When Should You Hinge Your Wrists In The Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
When Should You Hinge Your Wrists In The Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

When should you hinge the wrists in the golf back swing? Now the hinging or the cocking of the wrists during the back swing plays a fantastically important role in not only setting the club and setting the wrists in the correct position, but also delivering a consistent strike and delivering a good punch of power into the shot. Now as you swing the club back the question often asked is when should they actually start to hinge, should they start to hinge very, very quickly or should it hinge very, very late?

Probably the easiest way to get the correct hinge is to let the cock in the hinge happen quite naturally, because there’s a couple of key positions that you need to hit to enable that to happen. As you swing the club back you want the club to rotate away following the path. And if rotate away following the path this halfway back stage leaving edge of the club should be pretty much level with the spine well pretty much on the same kind of tilt as the spine, with the toe of the club starting to point up towards the sky. Now from this position as you move the club upwards, these wrists should start to set and just start to cock. You should have a full wrist hinge, and a full wrist set by about the three quarter position in the back swing. If it’s not quite set at that point you’ve left it a little bit too late. So as you swing back, the club rotates away till the toe of the club is up at the sky, then as the arm, left arm reaches parallel to the ground, the wrist slowly and actually begin to set, and its allowed the three quarter position where you have this 90 degree angle between the wrists and the shaft. From there turn on to the top of the swing and just try and maintain the angle between the wrist and the club as long as possible during the down swing. If you can do that, you’ll deliver a descending blow to the ball, but also a very, very powerful shot. So that the wrist hinge will naturally try and maintain the angle as you come down into impact. If you are into actually hinge the wrist and get the feeling just use the following check point where you each power up, the left arm is nice and straight and then the club shaft is pointing up the sky in this L shape. If you actually want to set the wrist you can use this kind of check point and this is also a fantastic position on which to hit pitches from. As the wrist endures in the L shape down the through and then into an L shape on the opposite side, but an ideal world the wrist will hinge nice and naturally get set in a correct position and then you maintain that angle down to impact, if you can do that, you should see some very, very consistent golf shots. 2014-10-21

When should you hinge the wrists in the golf back swing? Now the hinging or the cocking of the wrists during the back swing plays a fantastically important role in not only setting the club and setting the wrists in the correct position, but also delivering a consistent strike and delivering a good punch of power into the shot. Now as you swing the club back the question often asked is when should they actually start to hinge, should they start to hinge very, very quickly or should it hinge very, very late?

Probably the easiest way to get the correct hinge is to let the cock in the hinge happen quite naturally, because there’s a couple of key positions that you need to hit to enable that to happen. As you swing the club back you want the club to rotate away following the path. And if rotate away following the path this halfway back stage leaving edge of the club should be pretty much level with the spine well pretty much on the same kind of tilt as the spine, with the toe of the club starting to point up towards the sky. Now from this position as you move the club upwards, these wrists should start to set and just start to cock. You should have a full wrist hinge, and a full wrist set by about the three quarter position in the back swing.

If it’s not quite set at that point you’ve left it a little bit too late. So as you swing back, the club rotates away till the toe of the club is up at the sky, then as the arm, left arm reaches parallel to the ground, the wrist slowly and actually begin to set, and its allowed the three quarter position where you have this 90 degree angle between the wrists and the shaft. From there turn on to the top of the swing and just try and maintain the angle between the wrist and the club as long as possible during the down swing. If you can do that, you’ll deliver a descending blow to the ball, but also a very, very powerful shot. So that the wrist hinge will naturally try and maintain the angle as you come down into impact.

If you are into actually hinge the wrist and get the feeling just use the following check point where you each power up, the left arm is nice and straight and then the club shaft is pointing up the sky in this L shape. If you actually want to set the wrist you can use this kind of check point and this is also a fantastic position on which to hit pitches from. As the wrist endures in the L shape down the through and then into an L shape on the opposite side, but an ideal world the wrist will hinge nice and naturally get set in a correct position and then you maintain that angle down to impact, if you can do that, you should see some very, very consistent golf shots.