wrist action

What is best training/exercise to improve this vital motion that allows longer distance?

hi learner
try greg j willis's right hand drill.
sorry i dont have the link use the search function there are tons of reference to his drill

Maybe Gandalf can put this in the "Quick Links" drop down.

http://members.cox.net/gregjwillis/LESSON1.htm

you want to move/postiotion you body/arms and hands so that you can't release untill impact. trying to hold your wrist angle leads to early release and weak shots. you haev nothing to release, you are might as well swing up to waist high and i would bet you would still hit as far if not further.

swing to the top of your BS with your left hand only, your left hand cocked up and then move your arm down and then begin turning (like your DS) and try to uncock, you can't, you will just load up the shaft through out the whole swing so that you can release it strong into the ball. if you are strong enough or shaft is flexable enough you might see it bend, but you should feel the clubhead throught the DS, that means you are loadig up the shaft so that you have something to release into the ball.


now with you right hand only (you can use your left hand as a guide but very light grip, don't let it have any control) get to the top of your BS with you right hand cupped back and cocked up. make sure your elbow is away from your chest and the armpit angle is about 45 deg then when you start your DS move that elbow towards your rib then rotate back to impact all while trying to uncock your right wrist as hard as you can. if you are DSing corerctly by moving your elbow towards ribs and rotationg back to impact you will not be able uncock untill just before impact (hands at waist high) and you can't uncup your right wrist intill after impact.

i am a big fan of gregs drill too, but at first i tried holding that cup and i just couldn't hold it back, but when i learned how to postion my body/arms so that i can't uncup (though i am trying to) i could hodl the cup much longer and i got a ton of power. you might have heard golf is a gam of opposites..... here is another exapmle of that, you want to try to release from the top and you can't, instead of trying to hold it as long as you can and you can't hold it for very long at all.

like throwing a baseball, you don't hold your wrist angle then release it last minute, you try to release it from the back but you can't because your elbow is in front of your hand. that loads your wrist so that you are releasing the ball the entire time accelerating and only able to actually see the release near the end with great speed. if you just try to hold your wrist cuped and then uncup it last minut you might as well not even wind up for the pitch you should just flick wrist to throw the ball.

so don't worry about hitting the ball....... at first just practice loading the shaft by moving your body/arms correctly so that you physically can't release untill impact no matter how hard you try, and the harder you try the more you load the shaft and accelerate the club through the release. practice first with the left hand and don't let it uncock, then with right and don't let it uncock or uncup (will uncup slightly), then both hands together.

now that you can feel the club head you can work it better to hit slices, hooks or strait. now you just have to work on proper impact which is done through good mechanics and fundementals, but power comes from learning how to use the arms/hands correctly so that you have something to release when your club gets about waist high.

but that is all pointless if you don't know proper fundementals and know how to maintain spine angle, tush line, and have a good pivot/weight shift etc. if you can't consistantly hit the ball with good contact and accurate then power is useles.