Hi there. I'm a relative newcomer to this forum, but I already feel much indebted to Yoda and you-all for insights that have helped me make a great breakthrough in my ballstriking.
Here's my question: is there a key position in the right wrist (primarily, in angle of cupping) that I should try to make consistent?
For a mini-history, I'm another one of those entirely self-taught golfers, have played reasonably well for [gulp!] 40 years, and as I approach retirement age, am a 4 on my home course, but my game doesn't travel well. For one thing, I'm distance-challenged (average 220-yd. drives and 7 iron carry distance is 150 yds. tops), relying on a better than average short game but also on course management and familiarity with just a few courses. My ballstriking has been more like a 12 or 15. And until discovering some "magic TGM moves," I've averaged 6 or 7 GIR per round.
The flat left wrist, which I've been trying to habituate for ~3 weeks now, has been great for my ballstriking, especially when combined with right-forearm tracing and setting the right hand in the right-shoulder plane at the top of the backswing. I'm now hitting shots every day that I would have hit once a month before TGM.
Maintaining the flat left wrist, *always* getting the right forearm UP instead of below the plane (allowing the club to be laid off), and especially, maintaining lag through impact (instead of throwing the club just before impact) remain my biggest bugaboos. After I got off the course last night, I was practicing some "air takeaways" and discovered that the more I cup the right wrist at address, the more the left wrist is pulled into a flat (or even bowed, at the extreme end) position. Also, the more I cup the right wrist, for some reason, the more automatically the right arm folds in the takeaway, which seems like a good thing for remembering to fold that arm upward instead of letting it float below the plane.
I thought I'd ask you-all if there's a magic percentage or angle of right-wrist bend I should try to standardize at address. This whole scheme might be a bad idea, or perhaps there are dangers in overdoing the right wrist cup. I don't want to introduce anything that will sidetrack my progress. Thanks in advance for any observations or theories you are willing to share. -- JC (John from Ohio)
After I got off the course last night, I was practicing some "air takeaways" and discovered that the more I cup the right wrist at address, the more the left wrist is pulled into a flat (or even bowed, at the extreme end) position. Also, the more I cup the right wrist, for some reason, the more automatically the right arm folds in the takeaway, which seems like a good thing for remembering to fold that arm upward instead of letting it float below the plane. 
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