Why do players waggle the golf club as they set up? Well, you’ll see most professional players waggling the golf club before they hit the shot as a way to relieve tension in their hands, their fingers, their wrists and their arms. So once you’ve achieved a good set up position, waggling the club like that just helps to stop the muscles being very static and starting to get tight. It helps them to relax, and allows you to get the feel of a fluid swing from the golf club. So that’s the reason that players are waggling the golf club before they hit. It’s to relax the pressure and the tension in their forearms.

If you find you are struggling with the tension that you are holding the club with, and it’s important with to hit a good consistent solid golf shot to have a nice relaxed arm and hand pressure. If you find you are a little bit tight, if you squeeze the club as tightly as you can and we call that a Ten, if you now put that down to just half, so you can drop the pressure to five, ultimately one more number down to a four, you are now holding the club rather than squeezing it tight. And if you mix that drill of setting up, squeezing tight now halving the pressure and then down to a four, and then waggling the club, you are going to be in a nice relaxed position with the arms and the hands tension wise to make a good golf swing from.

So once you have tightened then relaxed, now waggle, that’s also starting you to come in from a non static position. So what you will find is that as you waggle you’ll take the club away much smoother rather than if you’re stuck in this say static position and getting tight and tense, you’ll tend to jerk the club head away. And obviously if you waggle and start a smoother action back, you will have a smoother action if you swing through that will allow you to hit the ball from the center of the clubface and you will start striking much better golf shots.