Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Fix Your Lead Wrist Breakdown for Better Clubface Control

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify the connection between unhinging and supination in your swing
  • Recognize how a broken lead wrist can affect your shot trajectory
  • Practice a simple drill to promote better wrist mechanics and shaft lean

In this video, you'll learn how to connect unhinging and supination in your swing to improve clubface control. Understanding these concepts will help you maintain the correct wrist position and prevent an undesirable steep angle in your shots.

Video Transcript
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this release video is unhinged then supinate so this video is the the goal is

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00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:13.600
to help you understand the look or a certain look on 2D so many golfers

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00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:19.280
complain about one of two things either a look of getting a little bit steep

4
00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:22.520
through here or they may not even be aware that they're getting steep through

5
00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:27.120
there but the one that they really tend to complain about is the look of the

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00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:34.920
lead wrist breaking down and the arms passing kind of like this so it's

7
00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.600
important to connect the two of those looks together in the one kind of 3D

8
00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.920
understanding of what's going on in the swing you really have two major options

9
00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.800
of squaring the club face down here at the bottom one would be if I'm going to

10
00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:56.200
supinate the wrist kind of like so without unhinging so I supinate without

11
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really unhinging and then what'll happen that club face looks like it's really

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closed so now I have to extend on the way through kind of like this now I can

13
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still hit it solidly but you can see that that's going to tend to create a

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narrowing on the way through or at the very least a very leftward path because

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of that extension of the lead wrist allowing the club to pass so it'll either

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give the look of more of a chicken wing on the way through or it'll give more

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of

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a look of more of a body stall on the way through to combat that to get more of

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a

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look of having that shaft lean you really have to work on getting or

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allowing this full on hinge if you do this full on hinge then to square it you

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now have to add this supination so great way you can practice it at home is

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getting the arm about 45 degrees like so and then letting it unhing so that

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everything is pretty much in a straight line and then when it's in that

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straight

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line letting it rotate until the back of the glove is pointing towards the

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target so unhing and then let it rotate with a club that would look unhing and

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then let it rotate and you can see that that's coming in pretty square as long

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as my hands are ahead as opposed to doing it more like this and then

30
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balancing it out by extending that wrist the way through that's also square but

31
00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:26.800
it did so with very little shaft lean the way you'll be able to detect the

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difference is either if the clubface looks like it's rotating and looks like

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it's pointing at the target but from the face-on camera you have zero shaft

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lean

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then you know that you did it more with that extension version if you get to

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here and it looks steep like the club looks like it's high there but then it

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gets down kind of in the very last seconds that's also a sign that you're

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doing it more with that supinate and then extend if it looks like it's getting

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00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:09.040
underneath but then the hands exit more left that's a good indication that you

40
00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:09.100
're

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00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:13.520
doing more of this unhinge and then supinate so the key thing for the for the

42
00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:19.960
scoop or for the flip release is not so much this hinging unhinging on the way

43
00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:26.560
through that's a that has to happen much earlier if you unhinge then you're

44
00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.400
typically not going to extend because when you extend you'll start rehinging

45
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.200
so it's a little complicated to kind of think about but it's really only these

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00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:45.160
two major options unhinge and then supinate or don't unhinge supinate and

47
00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:51.920
then extend so to practice it you can I like to put in some pump style release

48
00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:56.880
drills where I'm feeling just that unhinge so I'll practice kind of doing

49
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some of these movements just kind of straight unhinging from there making

50
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sure that it's not getting out that way but straight unhinging through there

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and

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then letting that couple with enough rotation so that I get that to go

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straight if I start doing this unhinge and I'm in a kind of a lunge pattern

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kind of like so where I'm used to not letting that rotate then all hip balls

55
00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:29.680
that will go well off to the right if I'm doing a better job of getting this

56
00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:36.920
unhinge and follow-through position it'll kind of look like that that's a good

57
00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:43.680
timing of the unhinge but not nearly enough or early enough timing of the

58
00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.720
supination so this can help you dial in that last little bit if you're getting

59
00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.960
either a little steep or a little narrow it's probably because you're

60
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.120
missing in the unhinge and you may be missing the unhinge because you're not

61
00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.400
rotating so you want to train those two together both at home and when you're

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00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:03.080
doing some of your release style drills.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Fix Your Lead Wrist Breakdown for Better Clubface Control

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify the connection between unhinging and supination in your swing
  • Recognize how a broken lead wrist can affect your shot trajectory
  • Practice a simple drill to promote better wrist mechanics and shaft lean

In this video, you'll learn how to connect unhinging and supination in your swing to improve clubface control. Understanding these concepts will help you maintain the correct wrist position and prevent an undesirable steep angle in your shots.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.440
this release video is unhinged then supinate so this video is the the goal is

2
00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:13.600
to help you understand the look or a certain look on 2D so many golfers

3
00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:19.280
complain about one of two things either a look of getting a little bit steep

4
00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:22.520
through here or they may not even be aware that they're getting steep through

5
00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:27.120
there but the one that they really tend to complain about is the look of the

6
00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:34.920
lead wrist breaking down and the arms passing kind of like this so it's

7
00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.600
important to connect the two of those looks together in the one kind of 3D

8
00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.920
understanding of what's going on in the swing you really have two major options

9
00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.800
of squaring the club face down here at the bottom one would be if I'm going to

10
00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:56.200
supinate the wrist kind of like so without unhinging so I supinate without

11
00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.800
really unhinging and then what'll happen that club face looks like it's really

12
00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.640
closed so now I have to extend on the way through kind of like this now I can

13
00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.200
still hit it solidly but you can see that that's going to tend to create a

14
00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:16.720
narrowing on the way through or at the very least a very leftward path because

15
00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:20.920
of that extension of the lead wrist allowing the club to pass so it'll either

16
00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:25.520
give the look of more of a chicken wing on the way through or it'll give more

17
00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:25.640
of

18
00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:31.880
a look of more of a body stall on the way through to combat that to get more of

19
00:01:31.880 --> 00:01:32.000
a

20
00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.580
look of having that shaft lean you really have to work on getting or

21
00:01:36.580 --> 00:01:41.360
allowing this full on hinge if you do this full on hinge then to square it you

22
00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:46.280
now have to add this supination so great way you can practice it at home is

23
00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:52.360
getting the arm about 45 degrees like so and then letting it unhing so that

24
00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:56.000
everything is pretty much in a straight line and then when it's in that

25
00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:56.000
straight

26
00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.840
line letting it rotate until the back of the glove is pointing towards the

27
00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:06.640
target so unhing and then let it rotate with a club that would look unhing and

28
00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:10.800
then let it rotate and you can see that that's coming in pretty square as long

29
00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:16.480
as my hands are ahead as opposed to doing it more like this and then

30
00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:22.600
balancing it out by extending that wrist the way through that's also square but

31
00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:26.800
it did so with very little shaft lean the way you'll be able to detect the

32
00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:32.160
difference is either if the clubface looks like it's rotating and looks like

33
00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:37.730
it's pointing at the target but from the face-on camera you have zero shaft

34
00:02:37.730 --> 00:02:37.920
lean

35
00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:44.320
then you know that you did it more with that extension version if you get to

36
00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:50.880
here and it looks steep like the club looks like it's high there but then it

37
00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:55.600
gets down kind of in the very last seconds that's also a sign that you're

38
00:02:55.600 --> 00:03:02.640
doing it more with that supinate and then extend if it looks like it's getting

39
00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:09.040
underneath but then the hands exit more left that's a good indication that you

40
00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:09.100
're

41
00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:13.520
doing more of this unhinge and then supinate so the key thing for the for the

42
00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:19.960
scoop or for the flip release is not so much this hinging unhinging on the way

43
00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:26.560
through that's a that has to happen much earlier if you unhinge then you're

44
00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.400
typically not going to extend because when you extend you'll start rehinging

45
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.200
so it's a little complicated to kind of think about but it's really only these

46
00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:45.160
two major options unhinge and then supinate or don't unhinge supinate and

47
00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:51.920
then extend so to practice it you can I like to put in some pump style release

48
00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:56.880
drills where I'm feeling just that unhinge so I'll practice kind of doing

49
00:03:56.880 --> 00:04:02.720
some of these movements just kind of straight unhinging from there making

50
00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:06.410
sure that it's not getting out that way but straight unhinging through there

51
00:04:06.410 --> 00:04:06.640
and

52
00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.240
then letting that couple with enough rotation so that I get that to go

53
00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:18.720
straight if I start doing this unhinge and I'm in a kind of a lunge pattern

54
00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.880
kind of like so where I'm used to not letting that rotate then all hip balls

55
00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:29.680
that will go well off to the right if I'm doing a better job of getting this

56
00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:36.920
unhinge and follow-through position it'll kind of look like that that's a good

57
00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:43.680
timing of the unhinge but not nearly enough or early enough timing of the

58
00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.720
supination so this can help you dial in that last little bit if you're getting

59
00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.960
either a little steep or a little narrow it's probably because you're

60
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.120
missing in the unhinge and you may be missing the unhinge because you're not

61
00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.400
rotating so you want to train those two together both at home and when you're

62
00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:03.080
doing some of your release style drills.

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