Many golfers think they’re supposed to rotate the clubface open on the backswing and close it through impact, and they do that by rolling their forearms ( above ). That one move has ruined more swings than anything because once the club starts twisting, the ball starts going everywhere. Do you twist your arm when you throw a ball? No, because you’d start throwing it all over the place. So don’t add any arm twisting to your swing. The club will naturally arc to the inside when you extend your wrist back because we play from a side-on position. Same thing going through: Release your wrist, just like the throw, and the club will track out to the ball. THE BIG MISTAKE
PRACTICE DRILL The part that takes practice is the release. If you let go of a baseball too soon, it goes straight up; too late, and you fire it into the ground. In golf, you have to gauge the release of the wrist through impact. Try some pitch shots: Load the right wrist and hit the ball when you still have a little bend in it – that’s the ideal hitting position. Then feel it flatten in the follow- through ( left ). Groove that timing, and your impact will be pure.
act of extending and flexing your trail wrist is as natural as throwing a ball. To take it a step further, imagine you’re holding the clubface in your right hand. In effect, I want you to throw the face into the ball. On a chip or pitch shot, that simple levering of the right hand is the whole swing. Longer swings add body rotation, but the basic throwing action – swing back and load the wrist, swing down and unload the wrist – doesn’t change.
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