You’ll never increase your distance without using your hands like this

[@kurtmoore6333]

This video makes everything so simple

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

I’m so glad you liked it, I really enjoyed making this video

[@kenhoneycutt2046]

Just ran across this channel. Great stuff!! I’ve been struggling to understand the Austin hand action (Steve Pratt calls it a flap). This drill really brings it home. Can’t wait to work on it before the snow flies.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Welcome to the channel Ken! Thanks for your comments

[@davidjames3164]

Update.. I've got this working, it was the missing link to me successfully mastering the Austin swing. I'm smashing the ball shot after shot. Thanks Matt

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

My pleasure David. Thinking back to learning the Austin swing all those years ago, I think this was the key that really unlocked it for me too

[@elsprivate]

Awesome tip! I started doing this a few months back and it made a huge difference. Very few golf instruction videos focus on the hand/wrist position.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Thanks for your comment. Modern conventional teaching seems to have forgotten this fundamental

[@Left-Foot-Brake]

Great explanation of the pronation of the lead arm!

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Thank you!

[@howrdhill4700]

Matt you have made yourself a great practice set up. Not sure where you found that ball return but nice job. Keep up the good work.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

If you are talking about the ball dispenser you can get it at amzn.to/3NaPcOn

[@louispounds7486]

Thank you!!!!!

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

My pleasure Louis. I made this video, especially for you based on your previous comments and questions. Did this clear things up for you?

[@davidjames3164]

You nailed it. Much appreciated

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Thank you David! I was hoping I captured the essence of the hand action in a way that will make it clear as day for everyone.

[@davidjames3164]

@@yoursimplegolfswing you sure did. One clarification are you advocateing starting the swing with the hands or was that more for instructional purposes

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

@@davidjames3164 this video was all about clarifying the hand action. Nothing else should be inferred from the video. Thank you for the question.

[@louispounds7486]

@@yoursimplegolfswingI am a visual learner…I studying you wrists and hands, they appear to be in a fairly straight line with the club shaft. When I typically address a ball with driver/woods/irons, there is a pronounced angle between my wrists/hands and the shaft. Perhaps this is a contributing factor?

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

@@louispounds7486 the angle, you are talking about is going to be dependent on a few different variables. I am tall, and I deliberately stand relatively upright. This will naturally reduce the angle between my hands, wrist and the club shaft. For a shorter golfer, this angle will be more pronounced. additionally, the reduced angle for me helps eliminate pull hooks. If I were to put my hands lower which means I would have to bend over lower, and I increase that angle it would raise the toe of my club face and I would hit pull hooks. This is one reason why I advocate for people to have their club lengths adjusted to their height.

[@gabrielherman5856]

Love the Austin swing. Thought that he didn’t keep the right arm close to the chest on the backswing. Actually criticized this action. Thanks

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

This video is strictly focused on a drill to help learn the hand action and is not intended to teach or demonstrate any other part of the swing. But, as for the right arm being tucked to the side, Austin did not advocate keeping it tucked whereas Dunaway did keep it tucked. I actually keep it tucked during the beginning of my backswing then get separation as I get midway to the top. Dunaway had very little separation, Austin separated a lot. I find it interesting that Austin never corrected Dunaway, at least as far as getting him to change this in his swing. I have found that I had to find what works best for me, but always default to Austin’s instructions. I discuss the differences in Austin’s and Dunaway’s swings in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYbQhYKlgs1rbtk Thanks for the comment.

[@Norcam47]

Great tip! Like the fact you don’t spend 15’ talking and 2’ showing the drill. Thank you!

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

My pleasure

[@ericmackenzie123]

Great tip. To much wrist roll is a distance killer.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Eric, thanks for the comment

[@colinmcalpine6005]

Thanks, I have been working on this. Question: At impact are you breaking the hands as you come into impact to get through the shot or do you break them after impact.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Colin, thanks for the question. We actually throw with our hands from the ‘top’ . Jack Nicklaus said that it is impossible to release the club too early as long as your body is turning. Watch this video to see what I mean. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGrHe4d4bt2al68si=l43RFo4RY8nlNj-v

[@ALBIE1950]

Hi Matt... Mike has me just a tad confused, and I'm hoping you can help me out here. On his video describing "Detailed Hand Action", he states that the lead hand, on the backswing, goes into a palmer flexion (that's palm facing the ground) with the thumb pointing toward the trail shoulder. And then on another video where he's giving private lessons, he says keep the thumb pointing down on the backswing to maintain the correct plane, while tucking the three fingers on the lead hand under with a wrist bend. That's two different hand actions, is it not?

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

I need more details. I’m not sure what part of the backswing you’re talking about. Palmar flexion of the lead hand would never face the ground except at the top of the swing. Also, for the second part of the question, again, I’d need to know at what part of the backswing are you referring to specifically

[@AaaBbb-rs9jz]

Ever since seeing a video when Mike Austin, late in life, after a stroke, finally revealed this, his long kept secret, I've wondered how on earth to incorporate it into my swing sequence with only disastrous un-co-ordinated results to date. This at last explains it clearly! After decades of doing it differently it is going to take a while to get my hands around it. Welcome to golf! One QUESTION , Is it possible to use this wrist action and also keep the "standard" wrist cocking action for a double snap action and extra distance (without breaking the wrists)? That is what I have effectively been trying to achieve. Schaun

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

I do think it is possible. I have played with that myself and have found success.

[@AaaBbb-rs9jz]

Brilliant!!! I dont suppose you have a video showing that double wrist cock and its double break? How to sequence and time it, seem to be the biggest problems I am working on at the mo (mainly when laid horizontally in bed at 2am, The wife doesnt understand all the arm waving..... 😁)

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Try this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGrHe4d4bt2al68si=Plq1-IMatlD_Rq_F

[@AaaBbb-rs9jz]

thanks, I already understood completely your breaking from the top of the "normal" wrist cock (where the wrist cocks the hands in the direction of the thumbs and releases in the direction of the pinky.), but there is still no mention of the other wrist cock where the Left hand's knuckles fold in towards the inner forearm (and the Right knuckles fold towards the back of the right forearm, and release in the opposite direction. Are they simultaneously released? - I thought i recalled that the "knuckles" cock was cocked at takeaway and released thro impact, (not from the top). If so my difficulty remains of when/where to (start and) release the knuckles cock in relation to everything else (especially relative to the other wrist cock/release component). Apologies if I am missing something obvious, Schaun.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Is done simultaneously.

[@davidjames3164]

I had my ping G425 tweaked by the ping guy. I was hitting 270 using this method of swinging. Not bad for a 59 year old 😊

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

No, certainly not bad at all. I’m two years behind you. I turn 57 in two weeks.

[@TheOnlyStonemason]

You are describing the Dan Shauger version of the hand action and not something Mike ever taught. In 2003, I heard Mike and Dan argue about the hand action you describe and Mike told Dan he didn’t understand the hand action.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

I’m very familiar with Shauger version and this is not the Shauger version. He actually taught the rolling of the right forearm under the left forearm in a spinning of the meatball concept. That is nothing like what I’m teaching.

[@TheOnlyStonemason]

@@yoursimplegolfswing interesting…what I see you doing and describing isn’t what Mike taught in 2003 (2 yrs before he passed). I did see Dunaway (never met him) on a video describe the hand action similar to your description. I only see 3 people on the internet actually doing and teaching what Mike taught me…Chuck (mentored by the legend), Steve (hit it longer) and Roger King. Perhaps I misunderstood your description. Huge Mike Austin fan…consider myself lucky to have met him.

[@rowdyrich69]

Matt, something I noticed in my own swing that might help others. You have to let that left forearm roll as you break your hands and keep the right elbow tucked. Before I wasn't trying to let my left forearm roll and I started performing the dreaded flying right arm. Let that left forearm roll naturally. Sometimes it's difficult to let it roll, but it has to to keep the rest of the swing moving naturally. Just a thought. Thanks still working the swing and looking for that distance you're talking about.

[@yoursimplegolfswing]

Yes, that’s something I teach in my course