9A Standard Address
 

At impact fix, the left wrist is flat. At Standard Address, the left wrist is bent and the right wrist is flat. I am working on the right move or feel going to the top. When you take the club up by right forearm takeaway, the left wrist will become flat at the top? If you bent the right wrist at takeaway, there is a little roll on the left arm such that the left wrist becomes flat and then hinging to the top? You should not have a bent left wrist at the top?

When To Flatten The Bent Left Wrist
 

Welcome to LynnBlakeGolf, Daryti, and thank you for this first post. To your question:

While the only Imperative is that the Left Wrist be Flat at Impact, the Left (and Right) Wrist Conditions ideally are established much sooner. In fact, the application of Extensor Action virtually assures this result during the Start-Up. Hence, the inclusion of Item 16 (Start Up -- L/R Wrist Conditions) in the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3).

I am trying to experiment the difference between using middle hand positiion and impact fix position for swinging. Could not see much difference but it seems that impact fix position will provide a steeper plan. Is this true? Any more difference?

Thanks!

I try an keep a motionless right wrist from impact fix through the backswing and down through follow through. Phew!!! what impact -- unbelievable. Try this. keep your right arm in a right angle from the elbow at your side ABSOLUTELY vertical making sure the back of the hand and back of the arm are perfectly in a straight line, as if you were standing to take oath. Now close your hand in a fist SLOWLY and Totally RELAXED in the fingers. You will find that the back of the right hand angles back a little from the arm and also tends to come a little towards your self ever so slightly. It is the most natural way I find to get the right hand in the correct alignment at the top. From there its just PP3 and right forearm downplane into the inside aft of the ball keeping the right wrist motionless till I can keep it that way. Its another world out there.

Vikram

Can the middle hand position flat left wrist be overdone? The reason I am asking is sometimes coming down at impact, my clubface has more loft, unable to square, or sometimes hit behind? How bent should the left wrist be at address?
Thanks.

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