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I thought I'd ask you-all if there's a magic percentage or angle of right-wrist bend I should try to standardize at address.

The answer is no . . . . depends on the shot at hand. The imperative is the Flat Left Wrist. You have learned that varying degrees of Right Wrist Bend can correspondingly change the alignment of the Left Wrist. So what's the answer? The answer is Impact Fix. All golf swing geometry is derived from Impact Geometry. But Impact is dynamic . . . sooooo that's why you need to take your grip alignments at Fix. The key here is understanding shaft, head and face (3 functions).

1. What kinda shot do you want to hit? If you swing right of the face the ball curves left if you swing left of the face ball curves right. So you have to aim the face in the direction you want the ball to START. But there is a second part . . .

2. Generally with full power shots we want a shaft that is leaning and not vertical to the ground particularly with irons. But (and this is to your question) you want to program the RIGHT AMOUNT of shaft lean at Fix. You probably don't want as much shaft lean with a 5-iron as a wedge unless you are trying to punch it under a tree or wind or something. We want the longer clubs to get in the air. So this is where your right wrist bend comes in. You want your face aimed with the amount of lean you want at Fix. This is going to determine the amount of wrist bend required for that Fix alignment. Then put your Left Wrist on Flat Level and Vertical. If you want to go back to Ajusted Address here fine . . . but we don't hit the ball with address alignments unless Fix is our Address. Brian Gay is a Swinger with a "fixy" address. So that is a valid option.

3. In addition to this you want to understand your ball position relative to low point. Farther up plane (back in stance) the more out you have in your motion and vicey versy . . . use that with regards to your face positioning inorder to control the curvature of the ball considering the "less right vector" in the path.