Power Golf Tips

A great drill for learning wrist is the early wrist cock lag drill. This is a golf drill you can do in your home, office or of course on the practice range, but it will give you the correct feel for a full wrist cock in your golf swing.

What you want to do is address the ball, pre-cock (early) your wrists so the club is parallel to the ground, and parallel to your target line.

You are now in the perfect position for a full shoulder turn with the proper amount of wrist cock for maximum power and distance.

Once you preset your wrists and make sure your club is in the correct position; make a golf swing. Try to hold the wrist cock without an early release on the way down, then hit the ball. This may take several attempts to hit a solid ball, but this will also teach you good tempo and a proper transition into your downswing.

This is a drill Nick Price used to do with David Leadbetter years ago, and he was known as one of the best ball strikers of his time.

Give it a try!

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Watch this YouTube video of JB Holmes, as he tells you his SECRET to more power in his golf drives. It’s amazing to me that he mentions in the video his hands AHEAD at impact with his driver! I’ve never heard of that before, but he is so strong that the whip he creates with the unhingeing of his wrists just past impact creates a massive amount of clubhead speed and distance.

Now I would say this is a bit unconventional, but it works for JB. The majority of the time, you will here that you need to hit the ball with your driver with an ascending (upward) blow to maximize launch angle and distance, but I guess JB does it his OWN WAY!

What you can take away from this is the importance of holding your wrist cock (lag) as long as you can into the downswing. Try to think of holding it atleast to impact, but you will most likely not do that. But that’s the thought you want.

You will also notice, JB and his golf instructor mention the swing sequence coming down, and it’s definitely the big muscles leading the way, with the smaller ones at the end. This part is very conventional, and also states the importance of starting your downswing from the ground up, and not with your hands first.

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What is all this about the topic of create wrist lag? When you look at some of the longest hitters in golf, wrist lag is a common theme to create maximum clubhead speed and power in golf through impact.  Picture Sergio Garcia, JB Holmes, and even the great Ben Hogan. All solid ball hitters, and quite long in their own right.

Studies have shown that up to 75% of clubhead speed comes from the unhingeing of the wrists just AFTER impact, not before. This is the SECRET to longer golf drives. Holding that angle late into your downswing for a powerful whipping of the clubhead THROUGH the ball, not at it.

The angle between your lower arm (forearm), and shaft of the club through your wrist, is the power angle that creates this enormous speed through the ball. It’s at approximately 90 degrees in the wrist very late into the downswing. One of the biggest swing faults of amateur golfers is releasing this angle too early in the downswing, which will slow down clubhead speed, resulting in shorter distances with all your clubs.

One thing you need to remember is to aggressively rotate your core and upper body through as well so you make sure to square your clubface at the right time to hit a straight shot that stays “in the fairway”.

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