What does a flat left wrist mean?

How does one achieve this?

thanks

Chucksta

What does a flat left wrist mean?

How does one achieve this?

thanks

Chucksta

Put the back of your left arm and hand against a wall. This is a flat left wrist. You achieve it by swinging on plane while keeping your right wrist bent back with no attempt to hit from the wrist nor bring your hands to a stop.

Yea, think of your left wrist as the passenger during the swing (esp. takeaway) and try pulling the club with your right hand. Also make sure you don’t rotate your left wrist consciously, the sensation of a flat left wrist should be eerily natural.

Yup, the great disrupter of many a golf swing is going from a Flat Left Wrist to a Bent one. Good left handed tennis players work out a FLW is more than handy with a backhand shot for power and racket face control.

What kind of problems does a bent wrist cause? I tend to bend the wrist at take back.

Into impact it can cause the whole range of bad shots depending upon when its bent and with what combination of other swing issues like reverse pivots or too much forward lateral motion.

If it bends in the backswing it is not idea BUT its OK if it is flattened in the downswing. If it stays bent then you waste a lot of the speed that is available from the wrist cock being unwound.

I’ve never considered maintaining a FLW during the backswing, only that its flat at impact.

Interesting