The Complete Guide to HAND ACTION in a Good Golf Swing!

In this video, Steve takes a deep dive into what the hands and wrists do during the golf swing so that you can troubleshoot and improve your performance on the course. Get more distance, more accuracy, and more precision!

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Hey Mike Austin used to say that the golf swing was throwing the head of the club around a circle by using the hands now there’s no question that what we do with the hands or the wrists during the golf swing has a tremendous effect on how much distance you’re going to get

How much accuracy you’re going to get how much precision you’re going to get and ultimately goes a long way in determining how good of a golfer you are so right after this we’re going to kind of make this our indepth guide to what the hands do all the

Different permutations that they can do that have been used successfully over the years in golf and hopefully you’ll be able to come back to this over and over and use it as a guide if you ever run in any trouble with your swing and you think that your hands might might be

Doing something wrong come back and use this as a reference hey this is Steve with hit it longer. comom I continue my journey to hit the ball longer and straighter than I ever have before and I hope to help show you how too hey I know a lot of you

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Do with the hands and the wrists throughout a good golf swing it’s important that we understand some basic fundamentals first now first and foremost the fundamental we need to understand is the grip because any differences in how you grip the club will potentially greatly change how

You’re going to use your hands to be successful through all your golf shots so let’s take a look what we might might call the standard model kind of a neutral point to start with I’ll describe it as best that I can the right hand is easy the right hand just feels

Like you pick up a pale of Water by the fingers just like that you’d have the thumb just a little bit to the left of the top line and you’re going to have a crease right here that should Point somewhere between your ear and your shoulder so those are

Good check marks for the right hand now the left hand is much more complex the left hand hand again we’re going to grip this thing at the base of the fingers but notice it does not run directly across the third pad from the top so we’ve got these pads or joints in the

Fingers one 2 3 we’re definitely going to run it across the base pad the bottom pad of the first three fingers it’s going to run slightly diagonally notice it starts to climb a little bit up by the time it reaches the middle it’s starting to climb up higher

In that pad okay then by the time it reaches the index we’re going to scrunch the index just a little bit just like this kind of like triggering a gun just like that we’re going to curl it up a little bit so it’s going to run across

The middle pad and the index finger then once you wrap the fingers around starting to form this thing and in our standard grip we’re going to be looking for what we might I call a 1:00 thumb position now keep in mind that 1:00 thumb position which is fairly neutral involves

Marrying the thumb to the side of the hand like this where it divides into a V at the bottom just like that also notice I’ve got my thumb so this would be a straight thumb you see this L-shaped Gap and my thumb is long as it’s extended outwards and that grip would look

Something like that okay not going to be your best leveraging it it also encourages you to grip too low down into the Palm so instead you’re going to take this thumb and kind of Pull It in kind of suck it into the hand this way and let it kind of extend like the

Shape of a banana that way we can greatly increase the amount of Leverage The Leverage position that we can get this thumb into where it’s now contacting we can push with and leverage the club with that thumb PAD as we learn the right wrist action to make to create

Power and accuracy so the grip on the left hand starts to look like this thumb at one crease dividing do a v right that would be our standard position let’s look at one more detail about the grip and that’s in where the fingers curl around to now if you

Notice couple things at the pinky I’ve got a vacuum seal in other words you couldn’t get a toothpick in here the same thing on the second finger side the way I’ve got my fingers wrapped around here forms a beautiful vacuum seal just like that

So hard to get even get a drop of water in there the same would be true if you measured my third and fourth fingers so all fingers are forming a Tight Seal now this does not feel like what you might think I’m not squeezing but I’m simply letting the

Fingers conform and wrap around the grip with Precision just like that now this will greatly change or modify how the wrist will be able to operate during the golf swing without this is a very very important points you cannot have as much control uh over the head of the club and

Therefore it might force you to have to apply more pressure if you’re holding it incorrectly you might have to squeeze it harder to maintain the same control and that will change the Dynamics of the whole swing Last Detail tail I want you to notice here when I wrap the fingers

Around my fourth finger and my third finger both come down and touch the Palm they are long enough to wrap all the way around in fact you notice my pinky can almost reach my index finger can almost reach now these are midsize grips however and a great many students that I have

Taught their grips are too big for them to do this it’s very important but I’ve seen many students where their fingers are much shorter their hands are structured differently they might have bigger Palm shorter fingers their fingers only go around this far they don’t even get close so I want

You to get out of grip and I want you to measure this and see with your current grip size where do your fingers fall if you’re not able to touch at least one of the two middle fingers here to your glove it’s likely that your grips are

Too big for you and it’s going to modify the way that you apply Force to the grip and the way that you squeeze the club as well just like that you’d want to investigate possibly getting smaller grips could be a great mechanical advantage for you if you cannot touch at least one finger

Down so if you’re hanging only halfway over often what will happen is that player will not have good precise control over the head unless of course he or she squeezes it harder and now with more tension in the left wrist we’ve really changed the Dynamics of the way the

Downswing is going to work and react all right those are the basics of the grip let’s look at a couple popular permutations first we can have a strong grip and that is not to say we’re going to go from our standard model of 1:00 and we’re going to turn it to 2:00

But not just by separating the thumb we’re going to take the whole grip unit like this here’s my leftand grip unit my mold what I’m going to do to go from 1:00 neutral to 2:00 strong is simply going to pronate the forearm this way rotate the forearm

We’re going to cover more of those basic actions in the next segment now I put that hand on there and now I have a strong grip with a thumb closer to 2:00 my right hand correspondingly will go fit more underneath and the measurement of a strong grip as if the

Creases in both hands start to get out or even outside your back shoulder like they are here it is fine to have a strong grip there’s not a lot wrong with this in fact you might see a lot of players play very successfully and win tons and tons of

Money from this grip a lot of famous players however what we’ve got to understand is simply that it’s going to change the hand action that we use throughout the swing in order for us to be successful now there are very few currently players that I can think of that play with a

Weak grip it’s the same grip mold but now I’m going to turn the forearm this way more rotate it that gives me a 12:00 thumb like this my right hand will go a little bit more over the top so I’ve got a 12:00 left

Thumb and a crease or a v in the right hand that points more up to my chin this again will force us to have to change the hand action profile that we use in order to be successful it can be very successful Ben Hogan used this to become one of the

Greatest golfers of all time he used this because he was working his way out of hooking the ball out of control too often and this was one of the fences he used a weaker grip in order to better control the face now the three popular styles of gripping the club as far as

Interweaving the pinky you’ve got a 10-finger grip which is not a baseball grip remember a baseball grip the thumbs hang off more off the side of the grip like this this is not a baseball grip it’s a 10 finger grip and has been used very successfully it’s it’s just much rarer

But it can be very viable it doesn’t change a whole lot in fact I think someday we might show that this might be the best group we can possibly use and just hasn’t been in fashion the other ideas that are popular are the overlapping pinky like this which I would prefer and then

There’s the interlocking pinky which I think becomes a lot harder to do when you’ve got an issue not being able to reach your palm with your overlapping fingers because I think this starts to erode if you have short fingers already it starts to make this issue even worse

So I would stay away from that unless you’ve already been doing it you’re highly successful unfortunately I see this kind of being the automatic default for a lot of bad golfers who first learned that they’ve got to do something with their pinky and this is no good

Which it isn’t it’s just fine any of these three grip Styles will work there’s not a ton of modification that occurs in the hand action as a result of any of these grips they’re simply fairly interchangeable and don’t really affect the golf swing all that much all right

Let’s talk about some fundamental ways that the wrist joint can move and cause the hand to move and coming back to this section often is really going to help you understand if you ever need a trouble Wing figure out why you might be hitting the ball a certain way or

Hitting it poorly come back to this section and review it again remember that we need to have a starting point in order for us to be able to be accurate with each other for example if I told you a a vague term like over the toop or early extension or steep you could

Probably get a different definition of each of those three terms a 100 different definitions of that from a 100 different teachers so this is not precise enough language and likewise if I asked you to plan a trip to New York you need a starting point otherwise we’re all going to take a different

Route or have a different understanding of how to get there so the starting point is anatomical position which just looks like this this is anatomical position this is your base that you’d start from when you start describing the action of any joint in this case we’re going to be describing the wrists now

The wrist can move generally in six different ways we can move this way which we would call flexion now it’s kind of an archaic term but some people will call this Palmer flexion it’s a ter more specific to the wrist because the Palm is only in the

Wrist you don’t really have a palm in your foot so Palmer flexion be specific to the wrist then you’ve got extension or pinning the wrist back this way sometimes known or used to be known as dorsiflexion all right now from the anatomical you can also cause the wrist

To separate away from the center of the body out to the side like this on the thumb side this will be called abduction and in some circles it might be known as radial flexion then you’ve got the opposite here so let’s look at there’s radial flexion on this plane and then we’d have

Adduction with a d a d on the pinky side back in towards the center that would look like this okay just like that also known as oler DV ation if you wanted to describe perhaps in more archaic terms then we have our last two we have from the anatomical again

You’ve got if I were to rotate the forearm this would be called pronation then we’ve got the opposite if I was in this position went back to the anatomical position I’d have supination now let’s look at some real world examples of how the rist are used some notable ones that you’ve probably

Studied if I were to flex my wrist this way at the top of my swing you could say that I had my left wrist bowed bod is often the word that we’d use Dustin Johnson is very bod at the top of his swing with his left wrist

We’d simply call this in a flexed position coming down into the the swing uh notable golfers like Ben Hogan and I know my mentor Mike Austin and also in modern day somebody like a Colin morawa a Victor havland coming down into the slot all of these players have their wrist

Inflection left wrist inflection as they come down like this now a real world example of let’s say radio flexion or we’d say abduction if if you were to get the club back to here you could radio flex and cause the club to at the wrist so cocking the wrist on the back

Swing is often the result of a radial flexion at the left wrist now generally a good model if we were to combine these wrist and forearm actions to construct a good on plane powerful back swing you could say if I I was to combine a 90° pronation and

Notice I’m going to be turning the entire arm so I’m going to be recruiting in this example kind of supportive joints of the internal and external rotator cuff and the flexing and extending of the elbows will help support or back up what we’re doing with our hands so you can construct a pretty

Solid back swing move with three anatomical moves this really breaks it down and makes it very simple I can take from a golf neutral position let’s say which would look like this I could do a 90° pronation go ahead and do this with me and look I’m going to allow the upper

Arm to rotate with it so notice I’m going from bicep facing you to bicep pointing this way so my whole arm with the shoulder is rotated that’s pronation now that will also put my right wrist into extension here’s extension from the golf anatomical starting position there’s extension okay so the two of

Those will form this we start to wind that back using other joints and then we start to radio Flex we can start creating a dog on good powerful onplan back swing just from those three wrist actions either wrist now let’s look at an example where these wrist motions have been often used

Incorrectly Ben Hogan and many of his disciples still continue to use the wrong terminology describing Hogan as he comes into the ball with his bowed wrist this way they call this superation this is not superation remember supination is this move that is not what Hogan’s delaying here he is

Delaying extension of the left wrist by slightly delaying that in this Flex position as he comes into the ball looks like this and he’s just delaying the wrist going into and the freedom with which he’s going into extension of the left wrist so that is something that’s been misused a lot over

The years all right so when you understand the six basic anatomical movements of the wrists you can build your Castle on top of that no matter what style of Swing no matter what style of grip that you use there is a hand action modification that you can make in

Order to make yourself the most successful and this is why so many styles of swing and golfers tall and short and thin and fat have made it into the Hall of Fame because they matched up the style of hand action to an upright swing a flat swing an outside in swing

An inside out swing all kinds of different takeaways all kinds of different grips so many permutations and yet they were successful at the highest level because they understood the hand motions that were required to balance out whatever they had going on in the rest of their swing and make their swing

Repeatable all right now let’s take a look at how each of those six wrist actions if we isolated them as we stick the club down behind the ball let’s take a look in isolation of what each of those six actions would do for example if I was to go into

Flexion it would look something like this that alone would draw back the club on the ark beautifully but it would have the club face somewhat closed relative to the ark looking at it from this direction no mo motion other than a flexion at the wrist now see how the

Club is a little bit closed going back conversely if we look at extension of the wrist just holding everything and just extending only now again I have advanced the club around the ark beautifully and the club face is now you could describe as open to the ark that it’s traveling in

On so the two together actually form a nice little working swing that would actually cause the club to be propelled around a beautiful Ark with a very minimal amount of clubface Correction in fact you might be able to use that little baby swing to hit the ball really really straight

Every time now we’ve got the next two actions the remember this one radial flexion or abduction if I set the club down at the ball that would make the club go up this way and then pinky down oner deviation would cause it to return back to the ball

Again so certainly this doesn’t do us any good at the ball itself we’d have to change to the side of our body over here to make the club the wrist and start to uncock would happen over here but certainly if you did this here on your

Takeaway you’d have to figure out how to drop it again at some point during the downswing so we’re not particularly interested in those two motions relative to isolated right on the golf ball now the last two are interesting and will be very useful later if I were to

Pronate the forearm I would cause the club to twist in place around its own shaft now you notice if I pronate you can almost see the logo of the shaft on the side and if I supinate you can see the logo of the shaft on this side so essentially what

I’m doing here by pronating and suating is it provides a rapid opening and closing of the toe a rapid rotation of Club face now whether this will come in handy or not to you is going to depend on what style of Swing you use and different factors different forces that also come

Into play during your swing but notice that essentially what that does is as I do this and this essentially what it does is rotate the shaft mostly just about itself just like that now let’s look at some of the ways that modifying the hand action can

Change the type of shot we would like to play now first if we would like to play a lower shot if we’re playing into the wind or just want to lower our trajectory in general we certainly could there’s the club in the right hand in extension now if I were to

Delay the club from returning back to neutral where I started if I start here at a dress and I do this in the back swing if I were to delay returning what I took out I could certainly cause the club to get Del lofted by having the handle Lean Forward

More just like that so I might be able to hit a lower shot like that simply by delaying like this I am forcing this hand to stay back resisting because there is gravity and other forces that are wanting it to come out of that position already acting

On the club so I am holding a contraction here and this way if I had to drive it low under a tree or into the wind or maybe I’m playing on firmer Fairways and I just want to hit it low I could take advantage conversely if I wanted to hit

A high shot I could modify the wrists by flapping right wrist into flexion earlier left wrist into extension earlier and I could pop it very high up into the air because I’m not leaning the shaft as forward I might even have it even with the club head like this and it’s going to

Prod it’s going to present more Loft to the ball at the moment of the strike so if I had to get it up over a tree or I had to make the ball land quickly I might use earlier and more free action of flexion and extension of the wrist now

If I want to intentionally curve a golf ball or maybe I already unintentionally curving the golf ball I can use the rotation of the forearms the pronation and the supination of of course opposite you’re going to have opposite action so we have superation of the left pronation of the right going

Together and vice versa if I were to pronate the right forearm early I could easily get the ball to curve to the left or hook because the club is face is shut at impact and if I wanted the ball to slice or maybe I hooked the ball uncontrollably a

Lot I can come into it instead of like this where I started if I simply return to the ball with my forearms rotated like this it forces the club to come through the ball more open and I can get the ball to slice in this case off to the right so you can

Control the club face quite a bit this would be neutral where we started but if I don’t return here which a lot of people just simply don’t if I return here the club face will be open and if I return here with my forearms rotated more at the moment

Of impact then I’m possibly going to trend on hooking the ball now if I want to use the hands to hit for more power I’m going to speed up this action here free action remember our our three motions that we had to wind the club up here here and

Here I can throw the club with the hands very free just like this and I can really make this club accelerate to a high rate of speed so what am I doing there I am returning putting back what I borrowed I’m going to turn the pinky

Down cuz I turned it the thumb up on the back swing to the wrist I’m also going to turn my forearm assisted by my upper arm and the rotator cuff and in the right hand I’m going to go from extension and I’m going to throw into slight flexion something like

This just like that left wrist goes into extension right wrist goes into slight flexion and we have put back the forearm rotation that we took out in the back swing just like that now if you do this well do this efficiently you can really cause the club to track Square to the

Arc as you do that move just like that and you can add a ton of accuracy to that power very important that you learn how to grip the club properly in the fingers that you learn the actions here and that you learn how to throw this thing so if you took a simple

Alignment stick you can learn how to throw the club throughout these joint motions cuz it’ll swish the louder the swish the faster the thing is traveling so you want to learn to really SWAT with the wrists if your grip is the re correct form and you’re using the correct

Actions Here and Now what I’m going to do is push down with a bigger burst of energy I’m trying to make my force that I apply to the grip reach a very high peak or Crescendo most of this function is not from strength or size male or female but instead Supple

Quickness this is why the grip pressure and the form of the grip will give you such a huge advantage manage so that you can throw the club around the circle like Mike Austin prescribed throw the club head around the circle that’s how he said was playing golf throw it around the circle

With the hand all right let’s look at some more realworld modifications of what we’ll have to do differently with our hand action or what we might call the release the whole package of it might be called the release but the hand actions will have to change with each of these conditions let’s

Start with a strong grip we talked about this earlier if we had a 2:00 thumb and our right hand was underneath more like this this would be a classic strong grip we can use this to be successful in fact this grip has been highly successful over the years a lot of

Players have won a ton of money shooting very low scorers very good golfers with a strong grip however what you’ll have to do to adjust to a strong grip a strong grip tends to biases you towards hooking the ball and yet what do you see on TV with all the

Golfers almost who play a strong grip they all fade the ball what are they doing differently well their hands started here and their strong grip put their hands here at a dress all they’re going to do is limit how much superation and pronation they’re going to do coming

Back into the ball they need to return exactly to where their hands were set and this means the feeling of the right hand staying under as it flaps through not going over the top the forearm cannot pronate over the top with this grip it’ll stay under more with the

Fleshy part of the arm facing upwards like this and you can keep the club releasing square around the ark very viable style now a weaker grip you would have to do the opposite so there’s our weak grip again 12:00 thumb V up to the chin this is a slice or fade open face

Biased grip so if you didn’t know any better at how to modify your hand action this is one of the ways that you can fix your slice if you have one is by turning your hands over to the right more or you can simply introduce more forearm

Rotation to get the club to square back up again so I would need to more pronation of this forearm and I can get this ball hooking even though I’m using a more of a slice biased grip now if I was playing an inside to out path style something more like

This playing inside to out I’m certainly going going to need more pronation of the right forearm early more supination of the left forearm early before the ball is struck otherwise that club is going to come through with the face open as well relative to the Target and I’m simply

Going to hit a push so if I’m going to play this thing inside to out and draw it from the inside I’m going to have to use more forearm rotation in order to get the club face to square up to where it needs to be to bring the curve back to Center

Conversely if I was purposely trying to slice the ball a little bit because let’s say I’m playing an outside to end pattern and there’s a lot of guys successful on tour at all times any decade current golfers Brooks kka Dustin Johnson uh Victor havland are all great

Examples of players that win millions of dollars every year swinging outside to in so don’t think because you use an outside to in pattern that you are doomed to hit an out ofc control slice they fade the ball because they know what hand action and how to modify their hand

Action in order order to get that club face where it needs to be so if I’m going to play outside to in I need to slightly under rotate the forearms in this position as I go through the ball then I can certainly play successfully from outside to

In there’s a beautiful fade right down the middle because I played outside in and I slightly modified at the moment of impact the position of my forearms this way there’s for a fade and here’s more for a draw if you’re going to try to curve the ball intentionally and play your natural path

Now this next part is going to start to seem a little bit more complex and it is it’s been a lot of mystery over the last 10 years or so that’s been kind of unraveled one strand at a time now that technology is able to analyze the motion of the club in three

Dimensions and inversely go back and calculate what forces must have been used on the grip in order for the club to make move through space in that particular Manner and that much time CU time would also suggest speed or acceler ation as well and so the handle path becomes

Paramount to a very good golfer this is where you start hitting the ball long start to get better and you really want to start performing you really start to have to pay attention to this end of the journey and how it controls this end of the journey how your handle moves through space

Will have a great deal of influence on what hand action what combination of wrist joint movements that you’re going to use to be successful so for example if the handle of your Club moves outwards more this way and perhaps you get the wrists turned down a little

Bit again you’re going to have to do it that a little bit that’s thater deviation again is going to have to occur in order to keep hitting the ball this way if your handle is traveling in to out a little bit too much remember that the head responds to

The handle quite a bit so here the head wants to trail behind the handle it’s trying it’s seeking to fall in line always this end of the stick is always seeking to fall in line with this end of the stick it’s very complex because then you add in the force that

You’re also actively applying to the grip and that gets the head and the shaft to respond so it’s a big kind of a moving picture many many permutations but we go back to this example you would certainly need a ton of pration superation this way because the club face is going to

Tend to come in open and the path will tend to come in into to out further more it will be very difficult to muscle it the head of the club around when the handle is going this way because you will need to overcome the forces acting negatively the club is trying trying to

Fall in line with the direction of the handle that puts you here some people would call this stuck and you’re going to have to of course modify the style of hand action if you are a little bit stuck that way unless you’re trying to play on tour

Unless you’re trying to win the US amateur play Division 1 golf if you’re just a casual golfer you just have to modify the hand action and make sure if you play this way that you better be turning that toe over like this so that you can square the face and not leave

That ball high and out to the right again you’re modifying the action the basic six actions what we described earlier You’re simply modifying those in order to match up to the hand path that you typically have now if you really want to get good you you got to probably

Correct what this end of the stick is doing but this is generally going to be controlled by the actions of the body of the big part of the body that swings the arms around you and some to somewhat extent the swing of the arms but this is a different video of course

If your hand path is working on a beautiful Arc this way and it’s curving inwards and around and back up and to the left again it now it’s like you’re pushing a tree this way it only takes a little bit of a force to get it rotating as opposed

To if it’s going this way it takes you’re working against gravity so if this end of the stick is turning the corner like this it’s causing just any small amount of force again that right wrist in our standard model our right wrist was simply an extension and we’re just flexing the elbow from

There here we can get a lot of assistance in returning from extension back into our golf anatomically neutral here where we started and then then some from the momentum taking the wrist into slight flexion off on the follow through this will be assisted greatly almost like having someone push you on the swings

When you’re a child if this hand path is curving through space something like this now it’s like you’re getting a boost now in this case since you are getting this club head to respond this way so beauti beautifully you’re not going to match this up with a lot of shaft twist

Because you already have plenty of squaring Force to bring it back there’s a square Club face as opposed to in the first example my club was this way there’s an open Club face how am I going to fix this I’m going to add some pronation and superation that emergency parachute this

Will keep me from going way off to the the right but if I’m coming into the ball this way this way all of a sudden my hand action will be modified what you might call the release the hand path and the Hand action together might be defined as the release of the club

Head this way I’ve got enough squaring Force already in the system because my hand path is working on an arc around me properly so if I have enough squaring Force already I don’t need to add anym by turning the forearms at all but instead I’ll flap through more

Neutrally you could think of this athletically as if you were playing pickle ball or tennis or the best example is rocketball in rocketball there is zero Advantage zero trick or advantage to playing a backspin shot or a Top Spin shot like there is in tennis or pickle ball in rocket ball the

Wall will take away all of that spin anyway so in racket ball you would hit what would be called a flat forehand you handball would be another good one you’re just throwing the racket through keeping the racket straight up and down like this so the ball has

Neither Back Spin or Top Spin this is a very analogous motion to the wrist action I will be making I will be flapping straightening the elbow and flapping the wrist as though I’m going to slap someone or as if I’m going to hit a forehand flat in tennis or

Racketball especially racket ball cuz in tennis you don’t really flap your wrist so racket ball or pickle ball is better example but I will be clapping the wrist around the corner this way and so you’ll see the club face instead of coming out looking this way in the first example kind of Twisted

Down to the ground it’ll come out more this way Club face pointing back at the camera and this simply just means like this logo on top of the shaft and this American flag I’ve simply taken this through and I’ve kept label up label up label up up

All the way from here all the way to here makes it very simple to advance the club by throwing it or flapping it this way accelerating it with Supple quickness a high peak force or burst of energy that you supply way back here you initiate it Peaks here relaxes through

Here that is the hand action of a lot of Pros nowadays who make their hand path curl around the corner your hand path is going to greatly modify what you will have to do with your hand action in order to be successful you will have to

Match them up as you can see also it’s good to understand all these hand actions so that you can control the flight of your ball if it’s going wrong so if you are hooking the ball you’ll probably need less of this if you’re slicing you might need to feel

More of this and certainly more of this you’ve got to throw the club head past the hands and possibly turn the forearms over as well apply those two forces and you can often get yourself out of any slice conversely any hook probably means the club face is too

Closed especially to the path that it’s traveling on so you’ll probably want to use less turning of the shaft feel more like a drop shot or a backspin tennis or racket ball swing with the forearm under and the pinky leading it might be a feel again this is

Taking away some of the extra pronation you might be using to hook the ball and flopping free almost like you’re throwing a frisbe cradling it forehand and flinging a frisbee just like that and this way it can help you reduce some of that unwanted hook spin all right so if we

Have all the forces matching up properly with my hand path my body my arms are more or less creating the path of the handle and I am trying to accentuate match up my hand actions and accentuate the speed with the quick whipping action we’ve described we can hit the ball hopefully long and

Straight and that’s a nice straight one good distance for the effort matching up all the right hand forces with the right handle path understanding what the wrist can do understanding the different types of grips and the way we’re going to hold the club these are all Basics that we

Should understand you can use this as a guide to come back and troubleshoot anytime you’re having any difficulty in where your ball is going you can use this for a lot of different things if you’re hitting the ball the wrong shape or the wrong height you can come back and learn

Again review what you need to do with the wrists in order to help correct that issue so I’d love to hear your feedback on kind of this in-depth guide on hand action as of course leave any questions that you might have down there as well

I’m Steve and of course if I don’t see you in the next video I hope I see you longer straighter down the Fairway Everybody Take Good Care