Right Wrist in the Takeaway
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The role of right wrist in the takeaway is often misunderstood and has been the source of much confusion and bad golf swings. In fact, perhaps 90% of the students I see in the first lesson incorrectly use their right wrist during this crucial first phase of the golf swing. Because most golfers are right handed, the right hand tends to dominate the takeaway and put the club in a position where it moves behind the body to early. This gets the club deep and out of sync with the rotating torso and usually creates a very deep position at the top of the swing. In this video, I talk about the specific role of the right wrist and how it gets the club moving back correctly and simply.
- Hinging the right wrist during takeaway causes the club face to close, which steepens the swing plane
- Keep your right wrist neutral during the takeaway
- Somebody standing behind you at takeaway should be able to read your watch
One of the most misunderstood parts of the takeaway is what the right arm or the right wrist specifically does in the takeaway.
And as you learned in the Move 1 video, it really doesn't do anything, but for a lot of people that's still not enough to.
So we get more specific in exactly what that right wrist does or doesn't do, because there's a lot of instruction that kind of contradicts what we're saying, and I'm going to show you what happens.
what a lot of people teach is that that right wrist should really hinge during the takeaway.
You can totally disagree, it's completely unnecessary movement.
So what that looks like is for the right wrist as you start the club back to get really hinged, and the left wrist to start to cock.
Specifically, we're talking about the right wrist, so that hinging motion is just your right wrist moving back in this direction.
As that right wrist hinges, look what happens to my club face.
It's dead shut.
So unless you do something to manipulate your grip, when you hinge that wrist, the club face is not only going to get shut, it's going to have a tendency to get inside and steep.
The shut place inherently wants to steep in the swing plane.
So, all we need to do with that right wrist is the neutral position that it's in at address, where your wrist is nice and neutral, stays that way.
So, as you go back, notice that my right wrist is still very flat during that takeaway move.
Instead of being hinged and on top of the club, you never want your hand on top of the club, it's going to be neutral.
So, as I turn back, my right wrist stays neutral.
That's going to make it very easy for me to get to a square position at the top, as that right wrist remains neutral.
It will hinge back a little bit, but you won't really be able to stop that from happening anyway.
But you certainly don't want to add to it.
So as the right wrist goes back, it stays neutral, left wrist is going to cock, technically the right wrist cocks a little bit, it's almost kind of on an angle between a hinge and a cock.
But basically, what you want to feel is that it stays neutral so that somebody, if you had a wrist watch on your right hand, somebody behind you during the takeaway could read your watch.
You don't want to be able to read it yourself or somebody in this direction to be able to read it.
It needs to stay almost as if somebody almost underneath you and specifically behind you could read your watch.
And then you're going to keep it neutral to that position to the top.
So, if you find that you're getting a club face really, really shut or you're getting really handsy during the takeaway, check that that right wrist remains neutral and flat during the takeaway, it doesn't start to hinge and you'll get into a much better position and going back.
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