[Vikram]

Hi tgmer

Left wrist bend at address is a matter of what grip is employed and the angle of the clubshaft. Some players have more some less and some none at all. They start with a flat left wrist. So there can not be a stipulation to the amount of the bend. Though The more the bend the later you will have to employ the release sequence or delay the triggering component to square the club at impact of course with the required loading and hinging procedures. Squaring the club is a result of paced and sequential component employment and that is what we call 'timimg'.

If you can picture the hands through impact (actually watch them during a short chip shot ) as shown in Yoda's icon in the posts, your body and hands will learn to respect where they have to be AND what they have to do, to get the alignment required at impact. To clear the fog get to the impact fix alignments back to adjusted address take the backswing and return to impact alignment. Do it slowly and quicken the pace with each swing. If you get it right with a down forward and outward action of the club, beleive me, I SWEAR that you will be hitting amazing distances with an experience of ball compression that you may not have felt till now. NO WONDER YODA HAS THE ICON THAT HE DOES. He knows but he hasnt taught me yet and I am going to get there to learn.

Adding loft to the shots and hitting them thin check the arc of the swing and the placement of the machine (You) with relation to the ball. Getting the club to travel down through low point is of essence in this case. and the ball must be positioned before low point of the swing arc. The other factors could be the bent left wrist at or before impact which causes an upward and inward action of the club head and erratic clubface alignments. In all cases maintain down out and forward, clubhead lag, and a bent right wrist through impact, If there ever was a holy grail in golf that is it.

As a drill take a slow swing and try to sense to maintain the same grip pressure in BOTH hands from startup to finish. If you find increase in grip pressure in the right hand during start down 99.999% its going to be casting or clubhead throwaway that you will have to contend with- the major cause for the problems you have listed.

Vikram