[Daryl]

Please Look at the Right Wrist Bend in Both pictures and observe that there is less right wrist bend in picture #2.

Homer Kelly said that as the ball is played aft in your stance, that you use less Right Wrist Bend. And, the farther forward the ball is played, your Right Wrist Bend is Greater.


This is because of Right Shoulder Location. When the Grip is created at Impact Fix, then the farther Forward the Ball is located, the farther Downplane the Right Shoulder. But as the ball is played a greater distance aft of Lowpoint, then the Right Shoulder -at Impact- and - at Impact Fix - is higher up On the Plane and so there is less Right Wrist Bend and a Straighter Elbow at Impact.

The difference between Pictures 1 and 2 above, may be explained as simply as saying that you created your grip NOT USING Impact Fix for your Right Forearm Angle of Approach Geometry. Because of this, unwanted variation is entering your Set-up.

Could this be true?? Are you Gripping the Club, then walking up to the Ball???

Absolutely, for consistency of geometry, the Grip must be aligned at Impact Fix, regardless of Lowpoint Location.

However, there are choices.......Rather than moving the Ball aft in your stance, you MAY MOVE LOWPOINT FORWARD. AND, the great advantage to this, is that IMPACT CAN REMAIN opposite the Hinge while you GAIN a Forward Leaning Shaft. Moving Lowpoint Forward means that the Right Shoulder Location at Impact can remain the same as normal and so the Right Wrist Bend and Right Elbow Bend at Impact can remain the same as normal.

We can REALLY SIMPLIFY this set of Alignments. Right Shoulder FORWARD OR AFT controls Lowpoint Forward/Aft (Use Stance width to control Right Shoulder forward/aft location).

Ball Location (forward/aft) controls Right Shoulder Location UP/DOWN on the Plane and controls Right Wrist Bend and Right Elbow Bend.

As always, Clubface Alignment at Impact Fix is strictly related to Low Point and the extent that Ball Location changes the Angle of Approach and Plane Angle.