Today’s we have a great lesson with two great drills from DogLegNews Director of Instruction — Josh Koch.
Josh talks about one of the most important facets of the swing — your takeaway.
There are a couple of different schools on this. There’s the early wrist set used by the late great Seve Ballesteros and there’s the late wrist-set that was the trademark of the great 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus.
Another pretty good player uses the late wrist-set as well — 15-time major champion Tiger Woods.
Josh will show in today’s video, how to use the momentum of your body turn to help with that late set-and-load.
The late wrist set accomplishes two things — it creates more width in your swing and more width equates to more power. The late wrist set also helps the club load at the top for maximum clubhead speed on the downswing.
Rory McIlroy is a great example of a player with a nice, wide takeaway and Rory sets it perfectly at the top. We all know the type of power that Rory creates.
Josh has a couple of nice drills for you as well.
So pay extra attention to Josh in today’s video.
Enjoy and you can see more or Josh by going to his site:
2 Comments
baxter cepeda
This late vs early wrist set is fascinating to me. I’m definitely on team late wrist set.
But knowing there has been great players with early wrist set and not wanting to stifle anyone’s natural game, it’s alway a conundrum when first tee players are wrist setting early. Out of the group the kids that are usually banging the ball into the range dividers between stalls (thank goodness for those little walls) are the ones wrist setting a lot very early.
I usually tell those players they are doing a little too much early wrist set so we work on a bit more of a 1 piece takeaway and it usually helps.
Funny thing is—I think a lot of golfers including myself feel early wrist set gives more power but what we learned from josh in this video is that the long drive guys get more power from a late wrist set.
Thanks again to Josh for his insights and Tom for posting this stuff.
Tom Edrington
Great observations Baxter…we are fortunate to have Josh sharing his knowledge with us. Another early wrist setter who did pretty well — Lanny Wadkins