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People I am playing with recently are telling me that there is "too much hands" in my swing. Do you guys understand what that means? What can I do to correct this?

I have been told the same thing. The modern day golf swing involves more of the bigger muscels (shoulders, hips, etc.) rather than the hands in powering through the golf ball. You probably are a little "wristy" coming through the ball.

Do you grip the club with a baseball grip (10 fingers) or overlap or reverse overlap grip?

I found going to an overlap grip reduced my wrists in my swing. I also found that focusing on my arms of the swing and not the ball, helped reduce my wrists in the swing.

I've been told this for years. I have a rather short backswing and a lot of my distance comes from my hands and wrists. It doesn't have to be a bad thing if your swing is working for you.

It probably means that you don't have enough shoulder turn and hip turn during your backswing, and are making up for it. Aim for around 90 deg. shoulder turn, and around 45 degree hip turn at the top of your backswing.

Does anyone have any tips which will keep me remembering to do this? I will emember for some shots but then I will forget at some point and go back to my old ways.

Please let me know. Thanks.

You can practice making a good shoulder/hip turn anywhere. All you need for it is your body. 5 minutes of practicing good turns before work, 5 minutes of practicing good turns after work. Do that for a month and you can't help to bring the proper turn to the course with you. It may help flexibility also.

put some towels under your armpits and staying connected with your trunk.Youll be surprised how much power you can generate by the rotation of your upper body.Your hands shouldnt come in play until after your arms drop into the slot.
just picture swinging an axe. You dont just use your hands right? Got that from my former teacher Roger dunn.

im guessing you have a hook?, a simple fix would be just to focus on your hip and shoulder turn and youll be good

Thanks for the tips. Especially liked the one about the towels under the arms which seemed ot helped.

Another thing that helped today was making my backswing longer or extending it further and that really seemed to help.

Any ideas on why? Is my short backswing (I guess I did'nt think it was that short but others are telling me it is) causing the problem?

I have a short backswing. When I used to have a long backswing I usually tended to Overswing, causing the club to collapse at the top, and then I lost a lot of power as a result. Now I don't go as far, to me it feels like a 3/4 swing, when really when I looked in a mirror it's a full swing which was just parrallel to my target line at the top.

I feel I have more control of the club with this, and a lot more power. I hope this helps.

My thinking must be off then. Because I was lengthening my swing today on the range and actually hitting the ball much better. I think the longer swing was getting me a better shoulder and hips turn.

What I am noticing is that I practice on the range and then forget when I am on the course. Trying to come up with something that will keep me from forgetting once I start playing.

When I get nervous or feel I have to hit long, definite problems with hands.

Well if the longer swing works for you then don't let me stop you. To help you stop forgetting what you have practiced, just go out practicing it for hours on end. Therefore the swing will edge it's way in automatically for when you are out on the golf course.

at times not even forgetting, sometime I get the feeling like I need to swing the club really fast because I feel the distance is borderline too long for the particular club. Or I get crazy and think I can hit the driver 300 yards...

Just wanted to share my observations from earlier today. longer backswing seems to force a shoulder/hip turn which results in a much straighter shot.