Can I take this swing change STRAIGHT to the golf course???

Hi guys, thank you for stopping by to check out the video.

This has been a long standing issue in my golf swing and one that I have tried to live with, but its now time to start addressing it head on. If we look at the majority of professionals on tour, they mostly play with a flat or slightly flexed wrist. This isnt to say that there haven’t been great players with a cupped wrist set, however, from a consistency standpoint, for the amount of practice average joe me can do, I need to stack the cards in my favour.

In time i think this change will allow me to hit the ball straighter more consistently, as well as helping me to perform better when under pressure, as I will be relying less on timing.

If you have any thoughts on the subject, please feel free to put them in the comments, and I will reply when I get a chance.

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Dan

guys welcome back welcome back so we’re
at the home course today it’s a little
bit
blustery um and a bit chilly so it’s
sort of mid April but um yeah it should
be getting warmer and I don’t know why
it’s not I don’t know why I’m walking
around either there’s no one
here um so what we’re going to do today
is I’ve had a bit of time off okay we’ve
had a couple of injuries hands have been
a bit of an issue um hand SL wrist okay
and we’ve tried a lot of things but I
think I’ve figured it
now that’s a dangerous saying in the
golfing World CU we’ve never got it but
I think I have okay not that every
shot’s going to go well but I think I’ve
I think I’ve found the right path to
start going forward okay so what I want
you guys to do today please okay I’ll
tell you what I’m working on in a second
I want you guys to please comment below
um if you can watch as much of the
videos you can and see on how many of
the shots I do it well and on how many I
do it bad it’ll be pretty clear when I
do it badly definitely cuz it’ll just
the ball’s going to go right okay but as
we get more confident with it I think
this is going to be a big thing for my
golf and what it is is wrist angles just
really simple We’re Going Back to Basics
I’ve often been cued at the back okay at
the top of the back swing and it just
has caused all sorts of issues for me
it’s caused me to be flippy at the
bottom and stuff and I didn’t think that
I was able to sort it cuz I didn’t think
I had enough mobility in this wrist but
actually I figured out I don’t need to
bow it it just needs to be flat so I’ve
been working out on the Range this is
actually only the second time I’ve been
out onto the course no first time I did
the range and then now this is the first
round so I have no idea how this is
going to go but I’ve been dying to film
cuz finally I think we’re getting better
injury wise so let’s crack on thank you
guys for being here um as always and I
hope it’s going to be a good day come on
I get it so we’ve just got some ladies
in front of us so I don’t want to go too
quick but um the other thing you’ll
notice today is we’ve got lapel Mikes
well not Lael but we’ve got what could
be Lael I’ve chosen not to they are the
best thing that road does so hopefully
you guys can hear me really really well
so no more shouting and also you’re
going to hear all my under the under the
breath swearing now so that’s probably
the negative side of this but come on
okay oh wow that’s decent start bit
fatty
but mid of the Fairway guys yeah
boy come on come
on so we’ ended up middle which is
Ideo they’re still placing at the moment
which is Grand cuz that’s going to help
me
today it feels a bit weird when you keep
this all square or straight because I’ve
often gone and generated power doing
this so now it’s like
body
um and it feels like you’ve got to
generate power from elsewhere which I do
now so anyway right got about
160 I think it’s a 9 especially with
these
t200s there go further come
on no that was that was a bit cuppy see
that’s the one where I didn’t get left
either it’s not
terrible but yeah that was a bit
cuppy well left myself pin high so the
club was right just didn’t really catch
it don’t know why that’s going to be in
the way it’s not
but okay dogs shortsighted a little bit
not lying great
but just a nice one onto The Fringe
there that’s going to be the ideal
shot come
on oh that’s been nice that’s a shot and
a half getting a clap nice right well
can we save a little PA on the first
here this is going to be the question
got about three no about 4T it’s dirt so
another thing I’ve got going at the
moment
is uh I’ve stopped
looking when I’ve puted so I’m trying to
keep my head down because I find that
when I do this obviously I know you’re
not meant to but I get into that habit
of trying to see where it’s gone and you
start getting a bit yippy because you’re
like oh where’s it gone but if you keep
your head down you’ve got to then get
your alignment right a little bit better
because then there’s no Escape you can’t
correct the puts if you know what I
mean I don’t really see this doing a
hell of a lot but I’m going to go inside
left come on see even now cuz I’m
shooting a video my hands are a little
bit like shaky don’t know why but come
on
oh yeah boy well done Danny
boy that was your positive vibes through
the video there I can feel them boys and
girls I don’t know if there’s any girls
who watch my videos all righty so start
with a little par that’s not bad now
we’ve got the big stick so it’s a par
four it’s
about oh there’s no plate I think it’s
like 4 something 420 maybe need a good
drive the big dogs obviously can be a
bit harder to get timing right and all
that kind of thing but now I shouldn’t
need to as much if this stays stays
stays stays stays the face will close
eventually come on Benny boy come on
come on come on nice and
simple oh my God that felt so good
go I think it’s covered the trees cuz
there’s like a big water hazard thing
there but it’s often dry in the summer I
have no idea but that was middle of the
club face I’m not complaining at all
well guys I always like to give you a
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engage we found
it pretty pretty lucky to get through
here I think there’s a lot of trees that
it’s come through but we’re going to
take our medicine we’re going to go
straight through this Gap here there is
a gap further left I don’t know if you
guys can actually see from the angle but
it’s just going to end up in the rough
and actually there’s no point so I’m
going to take my what we call in South
Africa there’s like a witch doctor um
name for medicine called MTI so I’m
going to take my
MTI and uh we’re just going to go you
see these shots though you got to make
sure sometimes you get a bit BL over
them whole thing is to make sure we
finish in the
Fairway okay
okay I’ll sit down now middle of the
Fairway yeah
boy okay so 65 to the
pin now if you guys have been a watcher
of this channel so
far I doubt you have cuz I’ve got 104
subscribers but if you have you’ll know
that this yardage for me has been a
quite quite a chunky yardage if you get
my drift but I think with this new
thing this new wrist set I won’t get sew
here and then I won’t pull so I’m
hoping that it’s going to allow me to be
a bit more consistent from here that’s
the plan come
on 65 no 75 land at 65 there is an UPS
slope be confident have some fun right
we just want to be relaxed and
athletic okay I’ve got it got my
Landings
oh that’s so good oh that’s good oh
that’s good
B yes Daniel yes like flipping hole man
come on yeah decent shot in fact more
than
decent right so not that I should be
giving lessons cuz obviously like I’m
still like a seven handicap but what I
would say is to any of you guys who are
out there shooting like 100 and stuff
like that who are maybe who I’m
significantly better at right now or
than right now um this advice might help
and it’s something that’s helped me a
lot
if you look at the ball if you look at
your break from one side of the hole it
will often if you if you’re sort of
unsure just go the other side of the
hole and have a look because I’ve had a
look at this it’s hard to tell on camera
but I was like well it looks like it
could be straight maybe but then I’ve
come this side and I’ve gone oh flip
okay um well I think it’s going to be
outside left so it’s going to be like
over here so let’s see if I’m right but
often um often that’s the case you know
you need to look from both sides
especially if it’s um if it’s
subtle okay so let’s
go you guys will be able to tell if I’m
actually lining correctly though that’s
the main thing okay
look at the
hole I see the little one at the
end okay first par five of the
day I don’t even know how long it is but
normally on this par five I cannot get
them two cuz I don’t have a
three-wood um actually no I have got
there in got there with a four iron once
must have been one behind anyway good
drive yeah good drive man this course is
looking nice now
everything’s starting to dry up starting
to look like golf again I can’t even
describe winter in the UK this
year okay come on Danny boy just a nice
solid swing good
Reet okay it was a bit um pedestrian
oh my God what a
kick it’s hit one of the bushes and come
out right into the Fairway I think it’s
a good day it’s a very good
day oh man so I’ve just thought of
something quite fun as well um you know
un likee the big channels like GRE and
and Peter Finch and they’re like oh come
on let’s try and get this video to
18,000 likes in the first hour or
whatever it
is let’s try and get my video to 15
likes in the first two
days I reckon that’s a good goal so most
of the time right now my videos get
about
between 5 and 10 likes I would say which
I appreciate every one of those likes by
the way but uh 15 your boy is balling
with 15 likes famous absolutely famous
but let’s try and do that I will love
you back if you like my video I thought
I’d made the Fairway can’t even tell you
how lucky I got you what you know the
one the hole before when I went into
that or I went over that left water
stuff so that’s now on the yeah still on
the left but I hit I think I hit the out
of bounds steak or the the red steak and
it’s clattered into here um I’ll try and
pick it up on the video or you would
have seen it already actually to be fair
but yeah anyway I’ve got five iron five
iron set them now we’re going to have to
start using the body okay but that’s for
another day we just make sure the wrist
set today is
good oh no no no no no that’s cuppy and
I’ve got lucky
again how has that
worked that was
horrible okay yeah that wasn’t good okay
well I’m pretty sure that I was aiming
too far right
there and also I know I didn’t bump to
the left so I get stuck uh here
sometimes and then this foot does all
kinds of weird things cuz there’s no
weight on it so I must remember just to
get my weight for a little
bit okay eight on about
180 I don’t know if it’s enough but I
think 79 might got over
so right
guys I think it’s good guys I think it’s
really
good oh it’s short okay but it was it
was decent 7even on was a club better
shot better shot okay so we got
54 got the 56 again but this one’s out
of the rough so it won’t spin as much
but you still want the same sort of
thing nice Rhythm and I reckon I’m going
to pitch it like
five yards
on that’s the
plan
okay okay not the worst it’s left me
with the about 15t I would have liked it
to have bounced right but you kind of
breathing okay well another little
subtle breaker
I think it’s about a cup outside
left
um but again I’ve had to look from the
other side so I think that’s what it is
um let’s just take that little stuff off
the wall all righty come
on oh he’s tried well it’s
decent was that a six
yeah it’s a second shot two three four
five yeah
unfortunate but it is what it is one
over I think the wrist set’s doing well
though doing really nicely I mean if you
told me I was going to be one over after
one two
three after three
holes one two three yeah after three
holes I would have taken that hands
down now this is a
a longish par
four and it’s quite tight so it’s going
to be a good one required
here which we can do we know we can do
that now reset come through Square Club
face oh no cup a bit cup a bit cup the
bit sit down sit down please sit
down I’m not sure it wasn’t terrible but
I can feel it straight away now which is
a good thing so that’s just coming down
and does this so that opens it up and
then I have to try and close it at the
bottom if I stick hard with it then it
closes it for
me hold I can get back to my
ball right Hello
friends I’m
back join me on an adventure Into the
Wilderness God how the hell going to get
out here
okay come
on oh my God he’s done it too sit down
sit down sit down sit down sit
down okay happy
days all right well first first mistake
really um so I’ve got
130 uh winds across but a bit width I
guess I think this is the wrong club I’m
going to take no it’s a
bit oh I don’t
know okay we’re going to hit like A4 4
uh 3/4 46 I think that’ll be good and
we’ll just go middle of the green and
try and make five that’s the plan
I think it’s
good yeah that’s so much better I mean
that’s not a bad shot I’ve gone a bit
too far right there but the strike is
better I can feel the face is square and
I can feel like I’ve got much more of a
chance to like to strike it well so much
better we actually pitched up here and
it sucked back but that shot was drawing
as well and then I figured the wind was
doing this so I just tailed off
but yeah I needed a little bit more
so I think this is going to fall just
left at the
end but the whole idea is just to leave
this quite close we still want to try
and make it I mean the whole yeah we
always want to try and make a
part cuz I think if we could what a paw
this would be I mean
yeah that’s a good effort that’s not bad
at
all I’m actually quite
liking pting with this whole um not
looking
thing makes a massive difference for me
just I don’t have to worry about like
what’s going on after the putt just you
know okay well that takes us to two over
but I would say so far we’ve done pretty
well getting this
right you know the shots to be decent
other than the one iron shots on the par
five and then that drive but it was
close I also think the wind didn’t help
that drive so we’ve got par three we’ve
got
109 186 playing about
192 also downhill again playing one N2
I’ve got a 79 I think it’s going to be
all of it the only problem is you don’t
want to be over the screen but I’m going
to commit to this going to commit and
see where see where we end up
oh no I that’s so good I hit it so
well I think I’ve just lined there
little baby
drawer I cannot complain if I’m honest
like that is so so much better and more
consistent oh so close I had like a
little um like a little Revelation the
other day and I think I don’t think it’s
just me like I I think that there’s a
lot of other golfers who do this so
throughout my entire time of playing
golf I’ve always wanted to have like a
good looking swing right so you end up
um not doing what comes naturally to you
because you want to have a good swing
but it doesn’t function properly so I
came across two golfers the other day
who I thought
ah they set their wrists at the top but
they don’t have this big sort of
overswing cuz I struggle to set the
wrist if I go too far cuz then there’s
too much Bend so one was Nikolai ho
hoard actually there’s three other one
was cam young and then the YouTuber
um Ben
ker which was nice to see because it
kind of means that I’m on the right
track even if I didn’t think I was cuz I
kept thinking oh man I can’t surely you
can’t generate enough power like that
but then I just got to learn to use the
body and also I’m not hitting it that
I’m not hitting it shorter really other
than the fact it’s getting up into the
wind sometimes um
Food For Thought food for thought well
again distance was right literally flag
pin High which is again another positive
missed a positive today yeah okay so
that’s lying all right I think we can
get this so what I’m going to do is I’m
going to lie this up a little bit so toe
up toe down yeah toe down like Dan griev
says come across it a little bit more
and
not a huge amount of wrist and it should
pop it’s going to be a hard shot anyway
I could run it up the
bank but I want to try this want see how
this
goes oh no I’ve dug at it but it’s
worked oh my God
what a
shot look at this oh my God I’m just
gone exactly what gevy wouldn’t want but
anyway got to get there and then just
let it
fall okay well I’ve had a look it’s
about a ball outside obviously depending
on
Pace
um I am starting to feel more
confident which is really
good
okay again we don’t look we pick a line
we confident on that
line and we pull the trigger ah just too
much Pace I think that would have worked
okay well now we got to finish
up my old man calls these vomit
putts especi oh ball is
moving it’s on YouTube
sit
okay oh my gosh
ah Scotty schiffer’s in the
house Scotty sher’s in the
house I think that was just line
again
gosh one two three four five double from
Nowhere
Man ah so it takes us to four over come
on yeah double from nowhere but I’ll
give myself some slack in all fairness I
think this is the second round of golf
I’ve played in I don’t even know how
long
so more today we just want this what
we’re working on to be good and I think
it is so far
definitely
um right so we’ve got another little
tight Par Four so these next two holes
are often sort of card killers on this
course cuz they’re really really tight
and tree lined and whatnot so
I’m going to go down the right hand side
cuz I think if I hit this well with what
I’m supposed to be doing it’s starting
to draw and I also think the wind is
going that way so it should bring it
back a little bit as well
okay okay that’s too much that’s a pull
across for
left okay okay it’s gone through onto
the other
Fairway yeah that’s too much so I don’t
know why that
happens not sure we’ll figure it out
okay so we’ve just ended left Fairway
here so this is the Fairway of the next
hole it says 150 this laser thing but it
looks close so I’ve got
nine just not confident with it that’s
all I just think it’s going to be too
big but then I don’t want to go against
the laser if you know what I
mean all right I’m going to hit this
like 3/4 and see what
happens oh no that’s The Cuppy
one should be
okay yeah just front right to the green
good bad one well We’ve Ended fine We’ve
Ended okay we actually got a bit lucky
there cuz really that was super thin and
had the possibility of going haywire
so this part’s all going to be around
Pace I think
ready yeah cuz that it’s right on that
Hill I really dislike this pin placement
but
okay come
on yeah really not bad actually really
not it’s
bad over the years those putts give me
the heie
jeebies cuz I never used to putt them
always used to give myself gimmies death
to golf gimmies you never learn to putt
them otherwise okay dos so we stay at
four
over nice little save there really okay
so the other one of these PA fours that
is quite tiyo so just got to commit
that’s it just got to commit to these
and I think I’ve got a little idea with
this
one let’s see if it
works okay that was
reasonable it is tailing though and I
don’t think my left wrist was perfect
there
either what I wanted to do was I thought
the other one might have just got a bit
here at the bottom so I just wanted to
try and stabilize here um I think it
worked a bit wasn’t too bad we’re
actually sat okay we’ve come into the
woods on the right here
and I don’t
know if I move that stick if the ball’s
going to move cuz I don’t know if it’s
going to affect it I don’t think it will
so I’m just going to leave
it and we’re just going to go out of
this Gap here middle of the Fairway 56
close to the pin in the hole that’s the
plan
oh he’s done it
well yeah exactly what we wanted well
the question is now can we pull this off
the answer I hope is yes okay that’s
sitting it couldn’t sit really any
better to be honest I mean that’s like a
flipping te so pin is right at the front
so I’ve not really got that much margin
for error it’s about
75 to the PIN
I’m going to pitch it about 70 I think
if I’ve got that kind of control but we
want to talk like we
do okay 1 17 come
on it was a bit steep in all fairness
but that’s actually done pretty well oh
that’s good okay well again here I’ve
looked from the other side already and I
reckon I don’t know I think it’s
about a cup on the
right it’s going to be fairly fairly
quick down this
hill Oh my days my days
oh if I hadn’t
have
relined if buts and maybe
eh let’s make sure on these little
guys oh my days Oh my days that actually
went in the left lip but it’s okay right
so little p
three um it’s about two the laser says
about 210 to the bunker I think it’s
like 190 so to the flag is going to be
like 220 um or 210 anyway maybe a bit
more so I’ve got six
iron and I think if I can get that high
draw going like I did on the other PA
three this will be the perfect
Club no it’s just start out
there yeah it’s just in the rough on the
right hand side I think I just went a
little bit Boop like this as opposed to
just keeping it there not terrible
though that’s the bad one that’s not a
bad thing we’re not lying the best but I
think I can get a 56 underneath this
quite easily I think the bounce will do
the
work I’m just struggling to know where
to pitch this I reckon if I pitch
it kind of halfway just under halfway to
the
hole you see where the light you see the
things the lines down the green the
first big wide Light patch I reckon the
start of that I re in the start of
that it’s going to break a bit lift I
think oh it’s a bit far okay yeah that’s
a mistake that’s just a
misjudgment well I’ve left myself
another little subtle
breaker I think that it’s going to break
a little bit left at the end I’ve looked
from both
sides okay so I’m going to trust
it but again it’s going to be about I
know every part’s about past but some
are just a little bit
more
okay ah it’s too hard and I think I’ve
shoved it out right a little
bit okay okay okay okay come
on that was such a bad St man I’m
getting a bit like
um I need to get a bit more comfortable
not looking my whole brain wants to look
at the where the part goes righto last
one I think we’re at like six over or
something like that which doesn’t matter
but obviously you always think about the
score well I do anyway you want to play
good golf so I think we’ve done like if
I was to give myself a percentage I
think it’s been like
80% no not 80 probably like 70 or 60%
good today and then the bad ones haven’t
been terrible they’ve just been going
back to what was like the default before
so let’s try and get a good one away
here for the last drive so it’s
p and we’re just going to go down the
middle and then if I push a little bit
that’s fine if I pull it a little bit
that’s okay as
well that is the best Drive I think I’ve
hit it’s in about 10
years oh my
gosh that was
awesome well I think that’s the furthest
I’ve ever been down this hole um there’s
200
there I thought the window was with
actually now it’s across I’ve got the
wrong club I’m going to quickly get uh
what is this
doing yeah I’m going to get six on I’m
going to get six on cuz I
think I think if I hit this wall it’ll
be the club so the only thing I don’t
know now is with this new wrist set will
this fade off this lie so I’m going to
go just left of the
flag and then if it draws there’s loads
of space and if it fades a little bit
which I doubt in this
wind um it’ll be fine
again really
nice oh man that is so nice to finish
like
that I thought like my legs work better
there as well I don’t know if the swing
looked any different but that was so
nice and it’s shallow as well it is
like sound like I’m ning but I’m so
excited guys I think this is such a big
thing honestly well we
pitched about here where’s my pitch mark
uh I don’t know somewhere here so Club
was right swing was good in the
wind oh that’s so much better just the
strike man I looked at the the like
thing in slow motion afterwards and it
was
just nice and square anyway I don’t
think this is going to do a lot man if
we could finish with an eagle oh
boy oh my days fu
no
man come
on right we still got to make sure yeah
BR come on come on Danny boy it’s a
little tap in you little tap in you
little tap tap tap tap
taparoo that Happy
Gilmore little bird to finish I’m stoked
with that I think it takes us back to
five I know it’s not great but man What
a Day first time out with a new thing
new
wrist awesome what a day that’s it we’re
done only non Haller but thanks guys for
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