A huge fundamental of your backswing is wrist hinge or more importantly called wrist set. We talk about setting the wrist during the swing. But it is quite important to understand, well, where do they set? Is there a right place? Is there a wrong place to set the wrist and where should we do it? So, we’ll address the golf ball here. I wouldn’t say there is any wrist set going on here and during the backswing this isn’t really wrist set.

But wrist set is this motion here creating roughly 90 degrees, which will increase to a little bit more than 90 degrees at the top of the backswing. And the concept of setting the wrist is important, because it provides this idea that the club head can lag behind my arms. So, as I attack the golf ball, my arms can get past the ball before the club head comes in. If my club always stayed in line with my arms, my backswing could only go this far back and it could only go this far through. But in reality I can set the club which means the club head travels further and releasing that, like releasing that set on this side creates a huge amount of club head speed through the ball.

So, if you are a big strong person but you don’t really feel like you are hitting the ball as far as some of your mates or maybe smaller in statue and in strength, they are hitting the ball further than you. There is a chance that you are not setting and releasing your wrists correctly. Now, there is a couple of different areas where we can set the club on the way back depending on other aspects of your swing, your tempo, your timing or even just the feel. So, in this next little series of videos we are going to look at the correct place and position to set your wrist and the effect that it can have on the distance in the direction you hit the golf ball.