Impact Alignments
 

Could someone (Ted, Lynn,or any other knowlegeable hitter) please discuss your the impact alignments you set up as a hitter.

To my understanding, from taking notes after meeting with Yoda, hopefully I'm not missing anything.

Right hand, Club handle in line with right hand set in life life line, bent right wrist

Left Thumb also resides in left hand life line.

What else am I missing...

Left wrist should be flat, level, and vertical to the ground. Right wrist should be bent, level and .....i forgot the last thing.

BTW "level" just means not cocked or uncocked

impact fix
 

The club must be in the cup of the right hand with the club shaft in line and on plane with the right forearm. Then apply your left hand grip(FLV) placing your left hand thumb on the aft side of the shaft basically replacing where the shaft was in the cup of the right hand. You also will set the face slightly closed at fix depending on the club due to the angle hinging which will be produced. It is also recomended to start from fix when you are hitting.

What should the shoulder line and hip line be??

By cup of the right hand are you meaning in the palm? Could you please clarify?

Dave

Hold your right hand in front of you with the palm facing you. Touch the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb. Look at your hand pads below your thumb and little finger. They have formed a palm fissure, which is coincidentally pointing straight down the middle of your forearm. The handle of the club will go in that fissure in your right hand.

Charlie

I would call that the palm of the right hand and not on the finger joints on the shaft.

Dave

Yep. With the club in position, the grip should go in at the base of your trigger finger (Pressure Point #3) and exit out the palm fissure at the top. This will put you on plane with your forearm.

Gripping the club in the right hand fingers will put you out of alignment, which certainly can be adjusted for, but why intentionally set up so an adjustment has to be made in the swing.

Also gripping through the palm fissure will help prevent cocking of the right wrist. The right wrist should only bend and never cock. Cocking the right wrist is a swell way for a Hitter to bend the Plane or skew the Hinge. FWIW, conversely, the left wrist may cock, but never ever bend.

Check out Yoda's avatar for a perfect form of the Flying Wedges. Then check out a down-the-line video of Yoda or Luke. You will see at Setup how the Shaft relates to the Plane and the forearm.

Charlie

Would it accurate to say that the right hand grip is a SA (single axis grip) similar to the grip used in in natural golf?

Dave

No, I don't think so. You can take a "normal" grip with the grip in the cup of your right hand and then rather easily get your right forearm on plane at address. It feels a little awkward at first but becomes second nature very quickly.