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Am i "flipping" the club here?

I have a feeling it is something to do with my wrists.

Thoughts? drills on how to get hands more ahead at impact?


yep there's a flip release going on - usually reason behind that is what ever issues there are in folks motions, the swing, folks instinctively learn that the flip is necessary to help square up the face to get ball somewheres in the region of the target

if you freeze impact position (though the image definition is not so good) can see that the hands/handle/club 'release' the flip is happening when the hands are opposite the trail thigh the shaft lead arm all in a straight line the angles have bee lost early

so generally that's around the arms/club unit not being synced up with the body motion they got a little ways left behind

so not down to the wrists themselves but if the grip hold little ways out so the hands/wrists not setting 'up' in the backswing that wouldn't help stuff - but not a route cause - image not clear enough to see grip hold at set-up and with only face-on view can't tell for sure what 'plane' the hands are setting on

if you freeze set-up looks a bit like the upper body alignment is a little skewed open (to check look at a dtl view) so them the arms club unit set with the hands a fair ways infront of the ball here - forwards leaning shaft for sure needed at impact but not a big lean at set-up

are you working with a 'stack and tilt' teacher? as seems from this most of the weight in the swing motion is staying on the lead side - for sure don't want lateral sway off the ball but there's still a need through a turn to have weight pressure into the trail leg heel as the body rotates behind the ball

so from this swing motion the issues look like there's too much staying on the leadside then too much leadside upper body movement to target ( check out how far the lead hip as traveled so the lead led is pretty 'bowed' - very difficult to then rotate the hips into impact and rotate the upper torso to have the trail shoulder trail hip rotating through
and right shoulder not turning down, out and forwards with the body a ways too far in front means the arms swing too far behind so flip

if you are 'stack and tilting' then would get back to the Pro whose giving those lessons to see what he recommends - as that's not in my wheel house

if not S&T then would get say an 8i bunch of tees and on grass tee ball up 1/4" place another tee an 8i clubhead length directly in front
set-up the fone to record face on views so you can review the swing length during the training practice

then set-up with the ball in middle of stance hands/handle just overtop front of ball (will feel like you got no forwards lean but there will be enough) swing at 60% with a 3/4 length backswing (to do that you'll need to feel you stop when the lead arm is horizontal to the ground so 'half a swing' - but guarantee on vid you'll see the swing is really a deal longer than that in fact probably a full 3/4 swing or more)

important to swing at 60% to give time to sync up the motion of hips - and feel like you do nothing much so no lateral lurch to target- the upper body rotation with the arms - have few slow mo rehearsals and you'll find the arms should be easy to match up with the turn and this is what gets the hands forwards opposite lead thigh with some angles left so hands lead clubhead
focus on rhythm and balance hold the finish good strikes will also remove the tee in front (could always lay a bag towel some 4" behind the ball as an extra guide that the swings are made with any contact with the towel)

also could always as part of this or just on it's own stick an alignment stick vertically in the ground 4" from lead foot off the heel you have then to make balanced swings that you don't contact the stick with the lead hip - so weight pressure into lead leg at transition start - but the lead hip turns inside the stick - again start any of the drills only at 60% have the ball on small tee - object to the drills is to sync up the motion in balance not to try to kill the ball to produce distance -so use say an 8i thinking its goin just a 100 yards - but distance is not the concern here first off it will be the sync then good ball contact to also take the tee out in front then ball starting line to target in that order

if you try out any of this stuff put an alignment stick down parallel to target between toes and ball then you can check over the hip line and the shoulder line at set-up so it's not a ways off