Should I Use Any Wrist Release On Long Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles
Should I Use Any Wrist Release On Long Golf Putts (Video) - by Pete Styles

Generally speaking using wrist release when you're putting is not something we would encourage at all. We often talk about making strokes where the wrists don’t have any involvement whatsoever. When we come to a very putt like I've got here a little way back up to this flag in the top corner, the red and white one, it's quite a long putt and actually got a slow green. And this is a sort of a putt where I might start to need a little bit of wrist release just to help a golf ball go a little bit further.

Now I'm not really indicating doing this with the wrist you know scooping with the wrist. This isn’t really the sort of thing we might need. But there is an element of softening of the wrist back and through. But I tell you what it's almost not a conscious thing. I don’t really have to think to myself flick and scoop, that’s only going to change the direction, the distance far too much. It's really just decide there that if I swing back and feel very robotic or much kind of bit stiff here, a lot wise get a bit stiff here. But if I just let my wrist soften and let my right elbow soften a little bit that can encourage the putt I had to swing a little bit more freely and a little bit more quickly to get the putt up there. So as I step to the side of the putt I have a good look at the hole as I'm making my stroke backwards and through and I can just feel the putt, so just moving slightly my finger tips just to feel a little bit softer by my wrist to doing a bit of work. And then as I roll it down towards the hole I feel there is a bit of wrist release in the follow through. And that gives me a putt that rolls the appropriate length up towards the hole. So if we have a very long putt through the full length of the green, we might just start to include a little bit of wrist softness rather than lesser wrist hinge in your putting stroke.
2014-10-14

Generally speaking using wrist release when you're putting is not something we would encourage at all. We often talk about making strokes where the wrists don’t have any involvement whatsoever. When we come to a very putt like I've got here a little way back up to this flag in the top corner, the red and white one, it's quite a long putt and actually got a slow green. And this is a sort of a putt where I might start to need a little bit of wrist release just to help a golf ball go a little bit further.

Now I'm not really indicating doing this with the wrist you know scooping with the wrist. This isn’t really the sort of thing we might need. But there is an element of softening of the wrist back and through. But I tell you what it's almost not a conscious thing. I don’t really have to think to myself flick and scoop, that’s only going to change the direction, the distance far too much. It's really just decide there that if I swing back and feel very robotic or much kind of bit stiff here, a lot wise get a bit stiff here. But if I just let my wrist soften and let my right elbow soften a little bit that can encourage the putt I had to swing a little bit more freely and a little bit more quickly to get the putt up there.

So as I step to the side of the putt I have a good look at the hole as I'm making my stroke backwards and through and I can just feel the putt, so just moving slightly my finger tips just to feel a little bit softer by my wrist to doing a bit of work. And then as I roll it down towards the hole I feel there is a bit of wrist release in the follow through. And that gives me a putt that rolls the appropriate length up towards the hole. So if we have a very long putt through the full length of the green, we might just start to include a little bit of wrist softness rather than lesser wrist hinge in your putting stroke.