Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
So having spent the last four videos talking about wrist hinge and how it's so important and how it's so useful, there are times and places on the golf course where wrist hinge wants to happen to a lesser degree. And this particularly in terms of your short game is going to bring the ball flight down a little bit lower. So if you're pitching or chipping the ball around the side of the green, and you don't want to hit the ball particularly high having less wrists in the backswing, less wrist in the follow-through is a great way of bringing your ball flight down. And you can actually use the same idea and that same technique as you go into your fuller swings if you want to bring the ball flight down, so particularly looking at punch shots.
As we’ve got a day, today it’s quite windy out here on the practice range. If I wanted to hit the ball low because it was a cross wind or into the wind, I want to bring my ball flight down I can hinge my wrist less on the backswing. And whatever wrist hinge I get, I hold on to it. So during the swing I'm going to hinge less coming back here hitting the ball a lot more with my body as I turn through my hands and rehinging less. So I'm not having this big flick and scoop through the ball. Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, punch feeling here left hand leading the way, less loft on the clubface. Hold, hold all the way through and that sort of knockdown punch finish rather than the fullout shape on the follow through. That's going to feel like I have more control of my clubhead speed, maybe slightly slower. The ball flight is going to be lower and I'm going to deloft slightly at the point of impact. So chipping, pitching the ball around the greens or actually hitting fuller punch shots, lower flight, more penetrating flight, less spin rising the ball up into the air. So it's less wrist hinge on this side, more held off on this side. That's on the golf course when you want to use less wrist hinge to bring your ball flight lower. 2016-10-19 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
So having spent the last four videos talking about wrist hinge and how it's so important and how it's so useful, there are times and places on the golf course where wrist hinge wants to happen to a lesser degree. And this particularly in terms of your short game is going to bring the ball flight down a little bit lower. So if you're pitching or chipping the ball around the side of the green, and you don't want to hit the ball particularly high having less wrists in the backswing, less wrist in the follow-through is a great way of bringing your ball flight down. And you can actually use the same idea and that same technique as you go into your fuller swings if you want to bring the ball flight down, so particularly looking at punch shots.
As we’ve got a day, today it’s quite windy out here on the practice range. If I wanted to hit the ball low because it was a cross wind or into the wind, I want to bring my ball flight down I can hinge my wrist less on the backswing. And whatever wrist hinge I get, I hold on to it. So during the swing I'm going to hinge less coming back here hitting the ball a lot more with my body as I turn through my hands and rehinging less. So I'm not having this big flick and scoop through the ball. Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, punch feeling here left hand leading the way, less loft on the clubface. Hold, hold all the way through and that sort of knockdown punch finish rather than the fullout shape on the follow through. That's going to feel like I have more control of my clubhead speed, maybe slightly slower.
The ball flight is going to be lower and I'm going to deloft slightly at the point of impact. So chipping, pitching the ball around the greens or actually hitting fuller punch shots, lower flight, more penetrating flight, less spin rising the ball up into the air. So it's less wrist hinge on this side, more held off on this side. That's on the golf course when you want to use less wrist hinge to bring your ball flight lower.
