6 Best Drills to Stop Casting in Golf and Fix Your Swing
Casting is a golf swing error that can cost you distance, accuracy, and consistency.
If you are not retaining your wrist angles through impact and struggling to use your body when you swing through the ball, these casting drills will help.
While you can work on casting drills without HackMotion, the drills in the HackMotion app provide real-time feedback to help you fix casting faster and more effectively.
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The Secret to a Better Golf Swing Starts with Your Wrists!
Your clubface angle at impact determines 80% of your shot’s direction—your wrists control that angle. Click here for the best drills to master your wrist mechanics and take control of your game.
6 Must-Try Drills to Stop Casting in Golf
Hit Hard, Stop Quick Drill
The Hit Hard Stop Quick Drill is a great one to start with. While this drill can help you work on your casting issue, it’s also going to teach your hands and body to stay connected during the swing.
You’ll learn how to retain correct wrist angles through impact instead of flipping or scooping and how to make contact with forward shaft lean.
When you work on this drill, start with small swings and gradually increase the length.
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Hit Hard, Stop Quick Drill – Step by Step:
- Set Up Normally: Address the ball with a balanced stance and a neutral grip. Use HackMotion to monitor your wrist angles.
- Compact Backswing: Make a half or three-quarter backswing, focusing on staying in control of your wrist positions.
- Accelerate Through Impact: Swing down with authority, striking the ball firmly.
- Stop Suddenly: Right after contact, halt the club’s motion. Your hands should remain ahead of the club head, indicating you’ve maintained wrist angles.
- Inspect Your Position: If you see the shaft has flipped past your hands, reset and pay closer attention to delaying wrist extension.
- Build Up Speed Gradually: Begin at a slow-to-moderate pace and increase swing speed only when you can maintain the proper wrist alignments.
Motorcycle Drill (Clubface Control & Wrist Flexion)
The Motorcycle Drill is featured in the HackMotion app, so you can practice it in real time. It helps players who are struggling with flipping or slicing due to an open clubface at impact.
The Motorcycle Drill is a downswing drill where you will focus on adding flexion in the lead wrist as you swing down from the top.
Motorcycle Drill – Master Wrist Flexion in the Downswing
Focus on continuously adding flexion until the club reaches parallel, then smoothly complete your swing.
HackMotion Motorcycle Drill – Step by Step:
- Take Your Normal Grip: Recognize that the lead wrist usually has a small amount of extension at address.
- Swing to the Top and Pause: Stop at the top of your backswing so you can focus on your wrist position.
- Motorcycle Twist: On the downswing, feel as though you are turning the throttle of a motorcycle “off.” This introduces flexion (bowing) in the lead wrist and helps square or close the face.
- Check with HackMotion: Use real-time feedback to confirm that you’re removing extension and adding flexion. The “Motorcycle Drill” is also in the HackMotion app.
- Monitor Ball Flight: If shots start hooking, you might be over-bowing the lead wrist. If slices persist, you need a bit more flexion.
HackMotion Casting Drill
The HackMotion Casting Drill was specifically built into the app to help you stop throwing your wrist angles away on the downswing.
If you struggle with a weak scooping impact position, the casting drill should be able to fix it.
You’ll learn to initiate the downswing with the lower body and preserve wrist angles in the process.
Start with this drill in slow motion until you get the hang of it.
Fix Your Casting with HackMotion
Train to fix casting by generating power with your core and lower body.
HackMotion Casting Drill – Step by Step:
- Slow-Motion Rehearsal: From a normal top-of-backswing position, start the downswing by shifting weight onto your lead side and rotating your hips. Resist the urge to pull down with your arms.
- Maintain Wrist Angles: HackMotion can help you track your trail wrist extension. Keep that trail wrist bent back; avoid “throwing” the clubhead early.
- Relax Your Arms: Allow the arms to drop naturally, helping the club shallow out. The trail arm gradually straightens only after the hips begin unwinding.
- Build Up Speed: Begin with very slow practice swings, prioritizing the correct hip/arm sequence and stable wrist angles. Increase speed once you can hold these positions.
Body-First Anti-Cast Drill
As you work through these casting drills, you’ll learn that getting the body turning first through impact will make all the difference.
When the hands and arms take over, you lose your wrist angles and hit these poor shots.
The Body First Anti-Cast Drill uses an object as a barrier to help you visualize and feel where the club needs to come from in order to hit a powerful and straight shot.
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Body-First Anti-Cast Drill – Step by Step:
- Set an Object Waist-High: Place a chair, box, or similar item just in front of (and slightly outside) your hands at address—so if you cast, you’ll hit it.
- Grip the Club in Reverse: For the rehearsal, hold the club upside down (grip end acting like the club head).
- Go to the Top and Pause: Create a solid L-shape between the shaft and lead arm.
- Initiate with Your Lower Body: Turn or “bump” your hips toward the target first, keeping your arms relaxed and wrist angles intact.
- Clear the Object: By leading with your body rotation (instead of the arms), the grip/clubhead path should move inside and avoid the object.
- Release After Clearing: Once your hips have unwound, let your arms and wrists release naturally.
- Apply with a Golf Ball: Remove or imagine the object, then replicate the move in slow-to-moderate swings. Use HackMotion to confirm you’re preserving your wrist angles until your body leads.
Stronger Clubface to Cure Casting
Having your face too open at the top of the swing can force you into casting on the way down.
The Stronger Clubface drill focuses on developing a square clubface a little earlier in the swing so you can hold it and maintain the shaft lean down into impact.
A stronger grip allows you to rotate your lead hand slightly more on top and gets the face just a little stronger to make squaring it at impact easier.
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Stronger Clubface to Cure Casting – Step by Step:
- Strengthen Your Grip: Rotate your lead hand slightly more on top (knuckles visible) and your trail hand slightly under. This helps present a stronger face without having to over-bow the lead wrist.
- Monitor Wrist Angles: With HackMotion, confirm that your lead wrist stays flat (not overly cupped or bowed) as you move from takeaway to the top.
- Short Swings, Big Feel: Practice half-swings, feeling that the face is “looking” more toward the ground in your takeaway and early downswing.
- Hold the Lag: As you transition, keep your trail wrist bent back instead of casting. The stronger face means you don’t need a last-second “flip” to square the club.
- Check Hand Position at Thigh: A good checkpoint is having the shaft still angled back (parallel to the ground) when the hands reach your trailing thigh.
- Gradual Speed Increase: Once comfortable, lengthen your swing and add speed, maintaining that stronger face and delayed release.
Lower Body Priority to Retain Angles
One of the problems that amateur golfers run into when trying to fix their casting is a focus on the upper body only.
There is only so much you can train your upper body; at some point, the lower body needs to get involved and lead the transition from backswing to downswing.
This drill will help your lower body be the leader in the downswing. However, when you do this, you also want to make sure your wrist angles are in the correct position to see the most distance and consistency.
Combine this drill with your HackMotion to monitor wrist angles as your body unwinds.
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Lower Body Priority to Retain Angles – Step by Step:
- Visualize the Angles: At the top, you’ve formed an angle between your lead arm and the club shaft. Your goal is to keep that angle until late in the downswing.
- Trigger with the Lower Body: From the top, shift weight into your front foot and begin turning your hips. This “buys time” for your arms to drop without casting.
- Feel the Retention: Use HackMotion to ensure your wrists remain hinged (lead wrist closer to flat or slightly flexed, trail wrist extended) as your body unwinds.
- Small Rehearsal Swings: Do waist-high to waist-high practice motions, focusing on “body first, arms second.”
- Build into Full Swings: Gradually move from half-swings into full swings. Check that the impact features a forward-leaning shaft and a stable lead wrist.
Final Thoughts
Fixing your casting motion requires you to work on your wrist angle positions as well as your lower body movement.
Start by doing each of these drills at a low speed before starting to take full swings. Watch your ball flight and see if you are hitting stronger shots with a more penetrating flight.
Wearing your HackMotion will increase your awareness of your wrist positions and help you progress at a faster rate.
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