Let me illustrate this by using the action of a carpet-beater as an example.

  The broad face of the beater must be applied fully and squarely to the carpet hanging on the line for an effective blow to be delivered over a wide area. 

The art of applying the club-face in a sustained and powerful blow at and through the ball.  The artise has superimposed the face of a carpet-beater on the club head which has been swung into a carpet hanging from a line instead of into the back of a golf ball.  Here the hands with the body-weight shifted laterally to the left have driven the whole of the hitting surface into the carpet.  The solid nature of the blow is clear.

  To achieve this and bring the broad face of the beater with sustained force against the carpet the hands must go through the beater towards the carpet.  If the hands arc checked or the face of the beater allowed to overtake them too quickly, the power of the blow is lost and only the further most inch or two makes any real contact with the carpet.

How different here.  The body has been held back on 'dead' feet, the right shoulder rides high, the right hand has overpowered the left which, of course, has collapsed at the wrist.  Only the far end of th ehitting surface has made contact and impact has been puny.

  It is a far more difficult operation with a golf club where the striking surface and the target are both infinitely smaller.  Therein lies the reason for so many topped or thinly struck shots.

  What happens in the similar cases of the thinly struck golf ball and the carpet where only the furthermost end of the beater's face makes contact?

  The left wrist has broken and the back of the left hand, instead of being retained in line with the forearm, has been allowed to form an angle with the forearm.

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