How do you think about the right hand?

[RoyalMustang]

I never really paid attention to my hands when swinging until today. Sure, grip is good, fine, but that it is.  When taking part in a free 10-minute/person clinic however, the instructor noticed that I was occasionally getting random fat shots on otherwise good swings (I am quite upright but am now getting my hips clear and shaft parallel to starting position).  Anyways, he said it likely was me allowing the right wrist to be too soft and potential drop or be deflected upon impact.  Sure enough, I focused on keeping right hand and wrist tension throughout the bottom of the swing and at impact, and the difference was night and day in terms of impact quality. It is such a subtle thing but I had never thought about my wrists being "too limp". I just let my hands do what they were going to do.  He also showed me how to manually work a draw or cut by turning the right hand early or late; it gave me a new idea that my right hand shouldn't just be passive.

 

Anyone else been here?  How did you keep this skill on track? I have a habit of falling back into bad habits....

[Hawkeye77]

No idea what keeping right hand and wrist tension at bottom of swing and impact is supposed to mean. 
 

And what is turning the right hand early or late?

[phizzy30]

Swing path determines fade/draw more so than hand action IMO.  Also, to permanently make swing changes, the only way to accomplish this is to reinforce it through practice at the range using the modified action aka muscle memory. 

Edited February 28, 2021 by phizzy30

[nitram]

He stopped flipping Hawk and is basically hinging and holding.

[moehogan]

Congratulations, OP ... welcome to the club!

 

“When I describe a golf shot and gesture with one of my hands, it's always the right hand I gesture with. That's because golf is a right-handed game [for right-handers], not a left-handed game as some people believe. Hogan was emphatic about that. The right hand controls the position of the clubface, generates the speed, applies the touch, everything. All the left hand does is hold on to the club, and hopefully not break down on the downswing.”

 

• Ken Venturi

[RoyalMustang]

3 minutes ago, moehogan said:

Congratulations, OP ... welcome to the club!

 

“When I describe a golf shot and gesture with one of my hands, it's always the right hand I gesture with. That's because golf is a right-handed game [for right-handers], not a left-handed game as some people believe. Hogan was emphatic about that. The right hand controls the position of the clubface, generates the speed, applies the touch, everything. All the left hand does is hold on to the club, and hopefully not break down on the downswing.”

 

• Ken Venturi

 

Awesome!  Now that I am paying attention, I notice that many of my otherwise good swings broke down due to a weak right hand.  I am glad it was it pointed out to me yesterday: on video for a well-struck ball, he noted that I am very upgright, but that my plane was right where everyone who has an upright swing is trying to get to (and that most never do). The only way I could hit the ball fat with the shaft and head returning to ideal starting position was lose tension in that right hand and allow it to do the opposite of radial deviation.  Just thinking about the right hand not being "floppy" led to some very crisply hit 6-irons

[golfsticks]

That's the general mix of things,  left hand club head, right hand club face.

 

 

[vmann]

I wish I had three.