Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We know that setting the wrist is important. Now, we can look at the correct location for setting the wrists during the backswing. Go to address position, we are going to turn the left shoulder around underneath the chin. The wrists do not move in this first position here. As the club starts to come a little bit higher, we want to start utilizing a bit of wrist hinge as the left arm gets to the parallel to the ground position. Left arm comes parallel to the ground, the wrists are going to be in and around that area when they start to set.
Now, the setting process of hinging the wrist, it does take a little bit of time to do. So, it’s not a case of sort of painting by numbers. We are not there in one, two, three, it’s going to be a transitional phase, it happens during a part of your swing. So, as the left arm starts to rise towards horizontal side of the wrist hinge happen and we will get to this left arm parallel to the ground, shaft vertical, a 90-degree L-shape if you like, this would be a good example of correct wrist hinge or wrist set by utilizing the left arm position to the ground as a guide for when that should happen. That’s one good way of hinging your wrist. You will see some golfers actually setting and hinging the wrist a little bit later on. Good examples of people that do it early maybe someone like [Indiscernible] [00:01:23], examples of someone who is a little bit later Sergio Garcia, he is going to take the club up a little bit higher and then in the transition or just before the transition he is going to put a little bit more wrist hinge in here. It almost looks like he’s got to the top of his swing and he is going to set the wrist a little bit more before he starts down. Now, it doesn’t happen during the transition, it definitely doesn’t happen during the downswing. He is not like he collapses the club behind him but it is up nice and high before the club stops, he gets an extra little bit of wrist hinge and then brings the club down into the back of the golf ball. So, you want to get that wrist set in the swing. We don’t use it in the takeaway. We use it left arm parallel or just before transition, but we don’t let it leak into the transition that I guess a little bit too wobbly, a bit too disjointed. And hopefully if you can utilize the correct wrist set in the backswing, you will be more consistent and actually more accurate and hit your golf shots a little further. 2016-10-04 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We know that setting the wrist is important. Now, we can look at the correct location for setting the wrists during the backswing. Go to address position, we are going to turn the left shoulder around underneath the chin. The wrists do not move in this first position here. As the club starts to come a little bit higher, we want to start utilizing a bit of wrist hinge as the left arm gets to the parallel to the ground position. Left arm comes parallel to the ground, the wrists are going to be in and around that area when they start to set.
Now, the setting process of hinging the wrist, it does take a little bit of time to do. So, it’s not a case of sort of painting by numbers. We are not there in one, two, three, it’s going to be a transitional phase, it happens during a part of your swing. So, as the left arm starts to rise towards horizontal side of the wrist hinge happen and we will get to this left arm parallel to the ground, shaft vertical, a 90-degree L-shape if you like, this would be a good example of correct wrist hinge or wrist set by utilizing the left arm position to the ground as a guide for when that should happen.
That’s one good way of hinging your wrist. You will see some golfers actually setting and hinging the wrist a little bit later on. Good examples of people that do it early maybe someone like [Indiscernible] [00:01:23], examples of someone who is a little bit later Sergio Garcia, he is going to take the club up a little bit higher and then in the transition or just before the transition he is going to put a little bit more wrist hinge in here.
It almost looks like he’s got to the top of his swing and he is going to set the wrist a little bit more before he starts down. Now, it doesn’t happen during the transition, it definitely doesn’t happen during the downswing. He is not like he collapses the club behind him but it is up nice and high before the club stops, he gets an extra little bit of wrist hinge and then brings the club down into the back of the golf ball.
So, you want to get that wrist set in the swing. We don’t use it in the takeaway. We use it left arm parallel or just before transition, but we don’t let it leak into the transition that I guess a little bit too wobbly, a bit too disjointed. And hopefully if you can utilize the correct wrist set in the backswing, you will be more consistent and actually more accurate and hit your golf shots a little further.
