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What is a power leak?

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What is a power leak?

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A. Power leaks, or losing power in your swing, come from the most common swing flaws: casting and coming over the top. Casting is the unhinging or releasing of the wrists too early in the downswing. The goal is to keep the hands passive in order to hold a 90-degree angle in your wrists until just before impact. This builds up centrifugal force by allowing the club head to lag behind the hands, then when the wrists release, the shaft unloads and sends all that stored power right through the ball. When you cast, and release that hinge early, you waste all your power before you even get to the ball. Casting also happens when a golfer tries to “hit the ball” by swinging with the hands (also referred to as “throwing the hands at the ball”).

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