The butt end hits the ball better than the clubhead

[Jensen]

Played with a scratch golfer last week, and he said I lift the club up as I take it away. Now I don't mean that I lift the club up immediately at address, but as I take it away.
So I thought, why do I do this, and realised it helps me keep the clubhead outside of the hands. My long term problem has been to roll the wrists in the takeaway, causing them to separate from the body and become too flat.
I then thought back to a golf lesson many years ago with a Pro called David Fletcher, who was based at Chester-Le-Street, now Brancepath Castle. For years I had focused on what was happening to the clubhead/where it was, but he got me to focus on the handle end and the butt end.
Now this may seem too simplistic for some/many but it's the simple things that make the biggest impact. When the butt end/handle moves down the clubhead moves up. Likewise if the butt moves up the clubhead moves down. The biggest factor for me (with the wrist roll) is on the takeaway keep the butt end pointing at me, the result is the clubhead stays outside of the hands.
It's this correlation that is so important, after all the hands are the only thing that touches the club.
So this week I've been working on the takeaway, result a wider takeaway with more width, power and on plane.
So I took it to the course yesterday in tough conditions, cold air and windy and played to my current handicapp scoring 36 points. Which could've been easily better but for some poor short game shots.
I feel that this is a real lightbulb moment.
I hope it makes sence and could prove to be beneficial to others.

The clubhead will only react to what's happening to the handle. So forget focusing on the clubhead and instead focus on the butt end.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Played with a scratch golfer last week, and he said I lift the club up as I take it away. Now I don't mean that I lift the club up immediately at address, but as I take it away.
So I thought, why do I do this, and realised it helps me keep the clubhead outside of the hands. My long term problem has been to roll the wrists in the takeaway, causing them to separate from the body and become too flat.
I then thought back to a golf lesson many years ago with a Pro called David Fletcher, who was based at Chester-Le-Street, now Brancepath Castle. For years I had focused on what was happening to the clubhead/where it was, but he got me to focus on the handle end and the butt end.
Now this may seem too simplistic for some/many but it's the simple things that make the biggest impact. When the butt end/handle moves down the clubhead moves up. Likewise if the butt moves up the clubhead moves down. The biggest factor for me (with the wrist roll) is on the takeaway keep the butt end pointing at me, the result is the clubhead stays outside of the hands.
It's this correlation that is so important, after all the hands are the only thing that touches the club.
So this week I've been working on the takeaway, result a wider takeaway with more width, power and on plane.
So I took it to the course yesterday in tough conditions, cold air and windy and played to my current handicapp scoring 36 points. Which could've been easily better but for some poor short game shots.
I feel that this is a real lightbulb moment.
I hope it makes sence and could prove to be beneficial to others.

The clubhead will only react to what's happening to the handle. So forget focusing on the clubhead and instead focus on the butt end.

This is what my coach is telling me as I try to sort my s***king - getting me to focus on where the club handle is through the strike. And he's right. Same with my chipping - the club handle has to move laterally. If it essentially just rotates then I'll have problems.

 

[chrisd]

I had the same discussion with a pro yesterday about awareness of what the handle of the Club is doing. After some changes earlier in the new year my club is steeper at the start of the downswing than it used to be and in order to get the face to the ball I have been slightly early extending, this lifts the body which in turn lifts the handle to drop the club hèad into the slot. The downside is that I've been hitting a little heel side of the face as a result and pulling some shots left.

He said to start the downswing by feeling that I was casting the club from the top with the handle. The difference was immediate, only one ball hit on the heel over a fair few range buckets my one and only shot left was when reverted back to my old fault.

Knowing what the handle is doing is key in the swing.