Maybe it's years of engraining the "catch raindrops with your left hand on the follow through, or years or learning to roll your left arm into impact, but I cannot maintain an angled hinge. I always revert to a horizontal hinge, resulting in a left ball flight. How have others of you ingrained an angled hinge when hitting?
How do you maintain the angled hinge
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jkJim Kobylinski
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From what i have been reading about hitting and asking as well, is that ball position plays a big role in hitting. That simply a mis-positioned ball can lead to a left-right ball flight due to being too far foward. Also, i may be wrong on this so take it with some grain, but i think your explanation is part of the reason why hitters should setup with the face closed slightly
tball88, I shared the exact same problem, and have several thoughts to try. Firstly, with right hand only on the club, take the club back, up, and in with the sole goal to slam, and I mean, hard the leading edge into the ground behind a ball location, as if your are to chunk the ball 10 inches behind it. Verify the heel being ahead of the toe slightly upon impact, keeping the right wrist bent. I like to see how closed I can feel in the takeaway and still slam hard into the ground slightly open. NOtice how easy it seems to achieve impact with a slightly open face. Notice how hard you can hit the ground, almost can break your shaft.
But i hear you say, "but Digger, why are your showing me how to chunk it?'" So now making the same impact alignments into the dirt, slowly inch the divot forward past where the ball would be. Don't place your left hand on the grip yet, but grab your right wrist with the left hand around your wrist, letting the right arm be the motivating factor of power, speed, thrust, and alignment. I hear all the left wrist controls the clubface guys coming at me hard, but it wasn't until I put my mind in my right forearm/hand that I got my impact alignments accurate. I thought it to be a cruel joke that my dominant hand-arm could not get into the mix. Not only can they, they must. Get on a plane and book a lesson in Atlanta with Yoda and ask for his "fanning right forearm" special. Do not take your focus off this area of your game. You are fixing to start playing some good golf with the same effective swing thought time after time. My best.
But i hear you say, "but Digger, why are your showing me how to chunk it?'" So now making the same impact alignments into the dirt, slowly inch the divot forward past where the ball would be. Don't place your left hand on the grip yet, but grab your right wrist with the left hand around your wrist, letting the right arm be the motivating factor of power, speed, thrust, and alignment. I hear all the left wrist controls the clubface guys coming at me hard, but it wasn't until I put my mind in my right forearm/hand that I got my impact alignments accurate. I thought it to be a cruel joke that my dominant hand-arm could not get into the mix. Not only can they, they must. Get on a plane and book a lesson in Atlanta with Yoda and ask for his "fanning right forearm" special. Do not take your focus off this area of your game. You are fixing to start playing some good golf with the same effective swing thought time after time. My best.
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