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Originally Posted by
SoundandFury 
this may be a dumb question, but can you explain what you mean by "get the handle raising" and its significance?
Did you watch that video? He's demonstrating raising the handle when he says "arms straight". There is a good chance you're doing similar things to the student Joe is talking about.
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Originally Posted by
colin007
not a dumb question. this would mean that your path is on a more in to out direction. raise the handle a bit and push it a little forward at address. youll find that this can help to promote a better in to out path.
Exactly, also the feeling and act of "raising the handle" into the followthrough shallows the angle of attack because it gets the club out of the ground. It can also help lessen the rate of closure. So the AoA is more shallow and the club face has a better chance of not being pointed so far to the left at impact, higher ball flight with more of a outward path. Having the hands swing down and to the left or the elbows flexing rotates the path across the ball. Also with the weight back you can thrust, can't raise the handle.
Think of it this way. Lets's say you had to throw a sandbag over a 10ft wall in front of you, would you just swing left with the weight back? Or would you get the weight forward, press into the ground and stretch into the followthrough. Raising the handle is a feel to help that, literally feeling the handle (butt end of the club) go up.
I typed "high handicap golfer" into youtube and that's the dude on the left. Also notice how narrow the followthrough arc is, distance between his hands and body. The golfers on the right are much wider. Again what motion would work best for tossing that sand bag? Dude on the left ain't making it over the wall.
