast in Halifax why she committed herself so fully to her sport. “Because I feel so free when I do it,” she answered. And that’s a feeling you will have as you move through to assume the proper finishing form. You can’t help but notice the feeling of freedom as you let yourself go to the finish.

    The finishing position, all the weight on the left foot.
    You’re following through on every linked aspect of the motion that came before. Not that you’re trying to. You know the difference between trying and enabling, between forcing and allowing. You’re going along for the ride.
    It’s important to understand that the finishing position is truly a
form
. It’s true that you get to the position by allowing the motion to take place. But you also help yourself immeasurably in reaching the position by having a picture of the form in your mind’s eye from the beginning. Now that you understand the motion, you can appreciate why it’s critical that you visualize from the beginning the form you will assume at the end. As I