Clubface control

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Jim hit it on the head. It is the same in tennis, practice, practice, practice. But I would say having sound technique helps too!
 
being a habitual slicer, is it alright if it feels like there is more effort to roll my right hand over my left through impact? I think i remember reading somewhere that the hands should be passive and the face will square if my body motions are correct, but this is clearly not happening for me. I am much more actively trying to close my clubface with my right side to swivel close, but am i reinforcing another bad habit? I can see how the timing aspect could become an issue and not so reliable.
 
being a habitual slicer, is it alright if it feels like there is more effort to roll my right hand over my left through impact? I think i remember reading somewhere that the hands should be passive and the face will square if my body motions are correct, but this is clearly not happening for me. I am much more actively trying to close my clubface with my right side to swivel close, but am i reinforcing another bad habit? I can see how the timing aspect could become an issue and not so reliable.

Do you own NSA 2.0? Everyone should own NSA 2.0, but slicers REALLY should own it!!! Seriously, if I had no money and had to choose between a full set of golf clubs or NSA plus a set of 10 clubs, I'd seriously sell 4 clubs. And NSA is cheaper than that anyway!

Yes, as a slicer, you will need to do some more active work with your hands to turn the clubface off the plane and square it up. But I would caution you that the idea of "roll[ing] my right hand over my left through impact" has the POTENTIAL to be a very problematic swing thought because it can lead directly to flipping (i.e. a bent left wrist before and at impact).

What you want, instead, is a bit of twistaway on the backswing followed by a wedding ring up swivel. With wedding ring up you don't so much roll your right hand as you twist the back of your left hand over and toward the ground. You want to maintain the flat left wrist all the way through impact and into the follow-through.

Note: there is no real sense of a "timing issue" with the wedding ring up swivel. If you are timing something, then you are usually timing the flip.
 
Thanks for the response Fronesis. I do own NSA2.0 and COAFF have been working on the twistaway and am working on maintaining that arched wrist through impact to wedding ring up without flipping. However, also working on really feeling the sweetspot lag with my right index and thumb gives me the feeling of actively rolling my right hand over the left versus the left hand leading the roll (to the extent that after swinging for a while my right forearm gets pretty sore/tired). I guess I just need to keep practicing getting my left hand to supinate. I'm just worried about reinforcing bad habits that might get burned into my muscle memory like Charles Barkley's swing looks like is the result of.

Right now my primary swingthoughts, which I almost say to a beat through my backswing/downswing is twiiiistawwaaaaaay / inside-out-swivel-close
 
TGM states that "The Left Wrist is Clubface Control and later, "Accumulator #3 Hand Motion is Clubface Control." How does this "check" with 3-D machine results?
 
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