Went to my first lesson the other day....

[jl923]

Not sure how i felt about it. The instructor told me I was a little over the plane at the top of my backswing, and that made me come too far inside on the downswing, causing my right elbow to get "stuck" and forced me to flip at impact. Sounds pretty solid reasoning to me, but I wanted to run this by ST for some feedback. Thanks all.

[JackLee]

There is an optimum plane for each club length, but I think that it is not so critical that being a little over it would cause those results.

If you paid for that lesson, I hope you got more than that for your money.

The root cause of flipping is an arm swing that gets ahead of your body movements.  The golf swing should be body and hands (body powered swing), not arms and hands.

[CuppedTin]

Go to someone who offers video lessons or do them online. Don't be fooled by most pro's or assistant pro's at your local courses...