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Originally Posted by eli_yates  a guy by the name of aj bonar actually says that the best way to hit the ball and get more distance is to roll your wrists. but you have to time it perfectly... he says lay the club face open until you find the position that works best for you and rotate your wrists as soon as you get to impact... hes pointed out numerous pros that do this without even knowing they do it... but they are pros... i tried it and had some good results but the timing thing throws me off... its basically just a draw shot but you could theoritically add 15 mph of clubhead speed. some teaching pros say its a bad idea but aj bonar actually seems like a pretty credible source... he used to coach at wake forest and worked at a taylor made technology place of some sort... he has his own school and is apparently pretty successful they did an article on him in a recent golf digest or golf magazine i forget which one specifically... but either way... i recommend just trying it... the guy that wrote the article actually pointed out that the first few shots will be ian baker finchian style hooks but once you work the timing out... you should be blasting the ball fairly far at least further than you were... but its definitely a theory... maybe a good one maybe a bad one... seems legit to me.. |
The biggest problem with this method is actually pointed out by the propnent: You have to tme it perfectly. And it can just as easily miss either way with the same swing, i.e. push/block or pull/hook depending on whether you were too late or too early with the hands. It makes it pretty hard to manage your game if you have no idea which way your misses are going to go. Sergio swings like that (at least used to, not sure if he's changed as you don't see much of him on Sundays these days) and relies on perfect timing to get the clubface square, and went through a horror patch a few years ago when he was hitting push blocks and pull hooks during the same round. If someone like him can't get it right, I don't think it's a good thing for us mortals to try. I'm sure if timed right it will produce extra yards, but at the cost of accuracy.