Should I Hinge My Wrists In the Golf Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler
Should I Hinge My Wrists In the Golf Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay, should I hinge my wrist in the golf swing? Well most definitely. If we didn’t hinge the wrist in the swing we’d have a swing looking a bit like this, straight arms straight through. And you can see for this sort of action here it’s very restricted and we are certainly not going to hit the ball very far. I might hit it very straight but I’m not going to hit it very far so the wrists are very, very important. They generate club head speed, they generate power. So when you set up to the ball this is what our need to do to get these risks kind of activity involved. When you push the club away, you should be pushing that way with the left arm and the left shoulder so we’ve got a nice extension going back into this point here.

You can see everything is really nice and true in line and from here the wrist should be hinging and we should be fit getting ourselves into a position like the letter L or 9 o’clock. That’s where we want you to go so when you go with the [Indiscernible] [0:01:01] the wrist straight away, is pushing away so this is one piece. So it’s what I call widths then hinge and when you do that you’ve got that position. From here let’s just put one more element in which is rotation of the shoulders. So from here I’ve pushed back, I’ve hinged and as I hinge I turn my shoulders back to the ball. I’m going to push, I’m going to hinge and as I hinge I’m going to turn my shoulders and if you see a very, very simple sort of method through maybe you have better arms and not enough wrist activity. Now for a senior golfers we need to incorporate these wrists a little more than maybe the younger lads because we haven’t got the flexibility in the body of bending our back and throwing ourselves at it. So we need to use our wrists just a little more. So when you get yourself over the ball I want you to focus on this letter L. So from here focus on getting to here, this position and from there as the club comes down because you hinge your wrists, they will start it on hinge. And when we go through we want it to be a mirror image. Now remember the picture where we’ve got – there’s the picture so when we go through the ball we want it to be here. So if I set myself up swing the club back, push your left arm and hinge your wrist and you can see I’ve got the mirror image going through. Now don’t worry too much about will my wrist do it, if you hinge those wrists as you go back believe me those wrists will start to hinge coming into it. It will happen quite naturally but the key is here is to make sure that we push away with the arm and then hinge the wrist as we go back. We mustn’t go back thinking wrist sprain. So that’s the key element the wrists are very important they generate club speed, they generate power, they generate the release through the ball. You’ve got the tools in place now, this is something that you need to work on the practice ground and if you struggle remember you might have been doing it one way for a long period of time. Always good work to kind of go and see that PGA pro if you are struggling ask him to give you some help some time and with a bit of practice between the two of you should be able to get it sorted out. 2014-05-15

Okay, should I hinge my wrist in the golf swing? Well most definitely. If we didn’t hinge the wrist in the swing we’d have a swing looking a bit like this, straight arms straight through. And you can see for this sort of action here it’s very restricted and we are certainly not going to hit the ball very far. I might hit it very straight but I’m not going to hit it very far so the wrists are very, very important. They generate club head speed, they generate power. So when you set up to the ball this is what our need to do to get these risks kind of activity involved. When you push the club away, you should be pushing that way with the left arm and the left shoulder so we’ve got a nice extension going back into this point here.

You can see everything is really nice and true in line and from here the wrist should be hinging and we should be fit getting ourselves into a position like the letter L or 9 o’clock. That’s where we want you to go so when you go with the [Indiscernible] [0:01:01] the wrist straight away, is pushing away so this is one piece. So it’s what I call widths then hinge and when you do that you’ve got that position. From here let’s just put one more element in which is rotation of the shoulders. So from here I’ve pushed back, I’ve hinged and as I hinge I turn my shoulders back to the ball. I’m going to push, I’m going to hinge and as I hinge I’m going to turn my shoulders and if you see a very, very simple sort of method through maybe you have better arms and not enough wrist activity.

Now for a senior golfers we need to incorporate these wrists a little more than maybe the younger lads because we haven’t got the flexibility in the body of bending our back and throwing ourselves at it. So we need to use our wrists just a little more. So when you get yourself over the ball I want you to focus on this letter L. So from here focus on getting to here, this position and from there as the club comes down because you hinge your wrists, they will start it on hinge. And when we go through we want it to be a mirror image. Now remember the picture where we’ve got – there’s the picture so when we go through the ball we want it to be here. So if I set myself up swing the club back, push your left arm and hinge your wrist and you can see I’ve got the mirror image going through.

Now don’t worry too much about will my wrist do it, if you hinge those wrists as you go back believe me those wrists will start to hinge coming into it. It will happen quite naturally but the key is here is to make sure that we push away with the arm and then hinge the wrist as we go back. We mustn’t go back thinking wrist sprain. So that’s the key element the wrists are very important they generate club speed, they generate power, they generate the release through the ball. You’ve got the tools in place now, this is something that you need to work on the practice ground and if you struggle remember you might have been doing it one way for a long period of time. Always good work to kind of go and see that PGA pro if you are struggling ask him to give you some help some time and with a bit of practice between the two of you should be able to get it sorted out.