The Wrist Move You’re Missing: Unlock Power & Precision in Your Swing

🏌️‍♂️ Excessive flexion in the lead wrist and too much supination in the follow-through are key causes of hooking the golf ball left.

🖐️ Minimizing lead wrist flexion and increasing wrist extension during the follow-through helps keep the club face open and reduces hooks.

💪 Keeping the lead elbow higher than the trail elbow in the follow-through prevents excessive forearm rotation and club face closure.

🎯 Practicing slow swings with the shaft staying to the right of the handle is an effective drill to fix over-hooking.

⏩ Gradually increasing swing speed while maintaining proper wrist and arm positions helps ingrain the correct movement and prevent hooks.

00:00:00 - Lexi, we are here today to fix a problem that is pretty common in golf. The golf ball curving too far to the left or hooking away from the target. So, is that something that you ever struggle with? Yes, I have been struggling with that for the last few weeks. So, I am excited for today. Perfect. So, we're going to talk about how your wrist bends and how your arms move in the followrough and how that can affect uh what's going on with your control of the club face and then we'll

00:00:25 - talk about a way to fix that. So, stay tuned. Let's do it. Awesome. Let's do it.

00:00:32 - So, if this is what your shot pattern looks like, I've got a way to fix that. So, really the first thing that you need to understand is why the golf ball is doing that. So, when we're talking about your wrist bends, your wrist can move in a couple different ways. The two that we're going to talk about today are flexion in your lead wrist, which is basically like bowing your lead wrist. Okay? When you do too much of this, it closes the club face. So a lot of

00:00:55 - golfers who hook the golf ball have too much lead wrist flexion. The second piece is the amount of supenation that you have. So when your forearm and your arm rotate basically like you were holding a bowl of soup, pointing your palm to the sky, that's supenation. When you combine those two variables, that closes the face and causes a lot of shots that start really straight and then curve too far to the left. So basically what you have. Okay. So what we're going to work on is a way to

00:01:21 - practice that in your follow through so that you can stop the hooking problem. So, go ahead and set up like you're going to hit a golf ball here. Um, and what I want you to do is just make a swing and stop for me when you get to about chest high in your follow through. Perfect. So, a lot of golfers who hook the golf ball too much at this point in time will have the face pointed down to the ground and their lead wrist will be flexed some amount. So, if this looks

00:01:42 - like you, where you have either the shaft and the club pointed down to the ground here, like I'm showing you on the camera, or even if the shaft gets too far to the left of you when you finish and the face is pointed down, this is the drill for you. So, the way that you want to fix that is first you want to start by minimizing the amount of flexion that you have. So, same thing, go ahead and set up like you're going to make a swing. And as you swing the club

00:02:04 - through into your follow through, what I want you to do is basically rehinge the club or try to bring the shaft closer to your head. So, just go real slow. Just make a make a small swing. Perfect. Yep. So, as you start to bring the club back closer to you, if you can turn so that everybody can see this, what happens is your lead wrist moves into extension or this cupping action that you see right here. So, that's going to help us keep the face more open. So, that's step number one. Step

00:02:30 - number two, go ahead, do the same thing. Make a swing. Stop. When you get to about chest high, you're going to rehinge the club. And you're going to make sure that your lead elbow, so for you in this case it'll be your left elbow, stays higher than your trail elbow in the follow-through. Okay? That'll keep your palm pointed more down to the ground. That'll prevent the rolling or that supenation that I was talking about. So when you supenate your lead arm, what happens is your forearms

00:02:54 - criss-cross. And you can see how your elbow is now in the reverse position, right? Your trail elbow's higher than your lead elbow. So you're going to make some swings where you're basically trying to bring the club back towards you. And you're going to keep your lead elbow up above your trail elbow. It' be a really good way to help you prevent closing the face. So make a couple of those swings just really slow and hold your finish and we'll sort of talk about where you're at.

00:03:14 - Okay. So at what point in my swing should I start to hinge the club back up. Basically as soon as you hit. So basically trying to bring that club closer to you as soon as you move into your follow through. Good. Perfect. That's awesome. Right there. So you can see how the shaft is pitched to the right of her hands. This would be a really good checkpoint for you guys to monitor at home when you're practicing this. If you hook the golf ball too much, you should make sure that

00:03:36 - the shaft stays to the right of where the handle is. Okay. So, do that a couple more times. Then I'll have you chip one out there. Perfect. There you go. Do that one more time. Hold your finish here. Good. Face be pointed more up towards the sky. That's awesome. Okay. Now, chip one out there. So, when you do this, you're going to start super super slow. And what you should see is that golf ball should start to the right and push to the right. So, it's totally fine

00:04:01 - if you like actually slice it. That's kind of what you're trying to do. Good. So, you can see how that ball started to the right, actually curved a little bit that way as well. Okay. So, you do this really slow a few times. That was a super super straight shot. It actually curved a teeny tiny bit back to the target. But really, what you're trying to do is get that ball to start to the right and just kind of stay out there. So, go a little faster on this one. Try to hit this maybe closer to 100

00:04:25 - yards. Good. started to the right, kind of pushed out there. So, this is a really good way for you to practice not over hooking the golf ball. Okay? And then as you feel comfortable, you just start to add a little bit more speed and try to incorporate that same type of movement into your follow through. But basically, the the two takeaways, you need more extension in your lead wrist, and you need less of the supernation and more of the pronation in your follow through.

00:04:51 - That will help keep the face more open to the swing path and help prevent that golf ball from starting straight and curving too far to the left. Awesome. I'll have to practice this one.

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