It's March, the weather is getting warmer, days are lengthening and so it's time to return to obsessing over our golf swings.
Today's topic: wrist action in the golf swing. Different for irons vs hybrids vs driver, or basically the same. Pronate; supinate; flex; bow. So much instruction, which if you diagramed it would look like something like the below:
Discuss
Oh dear lort. Here be dragons.
I don't think it should be any different from club to club other than the general angle of attack of the clubhead into the ball (slightly up with driver as in trying to hit the ball at a target high in the air, vs ball first then down through the ground at a few degrees downward for short irons and wedges, usually).
The reality though is you can do almost anything during 90% of the swing as long as you get to a good position just before "release" and impact. People who swing closer to "on plane" will have an easier time managing all of these variables and likely need to do less with the wrists in general. I can't physically get into those positions so I adjust elsewhere.
Club fitting is also a factor. If your clubs are too flat you may find yourself setting up with very low hands and a feeling that you have to really flip the club through to get good contact. Same goes for grip. More in the hands or fingers will affect this, and it can be a function of club fitting. See Moe Norman for a guy who had his clubs specially designed so he could stay exactly on one plane. The rest of us have to compensate to some degree.
These days I'm trying very hard to not be a "flipper" in any way so I'm delofting more, hands ahead more, less overall CONSCIOUS wrist action in general for the sake of consistency (the trade off in accuracy vs distance is not worth it wrt flipping). But at the same time I still use my hands and consciously try to manage the face angle at impact and through, but as part of an overall swing gestalt.
Look at DJ's position at the top and how he sort of drags it through. That's an extreme example. I can't get close to that and don't think about it at the top.
This is also because I've been focusing on making a free swing and hitting the ball FIRST, and then worrying about accuracy AT THE LAST INSTANT.
I've found this to be much more rewarding and easier to manage, and you don't have to think about the wrists because you're not thinking about HOW to swing AT ALL. By focusing only on an external cue (like a visualization of the clubhead through the ball and down the line) and ONLY at the moment of impact and through, I've had good results including in competition.
tl'dr: maybe don't think about the wrists or all that Charlie Day & Milhouse reverse vampires shit and just hit it
