Right Forearm @ Address-How?????

[300Drive]

As I check my right forearm at address in the mirror, When I place it on plane, my arms do not hang down, rather, I have to "reach" to get the shaft an forearm in the same plane.

Does anyone else experience this? What might I be doing wrong? How can I best get the right forearm on plane at address?

Thanks.

[Vikram]

Relax the right forearm with a little bend at the elbow. It will automatically lower the right shoulder and your forearm will be in line with the shaft and on plane IMHO.

[okie]

This may be for personal use ONLY, but from time to time I start with the right forearm wedge first...then I assemble the left arm flying wedge. Without a mirror I find it occassionally difficult to set the right forearm wedge without the control point of placing the grip in the cup of the hand. I then make a space in the cup of the right hand to place my left thumb. HK mentions this in the 3rd Edition (opening the right hand a bit to let the left thumb "in." It occurred to me that the right hand would have to be on the club first. When Yoda demonstrates the right forearms own angle of approach the right forearm flying wedge is assembled first. I may be stating something obvious here but I think if you do the LAFW first the tendency is to perhaps line the arms up, as opposed to the right forearm to the sweetspot plane (as Vikram suggested elbow bend is needed to achieve this) I noticed that BG starts with the right arm. Hope that is useful to you

[300Drive]

This may be for personal use ONLY, but from time to time I start with the right forearm wedge first...then I assemble the left arm flying wedge. Without a mirror I find it occassionally difficult to set the right forearm wedge without the control point of placing the grip in the cup of the hand. I then make a space in the cup of the right hand to place my left thumb. HK mentions this in the 3rd Edition (opening the right hand a bit to let the left thumb "in." It occurred to me that the right hand would have to be on the club first. When Yoda demonstrates the right forearms own angle of approach the right forearm flying wedge is assembled first. I may be stating something obvious here but I think if you do the LAFW first the tendency is to perhaps line the arms up, as opposed to the right forearm to the sweetspot plane (as Vikram suggested elbow bend is needed to achieve this) I noticed that BG starts with the right arm. Hope that is useful to you

Quite useful, thanks. I did notice BG with driver, looks like he is reaching out to get RF on plane, rather than arms hanging down. Anyway, I try starting with the right, then place the left. I suspect my right shoulder will be much lower at address than normal with the RF on-plane.

Thanks again.

[KevCarter]

This may be for personal use ONLY, but from time to time I start with the right forearm wedge first...then I assemble the left arm flying wedge. Without a mirror I find it occassionally difficult to set the right forearm wedge without the control point of placing the grip in the cup of the hand. I then make a space in the cup of the right hand to place my left thumb. HK mentions this in the 3rd Edition (opening the right hand a bit to let the left thumb "in." It occurred to me that the right hand would have to be on the club first. When Yoda demonstrates the right forearms own angle of approach the right forearm flying wedge is assembled first. I may be stating something obvious here but I think if you do the LAFW first the tendency is to perhaps line the arms up, as opposed to the right forearm to the sweetspot plane (as Vikram suggested elbow bend is needed to achieve this) I noticed that BG starts with the right arm. Hope that is useful to you

Wonderful post OKIE!

Thank You,
Kevin

[alex_chung]

Going into Impact Fix put your right forearm in place and put your head into Impact Fix position as well. This might be another way of making sure that your right forearm is on plane before you take the club away.
Go into Impact Fix and then go back to address (adjusted or standard) Your right forearm should then be on plane.
Alex

[EdZ]

It can be very helpful to practice this on the horizontal plane.

grip down a bit with just the right hand and set the right forearm and shaft in line at chest high, with the shaft touching the inside of the right forearm.

Bend the right wrist to approx impact fix bend, keeping it in line with the right forearm.

Lower that 'unit' down to an impact fix alignment.

This is helpful both right hand only, and with both left/right hands.

Useful for hitting right hand only chip shots too

[GPStyles]

you can also use a table as per Yoda's advice.

"My right wrist is bent, level and on plane"

[okie]

when things go awry (i.e. alignments are off) I do what Edz suggests and assemble my wedges on a horizontal plane. I found that it is possible to have the grip in the cup of the right hand and still be misaligned, usually on the uncocked side of things for me. On the horizontal plane it is easy to to make sure the grip/shaft is running up the center of the arm, not just in the cup. The left arm I start with the grip in the cup, shaft running up the center of the arm (i.e. zero # 3 Acc.) I then place the grip under the heel pad without changing the level wrist alignment.(adding #3 Acc. angle) I have found that I get lazy and I tend to settle for "high hands" (position golf) instead of verifying the correct alignment. So essentially I went from the popular orangutan look to the anemic high hands look, neither of which is geometrically viable! I went through a spell of dodgy putting. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel I simply checked my alignments. Whithin 2 minutes of my diagnostic I discovered that my right wrist was uncocked. I zero out #3 Acc by uncocking my left wrist (never liked the putter in the life line) instead of a level right wrist companion I had a duplicate uncocked condition. The first stroke I made after correcting the misalignment was pure butter! The hands have it, people!