A wrist stretch so as to add much-needed additional yardage to your drives

I’m positive you stretch earlier than your spherical. Perhaps some squats, aspect bends and even swinging two golf equipment. However my guess is that you just don’t heat up your arms and fingers. These components of your physique are crucial to swinging the membership accurately. Furthermore, they’re enormous velocity producers. Not utilizing your arms and fingers the appropriate manner — and getting them heat earlier than your first swing — may restrict them from doing their job.

Right here’s a straightforward 60-second stretch that’ll get your mitts heat so you’ll be able to max out your clubhead velocity and, extra necessary, keep away from damage.

Merely lengthen your lead arm along with your palm dealing with down. Utilizing your reverse hand, pull your lead hand straight down (1), utilizing strain to elongate the muscle groups in your wrist. Maintain for 10 seconds. Subsequent, rotate your arm in order that your palm is dealing with up and do the identical: Pull your fingers down and maintain (2). It is best to really feel stretch from the guidelines of your fingers by your palm and as much as your elbow. As you’ll be able to guess, you need to repeat these stretches along with your path hand.

Now these necessary velocity producers are heat and prepared for motion. It’s additionally not a nasty concept to do a fast model of those stretches earlier than trying a shot from deep tough, when most wrist accidents happen.

Scott Munroe is a GOLF Prime 100 Instructor who teaches at The Boca Raton Membership in Boca Raton, Fla., and Nantucket GC in Siasconset, Mass.