[Martee]

I guess I didn't present this question too well - I apologize. I do start from the Fix position.

The question has to do with the BACKSTROKE as I'm approaching the TOP. In that process my LEFT LEAD WRIST wants to bend. It seems the "natural" thing. I have to constanctly monitor it, because if not, it starts doing it again. Do others have that issue or is it just because I've done it incorrectly for so many years. "Flat" seems unnatural, although I know it is correct.

In answer to a previous question, I've played 45 years and am a 9HC and just recently introduced to TGM.

Dave

I had the opposite problem, a bent wrist at the top. Why, the backstroke plane was being disrupted by the shoulders. I just wasn't tracing with the right arm.

I also discovered that the grip can influence the alignment at the top when you are correct on plane. Too strong. For the bent wrist it was Too weak.

Now you stated you are a hitter, Hitters don't normally take the club back as high or far as a swinger. If you are pushing the top to get to parallel, this could require you to cup your wrist.

One thing I have learned, if maintaining the alignment require me to have a lesser or different position than what others have with their traditional positional golf instruction, I accept it will be different. Alignment over positions.

The other question, is really cupped, at the top do the wrinkles on the hand appear by the thumb or the little finger. By the thumb, good, by the little finger then cupped.