Help with shots going left

Hey,

Had a lesson with video. Aside from my "too much backswing" and no extension of my left arm, I was told I had too weak of a grip. I was told to strengthen my grip. The instructor drew to circles on my left hand's two knuckles. It did help, yet now my shots go left, him telling me that I am closing the face at impact to make up for my weak grip, I understand that because I am not used to it, the grip is uncomfortable. Yet I can barely see my first knuckle, and I can not grip the club to see both knuckles. Is this normal? I've read on this site about strong grips seeing not only 2 knuckles, yet 3???? Could this be my gip size?  And what can I practice to stop me from closing the club face?

In my case, and I use a strong grip is, if I don't swing in to out, I hit pulls, pull hooks and god knows what else..lol All this is due to my swing coming from out to in. When I do swing in to out, my ball has a nice draw, or if I get lucky and square the face real well, my shots will go pretty straight. These shots would include 4i through my wedges. We won't get into how my 3 wood, and driver go...

Maybe one of the resident pros can weigh in on this and more info. to offer you.

This seems weird to me.  I mean do you have like giant gorilla hands with incredibly short fingers or something?  haha  Based on how I do it my grip isn't uncomfortable at all and I can see 2 knuckles pretty easily.  I just have the grip of the club run (mostly) across where my fingers connect to my palm and then fold the palm up the side of the grip and my thumb lands right on top pointing down the shaft.

Anyway if you're closing the clubface maybe you're trying to muscle the club through the ball with your right arm (assuming you're right handed) and it's snapping the clubface closed or something.  If you can do a video that's probably the best way to get help.

Hardballs speaks true.  Adult learners have a hell of time moving the hips correctly and on time. Keep your mind off your hands and arms, practice just moving the hips and letting the arms swing free.  For this practice forget , as far as possible, about where the ball goes.  Keep the head still, rotate, move the hips.

If you have an overswing at the top of your backswing chances are, unless you are a very good player, you will be casting the club from the top of your backswing this will then be putting you over the top causing the shot to the left.  Work out why you are overswinging would be my advice although it's hard to comment without seeing your swing. Quite often, people with big overswings don't have the club travelling fast enough through impact so they swing it longer to try and gain power, unfortunately this long swing is a waste of energy as they don't store the momentum down into impact with the correct lag.  Try this drill to help you shorten your swing, good luck!!

I see what is going on. Went to the range this morning. Still, all balls going left. When did my swings very slowly, I am turning my hands(wrists left) over at impact. Realized I had no "flat left wrist".  Then when I do the "flat wrist" my ball goes straight. I do have a question(problem maybe?). For this I need to, with my left hand, grip the club stronger(tighter). When I do this my swing speed somewhat decreases.  And my distance is less than when the ball goes left(I think). Is this common? How can I increase swing speed, IF this is the problem? Any drills?

On another note, I want to have my swing video analized: paying at the range, of finding a buddy to do this, then post this to the "member swings". Which is best: from behind, or frontal view or both?