@@jamesmolinaro4461 I as well used to think it was a silly idea, but I think most people just misunderstand it and take it as "if 6 year old cannot comprehend quantum physics fully after your explanation, you suck", instead of having a super simplified explanation that suits the level of the recipient. Richard Feynman had a good interview that kind of touched on the subject, but can't recall which one it was. A classic case of culture taking a quote and misusing it.
Feeling like the hands are "quiet" going back (not changing their address position) during the 1st half of the backswing can be helpful. When the "cups" start, I key on this and then feeling a flat or slightly bowed wrist @ the top. One of Grant's best lessons here.
Thanks Grant, you've just underlined what's been missing from a lot of my swings. That moment of pause before the forward swing really is the thing to hit good shots. Thanks for the awesome content; I watched the UK masters today with Rick Shiels. Best thing I've watched on UA-cam. So much better than watching PGA and Liv golf! Keep up the good work and I was amazed by the 3 chip ins. Well done. Also, hi Matt loved your positivity and good vibes on the course. Also also well done Bubby on your 5 years dude. Amazing. Laters tatas
Keeping the wrist flat and rotating through instead of sliding (as you're working on Grant) are the two things I'm working on and it's really hepled my game. My misses are much smaller now that I don't have to depend so much on timing!
This is what i did without even knowing so, when i corrected my big fade and slice tendency…and after 2/3 yrs really working at it on the range and course its amazing to be able to hit a big high draw and see the ball go right to left. It straightened out my drive a ton, my miss with driver is no longer a big slice. And my irons miss is just a tiny push and i can draw irons controlled when i want for the most part! Its a beautiful thing. And ive been golfing for about 14 yrs
I've literally just discovered this is what's wrong with my swing and now I've found this video where he's got the exact same issue. It feels exactly like Matt said at first that you've got an extreme bowed wrist on the backswing but just gotta stick with it and get it into that muscle memory
So Matt’s shot shape when he’s struggling is essentially a mini version of Steven’s slicing. I don’t play hardly ever anymore being a Dad, working full time, with gaming and streaming. But I’ve always been able to hit straight irons or draws with irons. But my Driver has become a big cut/slice. I probably need to adjust my swing path and take a look into my wrist position as well. Great video Good Good 🔥
I've been playing golf for just over 2 years and have managed to get my handicap down from 25 to 20 and I'm well on my way to being a scratch golfer. My message to all you high handicappers, hackers and duffers out there is to keep practicing and keep the dream alive. Obviously when it doesn't happen and you finally realise that you're never going to be any good at golf and you sell your clubs or they end up in the lake, at least you can say you gave it a go. Best wishes, Johnny Muscles
The part at the end where he says to let you hands drop for a second in the slot before rotation is so key. When I’m playing good I’m doing, when I don’t I spray it everywhere with the irons. Great lesson Grant
Grant is an excellent teacher. Really enjoyed watching this and I’ll be getting myself down the range ASAP! Thanks and keep up the great work. UK follower.
I finally changed my swing to do this, one thing the helped me was, feeling like your throwing your right shoulder down. Idk if it’s just me but it’s was helped me
It’s not just you, my friend. Taking the right shoulder down, under, and through is a club face stability move(DJ, Tommy Fleetwood). It allows you to hold off the flip, roll, or release longer. Whatever you wanna call it. I bet your club face feels more aimed at the sky through impact, instead of the toe rolling over. ? You have to rotate well to achieve this, and it sounds like you do.
Just found this, have been struggling with my swing the last couple of weeks. Can confirm 100% I cup my wrist. Going to the range today to start to try to work it out
I love seeing the struggle with new swing changes. So often in videos like this, its like... ohh what a miracle, your swing is cured. But in reality it takes a lot of mistakes, trial and error
I love that they don’t cut out the parts where Grant gives a pointer and it doesn’t work right away. But a swing or two later it’s getting narrowed down and Matt starts to get what grants asking. Makes it very relatable because you aren’t going to get that change and result the next swing every time.
New Cobra clubs fit for you will help for sure. You will likely notice you are able to create even more club head speed once you get it dialed because you will be using the ground forces better. That slight dip left where you are hesitating firing from the top will provide for more explosion up off the ground. My best rounds are when i am keeping the wrist flat but also using the ground best. Keep grinding.
I’ve been trying for years to hit that position. A great feeling to produce a bowed wrist. Is the sensation of holding the club face closed during the backswing! Closed face at the top = Bowed wrist.
Nice video guys. Matt great job learning and Grant you sound like you really know what you’re talking about, great teaching! I‘m practicing the same thing with dropping the arms and shallowing the club, my Pro told me the exact same thing: shift weight to left foot, this will automatically shallow out arms and club to come nicely from the inside.
I’ve been working on this the past year and it’s been great overall. I’ve been more consistent and gained yardage. I had a cupped wrist and played a draw but I was inconsistent. I’ve been working on this and my dynamic loft at impact.
Today at the driving range was the first time I tried bowing my wrist, which in turn meant today was the first time I ever had a draw. I’ve always had a massively cupped wrist like Matt and always thought it was my grip till now. I was about to give up on ever getting rid of my fade.
I was just thinking "It's been a hot second since GGLabs posted." Your timing is impeccable, good sir. Also, since my swing is modeled off Matt's, this should help me a ton as well.
I think Matt is one of the best golfers on good good he just hasn't been showing up lately, I hate it when Matt gets so down on himself, but it's hard when your not playing well, good luck Matt I am working on swing changes myself. Rooting for you.
This tip will help every golfer, no doubt. The thing is, Matt is such a good putter!! So, if he simply takes away 2-3 bad tee shots, and/or approach shots…he will be low 70s - high 60s darn near every round.
my coach told me to make it feel like you have a ball in your left palm and try and keep that ball pointing straight up. helped my ball striking tremendously
Awesome stuff as usual! Man I need a driver lesson with y’all in the worst way! I practice with a launch monitor every day.. practice literally everything and can’t get it right!
This is kind of where I'm at. I have to remember that my right hand thumb and pointer have to form a Y brace for the club at the top of the backswing, and my left hand has to "rev the motorcycle" to get that bowed wrist.
Well with a strong grip “cupping” your wrist is what you want. Depends on the grip. You can set up really strong and you have a cup wrist and hit great push draws
I’m new to golf and just learning it through UA-cam and the good good guys, last year my drivers were fades and slices but now I’m hooking it and don’t know how to fix it
Great instruction. Too bad you dont offer lessons on your site. We see all these pga golf instructors going through drills, but never see them teaching someone. Being new to golf i feel its important to get the feedback from the teacher and student. You are a good group of guys and would be a blast playing a round or two with all of you.
watched this last night and after work just now i tried out this feel hitting into my golf net. never have i consistently made such good contact with the ball. i feel like i'm absolutely striping it and consistently too. bad shots hits have gone down by at least 75%. incredible. thanks so much for the vid, can't wait to take it to the course.
Having a bowed wrist (flexion) is one of the best things for a good golf swing for a person with a neutral grip. It helps you hit the ball more square and have better contact on the ball. It also helps teach you how to rotate through the golf swing.
There’s so many buzz words in golf at various times. Cupped wrist fine/ normal if you have a strong grip. Most of the time the weaker the grip the more bowing.
Hey Grant, Love the tip and drill. Something I myself need to work on. However can you please dive a little deeper on the concept of keep the club ahead of your body, but without cupping the wrist? I feel like this is the only thing that I am struggling with finding a median between the two concepts. Thanks!
I have tried nearly every other change to try and fix my slice with inconsistent results and I honestly think this might be what I’ve been doing wrong all along. Damn lol.
This in combination with learning how to hold your wrist angle in your downswing are the two biggest swing changes to make you an elite ball striker. So many players cup their wrist and cast on their downswing, and they end up with no power or consistency.
This is something I often lose from time to time and find myself wondering why I'm snap hooking it. After watching this I went to the course today and was able to drive it straight almost every hole. Putting is another story lol.
Not hating but there is a lot of misinformation in this video imo. Agree that a cupped wrist is no good. Matt is still flipping because his hands on/after impact do not exit low/left, so the club will flip the hands over. Also don’t agree that the hands should fall into the slot in the backswing. The downswing should be initiated by the the pelvic tilt and the left hip going down and back to start rotating. This is just my opinion btw
I struggled so much with over fading the ball and some rounds I would shank the ball so bad and I found out that my wrist was super cupped and was causing the same thing, keep that wrist flat has eliminated my shank and I can draw the ball again!
How do you flatten the wrist from set up? Or do you only Flatten your wrist on the top of the backswing? I've been struggling with slices too and I think I got the cupped wrist as well. When I try to "bow" the wrist during the takeaway, my backswing is becoming really laid off. Thanks before!
OK, no disrespect to Grant and good luck to Matt with his Cobra deal, but this seems off. The clip they use that shows his "cupped" wrist actually shows a flat wrist (pause it here in the video to see his flat wrist ua-cam.com/video/Vot67mITqHY/v-deo.html. IMO, Matt's problem is he aligns himself well to the right of his target and swings over the top to try to hit it straight. Sometimes he can square up the clubface but he often hits straight fades (that look like push fades cuz he's aimed right) or pull hooks when he can't square up the clubface. Alignment and swing plane. I'm very excited to see Matt's game improve through his new clubs and new dedication to the game. He has the potential to be an extremely good golfer.
In the break room of my office right now practicing the feeling of pausing to drop in the slot lol. Only started golfing last summer, easily the most technically challenging sport I’ve ever attempted
what ever work for a golfplayer then keep that. Its not about just how The swing is. There is many players with a small cuped wrist so nothing wrong With that. It will not make you shoot The ball any shorter. because in The top of The swing The natural to a point of your swing If you overswing for example The normal thing is that The wrist Will bend so to hold it straigth Will not be a normal thing for The hand. Second is that it will to have to straigth hand Will. be more stiff not any feel troughout The swing. My thougths
Grant has the gift to teach/instruct. Einstein said, If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
I think Einstein was wrong about that one looking back at it
@@jamesmolinaro4461 I as well used to think it was a silly idea, but I think most people just misunderstand it and take it as "if 6 year old cannot comprehend quantum physics fully after your explanation, you suck", instead of having a super simplified explanation that suits the level of the recipient. Richard Feynman had a good interview that kind of touched on the subject, but can't recall which one it was. A classic case of culture taking a quote and misusing it.
Definitely! Helps that his dad is a golf instructor and pro
Einstein never made a cut his whole life. Take your point though, really clear instruction dialling that swing in.
@@tumppinen good point
I mean if he just dropped a few more holes in ones per round he could already be scratch
Yeah, I was thinking to myself "bet he didn't go +10 in at least 2 rounds he's played" lol
Tru
😂😂😂
That’s so far from the truth 😂
And just like that, grant has become a golf god on UA-cam. Thank you!
Feeling like the hands are "quiet" going back (not changing their address position) during the 1st half of the backswing can be helpful. When the "cups" start, I key on this and then feeling a flat or slightly bowed wrist @ the top. One of Grant's best lessons here.
Thanks Grant, you've just underlined what's been missing from a lot of my swings. That moment of pause before the forward swing really is the thing to hit good shots. Thanks for the awesome content; I watched the UK masters today with Rick Shiels. Best thing I've watched on UA-cam. So much better than watching PGA and Liv golf! Keep up the good work and I was amazed by the 3 chip ins. Well done. Also, hi Matt loved your positivity and good vibes on the course. Also also well done Bubby on your 5 years dude. Amazing. Laters tatas
Been golfing my whole life and never heard of focusing on this… i feel like this is so great for consistency whether you naturally hit a fade or draw
Keeping the wrist flat and rotating through instead of sliding (as you're working on Grant) are the two things I'm working on and it's really hepled my game. My misses are much smaller now that I don't have to depend so much on timing!
This is what i did without even knowing so, when i corrected my big fade and slice tendency…and after 2/3 yrs really working at it on the range and course its amazing to be able to hit a big high draw and see the ball go right to left. It straightened out my drive a ton, my miss with driver is no longer a big slice. And my irons miss is just a tiny push and i can draw irons controlled when i want for the most part! Its a beautiful thing. And ive been golfing for about 14 yrs
I've literally just discovered this is what's wrong with my swing and now I've found this video where he's got the exact same issue. It feels exactly like Matt said at first that you've got an extreme bowed wrist on the backswing but just gotta stick with it and get it into that muscle memory
So Matt’s shot shape when he’s struggling is essentially a mini version of Steven’s slicing.
I don’t play hardly ever anymore being a Dad, working full time, with gaming and streaming. But I’ve always been able to hit straight irons or draws with irons. But my Driver has become a big cut/slice.
I probably need to adjust my swing path and take a look into my wrist position as well.
Great video Good Good 🔥
I've been playing golf for just over 2 years and have managed to get my handicap down from 25 to 20 and I'm well on my way to being a scratch golfer. My message to all you high handicappers, hackers and duffers out there is to keep practicing and keep the dream alive.
Obviously when it doesn't happen and you finally realise that you're never going to be any good at golf and you sell your clubs or they end up in the lake, at least you can say you gave it a go.
Best wishes, Johnny Muscles
The part at the end where he says to let you hands drop for a second in the slot before rotation is so key. When I’m playing good I’m doing, when I don’t I spray it everywhere with the irons. Great lesson Grant
Grant is an excellent teacher. Really enjoyed watching this and I’ll be getting myself down the range ASAP! Thanks and keep up the great work. UK follower.
Look at Grant! Following in Dad’s footsteps.
Grant's wrist advice reminds me a lot of what George Gankas talks about. The Top Golf card trick looks like a training aid George sells. Great advice.
I finally changed my swing to do this, one thing the helped me was, feeling like your throwing your right shoulder down. Idk if it’s just me but it’s was helped me
It’s not just you, my friend. Taking the right shoulder down, under, and through is a club face stability move(DJ, Tommy Fleetwood). It allows you to hold off the flip, roll, or release longer. Whatever you wanna call it. I bet your club face feels more aimed at the sky through impact, instead of the toe rolling over. ? You have to rotate well to achieve this, and it sounds like you do.
Just found this, have been struggling with my swing the last couple of weeks. Can confirm 100% I cup my wrist. Going to the range today to start to try to work it out
I love seeing the struggle with new swing changes. So often in videos like this, its like... ohh what a miracle, your swing is cured. But in reality it takes a lot of mistakes, trial and error
The guy has two UA-cam holes in one. You don’t mess with that kind of greatness.
I am only coming here for golf tips! You guys are awesome! Thank you for the watch tip, Matt, can't wait to try it. Grant, what a teacher!
I love that they don’t cut out the parts where Grant gives a pointer and it doesn’t work right away. But a swing or two later it’s getting narrowed down and Matt starts to get what grants asking. Makes it very relatable because you aren’t going to get that change and result the next swing every time.
New Cobra clubs fit for you will help for sure. You will likely notice you are able to create even more club head speed once you get it dialed because you will be using the ground forces better. That slight dip left where you are hesitating firing from the top will provide for more explosion up off the ground. My best rounds are when i am keeping the wrist flat but also using the ground best. Keep grinding.
I’ve been trying for years to hit that position. A great feeling to produce a bowed wrist. Is the sensation of holding the club face closed during the backswing!
Closed face at the top = Bowed wrist.
Nice video guys. Matt great job learning and Grant you sound like you really know what you’re talking about, great teaching! I‘m practicing the same thing with dropping the arms and shallowing the club, my Pro told me the exact same thing: shift weight to left foot, this will automatically shallow out arms and club to come nicely from the inside.
I’ve been working on this the past year and it’s been great overall. I’ve been more consistent and gained yardage. I had a cupped wrist and played a draw but I was inconsistent. I’ve been working on this and my dynamic loft at impact.
Today at the driving range was the first time I tried bowing my wrist, which in turn meant today was the first time I ever had a draw. I’ve always had a massively cupped wrist like Matt and always thought it was my grip till now. I was about to give up on ever getting rid of my fade.
I was just thinking "It's been a hot second since GGLabs posted." Your timing is impeccable, good sir.
Also, since my swing is modeled off Matt's, this should help me a ton as well.
Immaculate video, love grant as a coach
Good good tip for the hands to start the downswing instead of the body first.
I think Matt is one of the best golfers on good good he just hasn't been showing up lately, I hate it when Matt gets so down on himself, but it's hard when your not playing well, good luck Matt I am working on swing changes myself. Rooting for you.
This video just explained everything I’ve been doing wrong. You’re the man G!
This tip will help every golfer, no doubt. The thing is, Matt is such a good putter!! So, if he simply takes away 2-3 bad tee shots, and/or approach shots…he will be low 70s - high 60s darn near every round.
Love the lesson videos with emphasis on the trackman numbers
I would love to see a video of how to keep your lead wrist square and how slightly moving it either way impacts the face!
my coach told me to make it feel like you have a ball in your left palm and try and keep that ball pointing straight up. helped my ball striking tremendously
Awesome stuff as usual!
Man I need a driver lesson with y’all in the worst way! I practice with a launch monitor every day.. practice literally everything and can’t get it right!
Omg I am “before” Matt! Cupping is killing me. Off to the range with a plastic card in the glove
This is kind of where I'm at. I have to remember that my right hand thumb and pointer have to form a Y brace for the club at the top of the backswing, and my left hand has to "rev the motorcycle" to get that bowed wrist.
Well with a strong grip “cupping” your wrist is what you want. Depends on the grip. You can set up really strong and you have a cup wrist and hit great push draws
I’m new to golf and just learning it through UA-cam and the good good guys, last year my drivers were fades and slices but now I’m hooking it and don’t know how to fix it
That was a very impressive coaching session.
steve doing his best impression of the dude in the couch in half baked
Great instruction. Too bad you dont offer lessons on your site. We see all these pga golf instructors going through drills, but never see them teaching someone. Being new to golf i feel its important to get the feedback from the teacher and student. You are a good group of guys and would be a blast playing a round or two with all of you.
watched this last night and after work just now i tried out this feel hitting into my golf net. never have i consistently made such good contact with the ball. i feel like i'm absolutely striping it and consistently too. bad shots hits have gone down by at least 75%. incredible. thanks so much for the vid, can't wait to take it to the course.
Going from +10 to scratch would feel very bad man
I don't think these guys know what +10 means 😂
I struggled with a cupped wrist too. When I’m not compressing the ball I always remind myself “knuckles to the ground”.
Grant can you please do a video on weight distribution With each clubs in bag (driver, irons, wedges) Thanks bro love the effort you guys do!
Having a bowed wrist (flexion) is one of the best things for a good golf swing for a person with a neutral grip. It helps you hit the ball more square and have better contact on the ball. It also helps teach you how to rotate through the golf swing.
I still have problems holding the bowed wrist through the entire downswing but when I do my irons are pure
something i never knew i was doing wrong, you should sell lessons id make that 20 minute drive to get one
Coming back to watch it
Great video, I shared this with my son. Maybe this will help him even more. Thanks
There’s so many buzz words in golf at various times. Cupped wrist fine/ normal if you have a strong grip. Most of the time the weaker the grip the more bowing.
Hey Grant,
Love the tip and drill. Something I myself need to work on. However can you please dive a little deeper on the concept of keep the club ahead of your body, but without cupping the wrist? I feel like this is the only thing that I am struggling with finding a median between the two concepts.
Thanks!
Steve coming out of the office looking like terry from Reno 911 😂
I have tried nearly every other change to try and fix my slice with inconsistent results and I honestly think this might be what I’ve been doing wrong all along. Damn lol.
Great video. I’ve been having problems with casting and couldn’t figure out how to change it. Hopefully this is the fix.
Consistency is the toughest part, really trying to figure out what is wrong when it goes wrong and what is so right when it feels effortless….
Grant you da shit!!! Keep up the great WORK!!!
Lowkey go to a 8inch cup golf course. That’d be a killer video to watch
Great video, awesome instructions!
This in combination with learning how to hold your wrist angle in your downswing are the two biggest swing changes to make you an elite ball striker. So many players cup their wrist and cast on their downswing, and they end up with no power or consistency.
Those are the exact things I am working on at the moment
I just sendt in my swing and really great video
Excellent! Just watched 20 sec. This is my big problem too!! . Intresting to see the solution👍🏻💣
And it was excellent content ....thänks boys👍🏻👋
I havent seen any other video about this cupped wrist problem...so ..excellent
This is something I often lose from time to time and find myself wondering why I'm snap hooking it. After watching this I went to the course today and was able to drive it straight almost every hole. Putting is another story lol.
Not hating but there is a lot of misinformation in this video imo. Agree that a cupped wrist is no good. Matt is still flipping because his hands on/after impact do not exit low/left, so the club will flip the hands over. Also don’t agree that the hands should fall into the slot in the backswing. The downswing should be initiated by the the pelvic tilt and the left hip going down and back to start rotating. This is just my opinion btw
What about flop shots and short game? Does cupping/bowing matter as much? Or is it more if a feel shot?
Great simple instruction
That was a great lesson.
I struggled so much with over fading the ball and some rounds I would shank the ball so bad and I found out that my wrist was super cupped and was causing the same thing, keep that wrist flat has eliminated my shank and I can draw the ball again!
Matt has great tempo when you guys dial him in it will be unreal the numbers he can achieve.
Thanks Grant, such a good lesson
So good Grant
How do you flatten the wrist from set up? Or do you only Flatten your wrist on the top of the backswing? I've been struggling with slices too and I think I got the cupped wrist as well. When I try to "bow" the wrist during the takeaway, my backswing is becoming really laid off.
Thanks before!
I initially misjudged Matt as a needy loudmouth. I was an idiot. Best to you.
Loved this lesson. ❤️
OK, no disrespect to Grant and good luck to Matt with his Cobra deal, but this seems off. The clip they use that shows his "cupped" wrist actually shows a flat wrist (pause it here in the video to see his flat wrist ua-cam.com/video/Vot67mITqHY/v-deo.html. IMO, Matt's problem is he aligns himself well to the right of his target and swings over the top to try to hit it straight. Sometimes he can square up the clubface but he often hits straight fades (that look like push fades cuz he's aimed right) or pull hooks when he can't square up the clubface. Alignment and swing plane. I'm very excited to see Matt's game improve through his new clubs and new dedication to the game. He has the potential to be an extremely good golfer.
Are you going to work with Castaneda to get his swing more consistent next 🙏🏼
Tremendous stuff…!
Grant was born with a hat on
Did steve pop in the background wearing a team twigs muscle shirt looking yoked?
Should both wrists be bowed or just glove hand
Clothes hanger drill... Nuff said
Good lesson
Lets go matt
Fantastic video 👍
Doesn’t bowing the wrist somewhat close the face?
GRANT!!!!
Never knew Phil Mickelson was such a good instructor.
I have the exact same problem
Does this also apply to fairway woods and driver?
Great tips
This week I have made this adjustment myself, but find I am now topping the ball a tiny bit, is this normal?
This is exactly where I'm struggling.
I need a lesson from grant!
In the break room of my office right now practicing the feeling of pausing to drop in the slot lol. Only started golfing last summer, easily the most technically challenging sport I’ve ever attempted
what ever work for a golfplayer then keep that. Its not about just how The swing is. There is many players with a small cuped wrist so nothing wrong With that. It will not make you shoot The ball any shorter. because in The top of The swing The natural to a point of your swing If you overswing for example The normal thing is that The wrist Will bend so to hold it straigth Will not be a normal thing for The hand. Second is that it will to have to straigth hand Will. be more stiff not any feel troughout The swing.
My thougths
i hit draws with a cup. crazy...
This guy (with the hat)
looks like Greg Norman
Good video, like to come around and have a lesson from you for my mid and long iron.