When to Start Wrist Hinge to Create more Power for Senior Golfers (Video) - by Dean Butler
When to Start Wrist Hinge to Create more Power for Senior Golfers (Video) - by Dean Butler

Let's talk about the wrist hinge and when it should start, because the wrist hinge is very, very important. Because it basically encourages a release, so which gives you lots of control and lots of power. And it's something that people just don't know enough information about. So that will be making my job to hopefully make this as simple as possible, not complicated and show you how we go about this. Let's just take your normal setup over the ball. What we want you to do is to concentrate on this takeaway with the shoulder, the forearm, the club and the clubhead.

And as we take the club back, we keep that extension going back and we start to hinge the wrist at this point here and whilst turning the shoulders. Now by getting yourself into this position, you can see this angle that we have actually created. And then from here as we bring the club back down, we hold that position coming down as much as we can. And then at the bottom, we release that club through the ball, so it's very, very important indeed to think about the wrist hinge, because typical senior golfers tend to swing a little bit more like with their arms. Now, that’s fine, it’s fine if you have got, if you haven't gotten the flexibility to be able to turn the shoulder so much. But, have you thought about maybe turn the shoulders through 70 degrees, rather than 90. We can’t do 90, let's go 70, so again, keep your left arm straight, hinge your wrists. And you can see now, I have actually reduced my shoulder turn. So I have reduced the shoulder turn, but I'm in control, I have got more power because I have gotten this lovely wrist hinge here. And I have got all the power now I sent it into the downward stroke into the back of the ball, because isn’t there, where we want the power to be. Of course we do, so a very, very simple thing there. Take the club back, remember, it’s a not a wrist break like this, it’s not a wrist break like that, where that doesn’t exist, it’s push away of your left arm and shoulder, hinge your left wrist as you go back, turning your shoulders. And if 90 degrees is not too comfortable for you, because obviously we are seniors, then go through 70 degrees or 75 degrees. So find where your comfort zone is, go there. And believe me, when you are coming to hit that ball, you really, really will feel that the power is actually at the bottom, whereas normally, it would have been more at the top. Go away and work on this, this is not something that's going to take hours and hours and hours, it’s very simple. Push away with your arm, hinge your wrists, don’t turn your shoulders too much if you can’t do that and then from here, concentrate on hitting that ball. So here we go, back, that ball, all that energy is actually going to the back of that ball and it’s driven it, it’s that simple. Go away and work on it, if you do still, go see your PGA Pro, he will help you. 2013-10-29

Let's talk about the wrist hinge and when it should start, because the wrist hinge is very, very important. Because it basically encourages a release, so which gives you lots of control and lots of power. And it's something that people just don't know enough information about. So that will be making my job to hopefully make this as simple as possible, not complicated and show you how we go about this. Let's just take your normal setup over the ball. What we want you to do is to concentrate on this takeaway with the shoulder, the forearm, the club and the clubhead.

And as we take the club back, we keep that extension going back and we start to hinge the wrist at this point here and whilst turning the shoulders. Now by getting yourself into this position, you can see this angle that we have actually created. And then from here as we bring the club back down, we hold that position coming down as much as we can. And then at the bottom, we release that club through the ball, so it's very, very important indeed to think about the wrist hinge, because typical senior golfers tend to swing a little bit more like with their arms.

Now, that’s fine, it’s fine if you have got, if you haven't gotten the flexibility to be able to turn the shoulder so much. But, have you thought about maybe turn the shoulders through 70 degrees, rather than 90. We can’t do 90, let's go 70, so again, keep your left arm straight, hinge your wrists. And you can see now, I have actually reduced my shoulder turn. So I have reduced the shoulder turn, but I'm in control, I have got more power because I have gotten this lovely wrist hinge here.

And I have got all the power now I sent it into the downward stroke into the back of the ball, because isn’t there, where we want the power to be. Of course we do, so a very, very simple thing there. Take the club back, remember, it’s a not a wrist break like this, it’s not a wrist break like that, where that doesn’t exist, it’s push away of your left arm and shoulder, hinge your left wrist as you go back, turning your shoulders. And if 90 degrees is not too comfortable for you, because obviously we are seniors, then go through 70 degrees or 75 degrees.

So find where your comfort zone is, go there. And believe me, when you are coming to hit that ball, you really, really will feel that the power is actually at the bottom, whereas normally, it would have been more at the top. Go away and work on this, this is not something that's going to take hours and hours and hours, it’s very simple. Push away with your arm, hinge your wrists, don’t turn your shoulders too much if you can’t do that and then from here, concentrate on hitting that ball.

So here we go, back, that ball, all that energy is actually going to the back of that ball and it’s driven it, it’s that simple. Go away and work on it, if you do still, go see your PGA Pro, he will help you.