Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about wrist hinge and how to controls your trajectory in pitching. You can have a couple of extremes no wrist hinge some wrist hinge and a lot of wrist hinge and what does that do. The more you hinge your wrist on the way to the top the steeper the angle of attack the steeper the angle of attack the more the ball tends to jump up in the air. So everybody has their normal wrist hinge for most shots but if the ball might be sitting down with them and it's in this rough a bitt and I can really go down after it I want to get up super high I might hinge my wrist a little bit more effectively so it jumps up and as you can the that ball came out a little bit softer.

. If I had a long flowing type of the pitch shot I want to keep the ball a bit lower and a kind of come out and flatter and tumble forward I might use very little wrist hinge looks like this. So what happened is you have to figure out what wrist hinge is natural for you had a lot of that deals with the greens you play more often than not. It's the greens you elevate just a little bit you'll probably have in the modern wrist hinge if you take it back the greens are more elevated you're probably going to have a little bit more wrist hinge. If you grew up in Florida the greens are a little lower not a lot of elevation not a lot of wrist hinge but experiment with no wrist hinge some wrist hinge and a lot of wrist hinge because you're going to need that you can good fluffy and poor lies around the green. So experiment with your wrist hinge and you'll be able to control your trajectory a lot more effectively.