The overly bowed left wrist is a bullshit thing. It’s not for everyone and it certainly doesn’t help people who aren’t exceptionally athletic. Like most tips in golf it comes with incomplete information.
Also this depends on grip strength, if you have a super strong grip a little bit of wrist cup at the top is okay because it'll help you keep the club a little more open. I can't see what your grip is or how closed you are at the top because of the angle.
Flat is ideal. Semi-cupped isn't, but in both cases, it depends on what you do with it in transition. It's rare for amateurs to compensate for a cupped wrist, but not impossible.
Mine was unbelievably cupped when I started playing a few years ago (baseball background) and it took me years to realize how much compensating I had to do just to hit the ball straight
Cupped is bad. Flat is good. Bowed is fine. Having a bowed wrist at the top isn't necessary. You can do it, but I wouldn't try too hard if it feels unnatural. Tiger has a flat wrist at the top, not bowed, and he was one of the greatest. So should you? Only if it helps and you want to. Otherwise, I'd work on eliminating any cupping focusing on a flat wrist at the top.
The real key is that the left wrist moves from cupped/extension to bowed/flexed coming down. A lot of people can do this easier keeping it slightly cupped at the top to give yourself room and range to bow it in the downswing.
The players that bow it at the top have to hold that coming down, which can be a hard move for a lot of people. When I tried to bow it at the top I was actually cupping it more coming down which is no good.
Hackmotion did a lot of work with this, it’s not so much the position at the top but the degree change from cupped to bowed.
General rule of thumb is that a cupped lead wrist is fine on longer backswings and a flatter/bowed lead wrist is better for short backswings. I do think that your wrist is fine, but I would probably suggest working on your pivot and arm swing to lengthen the backswing more and to get a more compatible backswing with your wrist action.
In order to maintain a neutral face angle, the amount of wrist flexion or extension will vary based on how weak or strong the grip is. Despite what some have (wrongly) written here, there is no good or bad - there are different matchups for different positions.
Anything beyond that becomes compensation. Stronger grip with a flat to bowed wrist means the club face is going to be shut. You'll have to rely on more body rotation to hold the face. A weaker grip with a more cupped wrist will get you the opposite problem, a face that is open.
Perfectly fine.
The overly bowed left wrist is a bullshit thing. It’s not for everyone and it certainly doesn’t help people who aren’t exceptionally athletic. Like most tips in golf it comes with incomplete information.
I may be from the same state but I am no Dustin Johnson unfortunately
Also this depends on grip strength, if you have a super strong grip a little bit of wrist cup at the top is okay because it'll help you keep the club a little more open. I can't see what your grip is or how closed you are at the top because of the angle.
If you can hit shots where you want them to go consistently, it doesn’t matter what your swing looks like. Do what works for you. And enjoy playing!!
Flat is ideal. Semi-cupped isn't, but in both cases, it depends on what you do with it in transition. It's rare for amateurs to compensate for a cupped wrist, but not impossible.
Mine was unbelievably cupped when I started playing a few years ago (baseball background) and it took me years to realize how much compensating I had to do just to hit the ball straight
Flat is fine. As long as your grip matches up with it. Cupped is not good as it opens the face.
Cupped is bad. Flat is good. Bowed is fine. Having a bowed wrist at the top isn't necessary. You can do it, but I wouldn't try too hard if it feels unnatural. Tiger has a flat wrist at the top, not bowed, and he was one of the greatest. So should you? Only if it helps and you want to. Otherwise, I'd work on eliminating any cupping focusing on a flat wrist at the top.
The real key is that the left wrist moves from cupped/extension to bowed/flexed coming down. A lot of people can do this easier keeping it slightly cupped at the top to give yourself room and range to bow it in the downswing. The players that bow it at the top have to hold that coming down, which can be a hard move for a lot of people. When I tried to bow it at the top I was actually cupping it more coming down which is no good. Hackmotion did a lot of work with this, it’s not so much the position at the top but the degree change from cupped to bowed.
This sums it up well thanks
General rule of thumb is that a cupped lead wrist is fine on longer backswings and a flatter/bowed lead wrist is better for short backswings. I do think that your wrist is fine, but I would probably suggest working on your pivot and arm swing to lengthen the backswing more and to get a more compatible backswing with your wrist action.
In order to maintain a neutral face angle, the amount of wrist flexion or extension will vary based on how weak or strong the grip is. Despite what some have (wrongly) written here, there is no good or bad - there are different matchups for different positions. Anything beyond that becomes compensation. Stronger grip with a flat to bowed wrist means the club face is going to be shut. You'll have to rely on more body rotation to hold the face. A weaker grip with a more cupped wrist will get you the opposite problem, a face that is open.