Create The Perfect Wrist Hinge Every time – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Create The Perfect Wrist Hinge Every time – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how golfers should create the correct amount of wrist hinge in the backswing every time. Taking a one-piece takeaway at the start of the swing, followed by utilizing more wrist hinge and developing a thumbs up to the sky approach, in the halfway back position, should encourage the correct amount to wrist hinge and therefore longer, straighter golf shots.

So one of the things we may see in the back swing is a lack of wrist henge and it's something that we need to create for certain reasons in the golf swing to help us create speed want to create an angle between the lead arm and it's also going to generate some club face control. We are now going to demonstrate throughout this video is going to give us a way to create more hinge in the back swing and get these wrists working how we'd like to. Firstly Pete what would be the bad things you say from a club golfers or an amateur golfer in the back swing where they're not using the wrists correctly. I think the 1st thing would be we would be rigid this possibly relating all the way back down to team grip pressure. If the gofer was to set up to the ball and that be squeezing the club so tightly that when it comes away comes away in one piece like this, and it never hinges. We are going to be very limited in how far that golf ball goes. Yes the flip side of that is probably too much wrist and too early.

The golfer that stands over the golf ball has a little bit of a waggle and pretty much hits it with the waggle they waggle it here pick it up too much wrist to early in the swing. Generally gets a little bit flick be so there's a right and a wrong place and how to use our wrists. So if you were guiding someone on creating a good wrist hinge what would to be a couple of check points that you'd look for? So well I think I would generally go with less wrist early so I like to see less wrist in the early part of the takeaway maybe get a round about to hit level before the wrist really starts to get active. What we would class as a one piece take away dominated by the upper body the shoulders while still he now starts to tilt up with the thumb and I specifically work on the thumbs because if you see thumbs using your wrist and you have a mixture nicely so thinking that them into a classic L. shape position form. Noticing the thumbs are vertical forms a vertical shaft vertical not ideal to be pointing almost went over my right shoulder this way the right handed golfer up and over my right shoulder. Excellent you've also allowed the shaft of the golf club to point down on the ball that's hard line so to steep it's too much. Flat back with too much you see the shaft doesn't point the ball just pointing the ball in the right position go hit that ball thumbs up behind our right shoulder shaft points at the ground to my L. shape.

Mirrors a really useful I've got a mirror where this camera I can see my L. shape and or a mirror on this side I can't I can just turn around and I can check on that same mirror again I can see what those positions look like. OK and your lead wrist is there anything you're looking for in there we say you know one of the famous players at the moment Dustin Johnson and a bit of a funky wrist position is that something that you talk about or are we trying to get it pretty neutral. So odd thing isn't it we've got the world's best player or 2nd best player depending on whatever week you watch of the moment and I'm going to say don't copy him. When you've got the world's best player you say just do what he does but the sting Johnson's lead wrist in a very awkward position you have to have all the physical attributes to be able to achieve what he achieved. So we don't really want to see this in these bowed position. We're looking more for more of a flat wrist a lot of golfers and wearing a glove with a badge on the back of a glove and we can see if the badge and the wrist is flat slightly cupped is OK but not too much but not that nice imply that L. shaped with a nice straight lead arm as well should deliver the club down to the ball in the correct way. Excellent and the benefits are going to be from getting this good wrist position with the thumbs up I certainly think you'll see the ball go further.

There's a golfer who doesn't have any wrist hinge adding wrist will go further but I think if a golfer has too much wrists they're probably losing directional control. Yes if he goes left right high low without control. So the right amount of wrist hinge probably gives the best balance between distance and accuracy. We all hope that those difficult things like using the wrist correctly and accurately will simply produce better golf shots. Brilliant so using that drill that Pete's explain to us if you want to demonstrate will forward hopefully what we're going to see now thumbs up to the sky that's it and through clearing they're going to see a good nice crisp shot. A really sweet connection now and quite tremendous distance as well fantastic shot. So if you go through that drill what we're going to see is better strikes more distance and that is just by getting your thumbs pointing up to the sky and out over your right shoulder for the right handed golfer as your lead arm is parallel to the ground give it a go and see how that works for you.

2018-12-20

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how golfers should create the correct amount of wrist hinge in the backswing every time. Taking a one-piece takeaway at the start of the swing, followed by utilizing more wrist hinge and developing a thumbs up to the sky approach, in the halfway back position, should encourage the correct amount to wrist hinge and therefore longer, straighter golf shots.

So one of the things we may see in the back swing is a lack of wrist henge and it's something that we need to create for certain reasons in the golf swing to help us create speed want to create an angle between the lead arm and it's also going to generate some club face control. We are now going to demonstrate throughout this video is going to give us a way to create more hinge in the back swing and get these wrists working how we'd like to. Firstly Pete what would be the bad things you say from a club golfers or an amateur golfer in the back swing where they're not using the wrists correctly. I think the 1st thing would be we would be rigid this possibly relating all the way back down to team grip pressure. If the gofer was to set up to the ball and that be squeezing the club so tightly that when it comes away comes away in one piece like this, and it never hinges. We are going to be very limited in how far that golf ball goes. Yes the flip side of that is probably too much wrist and too early.

The golfer that stands over the golf ball has a little bit of a waggle and pretty much hits it with the waggle they waggle it here pick it up too much wrist to early in the swing. Generally gets a little bit flick be so there's a right and a wrong place and how to use our wrists. So if you were guiding someone on creating a good wrist hinge what would to be a couple of check points that you'd look for? So well I think I would generally go with less wrist early so I like to see less wrist in the early part of the takeaway maybe get a round about to hit level before the wrist really starts to get active. What we would class as a one piece take away dominated by the upper body the shoulders while still he now starts to tilt up with the thumb and I specifically work on the thumbs because if you see thumbs using your wrist and you have a mixture nicely so thinking that them into a classic L. shape position form. Noticing the thumbs are vertical forms a vertical shaft vertical not ideal to be pointing almost went over my right shoulder this way the right handed golfer up and over my right shoulder. Excellent you've also allowed the shaft of the golf club to point down on the ball that's hard line so to steep it's too much. Flat back with too much you see the shaft doesn't point the ball just pointing the ball in the right position go hit that ball thumbs up behind our right shoulder shaft points at the ground to my L. shape.

Mirrors a really useful I've got a mirror where this camera I can see my L. shape and or a mirror on this side I can't I can just turn around and I can check on that same mirror again I can see what those positions look like. OK and your lead wrist is there anything you're looking for in there we say you know one of the famous players at the moment Dustin Johnson and a bit of a funky wrist position is that something that you talk about or are we trying to get it pretty neutral. So odd thing isn't it we've got the world's best player or 2nd best player depending on whatever week you watch of the moment and I'm going to say don't copy him. When you've got the world's best player you say just do what he does but the sting Johnson's lead wrist in a very awkward position you have to have all the physical attributes to be able to achieve what he achieved. So we don't really want to see this in these bowed position. We're looking more for more of a flat wrist a lot of golfers and wearing a glove with a badge on the back of a glove and we can see if the badge and the wrist is flat slightly cupped is OK but not too much but not that nice imply that L. shaped with a nice straight lead arm as well should deliver the club down to the ball in the correct way. Excellent and the benefits are going to be from getting this good wrist position with the thumbs up I certainly think you'll see the ball go further.

There's a golfer who doesn't have any wrist hinge adding wrist will go further but I think if a golfer has too much wrists they're probably losing directional control. Yes if he goes left right high low without control. So the right amount of wrist hinge probably gives the best balance between distance and accuracy. We all hope that those difficult things like using the wrist correctly and accurately will simply produce better golf shots. Brilliant so using that drill that Pete's explain to us if you want to demonstrate will forward hopefully what we're going to see now thumbs up to the sky that's it and through clearing they're going to see a good nice crisp shot. A really sweet connection now and quite tremendous distance as well fantastic shot. So if you go through that drill what we're going to see is better strikes more distance and that is just by getting your thumbs pointing up to the sky and out over your right shoulder for the right handed golfer as your lead arm is parallel to the ground give it a go and see how that works for you.