Hi all, joined up a few weeks ago having watched all of Tom's content on YouTube over the past 18 months or so, this is my first post
I'm a very high handicapper, lots of bad habits and still haven't 'found my swing'.
Tom has been very kind and advised me ln a few videos to start with (the guy has the patience of a saint!).
Maintaining the wedge is something tried, left and come back to on multiple occasions without ever really getting it down.
I always resort to a flip, because old habits die hard.
Tonight I've been in my garden attempting it once again, tiny little swings, with some success.
One thing I'm not sure about is should I consciously be maintaining the wedge, holding it if you like.
I seem to have better results when consciously holding it but I'm not sure if my original setup should be enough for wedge to be maintained naturally. Any advice would be most welcome!
I also noticed that with little swings I had much more success than when I tried a slightly larger swing.
Currently I'm just turning chest and trying to hold that wedge with straight arms after impact.
Sorry if I've waffled on, love golf like everyone else on here and just want to get better so I can enjoy the possibility of hitting some crispy shots.
Many Thanks,
This is a great topic. I know it’s an old thread, but maybe it’s good to revive for winter. There are several approaches to addressing a flip. It’s possible to try and “hold” the wedge, but doing so is also a speed killer. Killing speed may not be the end of the world because it’s possible through manipulating impact conditions, delofting the club with solid impact you may see better control and distance. Personally, I think there is a little bit of educating the hands that is required if you are used to flippy impact. But I am a firm believer that the biggest culprit of flipping is bad body movement through the shot. Think about it this way, you can stall the body and drive the arms (holding the wedge in back of right wrist) to the front pocket. However, at any time, if the hands slow down, the forces on the clubhead will outpace the hands which means the club will pass the hands. If that happens before you get hands past the ball, it’s a flip. If your hands drive far enough, you have good impact conditions and the same hand release happens, but when the same action happens after impact, it’s not called a flip, it’s called a release. If the body moves correctly, getting to the front post and turns left, the impact position gets transported to where it’s supposed to be. In other words, your hands don’t have to drive past the ball, if your pivot transports the club bast the ball. You can test this in a mirror. If you stay square facing the ball, you can drive your hands to the front hip, hands in front of club. Looks good. Alternatively, you could lower the hands to your trail hip.leave them there and pivot to front foot…turning your body. In the mirror, as you rotate, you will notice, even though your hands are off your trail hip, when you rotate the body, in the mirror, you will see the lead arm move to the front of your body (because your lead side has moved back and around). Again, you will notice that in the mirror, if you rotate enough the arm appears to be in great impact position. To my way of thinking, there are two ways to arrive at impact without flipping. However, the easiest way to eliminate the flip is to have a correct body pivot that transports the bottom of the swing arc. In snt terms, it’s getting left, tilting, turning, extending…but moving far enough left that the hip goes left and then rotates back and behind…if you can’t transport with the body, then you are relying on muscular thrust which will always be less reliable.