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Summary: How much wrist action should you use when chipping a golf ball? Find out plus learn how to control the wrist action in your golf swing in this free online golfing video lesson on the fundamentals of the short game.
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Questions & AnswersOn behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Ray Boone and I run the Ray Boone Golf Academy at the beautiful Miami Beach Golf Club. Today I'd like to present to your the basics of short game. The average player in their chipping stroke has a tendency to really be floppy with their wrist, they use a lot of wrist action, they're really flipping their wrist through impact. We want to try not to use much wrist, although the better player will have some wrist action in their stroke. We're not saying that there's no wrist action at all. We do want to have a little bit of wrist action, you want to have soft hands and arms, but we don't want to get flippy with the club where you start really pushing it hard and letting the left wrist breakdown through impact. It's okay to have a little bit of wrist henge in the take away, but you don't want to be wristy through impact. We want to keep the hands ahead as we're moving through and the shaft of the golf club should be leaning forward as you're hitting the golf ball. Now, I'm not saying to lean it forward that much, but it should have some forward lean, that's going to enable you to strike the golf ball first and then hit the grass with the club from there and that's going to give you solid contact.
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