When & How to Hinge Your Wrists Most Golfers Get This Wrong

You don't need hours of practice or huge talent to be able to do this correctly in the golf swing. We're talking about how to hinge the wrist correctly in the golf swing within seconds, within minutes. It's a simple little feel and exercise that's going to help get you the right loading and unloading of your wrist in the golf swing. Now we see so many golfers when they swing the golf club, tip the golf club back, too wooden, too stiff, club going round their body and the thumbs not working the right way in the golf swing and the hands working out in a way and the club working in. So that is the incorrect hinge. When we're talking hinge of the golf swing, ideally it's this motion, back and forth. When we're talking wrist cock or wrist set, it's this action. So when I'm talking in this video, I'm talking about the wrist cock or radial movement and the hinge combinations to get the club back correctly. So ideally when we're taking the club back, we want very little wrist hinge and we want lots of wrist cock. As we get to the top of the swing, we want more wrist hinge. So what we're going to try and do as we take the club back in order to get the right wrist cock is make sure this handle goes back low. So the gap between the handle and my thigh shouldn't change and the handle wants to go back low. When the handle goes back low, when we put pressure down, the thumb automatically goes up and we don't want the wrist to rotate this way or hinge this way in the golf swing. So one of the best ways of you feeling this is to take an alignment rod, stick down the shaft, place it to the outside of your body at address and in takeaway, this alignment rod should stay on your body, feel like the handle works low and that the handle and the rod work down that lead thigh. That is the correct takeaway wrist cocking and wrist hinging we want in the initial part of the golf swing. Now as we go to the top of the swing from there, then I want to try and keep this swing, what I would feel is wide to keep this rod away from me as much as I can and then I'd want to feel I get a little bit wrist hinge. You'll see here with the rod, the rod just goes a little higher, it goes more out more horizontally at the top of the swing. If I can get those combination moves going, so it goes down my thigh and then points a little higher at the top, that's exactly the moves I want to make when I hit a golf shot. Now it's pretty difficult to hit shots with a rod down the shaft, so what I'd recommend is you get a T and put it in the end of the club and use that as a pure visual to do the same things. So we would go T down my leg, T high and that's the things we want to get the right wrist hinge in the golf swing. And if we start the swing with the right hinge, it means we load the wrist in order to get the wrist working from a wrist delivery point of view to get the wrist loading and unloading to give us that contact. But it also means quite often when people cock the wrist late, they get a lot of cocking at the end of the golf swing which causes a bit of a collapse. So we're looking for basically an early wrist cock and then width to give us that structure, to give us that structure as we return the club on the way down to be consistent with our ball into contact. When we get that kind of late look, quite often we get quite narrow and then quite throwy early in the golf swing and it gets quite messy. When we hinge the club early, the club goes in then it nearly always works up then it nearly always works over. So again, hinging the club too early, cocking the club too late are two critical errors we're looking to avoid in the golf swing. So make sure you try and load the wrist in the correct direction and the right time to become a real consistent player.