early set versus a late set of wrists?

[eahollis4]

I recently purchased Jim Flick's swing guide. It promotes an earlier set of the wrists. It also automatically changed my grip to get the club in the early set. My divots are shallower and i'm hitting it more solidly. Aslong as my lines are good i found getting the wrists out of the way earlier is more consistent than hinging them near the top of the backswing.

[CG031]

I just started taking lessons and that's the first thing my instructor has me doing, an earlier wrist cock (if that's what you're refferring to)...

It's helped me a lot, I'm hitting it better than I have.

[Zeph]

I've never liked hinging them by force. Prefer them to hinge naturally with gravity when I get past perpendicular to the ground. My first instructor told me to do the early wrist hinge. I dropped it pretty quick and has since never done it. Don't like too much forward press either, which in many ways is the same thing. It feels like the hands are already done with the backswing before it has even started. By not hinging them I feel the wrists and arms are better united and working together.