Hey there, golfers🏌️♂️ Ever caught yourself marveling at those smooth, powerful swings? Well, it’s time to let you in on a little secret: it’s all in the wrists. Join me as we dive into the game changing world of wrist angles, and trust me, you’re gonna love the difference it makes.
First up, we’re breaking down those wrist moves and terms that sound complicated but are super easy once you get the hang of them. We’re talking about everything from your takeaway to mastering those arm rotations, and yes, we’re keeping it easy to follow.
But wait, there’s more! Ever heard of release wrist movements or power moves from the wrists? These are the tricks that can seriously up your game, adding precision and, you guessed it, power to your shots. And I’ll walk you through variations, so you can tweak your swing like a pro.
Now, for the best part: I’m here to help you take all this knowledge to the course. I’m available online at Skillest (https://skillest.com/app/profile/mike-bygrave-2), you can get personalized coaching that fits your schedule. And because I’m feeling generous, use code RETURN20 for 20% off. Let’s get those wrist angles working for you, not against you!
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Guys welcome to the video now if you’re watching this video you’re probably pretty curious about what your RIS are doing in the GOL swing so if you want to know a little bit more about the release you want to know a bit about the movements in the golf swing this video
Is designed for that and the information that I’m going to give you will better equip you to make changes to your golf swing so hopefully you appreciate this video and uh if you learn something please like comment and subscribe but it’d be really great to know if you’re
Making a change that after watching this video you realize there actually pushing you further away from your goal and maybe I’ve just saved you some of that very precious time so throughout this video I’m going to look at the address position we’re going to look at the
Movements into the back swing and we’re also going to look at some of the movements into the down swing too so let’s get on with it without wasting any more time enjoy so let’s just talk about some of the key positions now anatomically the rist can move many ways
It’s a very very mobile joint and you may hear terms in golf magazines like cupping the wrist rolling the wrist now this is fine I don’t mind people using this term terminology if you Google that or you hear it from a friend it’s very easy for that word to be ambiguous or
For you to misinterpret that word but if I do give you some of the more technical anatomical terms you could look online and you could find an answer to what that movement really is so let’s just start with a hinging movement that many people will use if this golf club goes
Up that’s radial deviation if it goes down that’s more a deviation for this video we can call that Hing in the wrist the second movement that I’m going to to look at would be the flexing and extending of the wrist or you may call that cupping and Boe for this video
Let’s call it Boe and cing one more movement that I’m going to look at we may call this the superation and the pronation of the lead arm pronation holding a soup ball super Nation or soup however for this video Let’s just call it rolling the forearm towards the
Target this video Let’s just call this forarm rotation Believe It or Not throughout the golf swing depending on the combination of the these wrist positions they can actually do some really really funky stuff so what I mean by that is super nation in one plane would close a face and superation in one
Plane would change the path so it’s quite interesting when we look at these movements that depending on how they’re combined with a different wrist movement it can impact whether we’re closing the face changing the path increasing the power or changing the loft of the golf club but we’re doing something
Effectively to that club face that creates a result that may or may not be desired so what about the risk movements that address well if we had a golf swing there was maximum unhinged or as we were mentioning earlier the most amount of AA deviation that might be similar to what
You see in Bryson D Shambo well what that will do is it will give us the least amount of change from address position to impact in the raising of the shaft which in very simple terms would mean that we’d be at a higher risk of hitting the ball from the heel because
When we swing and we raise the handle you can see how the golf club gets pulled towards me and that allows me to hit the ball less from the heel so if at your address position you’ve gone athletic you’ve stood very tall raised the chest you’ve raised the handle
Probably at a higher risk of hitting the heel you’d be at a higher risk of hitting the heel now if you took something like Keegan Bradley and you bent forward more and you lowered the hand now as you come into to impact you’ve got more range to raise handle of
The goldf club pulling it more towards the toe so you would be at a lower chance of hitting the heel and successfully many of my students have changed the way they strike the ball just by lowering or raising their address position somewhat to move that
Contact now a little bit of a secret for every one degree that you change that L angle your contact typically moves by about 8 mm so you’re hitting 2 cm from the toe you may find that raising your handle a few degrees at the beginning would make your contact better so that
Would be the unhinging OR hinging at the address position now let’s look at the arm rotation the pronation and the superation so if I were to take a combination where my lead arm would be pronated the most or rolled away from the Target and my right arm would be in
A bicep curl or the most under position this gives me the greatest ability for my forearms to rotate somewhat towards the Target now I’m very careful how I’m say this and I’ve simplified this wording quite a lot by putting it into a position where the right elbow would be
The most under even inwards and the lead arm would be on the top that would be the easiest way to create more closing of the club face at impact meaning the ball would be less likely to start to the right or more prone to start to the
Left what if we did the opposite and we get the left arm we put the left arm under and we put the right arm on top now this is something that typically would see from beginners they’d be building in more probability that the face would be opening during impact
Creating a shot that starts more to the right and curves further to the right not the best way to play golf now also I will see some combination where the elbows point out and this is often spotted by a huge gap between the forearms while people have read the Ben
Ogan book and they’ve put both elbows under into a bicep core position and their forearms are much closer together too if I were looking at a more standard position to be in one that had benefit a slightly more closed face to path to create a little bit more draw a little
Bit less spin a little bit longer ball flight to help people at the ball longer we’ prefer the right elbow to be in a slight bicep curl position with the right elbow pointing somewhere towards the right hip if we were to take the left elbow and it could be pointed
Towards the left hip towards the Target or somewhere in between at 45° my preference to benefit the draw shot would be somewhere between this position two position three 1 2 3 so let’s say 70° turn that’ll give us a greater ability to close the face to the way
That the forearms behave to reduce the chance of a shot that starts too far to the right now if we are hitting a draw shot just remember that the ball should be starting right so again this may be the way that you look at changing your Club face through the address position
Now if we take the grip position let’s say we take the left hand and we put it in a position that’s very close to Adam Scott turn towards the Target that all things equal will make it more likely that the face will come in open at
Impact creating a shot to the right a left hand on top would give more closing to the face and somewhere where around two Knuckles are showing would be somewhere in the middle again we’re looking at the extremes and maybe staying away from the extremes we’re not looking to be Matt Fitzpatrick however
If you’ve got that grip just all you need to know is that may help or hurt your ball flight that you have at the moment with the right hand we could look at the the amount that the right hand is underneath so a right hand that is the
Most underneath would create more of a left shot and a right hand on top would be more prone to making the ball start to the right again understanding where your ball starts and how much it curves is pivotal to some of the changes that
You may be making if you were to ask me a preference I’d like the left hand to have around two Knuckles showing from the front camera and I’d like the fat part of the right hand to cover up the thumb on the left hand what you should
Find is the connection between the left thumb and the finger point somewhere near to the right shoulder that would be my Baseline because I feel that’s in the middle of where the grip Spectrum could be and it gives you a lot of flexibility during the swing to put the golf club in
A position that is not too extreme from your address position so we want a little bit of wrist hinged address we don’t want this at the most extreme level typically looking for the arms to hang down and some radial deviation in that wrist definitely not at the maximum
And then not on the extreme on the minimum unless we were trying to reduce the amount of toe shot that we may get then the right elbow can be under the left arm can be a little bit on top and a two knuckle grip with a right hand having the line pointing somewhere
Towards the right shoulder that may not be you and it’s okay if it’s not you mat F Patrick’s a very good player so it’s Paul ainger and then if we look at Jordan SPI and we look at Adam Scott they’re pretty good players too so I
Can’t tell you that one of those grips is correct and one is wrong but it’s good if you understand what they are more likely to produce so now let’s have a look at the takeaway now quite often I hear golfers say well I’m trying to set
My wrist and hold it throughout the go swings but the wrists are very very dynamic they are all the time changing these movements in what they do and they’re not locked in one certain position and even when you do look at golfers with stable rist I can assure
You that they are super active and if you ever get the chance to look at risk graphs you likely walk away from it pretty confused when we look at the takeaway position if we were to just hinge the golf club purely as we take the hands back we’d end up in a very
Matte wolf-like position position so what would be missing well this is where we allow that forearm to rotate away from us so if we feel that the hands go towards right leg and we start to radial deviate or hinge the golf club and we allow a little bit of forarm rotation in
There we’d be looking for The Sweet Spot of the golf club to line up with the Hands by this position however understand if we were to rotate that forearm too much two things may happen one the left arm starts to go away from the body which also creates a little bit
Less tilt as you go back it’s much more difficult to make that shoulder go down but now we’ve got a couple of problems one the sweet spots are long way behind the hands so it could create a very chaotic Inside Out path but now the hands are also further away from the
Body so we’re exposing ourselves to a shank neither of that’s very desirable now I’m not saying that would happen but you’d be more prone to see professional golfers get in this position pretty good where the hands are going closer to the body in the back swing and the sweet
Part of the golf club starting to line up with the hands now what about this club face this is debated now if we were to Bow the wrist more we would start to close the face creating a more likely draw shot now if we were to cup the
Wrist that club face would open the ball may go more to the right now to give you an answer of how your Club face should look is very difficult because this really depends on the way that you grip the golf club in the first place if I
Took a very very weak golf grip the Adam Scott grip and I flatten my wrist on the way back my club face would be pointing up or if I were to take my grip and I put it on like Matt Fitzpatrick and I go back my left wrist is flat now my club
Fa is down so this is a very live image of what happened at a dress moving back somewhat so the club face may look very different already in the goal swing so your hands can go in towards the right leg and we’re trying to line the club up
Somewhere with the hands at the same time as we do swing back we are radial deviating because that creates some of the power in the go swing the loading and unloading of the rift create Club speed so the hands are going in the wrist start to radial deviate or hinge
The forearm starts to roll and we can manage the amount that we flatten the wrist to change the club face to improve Direction now by doing this in the back swing it has a small impact on the direction however if we were doing this in the down swing it would have a
Greater impact on Direction so if I were looking at trying to change the Direction I Would One prioritize address position two prioritize a down swing position three would prioritize a top position and four would prioritize the back swing position depending on how much I need to
Change that club face by now we’re going back a little bit more we’ve got into what we would call position two and this is where we can look at how the right elbow flexes so some golfers like this wide looking Korean style takeaway and that tends to involve the right arm
Staying straighter for longer so you would typically see a golfer look wider in the back swing because the right arm stays straighter for longer before the right elbow starts to flex and when it does the wrists start to radial deviate even more now then you could contrast
That you could look at somebody like Michelle we and she would radial deviate very quickly without taking the hands back very far so she would be a super short o which may be good advice for golfers that don’t want to shift off the ball more because they’re keeping the
Weight of the golf club more centered and less need to take that Golf Club away from them so it could help you for Conta so as we go back the right elbow bends the lead wrist will radial deviate and then by about this point 90° is a
Good reference point doesn’t need to be but it is a power source so it is advisable to make sure that we do get that 90° of wrist bending somewhere in that back swing now it might not truly be 90° but it’s a good number to aim for
Because it’s easy to check and as we go back we are trying to radial deviate or put some hinge in the rift because that’s one of the power sources in the go swing now we keep going back and the right elbow keeps flexing keeps flexing keeps flexing and now this is where it
Gets widely debated now are we trying to rotate the lead forearm in a way to shallow the golf club early or are we trying to keep it steeper into the back space well the lead arm will keep pronating or rolling away from the target there’s a loading move to take
The Sweet Spot further away from the ball to create more power on the way down now it also may cause us to hit the ground a little bit behind the ball if we do this too much because it may make the club path too far into out which
Moves a low point back so if you’re out there trying to shallow your golf swing but you already hit the ground behind the ball it may not be the best change for you may improve your direction it may reduce your size and it may increase
Your power but it may make you a poorer ball Striker for a short period of time until you find the other pieces that need to fit in your go swing to make that work so now we’re again toward the top with’ radial deviated we’ve put The Sweet Spot somewhat behind the Arms by
Changing the way The Forum rotates what about the club face now I’m not going to say that club face needs to match the lead Forum because it all depends on how you grip the golf club at the beginning this is why you may see pictures of Ricky Fowler with a club face looking
Like this Dustin Johnson have a bod wristed in the club face pointing behind him because of the way that they grip it at a dress but do understand if you’re normally like this and you bow the WR even more you will be more prone to a draw
Shop and You’ be more prone to to a lower ball flight and if it was CED higher ball flight more to the right is it the change you need to look like DJ if you’re pulling the ball probably not if you’re pushing the shot maybe it is
If we look at the wrist position from a slightly different View and let’s say we take my wrist i’ built in the 90° of radial deviation and now I rotate my forearm and now I would to flex the right elbow and pull the lead arm up against my chest that’s the loading
Mechanism to create power that loading mechanism bent forward putting inclination to the ground then needs to be unloaded to create speed so now when we look at the wrist and the arm movements we understand that we have a loading phase and an unloading phase right elbow flexes the right arm straightens also
Going to help us create power understanding the go swing is pretty beautiful because these changes that you do make they don’t always impact One impact factor they could change multiple impact factors you could change your wrist and not only does your Dynamic Loft change so you launch the ball lower
But the face then opened and now you’re pushing it out to the right and then understanding which key component you can change to make it better sometimes it is really good just to go find a qualified professional who’s going to help pinpoint those changes to you to
Make you strike the ball better it’s also fun and you go experiment and you go work on your swing but it’s very easy to try and make one change not realize that there’s a butterfly effect and two three pieces have changed without you being wholly aware of that one final
Piece at the top when we do look at the wrist position at the top this is where the long thumb can be really Troublesome and if your left thumb is too long you may find that you’re able to create more than a 90° wrist angle to the forearm if
Your pH position was shorter it’s a lot harder to overswing now let’s say we pair that and we put in DJ’s rist position now it’s going to be very difficult to go too long at the back if we cut the wrist and we extended the thumb that would give us the most mobile
So I’m trying to keep my forearm 90° to the ground CED wrist long foam super over I shorten the foam I bow the wrist I’m trying that’s probably the most I can go can’t even get to 90 degrees so again just consider that by bowing the
Wrist we may not have the most power but then you take somebody like DJ he’s got a very long left foam and he’s got a bowed wrist and he manages to create even a little bit more than 90° in that anyway let’s get back into the down
Swing so then when you start looking at the down swing we’ve gone to the top it’s very fashionable right now to Bow the wrist shallow the shaft so what are those two movements well really that was it we bowed the wrist a little bit more bowing of the wrist will tend to fit
Down the right elbow a little bit more and reapply the pressure point under the trail arming the wrist movement and it will tend to create more of a shallow movement to the shaft which moves The Sweet Spot more behind us that allows us to swing more degrees in side out but it
Could be too much and it could cause us to hit the ground behind the ball so I say again if you are a golfer who’s struggling with good contact and you’re working on shallowing your Club it may make you worse shortterm so gun to the top bow the rift right elbow stuck to
The side of the body we don’t necessarily need to do that what you will find is if you come down and you actually increase the wrist position as you come down to an acute angle it’s actually going to induce a little bit more cupping in the wrist if
I bow the wrist and then I try to lag the golf club I can’t do that there’s a limit there’s a restriction in the way the wrist are built but will not allow that to happen so except that if you’re going to the top and you’re trying to
Fixate on that flat left wrist and maintain it you may find that your down swing becomes wider from the front camera so I’m not afraid to see golfers come down with somewhat of a cup in the wrist as long as the the wrist is closing enough degrees in the final part
Of the golf swing to make sure that the face is not too open at impact to create the desired ball flly you will also see that in Rory’s wrist on the way back that his lead wrist is cuted or cower would be B both are pretty good players the lead
Forearm in terms of the shallowing part of the lead Forum I would say it’s very important not to allow the golf club to go over and this sometimes can be achieved super simply you just try and hit the golf ball slightly to the right
So by the time you get to the top you’re intent is to hit that ball to the right and it will make it easier for you to keep the sweet spot behind the hands hitting the ball off to the right surprisingly easy and then once you’ve
Done that you will need to Bow the wrist to close the face so it doesn’t go too far right and turn into a pushup we’re getting into this desired position we’ve got the end of the golf club parallel to the ground and the hands on the right
Leg great position to create power now this is the final part of the video we are not holding that relief we are releasing these positions by allowing the right arm to straighten just after the ball and the shaft to line up with the left arm we will
Unleash more cled speed to create more distance golfer I saw recently would have shaing at impact a wide down swing so wide down swing chaing did not hit the ball as far as they should you could also have a narrow swing that never releases you would dig
The club into the ground potentially or top the ball also not a great way to play golf and becomes very difficult when you start hitting wed shots we have these angles we have these positions we release them deviation all no deviation slightly bowed left wrist closed Club face slightly extended lead wrist more
Open Club face depending on the grip that you had at the dress May mean that you need a cup or a flat wrist at this position elbow position pointing more to the right side the lead arm would be more pronated give this more of accumulat pre unloading which can create
More speed the more that The Sweet Spot is behind the hands and the more that the lead arm rotates without onner deviation now sorry on this one but the more that the club head is behind the hands and Lead arm supernates without onner deviation The increased chance of
The shank shop because the club is working out very quickly but if the golfer has something like Sergio Garcia the golf club is behind the lead arm comes out and then some onner deviation can still hit the middle of the GOL Club okay Sergio gar here exit becomes very high his way of
Raising the shaft in such a way the exit can become High and the chance of a shank shot is reduced some golfers lead arm in lead arm pronated going into Super nation into a Tommy Fleet would exit Golf Club goes out the shaft never raises the ball is hit from the heel of
The golf club devastating not a great way to play golf now post impact we should have this position where the lead arm is somewhat on the deviator to to transfer as much of that speed as we can to the ball while controlling the club face now also one thing to note if you
Are a golfer that early extends pushes a pelvis forward loses a right arm Flex too early Club faces in its most mobile position and we can lose the direction very very quickly however if the right wrist is extended or flexed the right elbow is bent and the back side is back
And the hands are forward now we’re in a a position where it’s very difficult to rotate that club face and the direction can be somewhat easier to achieve if we’ve got that the right shoulder is going to be lower that’s going to create a little bit more tilt and it’s
Necessary for us to have more hips way to make that work like I say the golf swing’s beautiful mysterious and very difficult to give your friend just a little bit of advice when his golf game’s not going well guys lots of information in this really if you do
Have any questions please reach out and will help to build better knowledge of your goal swing
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Interesting stuff mate. Well presented.