{"id":27930,"date":"2018-03-31T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buffalogolfer.com\/wordpress\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2018-03-10T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:03:17","slug":"27930-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buffalogolfer.com\/wordpress\/27930-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tucker’s 2018 Golf Tips: Stage 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom’s Featured Tip: <\/b><\/span>Swing Speed And Your Dominant Hand<\/span> <\/p>\n

For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Many players lose a lot of clubhead speed because of tension in the right hand or overuse of the right hand at impact. <\/p>\n

Most players are right handed, and an overactive right hand is a major cause of poor contact as well as loss<\/b> of swing speed. <\/p>\n

For my better students, to a man (and woman) I always work on keeping the dominant hand in it’s correct role, which usually means less of it during the swing. <\/p>\n

The modern swing is a left side dominated swing, not a right side dominated swing. Most of it’s power is derived from centrifugal speed developed by swinging long levers through the swing. Your arms are levers, and in a sense so is the pivot point of your club. <\/p>\n

When your right hand becomes too active during the swing, it changes the fulcrum of the pivot point on your shaft from near the butt of the grip to just below your right hand. This amounts to effectively shortening the shaft about four inches, which causes a tremendous amount of swing speed loss. Add poor ball compression due to the angle of the clubface at impact and the result is a short, weak, high ball flight. <\/p>\n

One of the reasons that the golf grip is tapered the way it is, is so that you can hold on to it with the last three fingers of the left hand when you are swinging fast and using the proper fulcrum point on the shaft – the area near the butt of the grip. <\/p>\n

Here’s a good drill to practice how your grip should feel and be positioned at impact.<\/p>\n