Justin Kraft showed me something that made me immediately pull up my own swing on video.

There are two distinct wrist patterns on tour. 60% of pros use one. 20% use another (60+20=100% 🧐 ).

Once you know which pattern you fall into, a lot of other stuff starts to click.

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​Here's what's in this newsletter:

• The two wrist patterns (and which one you should probably learn)
• Jake Knapp's wedge drill that might injure you
• Some unexpected speed gains I made this week
• A Mumford and Sons endorsement nobody asked for 😂
• Jordan Spieth has some INCREDIBLE quotes I just found.

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THE TWO PATTERNS:

Here are the two ways you can use your wrists.

Read this, watch the video and then pull up your swing video... Which pattern do you fall into?

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Pattern 1: (60% of tour pros)

The lead wrist starts slightly cupped at setup.

Stays that way through the backswing.

Then in transition, it moves toward flexion. Bowing. The lead arm rotates through impact to square the face and deloft the club.

This is the one most golfers should learn.

The flexion in transition does two things at once. It shallows the shaft and closes the clubface.

That's why "bowing the wrist" has taken over instruction. One move, two fixes.

Pattern 2: (20% of tour pros)

Stronger grip. More lead arm rotation at setup. These players build flexion early, really closing the face at the top.

Then through impact, they gradually let that flexion release back toward extension.

The clubface stays pointed at the target longer.

Dynamic loft changes faster. These players can absolutely nuke fades with a driver. But wedge distance control gets trickier.

You're gonna want to watch the rest of the video because Justin dives into mistakes people make, how to fix it, and a few other ways this might be impacting your golf swing.

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​ 🙌 Well Played: This Week’s Top Finds: ​ 🚀 Made some unexpected gains this past week on my speed adventure. It was super strange. 🛠️ Jake Knapp's drill for his wedges. Idk if I can recommend this as I'm sure a good % of us would end up stabbing ourselves in the side. 😳 Rory loves chipping off greens for staying dialed with his lowpoint control. Idk if we need a bunch of people chipping off greens at their clubs 😂 ​ ❤️ LAB golf lovers - GolfWRX spotted a heel shafted Link model at this weeks tour event. oh boy! NON GOLF STUFF: New Mumford and Sons album is fantastic. Listened to them forever and this one is new album is on repeat. ​

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Jordan Spieth walked through his entire warm-up (Here are my fav quotes)

He starts every warm-up the same way. 60 degree. 20-30 yards. Each shot carries a little further than the last.

"I'm finding the bottom. I'm hitting different shots. I'm just kind of being an athlete, being an artist with the wedge.

And then as you get up into more full shots, you've got a little bit better club face control than if you just started doing it from the get-go."

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​He hits draws and fades with every club. But the rule is if the ball overcurves by more than a yard... it doesn't count. He redoes it.

"I'm training myself that that ball cannot overcurve. If it undercurves, I'm in the fat part of the green. If it overcurves, I'm short-sided."

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Then he mishit a 3-wood off the heel. And instead of changing anything...

"I don't need to do anything different than what I just did except for not hit it right here and hit it right there. And it would have been 10-12 yards difference in accuracy."

Quarter inch on the face. 10-12 yards offline. How many times have you hit one sideways and immediately started messing with your swing?
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They asked what happens if he just turns his brain off and swings.

"It'd be horrendous. I've never actually played like that. I've always had a manipulating feel through my backswing... I always like it to be somewhere like a four or five out of ten difficulty going back.

And then from there it's be an athlete and hit the shot. But if I think about nothing, I'm all sorts of messed up."

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He talked about his offseason work and this concept of "DNA" that I loved.

"What I'm trying to do is gather the DNA parts. What do I do in my swing that is consistent within all these good time periods? Whether the shaft's pitched in a different place or the depth of my hands is a little bit different... What is a similar movement that I haven't been doing that I want to get back to?"

So he's not trying to recreate a swing from 2017. He's pulling the common thread.

"I don't want to step into an exact swing I made seven years ago because my body's changed. I could do some things better now that I couldn't do then."

On how long swing changes actually take... 🥩

"It was like smoking meats. It can get up to 155 really quickly, but that last 10 degrees takes the same amount of time it took to get all the way up there."

If you're grinding on a change right now and feel stuck... same.
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Also he's all spikes. Forever.

"I tried spikeless a couple times. I slipped on number 14 at the Players with a seven iron... pulled it left to a left pin and I said, that's it. No more ever again."
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Thanks for hanging out this week!

Have a good one.

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-Cordie

✍️ Written by Cordie Walker​​
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