| When you rotate your body correctly, reversing direction
with a subtle foot and knee action, and marry with this a fluid wrist
action, you experience a wonderful sense of lag in the arms and club.
This quality in a good swing is inspired by the lower-body action, recognised
as one of the secrets to playing good golf. Reversing your momentum
in this way (i.e. from the ground up) and perfecting that wrist action
rewards you with a whip-type release of the clubhead and effortless
power through the ball. And, with a simple adjustment to your grip,
the exercise I am demonstrating here will help you to appreciate the
feeling of a full and fluid wrist action, which immediately improves
your general rhythm a double whammy.
To start, slip the little finger on your left hand off the end of the
grip (top). Then, to prime your motion, start the club a couple of feet
ahead of where the ball would be, and simply go after a feeling of cranking
your wrists to the max as you let the club fall and gather its momentum.
As you reach the top of the swing, the key then is to initiate your
change of direction from the ground up so that everything shuffles nicely
into place as you unwind back down and through.
For best results, rehearse this in conjunction with the pivot drill
on the previous page; get the clubhead moving with a wrist action that
gels in with your body turn.
When you get the knack, it will feel like the momentum of the clubhead
loads the wrists for you going back the exact sensation you want in
the swing for real.
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