Henry Fall Golf

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How Pros Actually Use Their Hands In The Golf Swing

Intro

“Now, I bet you would love to have a golf swing where you don’t use any hands or arms. Kind of like this. Well, that was straight, but it went absolutely nowhere. And it wasn’t very good. So, look, we need the hands in the golf swing, and you have to know how to use them.

In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to use your hands in a more athletic, dynamic way, just like the tour pros are doing, and why so many amateurs struggle with their ball striking because they’re using their hands the wrong way.

And once we start using our hands correctly, you can start producing longer, straighter shots and with more compression, making those acoustics that you hear only from the Torros. So, here we go. Let’s use those hands correctly.

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Why Hands in Golf Swing Matter

“Hey there, Henry Fallout here at Dobson Ranch Golf Course in Mesa, Arizona. And again, I’m sorry to tell you, but you really can’t be a good ball striker unless you know how to use your hands and use them in really the right way because many of you at home are not doing it correctly. And in fact, I think most golfers really struggle with this and this is why I wanted to do a video on this.

Now, before we get started, if you are new here, please hit that subscribe button. I really appreciate it. And if you’re returning, thanks for following along.

Okay, so just to begin real quick, most of you at home, in my experience, golfers want to unload or throw the club at the ball. So, they’re, let’s just trail wrist. They want to throw or sort of scoop that right hand. That’s a problem because now you’re compromising your low point, your launch angle. you’re not truly compressing the ball.

See, in golf with an iron, for example, we want that club to be coming down on the ball so we can get the leading edge down and under. We don’t want to be helping this ball in the air because now you have ground interference as well.

Okay? So, that’s really important obviously for playing good golf and hitting shots off the ground because that’s where most golfers in my experience are really struggling.

And sometimes I take it for granted. I could have a gentleman that has been playing golf for 30 years show up on my lesson tee really struggling with high wedges, low point behind the ball chunks and thins and he maybe never was taught early on how to properly use his hands.

So for me it’s a very important training that every golfer has to go through. And today in this video I want to share a couple steps I think are really going to help you out.”

The Isolation Drill — Right Hand & Left Hand in Golf Swing

“Okay. So, what I like to do to train proper hand and wrist mechanics is I like to isolate both hands. I want you to be razor sharp with both hands. The best players in the world do this regularly, hitting single-handed shots.

In fact, having caddy on the LPGA Tour the last six years or so, I can tell you every single day I showed up to the range caddying for my wife, there was players hitting shots with their one hand. And it didn’t matter if they were number one in the world, number 100 in the world, they were developing that skill. So then it could bring them out in the golf course and give them the feel they need in their hands for the day.

And some of you may be after a swing where you try to take the hands and arms fully out of the golf swing. Well, again, I’m sorry to tell you, but that just doesn’t exist. You need to know how to use them and match it up with what your body does. That’s the key.

So again, most of you want to throw or flip or scoop this trail hand. Well, if you were throwing a ball, that’s not how it would work. That hand would stay back, back, back, and then the throw would happen much later, sort of as a byproduct, and that’s how we like to think about it.

So, for this sort of isolation drill, if you want to call it that, I put my feet pretty close together here. I’m kind of hitting like a chip shot, but I’m really starting to work on what my hand and wrist are doing. So, I like to start with the right hand.

For most of you, probably your dominant hand. So, I have this grip kind of pointed at my left hip socket. So, there’s a little shaft. There’s already a little slight angle in my right wrist. And then I’ll hit these little chip shots where I just kind of load that wrist. The right arm will swing a little bit. I’m not getting it really way up here.

This is just a little shot. So, I can feel how that wrist loads back, stays a little loaded, and continues to work through sort of with my my pivot or chest rotation. But basically, you can see how that creates that little thump and sort of covers that golf ball. And you see how nice and low that little chip shot went out.

So again, feet sort of together at the left hip socket, hinge, and create that nice little low flight shot. That’s compression. Most of you probably have never done that little skill right there, but it’s one I really think you should do to develop.”

Fine-Tuning Your Golf Grip

“The other thing I like about it, and what I encourage you to do as you do it, again, these are just little swings. Please don’t go crazy with this yet. But the other thing what I’ll do is I’ll I’ll grip it where I normally have it. I’ll grip it weaker. I’ll grip it stronger. And I’ll try to find what feels like neutral where I have command of that club. So a really good test for your grip as well.

And then I’ll do the same thing with the left hand. So the right hand I gripped it about where my right hand normally would be. Left hand I’ll grip a little further back.

But same thing I have my left hip socket. Feet sort of together. And then I create that little hinge and create a little low flighted shot. And it’s tough. This is a difficult shot. But I tell you what, you’re going to start to create an impact you’re not used to if you can develop this.”

Training Wrists in Golf Swing

“Okay, let’s do a couple down the line now. So I’ll go with the the right hand. So, a little hinge and then sort of maintain and turn through. And that sounded solid. Just squished off the face. Okay, let’s try the left hand now.

Pretty tough one. That’s pretty good right there. So, I’m starting to understand now how to load my wrist. It unloads a little bit. If I slow those down, you’ll see it. But more or less there’s some angle maintained into that ball and it divots after the ball. That’s really, really important. So, we’re starting to get ball first contact. Again, the acoustics of that are just way better, more like a tour pro. So, I’m starting to develop both wrists, both hands.

And this is important, too, because maybe you got one hand that’s doing a little bit of funny business in the golf swing. Maybe it’s your trail hand. Probably is. That’s your dominant hand.

So, maybe your right hand is really throwing this out. And if you do that, if I throw, I’m gonna there’s no way I can hit this good. I’m like, I probably miss it. Most of the people that I first give that drill to, that’s their first shot. But usually by like the fifth time they do it, they start hitting it pretty good. It really changes their understanding of what impact should be uh at the bottom with the the trail hand or the lead hand.

Some of you may be lead hand dominant and this could be a really awesome skill to develop. So, this is commanding the swing for you rather than your trail hand maybe taking over. So, I just think there’s so many benefits to this.

The other thing again, left hand grip. So, I talked about the right hand. For me, I can’t do this drill with the left hand this weak. The face feels totally wonky. I would need a lot more flexion or bow in that lead wrist. I mean, I did okay there, but it felt really goofy.

So, but you can see I’ve gotten pretty well trained with both hands. Much like you see Tiger Woods, for example, bouncing a club, a ball on his club. Well, these little skills shouldn’t go unnoticed. They’re extremely important if you want to play good golf. I promise you.

Focus a little more on what the hands are doing, their role, and it’ll improve a lot of the mechanics in your swing. If you’re looking to stay in your posture better, not early extend. Well, if your right arm is throwing, right wrist is throwing, you’re probably gonna stand up. Okay, so really, really important how we use the hands in the golf swing. Can’t overemphasize it enough.”

How to Practice

“Okay, so there’s your little isolation drill. I recommend doing that maybe every warm-up now for a little bit. Just hit like five or 10 of these. Do not overdo this, please. I don’t want you to develop tendonitis or anything crazy. These are just little shots.

You see how far that ball went? five, ten yards, just little chip shots, nothing crazy. So, start with that. You don’t need to full swing it. I’m just trying to get you a little understanding of what’s going on at the bottom, hip high to hip high with the hands and wrists.”

Building It Up — Blending Both Hands in the Golf Swing

“Okay? And then from there, what I like to do is slowly build it up. So, now I got this training what my hands and wrists are doing, the grips feeling good, too. Now, I’ll put both hands on it, maybe stand a little wider, and I’ll just hit like this.

Nice little low flighty pitch shot, punt shot. And you see how low and compressed that was? So that’s really nice. That’s that’s kind of now I’m graduating. Okay.

So I started in kindergarten, now we’re on to like second grade. Okay. And I’m just hitting these little low flighty punch shots and I’m starting to understand how the hands and wrists work. You notice that low points forward. I’m getting the compression we’re after.”

Shot Shaping –– How to Hit a Draw and How to Hit a Fade

“Okay. Now, if you want to level this up even more, maybe go up to fifth grade. Now, start adding some curves to it and maybe do you could do one-handed shots, too, with a little curve. Like, say I wanted a little draw. Okay, didn’t hit that perfect obviously, but not bad.

And then a little fade. Okay, so now it’s like it’s almost like ping pong. I’m starting again train my hands and wrists, develop those new feels. This is what the best players in the world are doing, okay? They know how to use their hands to adjust the low point, adjust the path, adjust the launch angle and the curve. How can you play good golf without those things?

And then if I do it with two hands now, let’s hit like a little draw. That’s nice. Probably drew about half a yard a yard. Now a little fade. Okay, pretty cool.

So, I’m just starting to hit these little flighty shots, these little punchy shots. Now, let’s just build it up even a little bit more. A little wider stance. Still feeling how those hands work. Like that. And let’s hit like a nice little low draw.

Well, that’s fun. Okay, now let’s reverse it. Let’s hit a low fade. So cool. I’m just You’re developing a skill set. All right. Couple from face on for you guys. Let’s hit a little low draw.

Pretty good. And let’s hit a little low cut. probably will look fairly similar to you guys, but you can just see how those angles are created and how I’m using the hand much differently than you probably are at home where you see more of a scoop kind of blended probably with a standing up, but a scoop, a roll, a flip, a throw.

I don’t know what word you want to use, but let’s just do it a different way. Let’s let’s have some angle here and use our hands more in this fashion where you’re delivering that strike that we’re all after. That’s pretty nice.”

Summary

“So hopefully by now you realize that the hands are pretty important in a golf swing. It’s almost like playing piano without your fingers. How’s that going to work? Not very well. So our hands are the only connection to the golf club. And you better know how to work them in an athletic way, and a dynamic way if you want to be a really good ball striker.

The pros are doing it. They hit these little shots with their one hands. And even if they don’t practice them, if you went up and down the range and asked these guys, “Hey, can you hit a little shot with your right hand like I showed here?” You better believe they’re going to be able to do it.

So, I encourage you to spend a few minutes training both hands and then putting them together and training that same skill. Then graduate, go up the ladder, go up the grade, and until you can start to hit shots and have little curves and different flights because your hands need to be skilled in order to do that.

Okay, so for good measure, let’s let’s hit some low ones. Again, I think it’s an important skill to be able to hit a nice little low flighty shot. Now, this is a nine iron I’ve been using this whole video.

And that ball is nice. That’s going out towards my target. So, it’s pretty simple, guys. Train your hands. It It’s really important for the golf swing.

You know, I work with Milo Lines, which many of you know, and he and I have often been accused of teaching some handless, armless golf swing. Well, how would we possibly attach ourselves to the club? How would we possibly ever become good ball strikers? We wouldn’t.

So, you have to know how to use your hands and arms. Um, and in in these exercises I’ve shown you, I really think it’s going to help you you guys develop a better impact position. train your hands in a different way, more like what we see from the tour players.

So again, I want to thank you for watching. If you are new here, please do hit that subscribe button. Really helps me out. And if you guys need personalized coaching, come on over to my website or join our online academy. I’ll leave the links below. We’ll catch you next time.”

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