Left Wrist "Popping" At Takeaway

I get a strange "clicking" feeling in my left wrist at takeaway and I'm wondering if anyone else gets this too.

It only recently started happening when I made a change to my swing, beginning with the takeaway. I am trying to get my left wrist "flat" at the top of the backswing. That is, I want it inline with my left forearm and clubface at the top of the backswing, when viewed from behind the ball. Previously, I had a tendency to have a cupped left wrist and open clubface at the top of the backswing.

From this position, I find it much easier to return a flat left wrist (or even arched) leading the club at impact -- what I would call the single most important characteristic of any golf swing, bar none.

In order to get my left wrist flat at the top, it feels like I need to start making it flat almost immediately in the takeaway. (My hands are slightly behind the ball at address *with the driver*, so the left wrist is slightly cupped at address.) During a full speed swing, right about at "position 2" when the club is parallel to the ground going back, my left wrist makes a "clicking" noise and "pops." It feels like the wrist joint is "popping" into place.

It doesn't hurt, but it's odd, and I wonder if it is the result of (a) making the left wrist flat too early, or (b) a long-ago wrist fracture that may have left my left wrist less mobile than others.

Has anyone else had this left wrist "clicking" or "popping" experience at takeaway, when trying to get the left wrist flat at the top?

Thanks for the input.

Joe
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Joe, that is an interesting thing... I have worked on setting the left wrist flat at the top. I try only to get it at the top though. I do this especially if I am guarding against the ball going to the right... I have never had that problem with my wrist... I have had several other things pop and snap on occasion during the swing ...

I would not worry about it unless it started to hurt...

Tom

Hi Joe,

Do you have any previous injury or was involved in any activity that demanded a lot of action from the left wrist? It it doesn't hurt, I guess you don't really have to worry about it (even though I would dare say that this is definitely not a common phenomenon). I can make my left knuckles crack/click everytime I clench my fist due to a couple of years of martial arts training, but it doesn't hurt and I don't think it's anything to worry about :P

joe.....i have it too! I also had a wrist injury and was assuming thats what it came from. Mine is so loud that other people in the foursome notice the noise and find it disgusting.