In this video, Golf-Ed debunks the common myth of aggressively flipping or rolling your hands through impact for extra power. Using a tennis racket drill, he demonstrates how to keep the clubface dead square through the hitting zone by properly sequencing the legs, glutes, and core instead of relying on fragile wrist timing.
Aggressively flipping your hands through impact relies on millisecond timing and breaks down leverage and centrifugal force.
Your glutes and core are your true power accumulators, not the small muscles in your forearms and hands.
Keeping the leading edge of the club (or top of the tennis racket) parallel to your sternum ensures a square clubface through the hitting zone.
Proper lower body rotation removes the need for excessive upper body flexibility and protects the lower back.
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