5 Simple Drills to Improve Wrist Mechanics

The motorcycle drill is one of the most effective golf wrist mechanics drills.

With the motorcycle drill, you start flexing the lead wrist as one of the first movements on the downswing. Similar to how you rev a motorcycle, your lead wrist will make that same movement, and it squares the face of the club.

If you want (or need) to shallow out your golf swing, you’ll have to take a close look at the ulnar deviation in your lead wrist through impact. Golfers who tend to get steep in their swing forget to unhinge their wrists or unhinge too late.

In this video, you’ll learn how to preset the unhinge position so you can feel exactly what it takes to make solid contact with the golf ball with a square clubface. You’ll feel how the body must rotate when the club is shallow.

Start small with this drill and then continue to full swings where you feel that unhinging in the release.

The Alignment Stick Loading drill will help you gain distance. Do you know the movements at impact that help you add more distance to your shots? The alignment stick exaggerates the feeling of loading the shaft.

You’ll learn how to work on both trail hand and lead hand movements. Tyler carefully calls out how to ensure that you maintain club face control while still adding distance and loading the shaft correctly.

If you feel like you can’t get enough distance or you cast the club when trying to add distance, you’ll benefit from the Alignment Stick Loading drill.

Some golf drills are more for visualization than anything else. Practicing this “Swings in a Swimming Pool Drill” will help you eliminate the cast motion in your swing.

Imagine that you are standing in a swimming pool with water up to your knees; if you cast the club from the top, the club will hit the water first. Instead, keep the arms closer to the body, drop the club down into place and let the butt end of the club “splash the water”.

This one-minute video is worth watching for any golfer who struggles with the transition from the top of the swing.

Golfers like to focus on the lead wrist to help establish more consistency and impact and make better contact with the ball. However, if you can incorporate a bit of the trail wrist into this and learn the exact positioning of the trail wrist, you’ll get more of a tour release on your full swings.

The biggest misconception golfers have is how to unhinge and shallow and what the position of the trail wrist should look like as this happens. If you struggle with poor contact, want to hit the ball straighter, and consider yourself an intermediate or better player, this is a great drill to pick up.