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Ok today I decided to go to an instructor for the first time. After I went, I can barely hit the ball now. My lowest score to date is a 83, but I needed help with my drivers. I could hit my irons perfectly straight, but now I can not even do that. My problem before was that I could not hit my driver straight, I always sliced it to the left ( I am a lefty golfer). The instructor helped me some and then I started hitting slicing the ball to the right big time now. I finally turn my wrists over which i wasn't doing before, but now I do it to much. He said do not worry about turning it over to much, but rather not opening the wrists as quick. Is there a drill where I can wait to turn my wrists over? If you guys even understand what I wrote.
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Try loosening your grip pressure as if you are holding a tube of tooth paste with the cap open. Let the wrist turn naturally

Before I hit my shot I like to keep my feet together and swing my driver. This helps me make a full turn and helps me take a compact swing.

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Ok today I decided to go to an instructor for the first time. After I went, I can barely hit the ball now. My lowest score to date is a 83, but I needed help with my drivers. I could hit my irons perfectly straight, but now I can not even do that. My problem before was that I could not hit my driver straight, I always sliced it to the left ( I am a lefty golfer). The instructor helped me some and then I started hitting slicing the ball to the right big time now. I finally turn my wrists over which i wasn't doing before, but now I do it to much. He said do not worry about turning it over to much, but rather not opening the wrists as quick. Is there a drill where I can wait to turn my wrists over? If you guys even understand what I wrote.

Fankly I'm not suprised that your swing got worse when you decided to try to time and control your wrist action. I've never seen, heard, or read a decent Tour player on any established professional tour advocate trying to time turning the wrists. (I've heard a few bad instructors suggest it). If you think your wrist action is a problem I suggest you check your grip (to make sure you're holding the club in the correct part of your hands), and second check to make sure neither your arms nor your chest (body) is out running the other during the downswing. (If the body slows down, but the arms do not the arms will flip over.)

If you look at the pros at impact you will not see the hands flipping over (nor the arms). The ball is only on the clubface for a split second, so shutting the clubface after impact has no effect on the ball. Below are pictures of pros at and through impact. If you look at the pros slightly past impact (Luke Donald - top row, Appleby, Allenby, and Howell - center row, and Trevor Immelman and Adam Scott - bottom row) you will see that they haven't flipped the wrist over. (See the blurred duplicate image of the ball? That shows that the ball has sprung off the face so fast that even high speed video has trouble capturing it. How do you expect to control and time something that fast?)
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Fankly I'm not suprised that your swing got worse when you decided to try to time and control your wrist action. I've never seen, heard, or read a decent Tour player on any established professional tour advocate trying to time turning the wrists. (I've heard a few bad instructors suggest it).

Indeed... I've always felt the purpose of a good grip is to make your wrist release something you don't have to think about.

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To further the point, I had similar problems in the past, feeling like I was timing the open-open-open-----square----closed-closed-closed position. I have come to realize that the club releases TO square, it is not a position that it "passes through." It is the continued rotation of the torso that can give the illusion that the hands have turned over, when - in reality - they are simply AT the same position they were at impact.

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.


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Try loosening your grip pressure as if you are holding a tube of tooth paste with the cap open. Let the wrist turn naturally

Haha this is a good analogy.

This is very true, grip pressure is key along with a good shoulder turn.

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I always liked the analogy of holding the club like a baby bird... Don't kill it.
Most of us kill the bird before the top of our backswing.
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Another thing to look at is your hips... Arm swingers lead with the arms and trail with the hips.. Leg Players lead with the hips and the arms are trailing in free fall. Look at the photos from Avid Golfer. See how the hips are leading the arms are trailing and the power is coming from the legs not their arms.
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