Summary Of Wrist Hinge In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Summary Of Wrist Hinge In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Hinging the wrists in the golf swing is something that a lot of golfers will do instinctively; it would be very unnatural to swing the golf club with no wrist hinge at all. So I think most golfers have the idea that they’re meant to be using their wrist in some way, and they would hinge the wrist this way and hinge the wrist on the way through as well. But actually being able to control that wrist hinge and understanding that wrist hinge in a little bit more detail, is a good way of enabling you to hit longer and straight to golf shots. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to hit the ball longer and straighter as well? So let’s have a good talk about how we can use the wrist in the golf swing and how that can benefit you, so the first thing to notice is when does the wrist hinge happens? Now you can see in my set position that my arms and hands aren’t perfectly straight with the shaft, I have some hinge this way, and also as I’m bringing the golf club back I’m going to hinge the wrist up this way, so you’ll see from the front end I’m turning and hinging the wrist up.

And I create maybe ninety degrees of wrist hinge at this point as the left arm gets to horizontal, the shaft gets to vertical so we’ve created some wrist hinge here. Now that’s not the only time the wrist will hinge in the back swing, we generally for a lot of golfers get another secondary hinge at the top of the swing particularly as the club recoils and starts its way down so we’ve got this 90-degree angle at this point, then at the top as we change direction we actually get another secondary wrist hinge effectively as the lagging of the shaft. So we turn up to the top, we create more lag, the club head is still going this way, I pull my arms down, we get a secondary wrist hinge. That really puts a lot of angle between the left forearm and the shaft for the right handed golfer. Now it’s the releasing of that hinge that actually releases the power of the club head, and we want to try and time that so it happens just after an after impact. There would be no point in having all this wrist hinge and then getting rid of it too early and having nothing left to hit the golf ball with. So from the top we create a lag in the hinge and then we release it right at a vital point here to get maximum club head speed releasing all the way through the finish, and yes we will have some wrist hinge wrist releasing up at this point. But we don’t really need to worry too much about that, the power and the speed of the club head will allow that bit to happen on its own anyway. So in these next few videos we’re going to look at how we can encourage the right amount of wrist hinge and the right amount of wrist release to generate maximum power for those longer, straighter golf shots. 2016-08-19

Hinging the wrists in the golf swing is something that a lot of golfers will do instinctively; it would be very unnatural to swing the golf club with no wrist hinge at all. So I think most golfers have the idea that they’re meant to be using their wrist in some way, and they would hinge the wrist this way and hinge the wrist on the way through as well. But actually being able to control that wrist hinge and understanding that wrist hinge in a little bit more detail, is a good way of enabling you to hit longer and straight to golf shots. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to hit the ball longer and straighter as well? So let’s have a good talk about how we can use the wrist in the golf swing and how that can benefit you, so the first thing to notice is when does the wrist hinge happens? Now you can see in my set position that my arms and hands aren’t perfectly straight with the shaft, I have some hinge this way, and also as I’m bringing the golf club back I’m going to hinge the wrist up this way, so you’ll see from the front end I’m turning and hinging the wrist up.

And I create maybe ninety degrees of wrist hinge at this point as the left arm gets to horizontal, the shaft gets to vertical so we’ve created some wrist hinge here. Now that’s not the only time the wrist will hinge in the back swing, we generally for a lot of golfers get another secondary hinge at the top of the swing particularly as the club recoils and starts its way down so we’ve got this 90-degree angle at this point, then at the top as we change direction we actually get another secondary wrist hinge effectively as the lagging of the shaft. So we turn up to the top, we create more lag, the club head is still going this way, I pull my arms down, we get a secondary wrist hinge. That really puts a lot of angle between the left forearm and the shaft for the right handed golfer.

Now it’s the releasing of that hinge that actually releases the power of the club head, and we want to try and time that so it happens just after an after impact. There would be no point in having all this wrist hinge and then getting rid of it too early and having nothing left to hit the golf ball with. So from the top we create a lag in the hinge and then we release it right at a vital point here to get maximum club head speed releasing all the way through the finish, and yes we will have some wrist hinge wrist releasing up at this point. But we don’t really need to worry too much about that, the power and the speed of the club head will allow that bit to happen on its own anyway. So in these next few videos we’re going to look at how we can encourage the right amount of wrist hinge and the right amount of wrist release to generate maximum power for those longer, straighter golf shots.