How to release your wrist better in the golf swing

5 easy drills to release your wrists better in the golf swing that you can do at home and on the range.

If you’ve ever struggled with flipping, blocking, or holding onto the club too long, you are not alone. Today I’m going to show you 5 simple drills to help you release your wrists properly. When you have the properly wrists release, you will have better contact, faster club head speed to increase the distance!

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[Music] Hi everyone, it’s Alexa here. Welcome to my golf channel. Today’s topic is five easy drills that you can do at home on the range to release your wrist better. So, first I’m going to show you something that you can do without the golf ball. So, we’re going to turn your club head upside down and we’re just going to warm up your wrist. Try to make a swish sound around where you’re supposed to hit the ball at impact position. You can do a bigger swing like a full swing or you can do few swings in a row. That will help you to release your wrists better and that will help you to loosen up a little bit easier. Second drill that you’re going to do, you need two golf clubs. You don’t need golf ball. So, you can just simply do do this at home, too. Hold each club in both hands. And then you’re going to get into the golf setup position. From here, make sure that your club is um 6 in apart. And then we’re going to bring it up at the same time. Make sure that your one wrist or one hand doesn’t fly away. They’re very close to each other. We’re going to stay nice and close and connected. And then that will really help you to stabilize your grip, but also able to help you to release your wrist at the same time. So you can do this with a half swing. You can also try that with full swing and try to control it. Third drill that I like to do to help me release my wrist and get it loosened up. I like to placing my feet together, grab my club, and I’m just going to do nice and easy half swing. That will really help me to feel the snap on the down swing. And then that will allow my body, arm, club head to stay connected towards my target line, which is my fall through. So, make sure that you have a good rhythm and tempo. Try to match back swing down so you can follow through. Don’t rush. You have to make sure that you feel the weight of the club head, the gravity pulling it down. And you should be able to let go of your wrist just before at impact position. Place your feet together. Let’s go. Back swing, down swing, and fall through body turn. So the fourth drill that I like to do is practicing one-handed. So that will really help me to know where I need to release it properly. If I drag my hands too far forward, I know that I didn’t release it enough. If I snap my wrist too early, then I know I’m releasing too soon because it’s going to hit the ground first. So I’m going to have my right hand holding the club, left hand is on my back. I’m just going to release right on time. Nice and easy like a chip shot up and down and follow through. And then you can do that on the range with golf balls too. So go up, snap it. So once you’re confident with the right hand, you can also change it to your other hand. Left hand this time. Just going to do a couple practice swing with my left hand. Back and forth. Nice and easy. Good rhythm. Stabilize. And you can swing it. If you’re comfortable with a smaller swing, you can also go a little bit bigger. Half swing. You can also switch your hands. Half swing. We can also try to hit the ball. Half swing. So, last drill that I’m going to show you is done with the golf balls. And I like to place three to five golf balls in a row. So I’m just going to keep it two, three inches apart. And I’m going to start from this golf ball and then start walking towards the last golf ball. Most likely I’m just going to do nice and easy half swing. And I’m going to be walking forward. So I’m going to hit this one first. On my back swing, I’m going to walk forward. Hit it. Walk forward. Hit it. Walk forward. Try to maintain same speed throughout. With enough training and practice, you should be able to control your wrist better, able to release it around the impact position, and you should be able to get the club heads to speed up for more power and consistent shots. Let me know if you have any questions. Please subscribe and like my video and then I’ll make sure that I’ll come with a better content next time. Thank you for watching.