by far the best and most concise teaching. everything has made sense, and it works on the course.

Eureka! Found what I was looking for in this video. Thanks, Mike. Good teachers make things simple because they know the essence.

Mike,I’ve been trying to figure out the golf swing for decades. You have the answers. I’ve been watching your videos for months, and I subscribed to your channel. I shot a personal best round yesterday- 79! You are the man!!

Wow, all these simple tips make such a huge difference . My wrist was going up & down & not back and forth. No more cupping in the wrist & fades have gone Thank you Sir

Mike,this video is the ah ha moment that ive needed ,Ive watched alot of videos .Im inspired by your knowledge of the game and your teaching.

I would like to think that we’re all winners with these great tips you put out, thank you.

Thanks Mike for all your Help, it's been all positive!

I would go to the range, hit 100-125 balls, go home and later felt like I was in a car wreck! This move makes my life sooo much easier. Thanks for saving my golf life in retirement!

Very powerful lesson. Only 1 correct wrist hinge. The body reacts to the swinging of the club and the timing of the hit. Mike is teaching Henry Cotton and also truth. If I think body, its over.

I throughly enjoy the simplified direct manner in which you teach golf.

Agree with you. Rest of lessons on youtube are waste of time sir. Thanks.

So true. Malaska method is pretty much the same as Tiger/Butch Harmon year 2000. I saw all the videos above. I feel my hips (back swing and downswing) getting out of the way (push back and push back force). I copied Tiger's back swing. (Similar to Malaskas) when I'm abt to complete back swing, I just move a bit my upperbody to the left and get my hands down club head out Malaskas move. And voilà, L to L finish and finally I'm hitting like Tiger. Doing this steps all the other good things happen. I really don't think abt anything else than what I wrote above. Malaska is the best.

Congratulation to 100K! Its not easy to obtain! You sure have a way to explain things in a simple and understandable way, which I appreciate very much.

The best coach on KZfaq by miles 👍

Thanks Mike for this easy to understand lesson and Congratulations!!!

Well said! I always show people what a curveball hand/wrist motion looks like. Then ask if they want to throw a curve ball or a fast ball.

I was taught that the hands should follow the body not the other way and it works for me!

Your golf swing lesson is the most effective and should be taught by other golf instructors.

I have no talent accept I’ve always had a good throwing arm. I’m definitely gonna give this a shot. I’ve taken practice swings with this and seems the most natural way to swing. Keeping it athletic. Let’s do this boys and girls ⛳️

Love the content! and congrats on 100k! The way you describe how a golf swing works just makes sense.

Congratulations on the Subs. Feels like I’ve been listening to you forever. I still occasionally watch the golf channel VHS tape with Jim Flick “Vision, Feel, and Rhythm”. Great stuff. Very helpful.

Mike You probably won't read this comment but I wanted to say "thank you" for emphasizing the key movement of the wrist is the hinge, so that you are adding club head speed when unhinging, in the direction of the target line/ ball flight. So my question is why do the vast majority of teachers seem to ignore hinge and instead emphasize wrist cock, which as far as I can see, is an action at right angles to the target line?

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Yes. This is the best way to swing. I has less thoughts (set up cues for me still in my conversion from "normal" instruction), less tension, control given to physics rather than "how to move your this or that". Swing the thing.

I’ve been rotating my left arm way too much - this is golden

At 3:05, watch in slow motion, the shaft is clearly rotating, toe up at parallel to ground, to square at impact, and toe up again in follow through parallel to ground. What Mike is demonstrating is what Jim Hardy calls an RIT release for the single plane swing, but then when he hits the ball, the shaft is rotating.

Wow this video is fantastic. Thanks for putting this great explanation out there

Excellent tip. Do this and ball striking will improve quickly..

Feel like this video led me astray. The idea is right through impact, but without that context I tried to keep that trail hand squared to my swing arc too far on the way back and through. Result was improper wrist hinge and no speed. I’ve had much more success forgetting about “wrist only works in throwing motion” and allowing a little more rotation in wrists and forearms. I’d even point to the 3:00 mark of this video- the hand action he deonstrates without the club does not seem to match when he actually hits a ball

why i found this channel so late! thank you for your great lesson

Great video, will try it today on the range

Grats on the 100k subscribers, Mr Malaska.

What a great lesson!!!

Congratulations on 100k subscribers, well deserved

great video and congrats for the 100k...nice to see that you started to answer...ciao from italy

Excellent explanation, this may help me, Thank you

Any look at golf instructions forums will quickly make us realize that golfers don't agree on much. I've seen less petty arguments and disputes at my family Thanksgiving dinners. But we can agree that a good impact position has the hands leading the shaft and clubhead. So however fast you swing the clubhead you better be swinging the hands and handle quicker. Personally I focus on swinging the grip in sync with my rotating hips. The club shift is a constant and one of the few laws of consistency in the game of golf other than the stationary ball. Yes there is some torquing of the shaft but for all intents and purposes its a constant. So by focusing on the hand swing and path simply following my hip turn im able to avoid casting and clubhead throw away which causes me all kinds of issues. It fells like a smooth connection in my swing. Not the connection where my arms are locked in too tightly to my torso and I feel bound up but just more synchronization between my hands and body. The clubhead is always lagging in this scenario and I get into a very good open impact position. Just a thought that works for me. I also no longer feel the need to kill the ball. I definitely swing fast but no harder and faster than I can swing my hands. Much better balance of myself and also the balance of the club during the swing.

Congratulations! I will share with my golf group and hopefully continue growing.

congratulations on your 100k. the. arm and wrist actually work like skipping rock

Great stuff. One thing i m not sure about is where the wrist hinge occurs in the back swing. Some say not until u r at the top of your back swing: bearing in mind each person has a back swing distance b4 the wrist hinges????

Great video and congrats.

Awesome explanation!! Thank you.

Agree with the right hand action,most golfers over 14hcp should work on it and get it first,if like most they are right handed playing right.But it is the ability to get onto the left side that gets you down to 7hcp and if you can use the left side even lower!

I get at least 20 yards more swinging the club with my hands than belly whipping it with my hips or driving with my feet or legs or turning my torso/shoulders. They all come into play but in support of the hands swing the club. My ball contact is also much better than with the other methods which may account for some of the extra distance.

Beautiful coach ..

Mike I always enjoy the info you tell us. I have been told to tuck my right elbow ( I’m right handed ) in to my side more to gain power. What’s your opinion? Thanks. Marc

Thanks for the explanation. I still have a problem with right hand release and getting to L on the follow through.

Congratulations on the 100k subscriptions!!!

AS ALWAYS… very good

Good stuff! Thank-you

Mike, what happens when you come into impact and you are in a stuck position? You have to roll the club face, don’t you? Therefore, you cannot work the hands the way you suggest. This is what I find. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks.

Really helpful stuff.

If you're rolling over during the downswing, look at your backswing, odds are you're not taking the club back square, you're rolling in the backswing and compensating in the downswing

Hello, great vid!! Can you tell me why, when I swing faster with driver, the ball is low and left? But, when I swing slower, the ball is high and right?? Thanks

love it!

Excellent Sir. But but that action you state, doesn’t it make the left wrist sort of look like a scoop action at impact ? If we do the bowed fashion look like the gold world states then the wrists can’t perform your way ??.

Ball striking will improve dramatically if you practice this wrist action.

Love this. But what about the vertical hinge? Aren’t there other drills you’ve shown to hinge upward and then swing back?

Congrats from Germany! Trying to follow your approach is working fine for the irons! But Mike, why do I tend to push the long irons ad woods? Any thought/tip on that issue? Wrong arc? Again many thanks for your content as my handicap is dropping nicely after dialling into your technique!

Mike great Instruction simple intuitive golf. How can one get private lessons?

Swinging left through impact without twisting the clubface around.

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Is it important to keep your trail foot planted till after impact ?

Hand action looks simple without a club. When you hold a club though it's harder to reproduce that same feeling with a grip running through your hand. That's why the club face gets manipulated.

My biggest issue with this when do you let your wrist go? And no matter how square my face is to the ball it still fades due to the up/down tilt of the wrist.

Where exactly should I feel I'm throwing it? Directly at the target? 45 degree upward?

Better add in some shoulder turn... you cannot get an inside out arc without getting the front shoulder to rotate back and under the chin...*backswing*-- then getting the back shoulder to swing and rotate through the strike zone as you swing forward, down, and through the strike...( the SHOULDERS are the LAST point of connection of the fingers, then hands, then arm bones and elbows to the BODY itself... the body will pretty much move in tandem with the shoulders because it "has to") The actual amount of addition of the wrists cocking or uncocking to impact is kind of "optional" and secondary.... as in adding feel to the impact... but, all in all, in my view, shoulder swing is the heart of a good golf swing....(look again at your own video here and watch your shoulders..)

Hey Mike great video good information you ever hear of Jim venetos and jv swing its the swing system i use and just wanted your take on it

Play my best golf when I think of my hands getting to my lead thigh at impact. If I get out of that and try do some other crap I play crap I get stuck

Mike. I've been practicing this, but my irons are going left, or a over cooked draw. Any thoughts,? Thanks

I have always read and heard that the dog wags the tail. This appears to be the opposite of that?

Once your brain understands what the "downswing" is, your motions getting natural and athletic. The word downswing is missleading (in my point of view) cause the swing to the ball is a underhand throw which goes UP. If you try to hit down to the ball, you will never have it.

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If my right hand flaps straight back, then my swing will be extremely flat, and I'll never be able to touch the ball.

That’s a good video and good explanation.

Every pitcher pronates when throwing...

Have to point out that what you're demonstrating with your right hand motion is clearly not what you're doing when swinging the club. Just look at 3:05 in the video. This may be what you feel, but not what is actually occurring. Maintaining vs throwing away right wrist flexion is not a minor issue. You clearly are maintaining more flexion.

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Hi there! I love the channel. Have you ever done a video about clearing the hips to help with early extension? I want my belt buckle to be facing target at impact. Think Morikawa. Any drills?

How does this promote forward shaft lean??? I could see this promoting a scoop or thin shots. This action should promote a slowing down at the point of impact...It goes against what every good teacher says.

Is that not a flip?

Hands will react or not to arms body relationship... The rest doest not matter

At 3:05, your palm is facing in front of you, not downwards as you claim at 2:33. You are not doing what you are teaching because it would be impossible. If it were, the face of the club and elbow at the top of the swing would be facing downward making the weirdest chicken wing. Just try it. What you teach simple does not happen :( And no, one does not throw a baseball like you said. The kinetic chain is a succession of movement which go from the large articulations to the small ones.The small parts always follow the large parts.

Mike is not consistent ! He has a different swing on every video !!.