The Flip is not the Fault: the truth about flipping the golf club

I'm BACK with the latest in my ongoing series about "faults" that are not actually swing faults. Nobody wants to flip the golf club, but if you're flipping, it's almost certainly because you have to.

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[jessetantog]

Best video addressing the cause for flipping on YouTube.

[drjosephmasternick]

You have a gift of explaining cause and affect! Love your style of teaching

[mooremike]

Great to see you back on YouTube preaching the truth. It is amazing what the subconscious mind knows about where the club face is and all of the weird things it does to try to find target.

[BurningZeal]

You can't just stop doing the so called "bad move" because the bad move is necessary to hit the ball decent. Get to the cause and the bad move disappears! Great video Monte, you're the best!

[legend]

Good video. Another thing is that all players flip the club at some point, nobody holds on to their wrist angles all the way through the swing. It’s making sure that point happens at the correct time along with a few other key body positions.

[Cb]

Caught Monte for a lesson when he was in Phoenix for a clinic. It was awesome. He is the MAN!

[mr.walker]

I like to hear what Monte has to say. He and Mark Crossfield are two pros that know the golf swing and do not bow down to conventional wisdom. All golf pros should address the cause and not the symptom.

[kalekalekale]

Glad to see you back on YouTube, Instagram doesn't give you enough time on the soapbox!

[methodicl]

Love the way this guy thinks about the swing.

[bigtg]

Thanks man ... been flipping for years now and almost decided to give it up .... used to mash the ball .... 5 iron was always 200-210 range now it’s 150 if I hit it right will try these drills .... might be putting ball too in front of thank you

[sandwah]

Monte has such a great eye, mind, and understanding of the TRUTH about the golf swing. I would bet that if you want to 100 instructors with a flip, 99/100 would treat the symptom (the flip), and not the disease (the clubface)... Monte gets it.

[TedInoue]

Great advice, thank you. The last segment about proper ball position for the driver may solve one of my big driver issues. I've been getting stuck periodically on my drives and with longer clubs. Just couldn't get comfortable and those times when I had a really good swing and sweet spot hit, I was pushing it far right. Time for me to get to the range and see how things feel with different ball positions for my longer clubs.

[jbohardy]

great video- Its counter to what many people teach, hence why most people slice or fade off the tee even after coaching from a pro. I'm fighting a snap hook on my driver draw hits this early season, I was told to just swing my hips faster, but that's not the fix.

[dogloverjb]

great video... you show how there are many different type of swing methods there are

[vinceschiavo]

Great production quality, thanks Monte!

[prospetivad]

Glad to see you back Monte! Great video!

[virtualbown]

Just shows us that you cant take one move in isolation. The swing is a sequence and all of the pieces of that sequence must work together. Not only that, there are many variations of the sequence so the hard part is finding the pieces that work for you.

[ziggyful]

Thanks for this video, yes, I agree there has to be a cause for the flip, but in your video I see only one offered and that is swinging from the inside/ having the ball too far back in the stance which is effectively the same thing

The flip is exactly where my golf swing has been for the last 15 years, lessons from over a dozen instructors hasnt given me a fix, many seeing I am swinging in to out and believe that getting the swing on a neutral plane will fix the issue, however, they assume the flip is a consequence of the in to out, whereas in my case, and I suspect many others, is that its a reaction/fix to the flip.

Personally, Im able to adjust my swing plane from +5 to -5 in a matter of a few swings, but it doesnt address the hands turning over in the swing(many believing it will just fix itself) and if I go for a more neutral plane then the ball just goes further left, even after months of persistence and hence just to play golf without going hard left every time one eventually starts swinging towards the right. With every swing i try to "hold off" but can only swing at about 80% and manage to do this, this gives me about 170 yards with the driver! Is there another reason, other than the body stalling/falling to the back foot for a flip?

[flower]

I love to flip. Flip my trail hand under my lead hand. And aggressively pass my lead hand with my trail hand. Not sure if that is conventional wisdom but it seems to work for me. And maybe that is not what I am doing at all but it just feels like that is what I am doing.

[kbkesq]

Almost nobody’s too inside. We’re over the top and flip just the right hand like a slap, not rolling. And it’s impossible to stop! Thx