Personally I feel like this is the whole reason most Amateurs including myself have trouble. This will also eliminate the fat shot due to casting with a dominant right arm. Great video

Thank you thank you thank you! This has changed my game. No tension in my hands arms and shoulders. I now can feel the lag that I create and can feel where the club head is at impact with effortless resistance. I’m hitting it straighter and further. I feel like I should pay you for this! Thank you.

That is a famous Ben Hogan drill. Michael Breed may have used it, but it came from the 5 Fundementals

Great video!! The right hand can definitely destroy the swing if you do not use it correctly.

Ben Hogan recommend this in his 5 lessons not to leave the trail/right hand passive or non dominant in his swing; but, so he could feel the pushing/throwing power of ' 3 right hands' as he allowed his passive lead hand and passive lead arm elbow to rotate the lead arm to the finish of his swing. At least that the way I like to do it and see him swinging his club. Of course as he also said he (very very)briefly started his downswing with his lead knee and hip. Cheers.

I know this is an old video but I've been struggling with toe shots lately. As a LH golfer my left hand and arm was completely taking over my downswing. This was exactly my issue. Thx.

The left arm and hand is the power and the control in a right handed golf swing. Was proven to me 50 years ago and I still play great golf!

Alan Parsons intro. Nice chuck. Great video!

Please make a clear distinction between “dominant hand” and “dominant side”. You’re making reference to both. I wouldn’t recommend restricting your dominant side.

Hi Chuck! I've Just watch your video today! This was a HA HA moment for me! It was kind of hard for me to get acustomed to pull the left arm instead of pushing with my right arm, which i've been doing all my life, but now that's in my muscle memory, i hit the ball longer and straighter like never before, and with less effort..so if you are still active on KZfaq...i just wanna say: THANK YOU CHUCK!!!

No idea if it will help but it is a great tip which I cannot wait to try.

Absolutely right.

Chuck... great tip!!!! Cant believe the lag and power im getting now!!!!! Going to check out your other video’s... thanks

I grip the club similar to Moe Norman, believe me the lower hand is passive until the correct time or else! Enjoy your journey!

I am going to try to slide my right hand up more, so 4 and 5 finger are overlaying the left hand, and only the index and middle finger are on the club. That seems to help get the right hand out of it a lot.

Great tip I played all 18 holes with thumb and index finger off of the club and the ball was going longer and straighter. Thanks so much previously everything went left, I can't slice at all. It would help to know how to transition back to having the thiumb and index finger on the club in a more passive manor.

This could help so many more people ❤

Thanks for sharing the best golf swing tip I’ve ever gotten!!--DE

Would this fault also cause a snap hook and body slide. I love my transition when I am only using my left arm. I'm right handed. But when I put my right arm in to the swing I get a big slide and hands flip. Which causes a snap hook.

i have been able to somewhat balance out my right hand dominance with an exceptionally strong left arm due to batting left handed

I’m a lefty that plays righty. My dominant hand is my left, what should I do?

I totally disagree with this portrayal as I believe the dominant hand (right for right handed players) is the single most most important source of power in the strike. One caveat - as long as the right handed golfer isn't flipping , i.e., letting the clubhead out race the hands or closing the clubhead prior to impact. Keeping the hands ahead of the clubhead at impact both lessens the loft and better compresses the golf ball. But I do realize some people do work better with the lead hand/arm pulling. Whatever works best for you is correct.

This is a game changer tip.

Could'nt agree with you more. The dominant hand will take over at any time during the swing,resulting in all sorts of bad swings.

This drill comes from BHogan's 5 Lesson book, page 31.

Hogan mentions this in his 5 Fundamentals book.

Thank you. That was excellent. It works

pull with left arm on downswing and eliminate right hand pushing. See your balls go straighter.

how do i do that if i am dominate right hand but stand on the left side of the ball?

Amazing tip thanks

I am left handed but play from the right side, so based on what you are saying I need to take my left hand (dominate hand) out of the swing? If so, any suggesting on my grip for practice swings? Thanks

Chapter 1 of Hogan’s Five Lessons. He called them pincers and swing ruiners

Look at page 31 of Hogan's five lessons for right thumb and index finger off the club, long before Michael Breed's tip

Hi chuck, I’m left handed but play right handed golf - how would this benefit me? Should I weaken my lead hand?

lol too late for 5 years not seeing your great tip---thank you

Well, Bobby Jones, among other greats, also “felt” his left side controlling the swing. For you “normal” (some people are ambidextrous) right handers, can you 1) sign your name with your left? 2) eat comfortably with your left? 3) play ping pong with your left? 4) hit a stone with the end of a yardstick as well with your left as with your right hand? It’s counterintuitive and counterproductive. What in the world makes you think you can hit a tiny golf ball with a 45” stick better with your left hand? Admittedly, left dominance was how I was taught but for many people, it’s wrong. It does allow you to feel a swinging action and alleviates the problems of an OVERACTIVE right hand but the right hand gives you the finesse to hit draws, fades, low, high, etc. Killing the dominant right side is a beginner or high handicap piece of advice. If you’re right handed, that’s your “smart” hand. Learn how to use it properly and like Hogan who welcomed 3 right hands for power, you’ll find it easier to get to a low single or scratch handicap level. I’m 65 and found right hand control teachers on KZfaq only 4 years ago. 38 years of being a 7 hc now down to a 3 but so many years of pulling with the left rears it’s ugly head from time to time on the course and I can still shoot high 80s. This left-right debate is a 200+ year old point of contention and some people including tour pros play with left hand control but if you’re right handed and can’t break 80, you owe it to yourself to seek right hand control teachers (there’s more than I ever thought was out there) and test it out. Mike Austin threw the clubhead from the top and although he didn’t actually say it, that throw is right handed. Nicklaus said you can’t release too early (some say this is also an advanced instruction) which implies right hand. Henry Cotton, Bill Melhorn, Jimmy Ballard, A J Bonner, Monte Schienblum, Tony Luczak (my guru) and many many more including Hogan’s 3 right hands advocate right hand control. There’s no one teacher or one school that had everything for me. Mike Austin Joe Dante Tony Luczak Mike Maves These guys gave me pieces no one else had but I had to put it all together to come up with a swing that for me feels as natural as throwing a ball. If I could putt like could in my 20s, I’d be scratch or better...alas at my age I probably won’t fulfill my dream of a plus handicap. I am in no way discrediting Chuck Waltz as Homer Kelley will tell you, there’s a million ways to hit a golf ball properly.

You didn’t get lucky you’re a good player and instructor

Nice looking swing

This drill only helps if you are back side dominant. I am lead side dom like Mickelson is. But it's the same. I swing w the feeling of just my lead arm. It just happens to be dominant. I guess us lead dominant are lucky as it pertains to this but we have a host of other battles.

This is the best fix for a hook. It totally gets rid of the hook. But now my shots leak to the right. I am really leary about using hand action to close the face because I don't want the hooks to come back. Is there something I can do stop leaking shots to the right. On narrrow fairways I can get in trouble. Can anyone suggest something?

taught golf for 20 years...it's amazing that people aren't taught grip day one...everytime I had a new student I had to fix their grip, they hated it, but until that grip is perfect? you going nowhere...btw most would benefit from jumbo grips, standard is just too small

Breed got the tip from Ben Hogan.

Learn to keep your dominant side out of the golf swing. For right hand golfers, learn to use your left side. In affect, as Chuck is saying, keep your right hand (and right side) passive in the golf swing.

What country is that

"And 6'6" guard out of North Carolina"

Chuck..thanks for the video. When I do this I am hitting toe shots..why is this?

For every video saying don't use your right side there's another saying do. Tiger uses his right hand to accelerate the club. He did okay with that swing flaw.

Best ever thank you so much ..❤️❤️❤️

My right hand and arm cause me big trouble

Moe Norman solved this problem years ago.

Ben Hogan screwed up in his book when he said “ hit as hard as u can with right hand as if u have three right hands”. I will say other way for lead hand not the trail hand. He ruined people game and made them more miserable.

Pointless video. Why is right-side dominant a bad thing. This isn’t fully explained. Most (right-handed) higher handicap golfers would love to hit their ball to the left side of the fairway or green.

Rubbish ! Go watch lee comeaux