I was swinging infront of the mirror yesterday and noticed a little bit of bentness had crept into my Left wrist (look i’ll pretend I am a righty to make everyone’s life easier). Up till this point I had overlooked the fact that you could use your right wrist as a way of changing the flatness of your left wrist (by bending the right wrist you can increase or decrease the bentedness). I have nothing really to ask but would like to share my lightbulb moment as I found out the importance of bending the right wrist. By memorising a feeling of how the right wrist should feel I can now insure that my left wrist is flat as can be 100% of the time. How exciting :-). Funily enough this coincided with my swing returning, so its off to the range tonight (as I cannot wait till tommorow to head to the golf course) to tear it up!

Correct me if i’m wrong (and i’m sure someone will :)) but I was under the understanding that the point of having a flat left wrist is to ensure that you have a bent right wrist at impact. So, for me, I try to focus on maintaining a bent right wrist through impact, as when I focus on keeping a flat left wrist I feel I am pulling the club through too much with my left hand, and not maintaining the lag with my right hand. I find I get alot more power when doing this, and alot less ‘duffed’ shots.

Ahh ok, I am trying to keep a flat left wrist the whole way through my swing. It makes sense that all that matters is what happens at impact but I have always believed in the importance of getting perfect alignments at the top of the takeaway. This is probably because the vast majority of my problems to date have related to my takeaway and they have stuffed the final result. Perhaps I should pay more attention to the swing itself but I have faired pretty well just letting the club go to gravity on the way down so far.

Yeah your on the right track, the left wrist should stay flat throughout the backswing, and turn to bent past the impact point during the finish swivel when the right wrist flattens. What I was getting at is rather than focus on the left wrist being flat throughout the backswing/downswing I focus on keeping a bent right wrist, which keeps my left wrist flat, but in turn allows me to feel the lag through my right hand through the downswing and through impact.

Forewood: Keep at that FLW. Your Finish Swivel can be made with the FLW in place still. Work on that and life gets really interesting. You will feel lag for much longer and hit it further.

I too, have grappled with the FLW/BRW concepts and it appears to me that my swing execution is better if I think BRW as opposed to FLW. I realise one thing leads to the other, but in my case BRW is a better trigger.
I must relate a story from another thread:
I am reminded of a mate 35 years ago who was a 10 -12 player who fell from his bike and broke his elbow. After healing he was unable to straighten his right elbow by about 45 degrees. This made for a really ugly swing, but in the impact zone he was made to have a BRW and hence FLW.
His handicap went to 5!

OK guys, those who like to concentrate on a bent right wrist, are you hitting?

and those that like to feel the flat left wrist, are you swinging?

Finally got out onto the grass to hit some balls. It worked a treat. Was hitting my clubs very nicely and I could really feel myself getting coiled up. My swing felt very tourquey (if that makes sense) and the result was adding to my old distances (LW from 60-70m and 8i out to 135-140m) without consciously swinging too hard. I too like the idea of using the BRW as a trigger. Accuracy was wonderful too. It goes to show that lessons and plenty of practice pay dividends!

Eventually, consciously keeping your right wrist bent will not be the ‘magic’ that it is in the beginning. You will know that there is more power available, but may not be quite sure how to find it. Swingers, learn to uncock your left wrist down plane, it won’t want to bend if you do it correctly. You can uncock downplane a lot longer than you probably imagine. Hitters, learn to straighten your right arm down plane, ditto for you. Occasionally for giggles uncock your left wrist and straighten your right arm down plane at the same time, down, down, down.

Remember, these moves downplane are your clubhead velocity generators. Rolling the clubface square to the ball just transfers the speed. In general, worry less about squaring your clubface and worry more about moving the club down plane. Learn this correctly and you will be a very good golfer, learn to get your pivot to maximize a downplane swing…we’ll be watching you on the tele.

Apart from address, the FLW should remain in place for the entire swing. Try this without a club in your hands & see how easy it is to achieve. If your swivel finish is not up to the perfect rhythm the FLW will be lost during the follow through.

Spence , I am coming to the conclusion that I am a hitter. I will go back to the TGM book and puzzle over that concept again!!

When your hands turn quicker than your upper torso (right side pushing the left out of the way) – it feels like you are hitting. When your upper torso turns quicker than your hands (left side pulling your right side through) – it feels like you are swinging. That’s what it feels like to me.

Who is that masked man?

Eventually, consciously keeping your right wrist bent will not be the ‘magic’ that it is in the beginning. You will know that there is more power available, but may not be quite sure how to find it. Swingers, learn to uncock your left wrist down plane, it won’t want to bend if you do it correctly. You can uncock downplane a lot longer than you probably imagine. Hitters, learn to straighten your right arm down plane, ditto for you. Occasionally for giggles uncock your left wrist and straighten your right arm down plane at the same time, down, down, down.

Remember, these moves downplane are your clubhead velocity generators. Rolling the clubface square to the ball just transfers the speed. In general, worry less about squaring your clubface and worry more about moving the club down plane. Learn this correctly and you will be a very good golfer, learn to get your pivot to maximize a downplane swing…we’ll be watching you on the tele.

Key point here. The uncocking of the left wrist for the swinger gives you the “downward” action”. If you practice uncocking the left wrist with chipshots (basic motion), then pitch shots (acquired motion) it will become engrained in your full swing (total motion).

When doing it with chip shots, recognize that even if you are not cocking the left wrist in the backswing, it still needs to get to “uncocked” after impact (it goes from “level” to “uncocked”). You will soon see that your chip shots “pop” off due to the compression.

Great point. Many NEVER realise is the difference between level to uncocked. Once they get it the world is a different place.

Do you really need to uncock the wrist while chipping. I have been practicing chipping with a lifeline grip meaning the wrist can’t cock or uncock really and it seems to be having a good effect at this stage.

Toolish,
Can’t see why not, it simular to a putting action, some guys I teach them to be uncocked from the start to finish,only way I can get them to chip well, what ever works, works for you use it

Technically speaking, holding it in the lifeline of the palm is zeroing out #3 transfer power accumulator or roll, the angle of the shaft to the left arm. The #2 accumulator, wristcock, is reduced, looks to me by about 1/2, but the capability is not eliminated. At least from level to fully uncocked is still there.

Still, I agree with Toolish that the use of cocking/uncocking in chipping is not necessary and sometimes detrimental.
Personally, I “push” the chips, and the putts.