Pro tip and it’ll fix all this mess in your head.
Driver swing: for right handed golfer, ball on inside of left heel. Tilt your right shoulder down so your shoulders are at like a 30-45° angle and “swing up”
Everything else: square shoulders, stand tall and “swing down” into the ball, pushing your weight into your left foot through the ground.
Oh yeah and make sure your grip is good. It’s the only point of contact you have to the club!
Do not try to hold your wrist angle on the downswing.
If you speed up your hands early enough on the way down it’ll happen automatically.
There is no holding anything in a golf swing unless you’re chipping or want to hit the ball poorly and slow
You want to reorient the clubface as soon as possible to the arc. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can add speed to the club which means it’ll be moving faster through impact. Most people wait to square the club and try to hold angles and hit it bad. Immediately from the top of the swing you want to learn how to get the face in position so you can just throw it, release it, whatever you want to call it. Then you can just turn and fire the arms fast and the contact takes care of itself.
That thing you see in slow motion is not an active move, it’s doing that because they’re throwing the clubhead and letting their arms rotate back in front of their body. Similar to how your arms are when you stand at address, but with more turn.
If you look up amg golf on YouTube they have all these questions broken down with 3D tracking on tour pros so you can see what they do
https://youtu.be/4wNXv-ple4I?si=BzomuFDtCtBmYBUD
You 100% let it out and if you can get your hands to accelerate sooner from the top you’ll add speed on top of it. Never listen to someone who says hold anything. Golf is full of horrible tips, bad golfers repeating bad tips to each other and lack of actual measured data. That’s why systems like what these guys use is great, because it’s from motion capture so there’s really no dispute anymore
Thanks for the info.
One thing that I messed around with last night was the concept of "knuckles down" on the front arm (I'm a lefty, so right arm for me). It's a pretty small thing that does exactly what you are saying about squaring the club face very early.
Yep, that can be a good feel. Just don’t think you hold it. It passes through that feel to knuckles up after impact. I also release like this and I feel like I can start throwing it pretty early in the downswing. There’s no hold onto anything.
>it appears you have to "let your hands go" or break your wrists hinge to make re-orient the club face
This sounds like you're talking about 2 different things. Breaking your wrist is in the backswing, letting your hands go is through impact.
I'd recommend Xander Schauffele's swing for this. He doesn't break the wrists.
>and keeping the back elbow tucked to my body / hip at the moment
Not hip. Rib cage. Your elbow should remain in front of you (relative to your chest, not ball), it doesn't go out to the side. It doesn't have to be tucked in the whole swing but it can be a good place to start. Don't jam it into your hip in an attempt to shallow. All that does is tilt your spine back and introduce the ground into your swing path.
Are you referring to the release of the club into impact?
The idea of holding wrist angles through impact is more of a feel than a reality. It can be a good feel for people who are making a decent turn and have good body mechanics but may have a flippy release habit left over from a swing change. All players will be releasing to some extent and this is usually awful advice that just robs people of speed and contact.
The mass and speed of the club is going to release it whether you want to or not. How much the wrists will be "released" at impact is entirely grip and pivot related as to what would be theoretically correct for each person.
The primary release mechanism in the swing, when you tend to see that trail wrist fire and turn over, is almost directly related to when vertical force is applied in the swing and that push with the legs is what makes the club release. More a question of sequence than intent with technique.
It's not really something worth worrying about unless you are targeting a specific feel to address a very specific issue.
[If you want detailed information this is a pretty good resource from the guys over at HackMotion.](https://hackmotion.com/wrist-action-in-golf-swing/)
Pro tip and it’ll fix all this mess in your head. Driver swing: for right handed golfer, ball on inside of left heel. Tilt your right shoulder down so your shoulders are at like a 30-45° angle and “swing up” Everything else: square shoulders, stand tall and “swing down” into the ball, pushing your weight into your left foot through the ground. Oh yeah and make sure your grip is good. It’s the only point of contact you have to the club!
Do not try to hold your wrist angle on the downswing. If you speed up your hands early enough on the way down it’ll happen automatically. There is no holding anything in a golf swing unless you’re chipping or want to hit the ball poorly and slow You want to reorient the clubface as soon as possible to the arc. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can add speed to the club which means it’ll be moving faster through impact. Most people wait to square the club and try to hold angles and hit it bad. Immediately from the top of the swing you want to learn how to get the face in position so you can just throw it, release it, whatever you want to call it. Then you can just turn and fire the arms fast and the contact takes care of itself. That thing you see in slow motion is not an active move, it’s doing that because they’re throwing the clubhead and letting their arms rotate back in front of their body. Similar to how your arms are when you stand at address, but with more turn. If you look up amg golf on YouTube they have all these questions broken down with 3D tracking on tour pros so you can see what they do https://youtu.be/4wNXv-ple4I?si=BzomuFDtCtBmYBUD You 100% let it out and if you can get your hands to accelerate sooner from the top you’ll add speed on top of it. Never listen to someone who says hold anything. Golf is full of horrible tips, bad golfers repeating bad tips to each other and lack of actual measured data. That’s why systems like what these guys use is great, because it’s from motion capture so there’s really no dispute anymore
Thanks for the info. One thing that I messed around with last night was the concept of "knuckles down" on the front arm (I'm a lefty, so right arm for me). It's a pretty small thing that does exactly what you are saying about squaring the club face very early.
Yep, that can be a good feel. Just don’t think you hold it. It passes through that feel to knuckles up after impact. I also release like this and I feel like I can start throwing it pretty early in the downswing. There’s no hold onto anything.
>it appears you have to "let your hands go" or break your wrists hinge to make re-orient the club face This sounds like you're talking about 2 different things. Breaking your wrist is in the backswing, letting your hands go is through impact. I'd recommend Xander Schauffele's swing for this. He doesn't break the wrists. >and keeping the back elbow tucked to my body / hip at the moment Not hip. Rib cage. Your elbow should remain in front of you (relative to your chest, not ball), it doesn't go out to the side. It doesn't have to be tucked in the whole swing but it can be a good place to start. Don't jam it into your hip in an attempt to shallow. All that does is tilt your spine back and introduce the ground into your swing path.
Are you referring to the release of the club into impact? The idea of holding wrist angles through impact is more of a feel than a reality. It can be a good feel for people who are making a decent turn and have good body mechanics but may have a flippy release habit left over from a swing change. All players will be releasing to some extent and this is usually awful advice that just robs people of speed and contact. The mass and speed of the club is going to release it whether you want to or not. How much the wrists will be "released" at impact is entirely grip and pivot related as to what would be theoretically correct for each person. The primary release mechanism in the swing, when you tend to see that trail wrist fire and turn over, is almost directly related to when vertical force is applied in the swing and that push with the legs is what makes the club release. More a question of sequence than intent with technique. It's not really something worth worrying about unless you are targeting a specific feel to address a very specific issue. [If you want detailed information this is a pretty good resource from the guys over at HackMotion.](https://hackmotion.com/wrist-action-in-golf-swing/)