Well said, Raymond. Incidentally, the whip ‘crack’ sound is caused by the whip tip breaking the sound barrier.

Cheers.

Tommy, I enjoyed your comments concerning Tiger Woods swing. However, I think you should do a search on, “Tiger Woods swing analysis” and look at the many videos of his golf swing.

If you look carefully at a few of Tiger’s thousands of swing videos, you’ll immediately see that Tiger does not hinge his left wrist at all. Once Tiger starts his swing, the back of his left wrist is perfectly flat throughout the swing. If Tiger “hinged” his left wrist as you stated in your comment, it would be physically impossible for the back of his left wrist to remain flat. It would either be cupped or pronated at the top of the swing, which would open or close the clubface, respectively.

At the top of Tiger’s backswing, the left wrist is cocked and back of his wrist/hand is perfectly flat and parallel to the club face. Tiger’s right wrist is hinged, just as if he had a rock in his hand that he was going to skip across a pond.

You sound like a gifted golfer with extraordinary talent. If you can drive a golf ball 380 yards, I’ll bet your left wrist, like Tiger’s remains perfectly flat in your backswing. You’re not hinging your left wrist, but cocking it in order to deliver maximum clubhead velocity into the back of the ball.

The golf pro at my club here in Charlotte have argued this point. He’s right-handed and does hinge his left wrist at the top of his swing… deliberately cups his wrist at the top… and teaches that method. He can hit the ball a long way, as long as his timing is perfect. The problem with hinging, (cupping) the left wrist at the top is that there’s a large range of motion there… if you don’t believe it, grip a club in your left hand, hold it straight out, flatten your wrist, and then move it toward the left and back to flat a few times (cup and uncup your wrist)… Look how much an inch or two of wrist hinge moves the clubhead… More important, look at how the angle of the clubface changes in relation to the wrist position!

Now if a right-handed golfer is hinging his left wrist at the top of the backswing, imagine how difficult it would be to hinge the wrist the same amount every swing. Imagine how hard this would make it to consistently deliver the clubface squarely into the back of the ball.

Now grip a club out straight with your left hand again, keep the wrist flat, and with your hand, move the club up and down (cocking the wrist). First of all, the range of motion is much smaller than hinging your wrist… but most importantly, look how the angle of the clubface changes as you cock and uncock your left wrist… Exactly, it doesn’t change at all !!

The back of your left hand remains parallel to the face of the club… So, just by not hinging your left wrist, keeping it flat throughout the swing, you’ve completely eliminated a major source of errant shots…