Keep The Right Hand Relaxed To Encourage A Late Release Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
Keep The Right Hand Relaxed To Encourage A Late Release Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

If you are looking to encourage that late release in the golf swing the right hand plays a very, very crucial role. The right hand is often sometimes the forgotten man of the downswing, it’s just seen as something which delivers power, but it can also play a very, very important role in how that club is delivered down into impact. Keeping the right hand and the right wrist very, very relaxed as you swing down into impact will help create that late release. It will help create that late impact into the ball. Now, there’s quite a few drills that you can use to accomplish this but what I would suggest first of all, is watching Sergio Garcia’s technique for how he manages to create this position.

You’ll see Sergio as he gets up to the top of the backswing start to get that club very, very laid off and behind him and it’s from this position that his right hand stays in a very relaxed positional and it almost stays in this classic waiter position that you see many people try and encourage you to get into at the top of the s wing. With the hand very, very flat to the sky if it was to be opened up and then moving down into the point of impact and you can see as that club fits into the hand just how laid off that club would be, if he managed to maintain that shot all the way through. Now, it’s a great drill that you can use just to try and keep that right hand in that relaxed position as you move down into the point of impact. So getting settled to a ball and you can hit these balls as well if you wish, the getting setup to the ball, taking it up to the top of the backswing, nice full turn as you’d want to see at the top of the swing. And from there just feel like that right hand is relaxing down and that club is dropping down behind you in this laid off position. It is very, very rare for people to manage to get into this position when they are hitting shots. Sergio is quite an extreme example when he gets to club this far behind him, but give it a go as a drill. So to the top laid off soft hand moving down and then swing through. And you can see as I move through the ball just how much whip I have to put on with my hand to try and square the clubface and to try and get that ball down to target. And like I said you can hit shots like that, but that is a fantastic drill to practice while relaxing that right hand down in the downswing actually feels like. 2016-10-06

If you are looking to encourage that late release in the golf swing the right hand plays a very, very crucial role. The right hand is often sometimes the forgotten man of the downswing, it’s just seen as something which delivers power, but it can also play a very, very important role in how that club is delivered down into impact. Keeping the right hand and the right wrist very, very relaxed as you swing down into impact will help create that late release. It will help create that late impact into the ball. Now, there’s quite a few drills that you can use to accomplish this but what I would suggest first of all, is watching Sergio Garcia’s technique for how he manages to create this position.

You’ll see Sergio as he gets up to the top of the backswing start to get that club very, very laid off and behind him and it’s from this position that his right hand stays in a very relaxed positional and it almost stays in this classic waiter position that you see many people try and encourage you to get into at the top of the s wing. With the hand very, very flat to the sky if it was to be opened up and then moving down into the point of impact and you can see as that club fits into the hand just how laid off that club would be, if he managed to maintain that shot all the way through. Now, it’s a great drill that you can use just to try and keep that right hand in that relaxed position as you move down into the point of impact.

So getting settled to a ball and you can hit these balls as well if you wish, the getting setup to the ball, taking it up to the top of the backswing, nice full turn as you’d want to see at the top of the swing. And from there just feel like that right hand is relaxing down and that club is dropping down behind you in this laid off position. It is very, very rare for people to manage to get into this position when they are hitting shots. Sergio is quite an extreme example when he gets to club this far behind him, but give it a go as a drill. So to the top laid off soft hand moving down and then swing through. And you can see as I move through the ball just how much whip I have to put on with my hand to try and square the clubface and to try and get that ball down to target. And like I said you can hit shots like that, but that is a fantastic drill to practice while relaxing that right hand down in the downswing actually feels like.