Single Wrist Action

[neil]

I got this from a pro named Bob Mann years ago (Automatic Golf).

Between the wrist bone and the base of the thumb there is a dimple.
If you uncock the wrist until that dimple just disappears, it's level.

What dimple???????????

[mp33]

The medical term for the dimple is snuffbox.
I'm not a doctor but am a practicing hypochodriac!

[rwh]

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/surface.../snuffbox.html

[Yoda]

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/surface.../snuffbox.html

Great link, Bob. Thanks!

With all the Latin terms available, it's hard to believe that the 'docs' still call it the 'snuffbox'. I first heard the term in 1969 when taking lessons from Melvin Hemphill at Forest Oaks CC in Columbia, South Carolina. Melvin was a 'wee left-hander' who had been at the club forever and was known as one of the best teachers in the state.

One of his early pupils was Gardner Dickinson, who was stationed at nearby Ft. Jackson during his Army days. Gardner had already started his pro tour career and study under Ben Hogan but had been drafted.



One of the things Gardner told Melvin that Ben told him -- -- was to keep that 'snuffbox' on the right side of the shaft. No great player, said he, ever had it positioned on top or to the left.

Good advice then.

Good advice now.

[labrador]

Does not the loft of the club increase when one tries to hold the backside of the left hand against the sky and the palm of the right hand against the ground, far into the downswing to delay the release?

[alojoo]

Uhmmm I think the left wrist should stay flat, on the same plane. From a place viewed (the front side) the clubface, the left wrist and the side of the arm make, are all in, a straight line. As long as experiments don`t change this... keep going !

[curtisj76]

Great link, Bob. Thanks!

One of the things Gardner told Melvin that Ben told him -- -- was to keep that 'snuffbox' on the right side of the shaft. No great player, said he, ever had it positioned on top or to the left.

That's interesting because I "believe" M. Jacobs likes it (snuffbox) on the top. Didn't he work with Ben as well? Sorry if I'm mistaken.