The correct wrist action in the downswing is a MASSIVE power source … but often mis understood. This really simple video will show you how to ramp up your clubhead speed quickly without losing any accuracy. In fact with the correct wrist “snap” into impact, its far more consistent to square the clubface, resulting in straight shots, more often!

You will learn two key moves needed for a better impact. How to downcock your wrists and how to “snap” the lead wrist from flexion to extension. The result = more speed and better club-face control.

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Right guys welcome back to my channel today’s video is going to be a cheat I’m going to share with you how to create more snap more speed at impact by using your hands correctly so I often talk about the body being the big driving force of the golf swing and it is but

The hands have got a part to play what we don’t want to see is this really through impact so that is very unstable and we will struggle to control the club face but we can generate hand speed correctly and I’m going to share with you a simple method of how so the first

Way we can create hand speed is by creating some wrist where we can down our wrists at the right time so cocking up and down is this way almost like a gun loading up and down that is wrist this is wrist hinge okay so cocking the wrist up and down

Cocking the wrist at the right point is huge because look at this if I’ve got some angle in here where the clubit is higher than my hands I let that angle go we can actually generate without really using my body actually a lot of speed so

We need in the down swing to make sure that we have some of that wrist okay we do not want to throw that rist coock early often golfers are doing it when they make this movement they come over the top of the golf swing and they’ll lose that angle in their lead

Arm too early now they’ve got nothing here at the golf ball so we want at about halfway down the club head still to be higher than my hands we still want some angle in here that we can create and use into impact okay so let me demonstrate that quickly first still some angle

Here and there’s tons of speed to to be used I’ve hit that 7 iron it flew 130 yards finished nearly 145 nearly 150 yards so loads of speed from a little half movement here using the wrist now obviously as I’m starting to down my wrist there is some body rotation in

There as well so it wasn’t pure hand speed but there was a lot of that was developed by keeping the angle and letting the angle go at the right point the second way we’re going to be generating hand speed is making sure that we can create this snap with a

Wrist we want it to go from and this is the technical term flexion to extension okay so the wrist is moving this way through the golf ball but if you’ve lost that angle already in the down swing again we we’ve got nowhere to go so

We’ve got to in the down swing feel like we keep our fingertips behind our wrist now I can create that snap whereas if my fingertips have already moved ahead of my wrist in the down swing I’ve got no Snap I’ve got no nowhere to go with it so a great way to

Demonstrate and feel this and I’m going to show you a couple of exercises the first and I’m obviously using something a bit oversized makes it quite easy as a visual but if you just grab a racket of some kind now I would actually play tennis all racket Sports right-handed

But I’m going to hold this in my lead hand my left hand because that’s where I want to feel it so first of all I’m going to work on holding the angle and letting the angle go here into impact so that’s that downclocking of wrists and again huge power source from down

Cocking wrists massive power source but where this really comes in handy is starting to get this movement through impact can you see that great one for you to stand up and do in the living room going do it with me here even if you’re just holding a a spatula you know

A spoon something like that to try and get that feeling of the wrist actually moving this way like it would do is I hting a forehand or a backhand in tennis generating some snap some speed we’ve got to hold that angle with our fingertips back and let that snap go

Into impact this way so that’s what we really want to feel that’s a great way of utilizing this racket here we are obviously want to get to a stage that impact where my hands and Club are about level with an iron we’d like our hands slightly forwards with the driver we’re

Going to get be getting our hands More Level so as the ball goes more forwards the club’s going to catch up and actually be more level with the hands at impact with an iron with the ball slightly further back we can have our handle forwards but and I’ve talked

About this a lot so I won’t go into too much detail if I push my hands forwards it does have the effect of opening up the club face all in this case the racket face so we will need to make sure that there is some rotation of our

Forearm and our wrist this way into to impact if we’re going to get our hands more forwards okay but just doing some demonstrations trying to get that racket back to square here if I come over or throw the angle here where I’m getting my fingertips in front of my wrist I’ve

Got nowhere to go if I throw that angle look how much loft I’ve got on the racket face hence why we see golf shots that just go high weak right for a right-handed golfer so they can’t throw any more really into that position so they tend to pull across the golf ball

As much as they can whereas if I’ve got my fingertips behind now I can create snap and actually get that racket face almost straight up rather than lofted so we’re going to be able to start to compress the golf ball for a golf drill

On the Range or at home I would set up and I would put an alignment stick on the ground halfway between the golf ball and your toe line and I’ve got it at a bit of an angle so pointing more out to the right of the target for me as a

Right-hander switch it for a left-hander here so it’s something along these lines and what I’m going to do is I’m going to get to the top of the back swing and in the down swing I just want to feel like the club head is higher than my hands by

The time I get to around halfway down okay so I’m not letting that club fall this way throwing that angle too early we’ve got some lag if you like that angle here in the lead wrist and the club is almost going to be following this white alignment stick on the floor

So the club is slightly behind my hands on the down swing and that will really help me create that snap so from this way the club is slightly behind my hand so my fingertips are behind my wrist now I can create that snap into impact so

Let’s just do that as a drill let’s get to the top down this way Club heads higher than my hands Club slightly behind my hands and now that felt great loads of snap little draw ball flight again flu of 125 odd yards and it feels effortless it really does this is

The big thing with this that’s why I said at the start cheat it feels like a cheat because actually there’s a ton of speed to be created without a lot of effort okay so we can start to utilize our body correctly we can generate effortless golf speed and that’s what

We’re really looking for a lot of golfers look like they hit it hard but they don’t get a lot out of it we want that effortless speed don’t we into impact so doing a lot of drills that way is is just great down swing is vital if

We can in the downswing keep the the club head higher than my hands and keep my wrist bent back so my fingertips are behind my wrist here you can see the club is slightly behind my hands now we can generate that ton of speed into impact there that real whip so start

With some half swings before putting it I’m just going to hit a full one to finish with that’s that feel bang I’m going to generate all all that speed into impact same distance again you know 125 carry 140 finish from a seven iron from halfway down so there’s a lot to be used

There falling a little bit behind you you keeping that angle in the wrist until nearer impact there we go that felt great that felt like there’s a load of whip here into impact but what you’re not seeing there is my body stopping and my hands take over so whenever we’re talking

About generating hand speed we’ve got to keep some body rotation we cannot just stall our body and use our hands because that isn’t a powerful movement and doesn’t help us control the club fa whereas this movement great let’s unify the hands with the body that’s the correct way of

Generating some real speed if that video has helped smash the like button put some comments below let me know how you get on and don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for more content just like this

1 Comment

  1. Everything was great until you mentioned what? You know what. As a weekend golfer Everything is fine until you mention rolling of the forearms to keep the ball straighter. To me and I'm not totally wrong the rolling clockwise for me because I play lefthanded is one more thing which causes inconsistencies. I rather close the clubface more at setup and see what natural roll I have if any and work from there. Just trying to keep it more in play. Maybe it is not as bad as it sounds. With my swing I see changing setup positions.

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