How To Stop The Left Hand Over Rotating Through Impact Golf Tip (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
How To Stop The Left Hand Over Rotating Through Impact Golf Tip (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So we know that the club face is very important in terms of where the golf ball goes and how high the golf ball goes. And obviously the next most important thing up that chain is going to be the grip. How the grip is formed, but also the movement of the hands individually. And this tip is going to focus specifically on the movement of your left hand. And particularly if you are rotating your left hand too much and rolling it down, holding the club face hitting the ball left. So as I setup to the ball now the face is square, and as I bring the club back down, it should remain square at the point of impact.

If I’ve let my left-hand dominate too much and turn over, that club face aims left and it delofts it anytime that club face is square, its got my driver here eight and a half degrees of loft. If it aims left, it has less loft and with a driver its almost vertical. So you often hit shots with your driver that go low and left and barely get off the ground then maybe just nose dive into the floor that could be a sign of the left hand rolling down too soon. So we got to make sure that we can control that rotation. A couple of things that we can check on that first, first then we just make sure that when you put your left hand on the grip, it isn’t in too strong a position right at the start. So when I put my left hand on the grip I can see two knuckles on the back of my hand when the clubface is square. If I put my left-hand too far to the right, I end up with three, maybe even four knuckles from that left hand. That’s then going to want to turn back over the neutral during the swing and the too strong a grip, is shutting the club face. Another check point in the golf swing would be, am I too wristy? So if I’m very wristy in my takeaway motion here, that would have to return back and it could be too wristy through here, if I’ve got a big crossover of my arms, it might a little on my hands are too active and again the ball could be pulling down the left side. Well another area where I might be getting my left hand rotation from is not being dynamic enough from the hips. So if you made your back swing to the top and then keep your hips still, and you’ve hit with your hands and arms because you are too far back, your hands will cross over your hips too early. And again, shut the club face and get it puling down the left hand side. So if you can get a nice neutral left-hand grip, not too wristy in the takeaway a good dynamic hip action to keep the hips ahead of the hands at the point of impact, the club face should be delivered nice and square without the hands turning over too much. And if you can work on reducing the rotation of that left hand, you just hit golf shots that fly higher and fly straighter. 2014-03-27

So we know that the club face is very important in terms of where the golf ball goes and how high the golf ball goes. And obviously the next most important thing up that chain is going to be the grip. How the grip is formed, but also the movement of the hands individually. And this tip is going to focus specifically on the movement of your left hand. And particularly if you are rotating your left hand too much and rolling it down, holding the club face hitting the ball left. So as I setup to the ball now the face is square, and as I bring the club back down, it should remain square at the point of impact.

If I’ve let my left-hand dominate too much and turn over, that club face aims left and it delofts it anytime that club face is square, its got my driver here eight and a half degrees of loft. If it aims left, it has less loft and with a driver its almost vertical. So you often hit shots with your driver that go low and left and barely get off the ground then maybe just nose dive into the floor that could be a sign of the left hand rolling down too soon. So we got to make sure that we can control that rotation. A couple of things that we can check on that first, first then we just make sure that when you put your left hand on the grip, it isn’t in too strong a position right at the start. So when I put my left hand on the grip I can see two knuckles on the back of my hand when the clubface is square. If I put my left-hand too far to the right, I end up with three, maybe even four knuckles from that left hand. That’s then going to want to turn back over the neutral during the swing and the too strong a grip, is shutting the club face.

Another check point in the golf swing would be, am I too wristy? So if I’m very wristy in my takeaway motion here, that would have to return back and it could be too wristy through here, if I’ve got a big crossover of my arms, it might a little on my hands are too active and again the ball could be pulling down the left side. Well another area where I might be getting my left hand rotation from is not being dynamic enough from the hips. So if you made your back swing to the top and then keep your hips still, and you’ve hit with your hands and arms because you are too far back, your hands will cross over your hips too early.

And again, shut the club face and get it puling down the left hand side. So if you can get a nice neutral left-hand grip, not too wristy in the takeaway a good dynamic hip action to keep the hips ahead of the hands at the point of impact, the club face should be delivered nice and square without the hands turning over too much. And if you can work on reducing the rotation of that left hand, you just hit golf shots that fly higher and fly straighter.