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Details Of The Wipe - A Key Release Component

The wipe is one of the key movement that separates the elite ball strikers from the good ball strikers. It is the start to the release, and without doing it properly, it is hard to have side bend and bracing near impact. The two major areas that control the wipe are the lead elbow bending and the trail wrist radial deviating (hinging more). Those two movements move the club more across the body as opposed to out at the golf ball.

The movement of the arms across the body allows for the side bend without hitting it fat or hooking it and helps create the conditions for the arms to extend through the shot. These are all hallmarks of great ball strikers.

Playlists: Train Your Release, Stop Lunging Forward

Tags: Poor Contact, Transition, Release, Concept, Advanced, Intermediate

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This concept video is the details of the wipe.

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So the wipe or what I refer to as the drift sometimes is basically the movement of the arms

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as they initiate the release.

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Just as a thought puzzle and more of a concept of what's going on.

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At the top of the swing, I will have gone something like this.

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So compared to my chest, my arms are slightly behind.

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Loaded my shoulder girdle by having my arms slightly behind just like this.

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Well, at impact, those arms are going to be out in front of my sternum or just slightly even left

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of my sternum, so it's going to look kind of like that.

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So the question is, how do I get my arms from there?

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To there. Now there's two different ways that I could do it.

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One would be I just extend my arms in a straight line like this.

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So I just, I'm over here and then I extend my arms out in front of me.

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Facing this way, it would be, I'm over here at the top of the swing and then I just extend my arms straight out in front of me.

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Now that would look more like we'll try to see where is the easiest way to show it.

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That would look more like a you pattern kind of like that where they're working out and then everything's just kind of drifting that club across.

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It would end up looking, there my arms are extended and it basically just rotates across like so.

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And a lot of golfers think that that's how the release should happen.

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But what I tend to see on 3D is this other alternative would be basically I'm over here and then I'm just going to bring the hands in front of the place where they're going to extend in the chest and then they're going to extend out.

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So from the down the line, I'm over there, basically drifts or wipes slightly across my body before it goes out.

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And it turns into I guess from this down the line face on it looks like this and then it goes out.

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So it's one movement, there's that little white movement and goes out.

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So the for example, the delivery and go because your arms are more in front of your body.

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It is preset that white movement.

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So if you have a hard time with that drifter that white movement, you're going to have a hard time with the delivery and go drill.

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When we're looking at the places where I typically see this motion originating, the release begins at delivery position, which is somewhere around here.

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What I'll typically see on 3D, especially with very good ball striker's longer hitters, is that left elbow is going to start bending 10 degrees.

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You know, it's a slight bend, so it's barely noticeable on video, but that left elbow is going to start bending and that right wrist is going to start radial deviating or hinging.

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So combined, if I'm in this position, it tends to go like that.

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So one of the ways that I'll describe it to students is if I'm in this position, it's almost as if that grip was moving in a straight line across my body.

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So if I'm standing here and I had a target right there, it would from right about here, as if I was trying to slam that into the wall.

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I'm exaggerating it, but that arm bending, this wrist hinging kind of brings it across there before they extend down and out.

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The other way to kind of think about it is if I'm hitting it out towards the mountains that way.

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If I was to do just a normal extend those arms, my arms are extending pretty much at the golf wall.

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If I add this little white movement, then my arms are going to be extending kind of in this little alleyway, 30 degrees or so out in front.

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So again, that first version would be if I just extend my arms, it would look more like this, even if I add body rotation, where that white version, it would go there.

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And then my arms would basically be extending out even with my foot out along this direction here, even though the golf wall would be right there.

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So that white movement, where it comes slightly across before those arms extend, is one of the keys that getting that real good solid strike.

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If I don't do that white movement, then what'll happen is I will tend to release it down like so.

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And if I added any side bend, I'd hit behind it, so I will typically have to kind of bring my body in front and stand up.

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So I hit that pretty well, but you can see that I took a major effort from my body.

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I wouldn't be able to get this good bracing, I wouldn't have my body kind of stabilizing.

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So my arms wouldn't extend instead, they would go more like that.

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So if you're struggling with hitting behind the golf wall, if you're struggling with getting side bend, this can be a big big component to early extension.

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So a lot of golfers who are failing to do this movement will early extend to prevent from hitting the ground behind the golf wall.

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So it can be a big component to that.

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So I'm struggling with any of those issues and more understanding this white and training, this white movement, is one of the big keys that developing this tour release.

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And one last question that I frequently get is related to the top of the backswing position in this move.

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So in the drop of them wipe, I basically talk about how those arms are going to kind of fall and connect into the body like this during that early shallow move.

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And then they're going to wipe across before they extend out.

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Well, if I have a lot of disconnect, so if I have a very more upright or vertical arm movement, it's going to tend to feel like it's more of a kind of a gradual drop.

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The more that it's kind of that modern swing where the arms are a little bit lower, the more that it's going to feel like it's an exaggerated white movement.

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I've got examples on 3D of elite level golfers, both one plane, two plane, and they will both demonstrate this wipe style release.

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So it's more of conversations that it gives me the idea as far as what it feels like.

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But I can tell you that once you get to the end of that transition, once you get to this delivery position, if you want to have really solid contact, you're going to have to start doing this white movement.

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And one last last piece is relating it to side bend. So a lot of golfers will struggle with drifting their upper body on top kind of like this, where it's more of a forward lunge, where that body just kind of really pulls and gets the handle moving and lunges on top like this.

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Well, what'll happen is they will try to get in a better body position by adding side bend, and they'll bottom out way behind the golf ball because they're not doing this white.

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There is a big relationship between the amount of this wipe and the amount of the side bend that you're going to be able to get.

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So because what you can see is if I did this and I stay vertical, you can see that the club is well above where golf ball would be.

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I'll grab one and put one there as kind of an object. So if I did this wipe, that golf club is well above the golf ball.

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This would be very challenging. I would feel like I'm just chopping straight down in order to try to hit it.

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But if I did that white movement and at the same time, I added that rotation inside bend. Now the club is starting to come on a little bit shallower path.

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I didn't hit that great, but just for demonstration purposes, what I want you to see is that the more that you're doing this little white movement, the more that you can add that side bend or not let your upper body drift.

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So if you're struggling with your body sliding early, extending your upper body drifting in front, this white move is critical.

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So I wanted to take the time to try to break it down so that you understand it. You can see the related drills on ways that you can practice it, whether it's the single arm releases, the supported wipe, or just kind of using this feeling through the golf ball.

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I promise if you implement it, it will help you with your contact, especially with your iron play.

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One piece of advice, if you start doing this and you start hitting the ball right, then what you're typically doing is you're doing a great job of this white, but you're missing that motorcycle piece.

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And so that's a clear indication that you are using this lack of wipe as a way to square the club face by pointing it that way as opposed to pointing it that way.

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So I'm using the entire shaft going backward to square the club face as opposed to doing this wipe and just using that motorcycle.

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Hopefully that helps you understand and tie together one of the key pieces to a tour release.