What Strong Wrists will Do for Your Golf Swing
Try this Exercise for Better Distance, Control

From Mike Pedersen, for About.com

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 one or two sets per wrist, 3-4 times per week (every other day or Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday).

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.

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Are you hitting more slices than hitting straight. More often than not, a slice occurs because of misalignment in the lead wrist. It can start as early as the top of your swing and once out of alignment will be very difficult to get back into alignment on the downswing and through impact.
If your wrist is bent at the top of your swing, how do you know? Techniques have been used over the years by pro’s to help you unravel the mystery. The most common is the use of either a ruler or a pen stuck in your watch. While perhaps effective, it might look a little silly wearing such instruments in your watch while your trying to play a round with your friends. The best way is to use the Wrist Rite golf tool which is designed for unmasking the problem of bending your wrist and helps you to build muscle memory.

Like the pen and ruler, it will help you to recognize in the early stages of your swing that your wrist is out of alignment and will remind you to adjust your wrist before taking the downswing. If your off alignment at the top, the chances of you compensating in time before impact with the ball is slim and the result is likely a slice. In using a Wrist Rite tool, with its slim and golf style design, you are also a lot more likely to use it to help your swing then to be caught using a pen or ruler in your watch.

As Shawn Humphries, GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher, shares his lesson on curing your slice, can be applied to the Wrist Rite Golf Tool. As you swing to the top, if you can you feel the Wrist Rite dig into the back of your left hand, you’ve discovered the cause of your slice.

The Wrist Rite tells you if you’re cupping your left wrist and a cupped left wrist causes your clubface to rotate wide open at the top. Unless you make a serious compensating move, the face will stay open on your downswing.

Use the Wrist Rite while practicing or playing golf until you can bring the club to the top without feeling the Wrist Rite pressure against your hand. Keep your left wrist perfectly flat. A flat left wrist at the top means that your clubface is square at the top and this will increase your chance of your clubface being square at impact.

To learn more about the benefits of owning your own Wrist Rite, please Click Here to View the Information Page on this great golf tool.

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So…as I am surfing the web, getting lost in cyber space, I came across a site that features hundreds of golf training aids. This site, D.W. Quail Golf, claims that in a recent poll, 78 percent of respondents agreed that avid use of training aids bring positive tangible results. Since I support 100 percent-the Wrist Rite, I figured I would cruise through the product line and see if there were any training aids that compare. There are quite a few that are intended to the same as wrist rite, which is to keep your lead wrist from bending, the number one problem. But what makes the wrist rite stand above all is that there are no straps to get tangled,stretched or broken. There are no noises that you have to listen for to know that you are having issues and the majority of similar training aids wear and tare, they are bulky and take time to get situated, specifically for left or right hand and have different sizes.

The wrist rite slips right out of your pocket into your glove, left or right handed use, big or small wrist, man/woman or child can use, and it will last a lifetime…really who wants to get out on the course and waste time trying to get their golf training aid set up and in place correctly—not me! You want to improve your game in a moment, get the wrist rite! Golf Pros from around the globe are buying this product. Whether they use it or pass it on to students, friends and family they recognize its worth. We sell the wrist rite in Canada, U.S.A and Internationally. If you are serious about wanting to get out on the course and play better instantly, then Wrist Rite is for you! Visit us at KIKOGOLF.

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