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You're right Bill, sods like he's not staying under the ball. Keep your thumb at 1:00 and leave it there all the way thru your delivery. You should be turning the ball with JUST your wrist and fingers. Your thumb is there only to help hang onto the ball and guide it through the swing.
Bob
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Sorry, the computer can't spell worth a darn...should be ... "sounds like"
Bob
"There truly is such a thing as a bad night and when these doomed evenings arrive you can't avoid them. But there's a bright side to this, it's that bad nights won't kill you, and sometimes will make you a little smarter."
Great advice, thank you guys! That's definitely the problem is I'm still trying to use my fingers to hold the ball like on a conventional house ball lol and I'm not using my hand to hold the weight on the backswing. I'll work on keeping my hand under the ball. Right now it's kind of hard because I don't have the strength in my wrist and fingers to keep all that weight up, but like anything just takes time and practice I guess.
I had a similar problem after a few years of using house balls, then getting a ball drilled for my hand. It was a conventional grip but the thumb was much more snug than what you find in a house ball. I was so used to gripping the ball on my backswing that my thumb got really tore up with my new ball. I worked on the problem of my grip and then maybe a month or 2 later went with a fingertip grip. I found the transition quite easy.
I'm guessing that the main problem is you are trying to grip the ball too much, and perhaps wrist and hand strength is less of an issue.
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