How do I prevent rolling my wrist in golf?
I have developed a nasty problem in my golf swing. I am right handed, and I roll my right wrist as I swing, which causes the ball to hook, and give up distance. Are there any tips or drills I can do to stop this?
Well you can get on a driving range and practice, or you can buy a golfers wrist brace that will keep your wrist straight.
A larger diameter grip will negate that tendency.
You can also move your right hand a little more on top, to the left, as you grip the club. Do it in small doses so you don’t over-correct what your trying to fix.
Simple.
Increase the grip pressure of the last three fingers of your left hand and concentrate on pulling the rope with your left arm on your downswing.
thoughtnot.. gave a good advise, increase diameter of your grip might work.
also, concentrate on initiating your back swing by turning your shoulder instead of starting with taking your arm back.
I also have the same problem from time to time. In my opinion, practice at the driving range, practice the swing before taking the shot and this is what I have found to be most important.
1 – Lie the club flat on the ground before taking your stance. Lie the grip along the soft pads of both hands and wrap the grip with both of them.
2 – Make sure your thumbs are both in line with each other, lying along the top of the grip and most importantly, facing directly down the shaft.
I think you’ll find that if you are rolling your wrist it’s generally because your trailing arm (the right one) will have your thumb pointing and lying slightly down the right hand side of the club. This in turn makes you turn your wrists anticlockwise exagerating the connection between clubface and ball…producing a hook.
Heres a big tip most average golfers dont know. You see at the range most golfers swinging away with all their strengths correct? And when u watch pros they all look soo smooth? Its because pros dont use their arms to hit the ball. Its the body. You coil up the body like a yoyo and release it while ur arms follow its like a chain reaction. At the top of your swing try straightening ur left leg (not 100 percent just around 80) without opening your shoulder (most ppl say dont look up with ur head but thats a bad term.)
Look at photographs of Tiger Woods or any good professional after impact sooner or later the fore arms rotate bringing the right wrist over the left so it is not a question of preventing it happening but rather of when it happens. This requires a better synchronisation of the arm and wrist action with the body movement. The lower body (hips legs) must unwind earlier in order to automatically delay lower arm rotation thus avoiding the club face closing too early and causing the hook.
I used to have this problem as well and my driver and iron short will go draw or even hook at times.
Ok, try not to swing with your right arm too much, let the left arm follow the club weight through during impact. this will square the club head.
If it is putter, then try the left under grip like Julie Insker which works for me as well. You hit the putter with a more firm left arm and the right will just follows.
My brother had this very problem. You either have to correct the problem through proper practice or aim away from your intended target to account for the hook. That may not help if you have a sweeping hook. To correct it, just fix your group. That is what is wrong.
Give this ago, Place ur ball on the tee, walk behind it and visualise a swing path, grab a tee put it in the ground about 1 1/2m behind the ball, grab another tee and put it only 1/2m in front of the ball, walk behind ball and check that the first tee, golf ball and last tee are aligned on the swing path. Address the ball with driver or any club really, force yourself to swing back over the back tee and thru over the front tee, try to even hit the front tee out of the ground.
It is fairly uncommon for your right hand to just roll over excessively for no good reason. I would start by checking your clubface was not closed at address. Make sure your right hand grip is not too strong,which sounds like it may be.Have the club sitting in the fingers of the right hand ,with the life line of the hand sitting directly on top of the left thumb .The V formed between the right thumb and forefinger should point more toward your chin. If this hasn’t fixed the problem you simply need to practice hitting little fades or cut shots, which require the clubface to come through the ball open (pointing right). Once you can do this you can refine the amount until the desired ball flight is achieved . Hope this helps you.