David T had a good question. He said, “The driver and longer clubs are going pretty straight, especially for only having used PPGS since Monday. I usually pull irons, especially shorter ones. I was thinking I was rotating my wrists and not keeping them perpendicular. What do you all think?”
O.K., David. Well that's unusual. Most players can hit the irons and are terrible with the woods, so you've got the tougher clubs going pretty good. So, yes, you might be 100% right that you probably could be rotating your wrists which, in fact, would — I'm not going to say wrists, but you're rotating your forearms and your hands, which include your wrists, too much — mean that approaching impact, you're already starting to shut the club down.
Which means the club, if you were right handed, would be pointing to the left of the target and if you were a left hander, it would be pointing right. You are what I call, over releasing. Any time the bottom hand on your club, which should be matching your clubface if you have a perfectly built 3-P grip, which is where your bottom hand is perfectly aligned with the clubface, that hand is starting to go palm down. That means your clubface is going palm down which means you're shutting it down so you hit low pulls. If you shut it down fast enough you could hit pull hooks. So that could be 100% true.
On the other side of the coin, let's say you could be coming into impact perfectly square, where your hands are square, but you started out with a shut clubface at address. So if the face starts shut at address, it will be returned shut at address, even if your hands are dead square, rotating properly. You could check those issues.
It also could be your ball position is too far forward. Hitting the club a little late, the club's had to over release a little bit because you're hitting it too late, meaning that the ball was forward. If it was back, in the correct place, the club would still be square and you'd hit it straight.
Last but not least, we can never forget alignment. Could be that maybe you're aiming square with your woods but are aimed, if you're right handed, left of your target, and therefore swinging right down, what would be, your aiming line based on your set up, but it is not your aiming line based on where you want the ball to go, then you could be hitting the pulls.
Check out any of those three issues. Check your set up fundamentals, which would include your clubface position at address. All these should give you a good handle on getting rid of this problem so you get your irons as straight as your woods.
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