Hand Height/Angle at Address

I know the "correct" way of addressing the ball is with the clubshaft pointing at your belt buckle. What are the results of raising or lowering your hands (i.e. pointing the shaft above or below the belt buckle), thus changing the angle between your arms and club shaft (from a rear view)? When Im swinging bad, I tend to take it back a little shut and then because of that the club crosses the line at the top... would raising my hands at address help this problem at all?

The best alignment advice I can give is this (for lefties):

Your golf club is an extension of your right arm. This requires a flat right wrist.

The sole of your club should be flat on the ground. You don't want only the heel touching and the toe pointing up (or the opposite). This is caused by raising and lowering the hands. If the hands are too high, only the toe of the club is going to touch the ground. Either your toe is going to dig into the ground before you get to the ball or you will hit the ball thin because the middle of your club is too high. Same goes if your hands are too low - either you will hit fat with your heel or hit the ball thin.

Fortunately, this has nothing to do with what you are doing. If you are taking the club away a bit shut, you have now hinged your wrists side to side, causing your right wrist to cup. Because of that, you are coming across the line at the top. As I said at the beginning, you must keep your right wrist flat. Not until after impact should your right wrist be cupped.

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Gord

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Try and make the club shaft and your arms a single line from ball to shoulders.Look at Monty, thats exactly what he does. It helps keep the swing nice and upright.

D.