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Golf Swing Tips: Reduce Your Strokes With These Golf Swing Tips

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Brayden Fisher

Today I am going to talk about a very important, and perhaps very neglected, aspect of the golf swing……how to properly rotate your hands through the ball. The good news is this tip is not difficult to learn and it can have an immediate positive effect on your golf game. So let’s get started…

Golf Swing Tips – How To Rotate Your Hands Through The Ball At Impact

Time for some exercise. Go grab a club and swing it. Now when you are swinging notice the position of your hands and forearms at the point of impact. What we are going to try to do is to get you in the proper position at the impact point. This will have a HUGE effect on your golf game. Just think about it, the impact point and its angle, determines whether you hit a shot straight, slice it, hook it, etc.

When you are at the impact position make sure that you are keeping your wrists straight and locked. If you let your wrists bend to the left or right at impact your shot will most likely result in a slice which is not what we want. This bending of the wrists is what is known as a “wrist break”. So keep your wrists straight. Also, we need to “flip” our hands at the point of impact. There is an easy exercise that I have to help you master this technique….

Using Your Wrist Watch

Ok, the easiest way for us to learn the proper form is if we can see the correct moves to make. This can be done easily with a simple wrist watch. So, go grab one…

Now that you have your watch let’s get started. The face of the watch should be pointing toward your target, this will probably be the green, as your leading arm approaches impact. Now when you come to the impact position, TURN YOUR HANDS OVER so the watch face is pointing towards the ground. This move forces your trailing wrist and forearm to “flip” on top of your leading wrist and forearm. Practice this technique several times so that it becomes a completely natural movement within your golf swing.

Mastering the technique of rotating your wrists through the ball at impact forces your club face to stay closed and will significantly reduce your slice and improve your distance. Those two things will definitely help anyone’s golf game.

While you are trying to master this golf swing tip, you need to make sure your forearms are working together. Your forearms should be as close to one another as possible through the impact zone. If you can implement this simple technique you will benefit from longer, straighter shots, and a lower golf score