I'll try to respond with my layman approach. It worked really well in another thread. Several very good analysis were produced by people who know better thereafter.
I'll right this in a lefty version.
According to the first video your club catch up with your hand and gets past them right betwen your feet. That's the flip.
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You said it, flip city. You're bending your left wrist through impact. So dont do that and you're fixed.
By allowing the clubhead to overtake your hands later in your swing and via a flat and rolling left wrist instead of bending one will see you return to form. Quickly.
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You are letting the club outrace your hands and possibly letting the hands outrace your pivot as well. The body, hands and club are not properly synchronized. A perception of striking at the ball instead of striking through it may be a mental error here. Drag the club through the ball with your right side or drive through the ball with your left side. But don't flip it at the ball.
The low point of your swing seems to be at the ball if not before. Low point should be outside your right foot, which is way past your ball position. Lowpoint meaning the last point where you still move the club down and out. You fail to generate the club head speed you are capable of and you run out of steam long before you get to the ball. You've clearly fired you power accumulators too early.
Just to get a feel for something that is more right you could try to throw the club towards the target. With a golf stroke. Then just release the club so that it flies down the fairway. Test how long you can throw it and how straight. It is highly likely that you will get a different perception of the correct timing by doing this. Another thing that could produce a more proper feel would be to prepare your stroke for a fuller finish and follow thru. Your finish seems to be shorter than the backstroke. It should rather be the other way around. A short backstroke and a long follow thru. Or symmetry.
But going from feel to real - The flying wedges:
Your left hand should be level, bent and frozen from the very beginning and till the ball is gone. Your left elbow is allowed to bend and unbend. Your right hand shall be flat and level at address. It shall not be allowed to bend and arch at all before the club has reached low point, but remain flat at all times. But it is allowed to cock and uncock.
This means that the left forearm and the club will be one rigid unit without any moving parts. And the angle between left and right forearm will be constant so the two forearms will be quite rigid to. Does it feel flimsy and flexible? No. Does it feel heavy and solid? Yes. Will it feel natural to perform a stroke with the wedges intact? Probably no because the rest of your stroke isn't ready for it yet. You will have to adjust the body and arms components to get to the right position at the top of the backstroke and avoid the flipping at impact. A flip-alike thing will however happen past low point but then it's ok.
The flying wedges will impose certain reqairements and restrictions on your stroke. And they will be highly productive. They will dictate your body to align the pressure ponts 1, 2 & 3 more in accordance with an uncompensated stroke. You will have to adjust the timing and the rhythm, and possible the pivot itself and the arms movement to get it all together. The wedges shall remain undisturbed until the ball is gone. My guess is that you will have to drive your pivot a few degrees further through and have more open shoulders before impact. And that you will be forced to wait out a little with the arms in the down stroke compared to what you are used to.
The flying wedges are a good point of reference for getting things right. They will remove certain degrees of freedom that can only ruin your stroke. So you can use them to enforce a better stroke pattern overall. And when you get it right you can strike the ball as hard as you wish.
Start with the little strokes. Then proceed with easy pitches. And when you start getting things together you can increase the length of the back stroke.
In the first video you posted you are doing a full stroke waggle, by starting at the ball. You could do the same with the flying wedges implemented and the frozen left wrist. But instead of starting at the ball you should bring it forward and start outside your right foot - at low point. You will need to do this above the ground and bring the club back above the ball of course. But it will give you a good indication of how your pivot and arms need to work through impact.
The flying wedges doesn't fix all stroke problems. For instance it is still possible to mix hitting and swinging in a very counter productive way. But the flying wedges are corner stones in a golfing machine and a safe path to lasting progress. That's why there is a lot of info about them at this forum.