[July 15, 2019: This is the blog’s most-read post. It has almost twice as many views as the second-ranked post. It should. It is the first mention on the blog of the most important fundamental of the golf swing, your hands lead the clubhead at impact, that for a reason I cannot figure out is rarely mentioned in golf instruction books. But every good golfer does it, and no bad golfer does it. Period.<\/p>\n
[How to get this right is not addressed fully here, but it is in posts that followed. In the intervening seven years, I have tried many methods of getting this right. The easiest way I know of is to feel the butt end of the club moving leftward from the beginning of the forward swing to beyond the point when the ball is struck. This method is fully explained in the recent post, Your Hands Lead the Clubhead- IV<\/a>]<\/p>\n My son is learning how to play golf.\u00a0He didn\u2019t start until he was about 30 years old.\u00a0\u00a0He is fairly athletic and hits the ball a long way, but neither he nor I have any idea of where it\u2019s going to end up much of the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The reason for that, and the one thing that he is struggling to learn, involves his right (trailing) wrist.\u00a0\u00a0This post is not about him, though.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s about over half the recreational golfers I play with who do the same thing he does.\u00a0\u00a0They flip that wrist.<\/p>\n In an earlier post, I talked about pronation and supination<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0This is one of my most-read posts, because it is something that Ben Hogan went into at length in his book, Five Lessons<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Hogan mystique makes many amateurs think this is the magic move that if they get figured out, will change everything.\u00a0\u00a0For once, they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n In practical terms it all means a backward bend in the trailing wrist MUST BE MAINTAINED through impact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n That wrist, right wrist for right-handed golfers, left wrist for lefties, must not be straightened out, and certainly not be bent forward (flip), until after the ball is struck. (see photo, above)<\/p>\n This is a golf swing imperative. You cannot play good golf if you don\u2019t do this.<\/p>\n How do you get it right?\u00a0\u00a0Search the blog on \u201chands leading the clubhead\u201d. <\/p>\n See this video<\/a>, or this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n If your ball flight is a guessing game, chances are that flipping is your number one problem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I even see guys flip when they putt and they can\u2019t putt worth a lick.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Put this move into your golf swing and you will be a different golfer.\u00a0\u00a0Golf will become a different game.\u00a0\u00a0I absolutely guarantee it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [July 15, 2019: This is the blog’s most-read post. It has almost twice as many views as the second-ranked post. It should. It is the first mention on the blog of the most important fundamental of the golf swing, your hands lead the clubhead at impact, that for a reason I cannot figure out is … Continue reading The Golf Swing Move That Changes Everything<\/span>