"Low and Slow" vs. umm, the opposite

[Subaroo]

I have only had one golf instruction years and years ago, but one of the first things I was taught was to take the club back as Low and Slow as possible.  But lately I have been finding instructional videos against this advice, advocating cocking your wrists very early in the swing.

I haven't been to the range to try the new way yet, but just swinging a club in my backyard for practice... I think I like it better.  I feel like it helps my pacing and gives me less of a margin for error.  I am 6'2'', does that factor into the type of takeaway I should be doing?

When I look at the pros, they do a low and slow, but the more I think about it a low slow takeaway doesn't make sense.  On the downswing, your wrists stay cocked until the the club almost connects with the ball.  Shouldn't the backswing be similar to the downswing just to promote consistency and rhythm?

So are you "low and slow" or not?  And are you "low and slow" only for certain clubs (driver vs short irons)?  Pros and cons for both...

Thanks.

[iacas]

I'm not a fan of "low and slow" and I think it leads to a lot of people who delay cocking/hinging their wrists until late in the backswing, then they over-cock them, change their elbow trajectories, struggle to get the sweetspot on plane, and in general leads to chaos.

So for many people the feeling of hinging the wrists sooner is a good thing.

But that said, some people need to feel "low and slow." The "slow" part in particular isn't bad. :)

[Subaroo]

Yeah I guess my main question was about the "low" part.

[iacas]

Yes, well, low makes less sense. We swing in an arc. Our swing would form a circle if we never rotated our forearms or cocked/hinged our wrists, but even in a circle the clubhead is ascending pretty much immediately during the backswing. Any hinging/cocking only increases the rate at which the clubhead ascends. Know what I mean?

Again, to be clear, some people might need to feel "low" if they hinge the club up really quickly. Those people, though, are in the minority in my experience.