Impact Alignments

[Theodan]

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

[davel]

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

Dave

[Theodan]

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

[davel]

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

[Matt]

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.

[davel]

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.

A normal conventional golf grip is where the trail hand is in the fingers of the grip as I understand it. I take it your quote around normal means not quite that. The SA grip goes through the palm of the trail hand with the grip end lining up with the forearm almost in the center of the palm ( the EIT). Are we talking about a grip somewhere between? I wish there was a posting by some of the hosts showing a picture of where the grip sets in the trail hand. Also is the grip in the left hand still a finger grip?

Dave


Dave

[robertrex]

That fissure that others are referring to is the origin of the palmar aponeurosis (I knew those 4 years of medical school were going to come in handy one day)- seems very single axis to me.