Educate Your Hands | Your Hands Are The Secret To A Better Golf Swing

Great lesson! Thnx!

Good lesson. I would like to hear you talk about the idea of the bowed lead wrist in connection with grip style. For example, the three pros you mention here all have a weak lead (left) hand grip and bowing helps them square the clubface. I suspect that, the stronger the lead hand grip, the less this lead wrist flexion needs to be emphasized. What do you think?

Eric does this apply for the driver as well? Do you have a video to educate your hands for a driver? Great video. Thanks

Is this wrist motion equally true for driver when you club path goes up at end ?

Eric, I have a horrible issue with "dropping" the club shaft in the downswing with all clubs, except my Driver. Watching this video makes complete sense to me, thanks. I cannot wait to strat practing this. I have always had a "cupped" wrist and now that I'm OLD, this is not a good thing! I'll let you know how the practice goes, thanks.

Wow, so glad I found this video. I know my wrist “breaks” at impact from recording myself but did not know how to properly fix it and this video just did that… amazing!!!

Great stuff! Two questions 1. Does this “auto” get the club to approach from the inside ? I always see my club kicking out in front of the hands when I do shirt practice. 2. Can you do this too much? I find when I try this move with a mid iron it goes like 3 feet off the ground and there is zero speed

Allowing the swing and body to be a response to the hands is a great way to approach the golf swing. It's athletic and natural.

180 yds with an 8 iron huh

i sorta have to disagree with this explanation... People that don't understand the swing would be forever stuck... the nice swings look as if they are maybe trying to come through bowed and they are at impact slightly but that's not actually done the way your explaining it they are not trying to keep the lead wrist bowed it just happens to be in that position at the instant of impact they are trying to fire and are firing the whole time

Exactly what I’ve needed, I’ve gone to and away from this for years and I’ve never heard it explained so well. It also gave me some serious confidence to stick with it. Thank you

Eric this is what I needed! You’re my go to at the beginning of every season! Hey Eric I’ve transitioned from a strong grip to a more neutral almost weak grip I just feel like I get a better feel through the backswing and along with this drill I feel like I get more lag and hit it better. Also less hooks. Is this okay? I’ve been told to have a strong grip my whole life.

Eric when I try this I hit a ton of grounders, what causes this? Over doing it?

Hi Eric, This is your best and most valuable video for amateur golfers. I have watched a lot of your videos but I feel that this the most practical and valuable. Thanks a lot.

It's very important if you have a strong grip do not bow your lead wrist.

I’ve watched this like 8 times this week. Thanks!

Dear Eric, I`am the opposite, I`am a body player.
It works very good, I make the power with the body.
But I don't use the potential to keep hitting further with my hands.
Do you have also a video for us body players?
Thank you, Erich

Nice and cleare Brother. Thanks alot.🙏

When I move the left hand forward my hand wants to open is this a weakness problem

2 questions on this. When I've done it before, I can only do it with a fade (noticed your examples are faders) is this to be expected or can you hit draws doing it? Would it be the same thing or similar when hitting driver/

Awesome video as usual!! Need to work on this.

I think a weak/neutral left hand grip assists with the bowing.

Good visual image to work with. Will definitely be working on this at the range. 👍🏻🏌🏻‍♂️

There’s a lot of talk saying how bowing of the left wrist is a weak position, I’m surprised you’re endorsing this move especially after your work with Malaska. Yes this works but requires a lot of timing and arm rotation. The trend now is a stronger grip and lead wrist extension. If you hammered a nail with this motion you would you will see it’s not the best. Shawn Clement demonstrates this in all his videos.

Thanks for the lesson. Back years ago I think they taught this calling it a "late hit". That is releasing the club at the last possible moment and striking the ball as clean as possible. This works well with irons. But modern drivers require a different sweeping swing. Needless to say. I love my old 16 degree driving iron with the ball tee low. I have used it for every thing except putting.

Talk a little less and say more. I think you like to hear yourself talk.

Hi Eric. I’ve worked with this a bit with my instructor but find it only useful with irons. With hybrids, fairway woods, and especially driver I found that this method ends up causing snap hooks. What are your thoughts on using this hand feeling with woods?

Hi Eric. Another excellent video. I’ve been getting too “flippy” with my hands and club through the hitting area and into the follow through. Having the bowed left wrist lead through impact really helps.
I agree with some of the other comments about creating a similar video with the driver. Many thanks

best of best impact lesson^^

I think Erick has Winn grips becase his glove is black on the palm.

Eric, if you have a strong grip would your wrist bow less as opposed to a weaker grip?

I would also add that knuckles behond wrists low point moves forward and left hand going UP key being up adds effortless parametric acceleration speed
Anyone who short circuits this as you are showing os losing deep losing power consistency and speed
Take it from an older player speed......effortless speed is everything

Outstanding

One further caveat on the strength of the LEAD hand grips.Unless a golfer has extraordinary wrist mobility ( Dustin Johnson) , it is virtually impossible to have the LEAD wrist bowed or even flat at impact with a strong LEAD hand grip. Players with strong LEAD hand grips will typically have their lead wrist slightly extended at impact , but it will be LESS extended at impact than it was at setup.
That is not to say that that you are wrong in the hand movements that you are demonstrating , you are correct. But , the goal at impact is not necessarily a bowed or flat lead wrist at impact . Colin, Jon and Tony all have weak LEAD hand grips;thus, their lead wrist can be bowed at impact.

I have argued that a good lead hand position at impact is the other side of the coin of rib cage rotation . Good hand positions at impact seems to encourage rib cage rotation and vice versa . Together these two actions also result in a slightly bent trail arm and right lateral bend at impact.

Thank you Eric

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cheers Eric

Hi Eric. I really appreciate your teaching style. I’ve watched your previous videos on how grip styles and wrist action impact each other. Please share how you’d deal with my strong-ish lead hand and weak trail hand. I’m constantly trying to fix it. Thank you !

Excelente!!

Yeah I honestly think the same, so does players like Justin rose who says the right hand is his steerer

It looks like natural hand and wrist positions if you want proper shaft lean. Keep it simple I guess.

“Wrist bone” 😄

“180 degrees of rotation in a short period of time.” Yikes. That also means there is a lot of face rotation through the hitting zone. This lends itself to a difficulty in timing the contact from day-to-day, particularly under pressure. “Timing is the enemy of golfers.” — David Duval. This also explains why a good amateur golfer will shoot 72 one day and 80 the next. “I don’t understand it. My swing feels the same!” With all that face rotation, there will be misses right and left. When you are late closing the face, right miss. When you close it too early, left miss. Army golf.

Amazing explanation of the golf swing. I wish I had 20yrs ago. Thanks for sharing, 1000 balls tomorrow at the range!! 👍

You are an amazing teacher!

When should make arms rotation? Before, during or after impact?

How would this swing drill differ for fairway woods and driver since less of hitting down and in the case of driver actually swing up at the ball?

Great video again eric

Eric, with a stronger left hand grip there is a problem in rapidly closing the clubface through impact if I try to present the back of the left hand to the target through impact. So how to compress? I can get forward shaft lean with the back of the left hand in a strongish position through impact-the fact that the right wrist is slightly cupped at impact demonstrates the forward shaft lean. Problem though is that I can't rotate forearms through impact as clubface closes too rapidly. I think what happens is I tend to flip post impact. So what is the theory here? Pretty sure Freddie and Bernhard get all the compression they need!!

This is great! We need a Part 2... how do the hands and wrists work for the driver? (because impact position is farther forward and past the low point).
Part 3 How does this change for hitting fades and draws? for each, irons and driver.