A question from a member

A few random thoughts…

1. The right wrist does go from "really bent" to "less bent" at impact and straightens after impact in many of the best players.
2. The right elbow does straighten after impact in the best players (I don't know of any good players straightening before impact)
3. I've never taught "holding on" to the angle or trying to force it to be maintained.
4. Lag (the proper amount, not an overdone amount) comes as a result of Key #2 being in place as well as timing and the requirements of other swings.

Please upload a video if you've got one. Or two (FO/DL).

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Originally Posted by Jhwarren 

First, thanks for the thoughts. I think he misinterpreted some of the things that we went over (I need to improve as a communicator). I'm not sure where he got the idea to hit one armed shots. While I do like those drills sometimes, really all I had him do was to hit punch shots. I asked him to hit punch shots when he is practicing and focus on hitting the ground on the target side of the ball. Anyways, enough justifying. I appreciate your comments.
https://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=qtdclC8iLoA&feature=vm&ns=1

There is a good thread on here about the flying wedge. that seems to be an easier way to understand how the right hand should come into the ball. 

http://thesandtrap.com/t/36669/maintaining-the-flying-wedge

and like erik said, the best players straighten their right arm after impact. like, righttttt after impact. 

Took a quick look. Gonna be tough to line up the club at or just after impact with so little pressure/weight forward:

Improve Key #2 first to help improve Key #3.

I'm going to agree with Erik and actually take it one step further. Two things are going to prevent the alignments that you are looking for. One of those, as Erik pointed out, is weight/pressure (which might be hard to do with the stance). The second is that the clubface is WIDE open. He needs more palmar flexion in the lead wrist (Dustin Johnson) from top down to remove the necessity to flip it closed. 

Personally, I'd start with a drill where he sets up with weight forward and feels the left wrist flex a bunch on the downstroke. You'd get the flat left wrist pretty quickly. Then, slowly, make it more dynamic from there. 

Yep! I'd prioritize it this way: Either making sure weight is forward at impact or making sure he can get into a good finish AND making sure he gets the lead wrist correct. 

Progression with weight would be small swings with weight preset, and then move into bigger and bigger swings with less and less preset (still getting into finish). And for the clubface, accomplish palmer flexion and then move into start direction drills.