Dustin Johnson Wrist Action

Instructors had long abandoned teaching this technique but it was obviously working for. Dustin johnson has a remarkable tendency to bow his left wrist during his backswing action and he keeps it bowed throughout his entire downswing and early followthrough. As you can guess johnsons overly flexed or bowed left wrist at the top of his backswing caught my eye.
dustin johnson wrist action

From here hooks of varying degrees are practically guaranteed.

Dustin johnson wrist action. Johnsons anti slice move march 09 2015 michael breed host of the golf fix shares how dustin johnsons bowed lead wrist can help you stop the slice for good. Many uninformed golfers and golf instructors wrongheadedly believe that because dustin johnson bows his lead wrist during his backswing action that it causes his clubface to become markedly closed relative to his clubhead arc by his end backswing. And then he uses quite a lot of wrist action to move the club. We wrote about this in regards to dustin johnson a few weeks ago but a bowed wrist can mean a closed club face and.

Bowed wrist or not its the closed clubface that causes fits for lesser players. In this short review paper i will be describing the dustin johnson move. The only slight oddity in his reverse overlap grip is a right hand thats a little stronger than his neutral left. How johnson gets away with it.

Dustin johnson finally found a taylormade hybrid at the top of his backswing johnson gets into a very athletic position and his right wrist is in a bowed position. If you take a look at dustin johnson below you can clearly see the back of his hand creates a flatter line than his forearm does this is what a bowed wrist position looks like. Rahm also has a little bowed wrist action going on at the top of his backswing. Its all in the wrists.

The secret to pga golfer dustin johnsons trademark driver swing. So he definitely does not move the club away with a one piece take away. Like great athletes in other sports johnson compensates for a technical flaw with raw ability. A bowed wrist position is quite simple a wrist that would look flatter than normal or where the velcro part of the glove points more towards the sky than a typical golf swing would.

Instead he uses his hands a lot as these pictures show as dustin continues to move the club away you can see he moves it outside the original shaft plane and he pushes his hands out a long way from his body. His enormous lower body rotation on the downswing driven by his right side creates space for the wrists to unwind. Johnsons wrists are remarkably strong and supple. On the greens dustin johnsons grip is believe it or not quite conventional.

Hank haney explains in this episode of swing like a pro. In other words his right hand is turned slightly away from the target underneath the handle.