Dustin Johnson Wrist Action
Like great athletes in other sports johnson compensates for a technical flaw with raw ability.
Dustin johnson wrist action. 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. 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. We wrote about this in regards to dustin johnson a few weeks ago but a bowed wrist can mean a closed club face and. So he definitely does not move the club away with a one piece take away.
On the greens dustin johnsons grip is believe it or not quite conventional. His enormous lower body rotation on the downswing driven by his right side creates space for the wrists to unwind. Dustin johnson golf swing technique meandmygolf look at dustin johnsons golf swing technique to see how he develops his power in the golf swing subscribe to. Johnsons wrists are remarkably strong and supple.
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. 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. 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. From here hooks of varying degrees are practically guaranteed.
How johnson gets away with it. In this short review paper i will be describing the dustin johnson move. Rahm also has a little bowed wrist action going on at the top of his backswing. 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.
In other words his right hand is turned slightly away from the target underneath the handle. The only slight oddity in his reverse overlap grip is a right hand thats a little stronger than his neutral left. And then he uses quite a lot of wrist action to move the club.