Golf Tips

Power "L" position

One of the crucial power sources in the golf swing are the wrists. Used properly, they provide tremendous snap and power at impact. Here are a few checkpoints to ensure your wrists function correctly during the swing:

1- Make sure the club rests more at the base of the fingers than up in the palms of BOTH hands. A palmy grip will inhibit the wrists from hinging correctly

2- At the ½ way back position in your backswing, stop and see if the club shaft and left arm form a letter “L.”

3- Coming down at the same point, you want to see the “L” position once again. Most people cast, or throw, the club early and the wrists consequently release prematurely.

4- Once the hands reach about shoulder height on the follow thru, they should be hinged once again just prior to the club falling over the left shoulder.

Check these positions in slow-motion on the driving range, and try to “feel” the “L” position both going back and coming down. This is the crucial checkpoint to ensure that you create the set going back and lag position into impact coming down.

You can also do an “arms-only” drill on the range with your feet together. Just hit some 9 irons swinging only your hands and arms. Isolate your wrists so you can hinge and then release them properly through the shot.