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Stop the lead wrist cupping that opens your face

Craig Hanson explains a common amateur fault: the lead wrist slides into an extended (cupped) position, which opens the club face. Even if the shaft splits through the forearm, that slightly open face makes players flip, stand up, and lose shaft lean at impact, and the shot tends to come down steep. He frames lead-wrist extension as the hidden cause of an open face and lost shaft lean.