Your wrists could well hold the key to playing better golf, your hands, if used correctly, can create any curve, any height and almost any shot, so it would make sense to make the most of that giving you more control over your golf ball
In this video I discuss the only two movements that your wrists have and how you should be using these two movements through the swing to control the ball flight.
If greats of the game like Tiger Woods say they hit most of their shots through their hands, we should probably listen and explore just what they can do, and you will be surprised and how much control you get by using them correctly.
The drills and exercises in this video are really simple, easy to follow and can be done by everyone, I hope it helps
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 What The Wrists Do
01:14 Backswing Wrist Action
04:22 Downswing Wrist Action
09:34 A Must Do Practice Routine
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Only thing they can do? Back and forth, up and down? You are disregarding rotation, are you suggesting that is only a forearm characteristic?
Really great video Chris. I really appreciated that you took the time to dispel the idea that you want to maintain risk cock and/or hold off release in the downswing. That's an issue I had, and I know it's very common among amateurs, even good ones. The problem is that you can hit some very decent wedge and short iron shots with the "hold the wrist cock in downswing" thought, especially if you're coming from a super flippy swing previously. But with the longer irons, and especially the woods, that swing cue simply doesn't work – it's impossible to hit those high, soft shots you talked about. And that's partly why the wrists are so confusing – bad techniques can actually produce some good results, but only for part of the bag. The wrist progression you described, on the other hand, works well with every club – the only adjustments are to set up. Thanks again.
Question: At contact, is the wrist set the same as at set up or less? It seems like if you let all the wrist set go, you dump the club into the ground before contact or have to early extend to prevent that.
Great video. It seems to me that the wrist should be cupped at address and bowed at impact–but this is one of those freeze-frame moments where it seems that the experts disagree. I think you have set the record straight. Also, it seems the wrist straight at the top of the backswing helps flatten the plane for the downswing (and bring the club into the slot). I like how you explained that controlling your wrists helps develop skill.
this guy is full of contradictions. Everytime I listen to him, I feel like he tries to undo what other instructors are saying.
If you need to flatten the wrists in the backswing for eventual impact….why do we start with them cupped?
Took this to the range tonight and it has made a massive positive difference on my quality of strike. I’ve always struggled getting good compression, hitting irons too thin. But this clicked with me and results were great. Looking forwards to taking it to the course. Thanks Chris
Hi Chris great video. Just a question if I can. Your slightly cupped lead wrist at address also shows a pretty much vertical shaft at address where others suggest a shaft lean at address causing a flat lead wrist? 😫 HELP! 😂 thank you Chris 👍🏌️♂️
This is a great video with a step by step breakdown of the wrist mechanics. It’s a light bulb moment for me, can’t wait to put it to practice. Thanks heaps, Chris.
Why wouldn’t we start the swing from an impact position?
Wow this is quality information & detail! Thank you🙏
Great Chris thank you
Well explained. great video.
Thanks Chris.
A great topic that is rarely show in detail like this. Thank you, us amateurs struggle with this stuff in the golf swing.
Next time I'll hook it into the trees, I'm gonna call it skill and probably feel better! Thanx, doc!)
You are one of my favorite YouTube instructors, but I respectfully feel that you have missed the mark here. We all have two wrists, and most of us are right handed. Yet, the majority of this video focused on the left wrist. In my opinion, this video would have been so much better if you had discussed the equivalent right wrist actions throughout the swing. For example, you could have stated that “skilled golfers bow the left wrist in the downswing and bend the right wrist back at the same time. It’s the same motion, use whichever thought works best for you.” I have seen the same emphasis on the left hand and wrist for decades in magazines and now in videos, and it mystifies me greatly Please don’t perpetuate this literally one-sided view of the swing. Thank you very much.
Great video, and sometimes I forget about this part of the game. The idea of moving the right wrist to flexion in the downswing gets the face square to slightly closed and this would aid the body and your brain to turn through impact with some shaft lean, correct?
Have you any preference between a long or short left thumb. A long thumb means that you can achieve more wrist hinge . Is this desirable ?
One thing that worked for me. When I was getting lessons my coach told me as I was coming back the first half of the back swing to turn my wrist and make it feel like I’m trying to turn the back of my left hand towards the ground as much as possible. Really helped me get the feeling of flexing my wrist. It didn’t fix everything by any means lol but absolutely helped me with contact like a complete 180.
Does this same thing work for a driver swing? Can you do a version of this for driver? I struggle with clubface control with driver way more than my irons.
Thank you! I’d still love to see a video with more details on acceleration and deceleration of the hand speed. I know the hands reach the max speed at the right hip, but shouldn’t we be telling ourselves to accelerate the hands past the left hip and then slow them down? There’s a difference in perception and reaction time, and where we tell ourselves to make certain motions. Do you have a spot Chris where you tell yourself to accelerate the hands to and then to slow them down?
Thank you Chris!
9:20 just to mention on top of that, you also have to have the wrists loose to allow this to happen. You can't force it or you lock up the arms and you lose not only distance, but accuracy.
Well done Chris 👏 😊