The impact of the ball will cause the lead wrist to collapse or break down. Since the wrist is essential in creating maximum distance and clubface angle, if the lead wrist breaks down it will dramatically cut down on the distance and accuracy of your ball.

To correct this problem, you will want to exercise your wrists to build up their strength. One of the exercises starts with you standing with your arm hanging at your side. Then grab a club in one hand towards the end of the grip. Keeping your arm straight at your side, raise the club bending only your wrist. The toes of the club should be pointing to the sky straight out in front of you. Raise the club as high as you can which will probably just above the parallel line to the ground. Then lower and repeat 14 more times. Then switch arms.

Do this exercise one or two set per wrist about 3 or 4 times a week. If this exercise is done correctly you will feel a burning in your forearms. If you don’t, you may need a longer iron or you could be using more than your wrist.

Next let’s take a look at your golf swing, is it too long? Many beginning and amateur golfers have swings that are too long. Human nature would probably be the culprit on this one. It seems to make sense; the longer you swing the farther your ball will travel.

Watching pros play, you will see back swings of varied lengths. Even with their differences there are similarities in their back swings.

Pros bend their wrists to their maximum. In other words the angle between the left arm and the golf club during the uppermost portion of the swing is at 90-degrees or less. Most players will lock their wrists because they are trying to hit the ball too hard. This will cause the club to go back too far. The looser the wrists give you more power without the necessity of the club too going back too far.

The rotation of the shoulder in the pro’s swing decides how far the left arm goes back. Whether the back swing is short or long it is the amount of shoulder rotation created by each golfer.

The optimum shoulder rotation should be 90-degrees. Some golfers feel tight and are incapable of turning your shoulder back that far. If you feel tight when rotating your shoulder to 90-degrees, the tightness is a good thing. It is telling you, you have created torque in your swing.

In this instance you should think of your body as a spring. When wound up it gets tight, and when you let it go it will snap the other way. If you try to avoid this tightness by over-rotating your hips, you will lose the torque, which is necessary for creating the swing consistent.

To re-cap, during your next trip to the range, keep your body stable while turning your shoulders back until you feel the tightness. Now you have the necessary torques for your back swing. Make sure your wrists are loose so they will bend back to about 90-degrees. You will have the maximum power without your swing going back too far.