Understanding Golf Swing Release can Help You Unleash more Power
The golf swing release is probably the least understood movement in golf. The release is the unleashing of power in your swing at the moment of impact. Your arms, hands and wrists are your greatest speed producers in the golf swing.When these sequence of movements are properly timed they will accelerate to a maximum speed the moment the clubface reaches the ball.
The release is the unhinging of the wrists into impact, the later it happens the further you will hit the ball. Any tension in the arms and hands will inhibit this natural movement.
It is better to allow the arms, hands and club to release on there own into the ball rather than to consciously pull them into impact.
This will give you more consistency in the long run. Sam Snead used to say it is like ”free wheeling through the ball.”
The arms, hands and club head rotate back to the ball.This rotation of the arms and hands multiplies the speed of the club head up to seven times its normal speed.
To get a feeling of a correct release swing down slowly to the ball while rotating the hands and arms anti clockwise.Try to turn the club head with the toe facing the ball.This gives you the feeling of releasing instead of throwing the club down the fairway. Moments after impact you will experience your arms crossing over each other and the club will be swinging upwards sharply.
You will now be in the reverse position you should have reached half way in the back swing.
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