If you lack power and struggle to get the ball in the air, there is a chance your wrists arenât behaving. But what is wrist hinge in the golf swing and why is it important?Â
When you hear TV commentators talk about âcracking the whipâ or releasing the club through the ball, they are referring to something that just isnât possible without first getting the club into position on the way back. Setting your wrists in the backswing is key to loading power.
Watch the video below to hear more about the importance of wrist hinge from PGA pro Katie Dawkins…
To make it simple, imagine youâre skimming a stone; youâve got a flat mill pond in front of you, a smooth pebble in hand and you want to skip it across the water like you used to as a kid.Â
Now imagine trying to achieve that without using your wrist. Where are you going to generate power from? Unless you want the pebble to fall at the first hurdle, you need to set your wrist to be able to release it with enough fizz.
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Similarly, if you donât hinge your wrists in the golf swing you could be throwing away loads of clubhead speed and delivering your irons with less of a descending angle of attack than is ideal.
If you don’t create enough wrist hinge in the golf swing, your angle of attack will suffer
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If this sounds like something you struggle with, youâll probably have noticed that heaving the ball down the fairway feels a lot like hard work.
In the backswing, the body and arms should take the club away smoothly as one unit, while the wrists start to set. Once your lead arm is parallel to the ground, the club should be pointing towards the sky, roughly forming a right angle.
From here, you need only turn as much as your mobility allows to wind up to the top. For some, this results in a Jon Rahm-esque compact motion, and for others with oodles of flexibility, the club will get close to, or even beyond, parallel to the ground.Â
Whatever the case, the fact that the wrists have done their job early on means they are way more likely to unhinge…
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