Hinging Wrist?

[saevel25]

Anybody do an early hinge of the wrist. I tried it out today were i felt like i was hinging earlier, i think it helped me out, i had the best ball striking day in a while, especially with the driver, no weak cuts at all.

But of course this could be a normal move and not early, so here is the question, what is the problem if you do not hinge your wrist in the back swing until late, or lack sufficient hinge?

[keiko]

Early is preferred, eliminates the timing issue and the not completing the backswing issue. Also, early hingers don't leave the club open at impact.

[saevel25]

Yeah i found that out, the only big cut i had was a nice push cut when my back foot slipped. the golf course just got about 1-2 inches of rain over the last 24 hours..

[bigoak]

get it done so you won't have to worry about it later

[tshapiro]

If you hing too early you sacrafice width in your swing which many good players strive for. Essentially, more width gives you a longer swing path and more distance for your club head to pick up speed.

[themightytimmah]

Personally, I always seem to hit my shots fat if I hinge early. I usually hinge right before the top of the backswing, when I time it right it feels like the club "floats" at the transition and I hit my shots 15-20% futher than with an early hinge.

However, I'm far from a swing guru, so it might just be a case of different strokes for different folks.

[Meisce]

I have a question on this topic, as it's something I've been struggling with - by hinge, are you referring to right wrist hinge only? And not early cocking of the left wrist?

I understand them as two different movements, but meant to work together. The problem for me is, as one movement, the hinging/cocking motion does not fit the definition of either hinging or cocking. My wrists are doing two different motions.

I've been trying to figure the best way to get a correct mix of right wrist hinge and left wrist cock, without cocking the right wrist ( excessively ). Most research seems to point to the bending of the right elbow against the straight left arm - while maintaining pressure points on the grip - as the starting point to correct wrist movement. Swingvision on youtube seems to show this for most pros, as far as I can see - both arms kept straight for quite some time to gain width, and then the right wrist hinge and left wrist cock only begin as the right arm bends. This seems to increase to the top of the backswing ( and increase again through transition ).

So when you mention early hinge here, do you mean a deliberate hinging of just the right wrist - and therefore a pronation of the left - before the right arm bends? Or do you add the left wrist cock too, and if so, how? To do both without a right arm bend would seem to involve a twisting of one or both arms.

The correct hinging and cocking motion is something I'm struggling with getting exactly right, but when I do it correctly it makes a huge difference to my ball striking. I do find that the closer I can get my elbow/forearms/wrists in the swing, the easier it is. But a lot of the teachings and advice I've found in this area are contraditory and confusing.

[CPT]

This is strange. I find that when my wrists are hinging early, I'd almost always hit a terrible shot. I tried very hard not to hinge my wrists at all on the back swing. They will automatically hinge by their own when you do a proper body/shoulder turn.

When I got rid off all the wrists-hinging, my ball flight and distance is more predictable and my shots are a lot straighter. After some practices, it's all came down to my timing and tempo.

Nowadays, If I hinge my wrists too early, my shots will be higher, fall short , and mostly out to the right of the target. If I delayed my wrists hinge a little bit, I tend to hook the shot a little bit.

[saevel25]

Meisce,

Its hard to explain because i think it might be hinging or cocking of the wrist. The way i can explain it is like this, if you do your take away, if your hands are at waist high the club might be parallel to the ground, but if i were to hinge (or cocking) it earlier than the club would be pointing more upward. The one feeling the pro i go to said to try is feel like your pushing the butt of the club away from you at the top of the swing, that is more with your left hand getting that hand to form a 90 degree angle, like if you hold the club straight infront of you and 90 degrees up, then now lower your hand forward to move the clubhead away from you and then back towards you, keeping your hand extended, thats the feeling i believe.

This is strange. I find that when my wrists are hinging early, I'd almost always hit a terrible shot. I tried very hard not to hinge my wrists at all on the back swing. They will automatically hinge by their own when you do a proper body/shoulder turn.

i thought so to, but i do believe i was not hinging correctly. I has trying to get so much width that at the top of the swing i would not hinge there either. Every time i try to just finish the hinge right at the top it doesn't set well for me. So i tried to get the feeling of a more gradual hinge from the start of the takeaway, but this might actually be the natural hinging for everyone. I also found this changed my tempo, my tempo sped up. When i hinge like it actually fixed my transition with my lower body. I found that i wasn't extending off the ball as much with my upper body.