What Strong Wrists will Do for Your Golf Swing
From Mike Pedersen

Try this Exercise for Better Distance, Control
How important are your wrists in your golf swing? Have you given it much thought?
Take a moment and picture your golf swing. Start at the address position - to the top - through impact and on to the follow through. Now just isolate your wrists and even your hands to get a better visual. Do you see how important they are in your swing? If not, let me explain briefly.

There are several roles the wrists play in your golf swing, but two that really come to mind. They are:

1. Controlling the club throughout the golf swing. That means on plane and with the proper clubface alignment.
2. Providing power through impact or the “hitting zone”.

If your wrists are weak it will be very hard to accomplish these actions. This is a common scenario for junior golfers, since their strength hasn’t been worked on yet. While you shouldn’t be cinching up on your grip, your wrists need to be firm to control the club throughout your swing. For example, picture “setting” your club at the top. It needs to be consistently in a certain position to make a proper downswing. If your wrists are weak you will have a difficult time controlling the club due to its length and weight.

What about impact? The wrist position is crucial in generating maximum distance and clubface angle. The most common mistake caused by weak wrists is the collapsing or breaking down of the lead wrist at impact. This dramatically reduces distance and accuracy. If you discuss this with your teaching pro he will tell you the same thing.

So what’s the solution? Doing exercises to strengthen your wrists specific to their role in the golf swing. Here is one I recommend to all the golfers I work with personally and in my online program as well. And you don’t even need to go out and buy any equipment for it. You already have it.

I call it the Golf Wrist-Cock Exercise. Here’s what you do:

1. Stand with your arm hanging at your side.
2. Grab a golf club (pitching wedge if you’re just beginning, long iron if you have strong wrists already) in one hand towards the end of grip.
3. Raise the club only by cocking your wrist and keeping your arm at side.
4. The club will have the toe pointing up to the sky straight out in front of you.
5. Raise as high as you can, which will probably be just above parallel to the ground with your shaft.
6. Then lower and repeat until a set of 15 repetitions is done.
7. Switch arms and do the same thing. Do a total of three sets for each arm.

If you do this exercise correctly you will get a burning sensation in your forearms. If so, that’s great! If not, you may need a longer iron; or you are using more than just your wrist for the movement.

I’ve had juniors improve their drives by up to 20 yards just by doing this one exercise. What a great return on the small amount of time invested. Give it a try. I’m confident you’ll like the results.

Mike Pedersen is a golf fitness expert .

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Concession of Putts

A player is conceded to have holed out on his next stroke, and his putt is “given,” only as follows:

1. A first putt shall be conceded if it is so extraordinarily short that any player requiring that it be putted would be held up to more ridicule for doing so than the player to whom the ball belongs would be if he putted and failed to sink it

2. A second putt shall be conceded if it is no farther from the hole than the distance from the head to the beginning of the grip of a typical putter (”in the leather”), or if the player’s first putt skirted, ringed, lipped, lapped, looped, circled, rimmed, or curled around the hole, or hopped out of it after striking its interior.

3. A third putt shall be conceded if it can be reached and picked up within one giant step by a player standing by the hole, or if that player reached the green in regulation but failed to sink his second putt for par.

4. A fourth putt shall be conceded if it lies anywhere on the putting surface unless the player took a practice putt on that green.

However, if a player attempts to hole out a putt that has been conceded to him and he fails to sink that putt, neither his next putt on that green nor any subsequent putts, no matter how short or how numerous, shall be conceded to him, but if his ball hit the flagstick on that green, this restriction shall be waived.

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