Jack Hamm, famous long drive champion and creator of "The Hammer", manages to maximize conservation of angular momentum beyond anyone I have witnessed in the thousands of hours of instruction video, competition video and my own up close and personal observations of some of the world's longest hitters. Hamm's approach comes right out of the science classroom as he was an engineering student at the same undergrad school I attended at the same time. I never met him or for that matter had any idea he was also a student there. His setup is simple. His take away is even more simple merely taking the club head away slowly turning the face and the back of his left hand parallel to the target line with his hand facing away from him when the club head is a knee height. He then simply picks the club up while turning his right shoulder as far away from the target as possible. His first move is a hard turn of his hips dropping his hands to his hip while the club head is still completely behind him. He turns as hard as he can and this ice skater spin catapults the club head through the hitting area as fast as he can allow it without throwing himself out of balance. It is a simple move to learn and can produce "POW!" big time for those looking to kill the ball. I wouldn't recommend it for your short game, hehe.
Mike
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