Should You Roll Your Wrists In The Golf Downswing – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
Should You Roll Your Wrists In The Golf Downswing – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how the rotation of the wrists during the golf downswing can have a fundamental affect on the position of the golf club face during the point of impact. Some golfers are confused about how and when the wrists should release and rotate the club face through impact. This confusion often causes wayward golf shots. By understanding the timing of this rotation and how the club face is affected by the releasing and rotation of the wrists, a golfer will feel like they have a much greater degree of control over their club face and ultimately their golf ball.

Right Pete the title suggests we're talking about the wrists and particularly the wrists in the downswing and should we be rolling them on the downswing. What will be the benefits of it and what will be the disadvantages of it as we do that? OK Rotation of wrist rolling wrist as we sometimes call it is very very responsible for the angle and position of the club face. Yeah so we can't really talk about rotation of wrists unless we are in the funk pulled by and what happens to the golf ball OK So the question is should you rotate your wrist I'm going to throw them back at you and say well what's the ball flight OK if the ball goes to the left yet the answer is different to with the ball goes to the right OK because rotating the wrist control the face off controls where the golf all goes OK So more rotation of the wrists going to equal more rotation of the face exactly that the face will start to roll more of the left for the right handed golfer the ball will go left OK and therefore not rolling the receive enough will the fold of right hand side so much that if we look at Joe Average and let's say Joe average golfer probably slices the golfer all that I think most golfers Yes I'm going to cause across the ball the ball going to go to the rights of the intended target Yes therefore the club face he's largely open in relation to the path or even sometimes the target Yes if the club face he's aiming to the right too much of path or target then the chances are all the wrist didn't do enough work OK into the golf will often set the club back this white but then if they don't release the club that face point right the form will go to the right hand side of potentially curve a lot further right and I think one of the things you often see when you watch the world's best players is that very very strong in that position.

Matt now that I've gone this camera now the forearm on really jumps out to me a lot of the people that we teach we see the opposite don't wait for the right hands on them we've got this to last for arm on top of the swing. So rolling the wrist is going to get that site turning over a little bit more and they forearms just ask a golfer to get your forearm to match if you can get your forearm to touch each other and to match here if they did this we would argue that position is after going to be a great way of releasing rotating the club by whether you bring that clubface through the elbow to call the park this is right that's not going to release the club site enough so a good exercise might be discovering the driving range sticking your feet together and allowing your hands to release and rotate like this Now the reason I say put your feet to gether is that will stop your body differently much working with the icy or just feeling Soliah in your hands just making the motion and being aware of how much is going on and if you were to relate how much is going on you use a ball flight is it you the more you do you see more curves the less you do the less kids you see absolutely going to hit 2 shots in the further being the yellow line going to actively release my hands over when I actively release my hand. You'll see that ball drop down that left hand side had a lot of turn a hawk all too much rotation All right so he was a quiet it down now and hit the strike shot for me what if they saw it we might even see this side of things 1st not would be not enough rotation Yeah that's going to create a coasting shot.

When the ball goes down the right hand side of the front camera you'll see I haven't released my hands I haven't rotated skeptical the knife solution yet will cut the right heart disease so it sounds a bit obvious aside from more easy to say difficult to do you need to find a balance you have to find some have to be new but a practice and it doesn't come easy just go down there and actually find out what's working yeah what are you turning it is most of the hard and fast rule where I say we'll do 5 out of 10 have a feeling it's different for different goals and different about structure but if you understand that your rotation controls your face your face controls your ball flight look at what you currently do yes look at the understanding in the correction before you might see differently Yeah and I think on the standing rotation of the clubface will help the golfer on the sound and how they can hit the ball a lot straighter than going by the original question should you rotate your forearms Yes you should through a degree but it takes a little bit of experimentation on exactly how much actual and so if you want to guys get down to the practice ground and have a little bit of an experiment like Pete did feet together some small swings and experimenting with how much rotation of the forearms and the wrist you are doing and see what ball flight that goes from there you can gain some awareness in your club face and hopefully it will help me to start to get more control over your ball flight.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how the rotation of the wrists during the golf downswing can have a fundamental affect on the position of the golf club face during the point of impact. Some golfers are confused about how and when the wrists should release and rotate the club face through impact. This confusion often causes wayward golf shots. By understanding the timing of this rotation and how the club face is affected by the releasing and rotation of the wrists, a golfer will feel like they have a much greater degree of control over their club face and ultimately their golf ball.

Right Pete the title suggests we're talking about the wrists and particularly the wrists in the downswing and should we be rolling them on the downswing. What will be the benefits of it and what will be the disadvantages of it as we do that? OK Rotation of wrist rolling wrist as we sometimes call it is very very responsible for the angle and position of the club face. Yeah so we can't really talk about rotation of wrists unless we are in the funk pulled by and what happens to the golf ball OK So the question is should you rotate your wrist I'm going to throw them back at you and say well what's the ball flight OK if the ball goes to the left yet the answer is different to with the ball goes to the right OK because rotating the wrist control the face off controls where the golf all goes OK So more rotation of the wrists going to equal more rotation of the face exactly that the face will start to roll more of the left for the right handed golfer the ball will go left OK and therefore not rolling the receive enough will the fold of right hand side so much that if we look at Joe Average and let's say Joe average golfer probably slices the golfer all that I think most golfers Yes I'm going to cause across the ball the ball going to go to the rights of the intended target Yes therefore the club face he's largely open in relation to the path or even sometimes the target Yes if the club face he's aiming to the right too much of path or target then the chances are all the wrist didn't do enough work OK into the golf will often set the club back this white but then if they don't release the club that face point right the form will go to the right hand side of potentially curve a lot further right and I think one of the things you often see when you watch the world's best players is that very very strong in that position.

Matt now that I've gone this camera now the forearm on really jumps out to me a lot of the people that we teach we see the opposite don't wait for the right hands on them we've got this to last for arm on top of the swing. So rolling the wrist is going to get that site turning over a little bit more and they forearms just ask a golfer to get your forearm to match if you can get your forearm to touch each other and to match here if they did this we would argue that position is after going to be a great way of releasing rotating the club by whether you bring that clubface through the elbow to call the park this is right that's not going to release the club site enough so a good exercise might be discovering the driving range sticking your feet together and allowing your hands to release and rotate like this Now the reason I say put your feet to gether is that will stop your body differently much working with the icy or just feeling Soliah in your hands just making the motion and being aware of how much is going on and if you were to relate how much is going on you use a ball flight is it you the more you do you see more curves the less you do the less kids you see absolutely going to hit 2 shots in the further being the yellow line going to actively release my hands over when I actively release my hand. You'll see that ball drop down that left hand side had a lot of turn a hawk all too much rotation All right so he was a quiet it down now and hit the strike shot for me what if they saw it we might even see this side of things 1st not would be not enough rotation Yeah that's going to create a coasting shot.

When the ball goes down the right hand side of the front camera you'll see I haven't released my hands I haven't rotated skeptical the knife solution yet will cut the right heart disease so it sounds a bit obvious aside from more easy to say difficult to do you need to find a balance you have to find some have to be new but a practice and it doesn't come easy just go down there and actually find out what's working yeah what are you turning it is most of the hard and fast rule where I say we'll do 5 out of 10 have a feeling it's different for different goals and different about structure but if you understand that your rotation controls your face your face controls your ball flight look at what you currently do yes look at the understanding in the correction before you might see differently Yeah and I think on the standing rotation of the clubface will help the golfer on the sound and how they can hit the ball a lot straighter than going by the original question should you rotate your forearms Yes you should through a degree but it takes a little bit of experimentation on exactly how much actual and so if you want to guys get down to the practice ground and have a little bit of an experiment like Pete did feet together some small swings and experimenting with how much rotation of the forearms and the wrist you are doing and see what ball flight that goes from there you can gain some awareness in your club face and hopefully it will help me to start to get more control over your ball flight.