There’s a couple of interesting elements to this to me as someone who habitually flipped the club at impact. The first one is that in the RH move, the elbow doesn’t get very far behind at the top of backswing. That builds that big lag into the right wrist. From there it’s like: bump, rotate, and everything just comes through the ball. The other is that getting into that top of bs position made me aware that I had a bad error in my grip: I was loosening the grip and then re-gripping on the way down. Focusing on maintaining steady grip pressure throughout the whole swing made this “throwing the right hand” move a whole different ballgame. It’s more like, “rotate the Hands-Unit THROUGH the ball.” It’s really obvious on chipping if it’s a move THROUGH the ball versus AT the ball…two completely different things.

Honestly, at first it felt weak…taking the hands out of the at-impact area felt like I was leaving something out. The other item is that we talk about “Effortless” swings. But, this more effective technique takes some getting used to: I was used to putting in that extra effort. It was almost disorienting for a while to hit the ball a certain distance with less effort. That’s just a mental speed bump to be aware of.