How to Stop Casting

Casting, or hitting over the top, means to release your wrist hinging at the very start of the forward swing. This is one of the worst faults in golf, and one of the most prevalent, because it is so easy to do.

The object of the swing is to swing the club, not to hit the ball. But that is not intuitive, so people try to hit the ball with their hands as soon as their hands start moving towards it.

That is what makes sense to almost everybody. It makes sense to me, too, which is why one of my major swing drills is in practicing how not to do it.

Imagine you have attached a ribbon to the end of a stick. If you were to swing the stick back and forth, the ribbon would trail the stick.

Now imagine your arms are the stick, when you swing then forward, let the clubshaft trail them like the ribbon would.

When it’s time, the clubshaft will catch up on its own and deliver the hit in spite of yourself.

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