My 14 year old son has had for about the last 4 months a right wrist breakdown at impact. He's left handed. We worked hard on this a few years ago on getting a correct supinated impact position. We tried everything for a couple of weeks and finally I figured it out. At the time the solution was weakening his grip.
Well this time the same thing was happening except his grip was already neutral so it had to be something else. We tried lots of different things like trying to get more or less whip, standing taller, lowering or raising his backswing, etc. Well the other day I tried out a few other ideas and finally found the solution. It came down to him rolling his wrist to square the club at impact instead of flipping it which is why his wrist was breaking down. He hasn't been golfing as much lately and has been growing a lot so his swing has drifted which is why it's so important to make sure the fundamentals don't change. This has been bothering us for a while now so it feels good to finally have figured this out.
Here's the before where the wrist is flipping and breaking down at impact.
His impact is still horrible but that will work itself out with reps. I still think he has another problem which is that his hips are stalling which is what's causing him to flip in the first place.
Well this time the same thing was happening except his grip was already neutral so it had to be something else. We tried lots of different things like trying to get more or less whip, standing taller, lowering or raising his backswing, etc. Well the other day I tried out a few other ideas and finally found the solution. It came down to him rolling his wrist to square the club at impact instead of flipping it which is why his wrist was breaking down. He hasn't been golfing as much lately and has been growing a lot so his swing has drifted which is why it's so important to make sure the fundamentals don't change. This has been bothering us for a while now so it feels good to finally have figured this out.
Here's the before where the wrist is flipping and breaking down at impact.
And the after with nice supination.
His impact is still horrible but that will work itself out with reps. I still think he has another problem which is that his hips are stalling which is what's causing him to flip in the first place.
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