THE PLATE DRILL | Learn To Use Your Wrists Correctly In The Golf Swing

u/Nine_Eye_Ron 2022 · r/GolfSwing · in “4 months in. Very high handicap. (45) help!”

▶ this video I like the plate drill because it really helps understand the wrists role. When he says “nothing” during those first two feet that is exactly where the wrists do all their work. You are keeping the ball mirrored in the face of the club. It’s the exact opposite of wrist action (it’s wrist inaction) it’s the most important work the wrists do but it looks and feels like nothing.

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u/Sport_Psychologist 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “Help wanted”

Clubface is KING: your wrist angles at the top (throughout the BS really) are causing you to have an open clubface. Specifically, you have quite a bit of cup in the left wrist (extension) going into the transition, and not enough left wrist flexion. It gets slightly better in the downswing, as you do add a bit of left wrist flexion - but it's still not great. So the clubface is coming into the ball way too open. …

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u/ChadEEEE 2021 · r/GolfSwing · in “Any feedback? Getting back into the game after a decade hiatus. Thanks!”

Here's a good video if you have trouble visualizing. ▶ this video

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u/MasterpieceMain8252 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Desperate for help”

You're rolling your wrist in takeaway(beginning of backswing) where u are opening up the clubface. ▶ this video From there, keep rotating your chest, and pull back your right wrist, so it should feel like you're holding a tray at top of backswing. Watch this video ▶ this video Your right wrist should be bent coming down during downswing. But yours is flat, which is making the club down steep(vertical), not shallow. …

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