Have you ever watched John Daly practice hitting golf balls with only his left hand on the club? He’ll stand with the club resting on the ground beside him, with his hand on the club. You’ll notice that his hand is on top of the club, not with the back of the wrist pointing to the target. You must have the club in the fingers of your left hand in order to achieve the proper wrist cock.

Try it next time you are out at the range. Be aware of how the clubhead sits behind the ball and how your hand feels on the grip. You will notice that instead of you feeling like the face of the club and the back of your hand are positioned together facing the target, your hand will be in a much stronger position. It’s more like your thumb is sitting behind the clubface and this is what controls the clubhead. Now swing back using just your left hand(for right-handed golfers, of course). You should feel as you swing back that the wrist cocks up towards your right shoulder. Your wrist will stay strong and not break down into a bowed position.

Now swing down at the ball. Your wrist will uncock naturally. You will feel the back of your left wrist staying straight in line with your forearm. When the weight of the clubhead has pulled the wrist down as far as it will go, the forearm will turn over. If your follow-through is only about hip-high, you will sense that your wrist is flat and strong as steel. This is the feeling that you are shooting for. Once you learn how the wrist hinges up like this, your full swings will be a whole lot better. The swinging of the clubhead releases the wrist cock like it should. You clubface will come into the ball square giving you better distance and accuracy and your whole game will get better.

Watch the pros next time a tournament is on and see if you can catch them doing this wrist cock drill. Try it for yourself around the house.

Now about that trailing hand. If you have taken the proper golf grip, with the lifeline of your trailing hand sitting on top of your other thumb, it is a lot easier for you to feel the wrist cock in your right hand. It will feel like the crease made by your forefinger and thumb follows the path of the clubface. Let your right hand just ride along with the role that the controlling hand takes. You will notice that you can fire your right side down through the ball easily and confidently. Or, as Johnny Miller says, “Cover the ball with your right hand”.

The first move down golf swing technique is critical to setting your golf swing power in the correct motion and sequence to maximize your distance and solid ball/clubface contact. If this move down to the ball in your golf swing is not in the proper sequence you can kiss a good shot good-bye! This first move will have a different feeling for almost any golfer. Depending on your swing technique, you may need to adjust to get it right.

Assuming you got to the top of the backswing in the proper position, you are now ready to make the first move down to create a proper sequence of motion in your golf swing. I might add if you are an out of shape golfer, this might be completely impossible, at which point you must address your physical limitations to be able to perform this movement.

The first move for many golfers is a bump of the lead hip, just slightly laterally to shift your weight distribution towards the target. If you are a lateral slider of the golf swing like I was, you will want your first move down to feel like a dropping of the hands first, then a strong rotation into the ball.

I personally found when I tried to bump or move slightly laterally, it turned into a bigger slide which created a slice and sometimes the brutal shank. I took lessons with several teaching pros who could not diagnose this issue, and on my own I saw a video of my swing and saw the lateral slide.

The minute I changed my swing thought for the first move down to a dropping of the arms and a powerful rotation into the ball it changed EVERYTHING! No golf pro needed!

If you find you cannot accomplish this initial first move down golf swing technique, I strongly urge you to get your BODY evaluated for any limitations that might be keeping you from achieving it.

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