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Our golf tips lessons on the web lead us to the subject of wristcock. If you fondle a club, hold it vertically and look at your wrists, you can bend your right wrist backwards around 70-80 degrees (as in the picture on the previous page). Then you can sweep your wrists horizontally in the opposite direction so that your left wrist is bent backwards 70-80 degrees. Your wrists will have swept forward 140-160 degrees. That’s about as much motion as your wrists can muster, in any direction. So I supposed that’s the motion they were to execute as they flailed. But look at the positions of the left wrists at the top of the lift ‘n coil pictured below. If you’re still fondling that club, please hold it vertically again with your wrists about the height of your neck. Keeping your forearms still, bend your wrists up (not horizontally) and try to tap your forehead with the clubshaft. That’s the direction of wristcock in golf (enabled by supple wrists!). The angle of the outside edge of the left side of the palm to the outside edge of the left arm. As the wrists have cocked in the same direction as yours did when you bonked your forehead. Golf TipsGolf tips from the pros tell us if tension shortens your lift ‘n coil, probably the first place you’ll notice it is in less wristcock. One of the key questions to ask yourself after a bad shot is whether your wristcock was as “floppy” as you wanted it to be. Concerning the three flat left wrists and the three bent left wrists, apparently here’s an area where a range can be defined within which you want to be. Swail thinks flat is best because it involves more stretch. Execute a full lift ‘n coil first with your left wrist bending backwards as it proceeds to the top, then with your left wrist flattening as it proceeds to the top. You may feel greater stretch with a flattened wrist--all the way down to your lower left back. Interestingly, in a more recent swing sequence reproduced in the July, 2001 Golf Digest after Tiger's 'swing re-work' following his 12-stroke Masters win, his left wrist is perfectly flat. |
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