Hey, guys, Eric Cogorno here with Performance Golf Zone.
In today's video, we're going to talk about a revolutionary right wrist move to help you
hit the ball more solid.
I'm going to show you what it is and show you how to do it, so the next time you guys
go play, you're going to hit the ball much more solid.
So, the right wrist in the golf swing, to me, is something that gets talked about far
less than it should, and far less than what people would talk about the left hand.
So, certainly, there's a lot of videos on how, for a right-handed golfer, how the left
hand works in the swing and how we want to have the left hand flat at the top or slightly
bowed there, a lot of drills to do that.
And that's good, and we should be doing that, but also, we need to talk a little bit about
the right hand, and people leave that part out.
So, if I were to make a backswing here to the top, which would be what we'll call perfect,
obviously, because I'm holding onto the club with both hands, both of the positions of
the hands are important.
So, a lot of people, in an effort to try and get their left wrist flat on top, which it
should be, may be that you don't like that feel.
Maybe the left-hand or left-side feels, for you, don't quite work.
Some of you, it will, and that's great, but if not, we can also do that through the right
hand.
So, if you notice, at the top of my swing, when I have my left hand in a perfect flat
position, what does my right wrist look like?
Well, it's quite a bit bent back.
Do you see the angle there?
If I went to the top and I put my left hand in a cupped position, which we know is not
optimal, open club face, deep down swing, if I cup my left hand, you'll see my right
hand is very flat then, at the top.
So, it's not bent back, and I'm looking for this motion here at the top.
Now, the question marks then become, how much do I bend my right wrist back, when do I bend
my right wrist back, how do I do it?
Well, what I want to tell you is, number one, you can't bend your right wrist back too much.
So, the angle from face-on, the angle of my right hand here, if I'm straight up-and-down,
if I were to bend the back of my hand towards my forearm and try and make them touch, for
me, flexibility-wise, that's how far I can go physically, and that's beautiful.
That is not too far.
I can't physically go past that.
That's my limit.
Do I want to go here, or here, or here?
No, I want to go all the way, bent back as far as I can go.
So, that's the answer to that question.
How much do you do it?
You do it as much as you can do it, as far as you can go.
When do you do it?
Well, from the down-the line, there's a couple of options.
I could start to bend my right wrist back right away during the takeaway position, so
by the time the club was parallel, my right wrist was really far bent back at that spot.
I could do it there, and then I just hold that up to the top and keep that right wrist
bent all the way up to the top.
That's an option.
That's fine.
Some people do that.
I can have it pretty neutral here, normal takeaway, and start to bend it from the takeaway
to the top of my backswing, where it's gradually going from some amount bent to all the way
bent at the top.
That's an option.
Or, you could feel like you do it at the end of the backswing, and it's just bent at the
top there.
Theoretically, you could skip the whole thing during the backswing and start to do it during
the downswing.
So, I could make whatever normal backswing I have, wherever I normally go, and then I
could bend it back in early transition.
That would work fine.
I could have it normal at the top, not do it in transition, and do it later, down towards
the golf ball.
You can do it wherever you want.
There's no rules to it.
In my experience, the earlier you do it, typically, the easier.
Why would you want to have to wait until down here to put that in when you could do it sooner?
So, I would typically recommend doing it right off the bat in the takeaway, or doing it between
the takeaway, up to the top, so by the time you get to the top of the backswing, that
right wrist would be bent back as much as you can do it.
So, that puts us in a position for a couple different things to happen.
If I took my normal setup and I held my club out face-on with a normal wrist condition
at address, if I bent my right wrist back as far as I can, what does that do?
Obviously, that takes the club from in line with my hands to well behind my hands.
Now, if I did the same thing and I was bent over...
Here's where my wrist condition's normal, club head even with my hands.
Here's my right wrist bent back, right there like that.
There's our lag position that we're looking for.
There's what we need to compress the golf ball.
All I'm doing, then, from this position with my right wrist max bent, is I'm just turning
through with a little bit of unhinge there, and there's my impact position.
If you look at an impact position of a really good golfer, what does their right wrist look
like?
Is it straight or is it bent back?
Of course, it's bent back, right.
That's what takes the loft off the club.
That's what lets us compress the ball into the ground.
So, instead of you doing it with the left-hand feels when you go back, and if you do it left-hand,
keep doing that, it's fine, but if you can't feel that, or, "Man, I've been trying to work
on that bone in that left wrist forever and I can't get it," try bending back your right
wrist.
It works better for me and it's worked better for a lot of different players.
So, you can't bend your right wrist too far back in the takeaway.
You can't bend your right wrist too far back at the top.
You can't bend it back too much here, nor at impact, and you could even probably hold
it a little bit past impact.
If you're someone who has a flippy look here and struggles with compression, then you want
to feel like that right wrist is at impact and even holds on past impact.
Of course, it's not going to, you're going to have some release to it, but it's an exaggerated
feel that you want to have.
Can't do it too much.
Can't do it soon enough.
What I would suggest in a practice perspective is, start early and start at the beginning.
Say, "Hey, okay, let me see what that feels like."
I'm going to do my takeaway and bend it back about as much as I can, and I'm going to hit
some little half-shots, feeling like I do it early, and see, "Hey, do I like that?
Do I like that feel?"
Well, for me, that felt really good and compressed, and I would try that once, or twice, or three
times.
If you feel that during your takeaway and you compress the ball well and play really
well, then that is correct for you, right.
There's no 'perfect' here like that.
If you do it early and it works, then you do it early, fine.
If you don't like it early, no big deal.
Do your normal early takeaway and start to feel like you bend it back more at the top
of the backswing, and test that.
So, I'll do that.
I won't do it as much in the takeaway, but I'll start to bend it, max bend at the top
there, like so, and I'll see what that feels like, right wrist bent.
And that still felt pretty good for me.
I didn't like that as much as the takeaway part, for myself, but some of you might do
that.
And then test, "Hey, I'm not going to do it during the backswing so much.
I'm going to really feel it during the downswing.
I'm going to sort of create it a little bit more in transition and feel like I hold that
right wrist bent even past impact."
So, we'll go ahead and try that one, less during the backswing, more during the downswing.
And that one felt pretty good for me too.
And maybe you'll like all three, and you could do all three, but it doesn't matter.
Pick which one you like the best.
The point here is this.
Two hands are on the club.
If I want my left wrist flat or slightly bowed, I want my right wrist bent back.
You can't bend it back too much.
You can't do it enough.
You can't do it early enough.
You could do it all over the place.
Too much of a bent right wrist back, whatever that means, would be much better than it being
the opposite way.
So, for solidness of contact, for compression, for straight shots, right wrist bent more
back is better.
Do it early, do it often, exaggerate it.
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