Flat Left Wrist = Good Contact but open face

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cpuken

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I had a golf lesson (one of many) at a school down in North Carolina a couple of years ago. While there, I was making the best contact ever but of course I lost this ability once I returned back home!! One of the techniques they taught was to have a flat left wrist (for a right hander) and this swing thought does appear to allow me to make better contact (this is a relative evaluation) but what I find hard to do is maintain a flat left wrist (at contact) and still rotate the club face through impact and have a square club face at impact... I find that I'll end up pushing shots off to the right (slightly open face).
What am I doing wrong and how can I correct this or allow the face to close (and get that baby draw) while at the same time maintaining a flat (firm) left wrist?
Ken
 
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quote:Originally posted by cpuken

I had a golf lesson (one of many) at a school down in North Carolina a couple of years ago. While there, I was making the best contact ever but of course I lost this ability once I returned back home!! One of the techniques they taught was to have a flat left wrist (for a right hander) and this swing thought does appear to allow me to make better contact (this is a relative evaluation) but what I find hard to do is maintain a flat left wrist (at contact) and still rotate the club face through impact and have a square club face at impact... I find that I'll end up pushing shots off to the right (slightly open face).
What am I doing wrong and how can I correct this or allow the face to close (and get that baby draw) while at the same time maintaining a flat (firm) left wrist?
Ken
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two things:

you will need to learn the three basic hinge actions and
the left wrist swivel after impact.
 
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For me, and I am still early in my learning process here, the easiest thoughts to get the correct left wrist swivel (and a bit of a draw) while maintaining the flat left wrist are the "wedding ring up/knuckles of the left hand to the ground" through impact. I am using the "Manzella" back of left hand aligned with the clubface grip.

If you have never done this before, at first it feels weird, and you think you are going to hit low duck hooks, but the ball takes off like a rocket! You will be a believer in a very short period of time!
 
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huestisc

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At this point I wouldn't consider myself anything but a (hopefully) former flipper trying to learn a flat left wrist at impact.
 
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cpuken

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I'm working on feeling comfortable with a slightly strong grip... the last time I took a lesson, I thought I had a strong grip... only to have the instructor tell me it was weak!!! So, that's one of the things I've been working on lately (strong grip, slower swing and hesitate on the backswing). Hopefully my grip isn't cheating back to the weak grip I had been using.
It's just that when I try to have a flat left wrist... my brain tells my forearm to lock in position and not rotate through impact. Maybe I just need more practace... that is more practice of the right move. This is year 6 for me in golf. The first two years I lived at the driving range... being a former football & basketball player and a good athlete in general, I refused to be this bad... but here we are in and I'm still way worst then I ever thought I'd be. My friends who never practice often score lower then me. I've really backed off on my practice time the past year, I'm on the border of giving in but not yet. I think I'm capable of learning a proper swing but I think I run out of time and money before I can grove it.
Ken
 
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Archie Swivel

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You may hook the snot out of it, but try hitting a few where you show your ARCHED left wrist to the target after follow thru just after the club passes waist high. If you can do that, you can rotate your left arm without bending your left wrist.-- assuming I understand your problem correctly.

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cpuken, this may or may not be your problem, but it may be something you want to take into consideration. I will often leave balls out to the right, but not necessarily because of my hand motion. I have a tendency to slide left(right handed golfer) on the downswing which gets my body too far in front, making it almost impossible to get the hands squared up. Check out Brian's logo and notice how the front leg is posted so that the body can't sway forward, also check out Tiger for an example. Usually when I'm going right it has more to do with body action than hand action.... Just a thought.
 
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anakin

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Having a flat left wrist with Zero pivot equal to club face wide open. The mind sense that if we are having a wide open club face, it will force your body to rotate and leave you with three degree open instead on impact.
 
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