Mike-undoubtedly the best video on how to set your wrists. I am 62 years old and played baseball my whole life and have that typical baseball swing with the golf club. Your explanation on the movement of the wrists has been invaluable!!!

@MalaskaGolf

3 ай бұрын

Great to hear. It is too bad that the industry does not really understand the parallels. It would make golf much easier for most players. Thanks for the comment. -Mike Malaska

@vstags

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I always wondered why if I was a decent baseball hitter it didn’t translate to golf more effectively. Love to hear more on how the baseball swing translates to the golf swing. Great stuff Mike, thanks. Vinny in NJ

@pbode1

2 ай бұрын

@@MalaskaGolf I've watched numerous of your videos, but I can safely say this is my Eureka one. I am naturally rolling the arms and flipping the club to square. After some practice balls I applied this early wrist set takeaway on a 9h round for the first time, I literally compressed each (yes , all of them!) iron shot so well, a shocking distance gain (taking a club less, I hit bunker on 2 familiar holes on my second shot that I will normally NEVER reach with that iron). And they went pretty straight, or stock high draw shape - just faster. What a Eureka moment, thanks a ton Mike!! I even didn't mind being in the bunker. This was the missing piece for me. So weird, it FEELS like I can keep the backswing shorter and still increase ballspeed with no effort whatsoever.

Mike, Thank you for your help. I was a scratch golfer before I took off 23 years off..Your teaching of the hands and how they work has changed my game for the better..Im a subscriber to your system...Just shot 67, 69 the past two days...I'm 56 years old and loving golf again.

Clearly the most practical, consistent, effective, and user-friendly golf instruction on You Tube. Thanks, Mike

This is a fantastic explanation of how to use the hands in a golf swing. I watch a lot of instructional videos online and this is as clear a description as I have seen. I can’t wait to try this early wrist set on the range. Thank you Mike.

Fantastic video! I'm not sure I've seen so much good information - the how and why - packed into less than 10 minutes. This is great!

This video is a great illustration of why you are such an admired teacher. You center on fundamentals but describe how there are different ways to honor those fundamentals, pointing out the strengths and challenges of each. You share the whys of your preferences. And you point out changes to swing theory over time. Thank you!

Wow that's got to be the best video I've ever seen on how to swing the club, this has transformed my game. Thank you!

I’ve been setting my wrists early per you instruction for awhile and the added benefit at least for me is it helps me straighten my left arm early and has added width to my swing. Thanks Mike. Always good.

Less than full wrist hinge was identified as my biggest swing issue by one of your colleagues. You have provided the best explanation on how to achieve a correct wrist set. Great instructional video.

The best video for me on how to set my wrists. I used to set them nearer to the top. I've watched this video 3 times and went out and practiced this early wrist set for the last 2 days. What a difference in compression, divots and height of my irons. Thank you very much.

Thank you Mr. Malaska. I had started to figure out some of these elements on my own but it wasn’t comprehensive. I have been inconsistent in transition and your instruction on a flat lead wrist set appears to one of the key components for me. I have struggled with the cupped lead wrist on the downswing. I appreciate the attention to detail and providing a simple methodology for improvement.

Excellent video! I’ve watched Nelly’s swing on video and she is fully set by the time her hands get to her right foot. Thanks for reinforcing my thought that an early set is ok. Love your videos, so common sense!

Love your 'Platonic' style of instruction, Mike in that you always explain the why's of what you teach, i.e. based on sound biomechanics, so that the golfer can come to realize the wisdom of your approach, and develop a sound mental approach to the swing and the game!! You're instructional here on the proper hinge movement, as you pointed out, was first pointed out to me in Joe Dante's book, Four Magic Moves of Golf (and this is likely who you're referring to). Once I learn that secret that you mentioned of the left hand 'rotating under the club' (left does palmer flexion, so that the knuckles of the left hand disappear from my view) I made huge, striking improvements!!! Thanks so much!

Hey Mike! Never had such a simple idea make such a huge difference in my swing. After just two range sessions, I am now swing slightly out with a square clubface leading to a straight shot or with a slight draw. All of a sudden this move has corrected my minor over the top move and sequencing. Thank you so much! This simple wrist move cleaned up a lot of loose ends in my swing.

This video is golden and helps put together what I’ve been working on….i really need the drills

Hi Mike, I’ve heard you talk about this many times and have had a lesson with you where we did this. This is the first time I have heard you discus the flattened lead wrist in this way! This is the missing piece to syncing the club to the turn. It is connected, it keeps space relationships, and eliminates possibilities of moving in undesirable ways because of the “locking” of the lead wrist joint. I have been pushing the handle down and setting the trail wrist, but the flat lead wrist solved so many other pieces! Thanks for sharing and all that you do! You are a good man. Alan

Your explanation of how the hands work has changed my game. I can hardly believe it! I used to have my grip so the palms faced each other. I struggled mightily with poor contact. I saw this video, moved my left (lead) hand a little stronger, and boom! I picked up a bunch of length on my tee shots, and my irons were nice and solid. Thank you so much, Mike! Now, if I can just get the same improvement with my putting, I'll be playing like I used to!

Like your videos, being 71 yrs of age I look for a simple easy swing that gives positive results. As with majority of golfers, amatures we bought into the turning the hands over as well as other useless info. Like you when I started I had a simple hinge like you. Keep up the great videos. Understanding why/how the body works for golf makes a great difference. Once your subconscious see’s the picture your body will start flowing.

This makes so much sense. I've really been working on this recently. Thanks for hammering home the point.

Mike, you are so right, I figured this out in the simulator last year and shot a 78 with the guys and took all the money, my lowest score ever. The entire swing thought now for me is the take away and wrist hinge, where the back of the left hand is square to the line on the take away and then you just go up from there. Seeing your video proves to myself that I figured it out. I'm surprised this isn't taught more, never seen anyone but you show this, great content Mike!!

I found this video last night, I purchased your lesson program also. I have been struggling so bad lately with ball striking. After watching this video on setting the wrists properly and making sure they’re not cupped, I have never felt so confident after a round. It was night and day today at the course, strikes were pure, balls were flying high & straight, I had one bad shot all evening, Driver was 🔥, Irons were crisp, wedges were flush. It’s crazy what one simple thing will do for a guy. Thank you very much, I’m a 13 handicap and this video is gonna help me so much as well as your M system.

This instruction is excellent! I tried a low handle or downward movement w the grip which set my wrist earlier and I hit the ball like I’ve never hit before! Thank you, !!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent video Mike! I unwittingly have been a cupper for most my life which has made me wildly inconsistent. Finally I know what my hands are supposed to do and not do. Thank you!

This one video here… Made my golf easier. It transformed my swing Thanks Mike

Excellent video! I’m using that stance since 3 weeks and I love it! Thank you!

Thanks Mike, Friday here, just ran 2nd in A grade because I watched this video this morning before I went to play. Cheers mate great easy instructions from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

I help as an assistant coach at my alma mater high school. I really enjoy seeing improvement in our kids who have little to no prior golf experience. I'm surprised how quick the kids are picking up the game. I give them examples, I give them theory and I give them facts. But what I don't do is tell them how to swing it. The golf swing is a personal thing, they own it, and I tell them " don't let anyone tell you how pretty or ugly your swing is". Quite often I share your videos with the kids. Thanks for doing it like you do Mike. You're one of the best.

Absolutely eye opening, light bulb moment!!!!! I actually look forward to practicing my irons. When you are able to obtain a consistent ball flight nearly every swing. AMAZING!!!!!!

Very helpful information. This addresses a problem I have wrestled with for six months. Thank you.

Great instruction. I'm excited to incorporate this in my swing since I don't really hinge alot.

Very good Mike. I hinge my wrist early. The way I do it has 2 benefits for myself and those I try to help on a range, that are struggling with their swing. I push the grip down with my lead hand. This also straightens my lead arm. Some of your followers might benefit from this as well.

Thank you for clarifying that an early wrist set is a good thing to do. It’s always been my preference.

Mike, thanks so much for unraveling this mystery that we call golf. When I hit a long solid tee shot or a zeroed in iron shot at age 77 and it's because of you. It makes me glad that I stayed with this last addiction in my life.

Thanks Mike, greatly appreciated

BEST--MALASKA--VIDEO--EVER! (and maybe because we have the same approach to wrist set) but regardless, I still LEARN A TON each time I watch one of Mike's tutoring videos. Just wish I could make it out to AZ? NM? NV? (not sure where he's camped) but would really enjoy a round with this guy.

Might be the best ever video explaining this

@brettzimmerman4566

3 ай бұрын

I agree, that's the move. Throw away all other lessons and learn this move, it totally changed my game.

Agree 100% with you. I even preset the wrists at address and hold it until after making contact. SUPER accurate irons. Winning lots of pin shots.

@brettzimmerman4566

3 ай бұрын

Same, because you know where the club face is throughout the swing by doing this. So natural.

This revolutionized my game.

Mike, this lesson, a radically different hand action works incredibly well for me… I wish I knew this concept 50 years ago… better late than never. Thank you.

Best instructor on KZread along with Porzak.

WoW, I watch no other training videos. Boy, Did I ever have a misconception about setting wrists. Between not keeping my right hand club grip in my fingers and having a way too strong right grip, and the late wrist set, I was so sloppy and loose at the top my 1st move down was my wrist uncocking an it seems like my club face was never consistently square at impact. i was slapping the ball and never finishing my swing. I took these videos to the range with my DSLR CAMERA on the 10th yesterday.... i finally could not wait to hit the ball again, instead of the fear of screwing up another shot...Many Thanks

Been preaching this to my students for years.

I struggle far too much getting my hands into the proper position on the club. I have large hands which seems to complicate the issue. Your breaking down of how they wrists work in the swing really helps me to get the focus onto the areas of the swing that matter the most. Can't make a good swing if you don't have these basic elements in place to enable it. Thank you for these videos.

Mike, I was a good golfer when I was young but did not play much in my forties and fifties. When I came back to golf I assumed I would start where I left off but it wasn't working so I had lessons. These did not help at, in fact made things worse. but having recently discovered your channel it is bringing back the natural way I used to swing and my handicap has come down 9 shots in the last 8 weeks. As you ask, I still need to work on distance with my driver

18months of watching KZread coaches. What a struggle! Even injuries with all the shallow the club BS stuff. This video wrist action teaching by far resonates way beyond 'em all, and has improved my game and confidence tremendously. The simplest and best change with immediate results.

Simple and informative. Good video

I’ve experimented with cup and bow with variable results. The reason for the inconsistencies had to do with changes in my swing. I’ve struggled with early extension for years. My head would pop up and that created all sorts of problems that REQUIRED compensatory actions with my wrists. Getting control of my head has now allowed me to compress the ball properly and get better control with a FLAT WRIST. Eliminate the variables. That’s my goal. Early wrist hinge is another key element that can help eliminate those variables. Thank you for this! The final element that helps me is keeping the club head outside the hands with the takeaway. That allows me to hinge and rotate.

I have been using “dead hands” for quite a while, with virtually no wrist set or “fling” on the downswing. I was extremely accurate, but with a pitiful lack of distance (like 7 iron for 100 yards). This week I have been working an actual wrist “set”, with a release at the ball. Instant gain of yardage, but of course accuracy has suffered. However, I think your discussion of the “flat” set of the left wrist will really help. Thank you!

Excellent video! !

Amazing Mr Malaska. I think I’ll create a weekly practice regiment based on your instruction. Better than scratch golf, here I come!

fantastic, thank you

Very well explained. I’m going to try this at the driving range tonight.

Wow........Thank you Mike! I think you just gave me my Golf Aha moment. This video on the wrist set has mentally cleared up so much for me. The root of a-lot of my issues stem from a very late wrist set which is causing me all sorts of issues some of which you describe (flat shoulder turn, rolling inside, re-gripping at top also). Your insight on how the joints work just confirms what you are advocating. Thank you again!

@joelevans1215

3 ай бұрын

Just watched this video again for the up-teenth time! Nobody in the game does a better job than you audibly explaining and then visibly demonstrating the golf swing. I'm 55 and making it a goal to get better and not just go play all the time. I have hovered between a 6 and 7 handicap for years and have plateaued. i am getting my body back in shape and in conjunction working on the things i need to do to get better. This video is clearing up so much confusion i had in my head. My hands were a mess now this simplifies it for me

Good. Thanks. Will help me.

great video mike!!!

Great advice!

Funny KZread suggested this video today. After one year of golf (trying) I figured out exactly that and I was doing it so wrong leading to slices. I focused only on hinging. Grip + wrists position is game changer. Very nice teached here too bad I see it only now 😅

A clear student of the game. I’ve felt more comfortable setting my wrist early for most of my life. Feel powerful. But I’ve been talked out of it so many times. This validates what my body has been telling me.

@Yak1312

2 ай бұрын

I have as well. I prefer early wrist hinge. I can’t set my hands late, it throws everything off and my wrists are doing and I don’t know when to set my wrists.

You didn't joke when you said golden nuggets mate, great video! This is such a great way to get your backswing consistent. Thanks for the upload once again Alex. Have a great day mate

!00% agree Mike on your take.

Good presentation really enjoyed the Masters regalia

Thank you for clarifying an early wrist set is actually a good thing

@TML34

3 ай бұрын

There’s still plenty of ways you can screw up an early set. 😂

@roythomson638

3 ай бұрын

Lucky I’m a member of the site and I’m aware of these

Really good stuff !,

Glad you learned to change your golf style to one that works that you can teach

Amazing 🤩 great advice as always 👏👏👏

I am a squash and badminton player just started playing golf and surprising no coach in my club mentions about wrist glad to see your video I hope you can breakdown Freddy couples swing. According to me I find his swing to be effortless and beautiful

Holy crap this is what i need

I build my backswing using your principles... The biggest advantage pushing/pulling the handle of the club to start the takeaway is I don't get stuck at the ball anymore.... Thanks from Ireland...

@patrickcahill5292

3 ай бұрын

Hi Adrian ... Could you elaborate a bit more on that as I have a tendency to freeze over the ball

@adrianfaherty5139

3 ай бұрын

Hi Patrick, Put your hands on the club, push your left hand towards the target, pull your right hand away from the target to start the clubhead in motion... (Right handed golfer)

@patrickcahill5292

3 ай бұрын

@@adrianfaherty5139 thanks for the reply Adrian, something else to try at the range 👍

Mike, wonderful lesson perfectly explained. Thanks. I will try to copy when season begins in upper midwest.

@mattbecham597

3 ай бұрын

always in season in Ga. lol.

You’re a gift from the heavens

My mentors Gardner Dickinson and Bob Toski were very much hand controlled players. Tiger and Scottie say its all in the hands. As u know teachers seem to teach body hits and hands just go along. Different ways to swing. Hitters and swingers. Great job u do for us older players. Enjoy your lessons

Thanks. I definitely struggle with the proper gripping of the club. Once this area is established then I can proceed to the wrist hinge component.

I totally lost my short game, I got so yippy. I used to set my wrists early and had a decent short game. I have a practice area behind my place and have been working on chipping going back to that early wrist hinge and I am getting my short game back. This past Friday I worked this in at the range and hit about every iron shot well. My short game has improved a lot.

I was doing the late wrist set and changed to early -I got the best improvement ever.

Hi Mike ..I use to try to width but it just pulled me out of my stance.. I like settling my wrists early and keeping my left wrist flat .. My back feels shorter but I’m able to compress the ball much better. Great video, thank you.

Hey Mike, Thank you, you asked for us to write a comment on what might of helped us out with our golf swing / or golf game, I follow World class golf, Craig Hanson, like you, he let's the amateur understand what he's actually trying to teach, without all the technical terms, anyway, he's done a few videos on the proper shoulder plane, talk about a light bulb moment, idk why, but, buy focusing on the correct shoulder plane it helped me improve with all other aspects of my golf swing, I can start naming things but I'd be here all day, let's just say, to get the proper feel with my shoulder plane completely changed the way I contacted the ball, and really that's what mattered to me and I'm sure most of all amateur golfers,were all looking to get rid all of those swing thoughts In our head, staying committed in what your trying to achieve until the task is complete, Bottom line, the correct shoulder plane for myself changed my golf game,and I'm hoping it might help so many different problems someone's having when trying to make proper contact.Thanks Mike, stay safe all.

😎Right on the money Mike. I've known 2 exceptionally long hitters in my golfing life and both of them, Mike Austin and Ryan Winther had very active wrist action in their swings. Another teaching Pro, Coleman Gibson, had such talented hands he could move the ball in any direction he wanted to and never looked like he was trying hard to do it. Daly also says hand action is key, not to mention Henry Cotton with his exercise of hitting a club into an old tire laying on the ground. As any adolescent boy will tell you, active, well educated hands make life much more enjoyable. Cheers!🏌

Hi Mike since you ask: With both hands and wrists I simply twirl/ loop my club clockwise inwards and exit left while simultaneously at the exact same moment as my weight shift to my left I also feel my trail shoulder looping clockwise/ inward exiting left. Cheers 👍🥂😊

Wow at last,although only mentioned as a biproduct! the 1st YT Pro ive heard mention importance of loading/releasing shaft Ive got down to 5 hcp quite quickly at an old age and although still a bit of a hitter/thrower with my best strikes/technique i feel the shaft load and release on downswing somewhere between left arm// and impact Shaft load release, arm structure and taking prob a second off my start to finish swing are the biggest differences between now and when i was a hacker The set and turn drill makes you push down and maintain arm structure and position in front of chest ie not pulling/swinging arms separate and across/inside or away outside

good video mike

Bigtime video here. Answered a lot of questions I conjured up out on the range/course.

I get great results with iron's using early set, but struggling with driver and hybrids or my 5 wood from fairway, incidentally Pete Cowan constantly talks about pressure on the shaft, similar concept to this.

Man this is a great cideo

Yeah this video makes me realise I hinge mt wrists at the top of my backswing. I'll start making adjustments to see the difference

Great video Mike. Thanks for sharing this. I saw this is a previous video you did, and have been using it for over a year. Some of the details like the last three fingers rolling under the shaft at takeaway, helped me to better understand what’s going on in the big picture. The image I use is that this early wrist set lets the head go the sky. I say to myself just before I take it back: reach for the sky and watch it fly. This image helps me remember not to take it back too much behind me and get stuck. I have been noticing watching slow motion video of the pros, that they seem to be delaying the wrist set until after parallel as you mentioned Jack doing. This is primarily with the driver. Are you advocating the early set with all clubs?

I'm leaning toward early. Gonna practice this today. I'll let you know. New sub btw

Driving the handle down, or pushing down with the lead hand was great physical description.

Great lesson, I've been working on this for ages. I just can't work out if it's your left hand or right hand or 50-50 which initiates this wrist set and I get worried that a may be rolling the wrist since it is a fine line ....I'm going to focus on the straight left wrist tonight and not worry about which side makes it happen and see what happens.

I tried this today, and it works well for me but need to practice

That answered several questions for me. Thanks.

I've been watching tons of adam porzak - porzak golf. He has huge emphasis on connection - sternum pointing at hands, clubhead in front of hands. Setup with hip bump to create a left side post to rotate around and a right side brace (knee a little kicked in over inside of right foot, weight on inside of right foot and not going past that in backswing - just more pressure accumulating there. Like a slight wedge under outside of right foot. Hand path along feet line in takeaway, with clubhead outside hands. Butt end of the club leveraged downward to hinge clubhead upwards. Feel of keeping beachball below water until set position - hands at belt high - then just complete turn with body to top. The hands are swung to the top with the body's turn. Adam's against having much run off at the top - wants hands not far past being pointed at by sternum. From the top (adam thinks of top as potentially static - like drawing a bow and arrow ready to fire, uses hideki drills a lot. Rather than the mike m, dr kwon, athletic motion golf, ideas of recentre-ing pressure by the time the club gets to its farthest point back). From the top ensure the hands start down in sync with body rotation and maintain hip depth to have room for hands and arms to swing into without getting stuck and flipping. Good hand speed from top to make sure body doesn't out run hands in race back to ball. Left hip and grip exiting together round the corner. Adam is all about big body turn with compact connected arm swing as being the path to least manipulation. I buy into his stuff. I fight a hook and am trying to figure out the different feels involved when trying to weaken my grip somewhat - ie neutralise it. (When i have the grip a bit weaker it's harder for me to hinge the club and the positions all feel alien through the swing so i try to save shots but without being really sure what's going on to save! It's a work in progress 😅

Excellent video, one of your best Mike.

I just had a aha moment. I was a very good baseball player and I played golf very good. Then I had a lesson at age 50 and my game went down and the game got really hard. I am 69 years old and I am going back to your wrist set motion. It’s just feels more natural.

I like the grip end 'down' to turn shoulders on the correct plane.

Yep. I set mine early in a bowed fashion. Works for me. Like dustin J

makes sense to me

In my takeaway the right hand is almost pulled off the shaft and is pulled to far inside,I have no clue where the face is during my swing. This is a great video very helpful.

Funny thing i just started setting my wrists earlier last 2 weeks been hitting it so much better

Im going through this now.im playing 40 years never a lesson other then my pop..i cannot hit my irons proper.woods i hit well.but this sunday at pebble creek in colts neck nj.ill be trying early wrist

Hi Mike, thank you for the awesome content. It has really helped me personally. I wanted to ask how does one know where the low point in a golf swing is? Any advise?