Why Every Golf Swing Is Unique: Adapting to Flexibility, Wrist Mobility & Natural Mechanics

Key Points

• • Lucía’s top-of-swing wrist position differs from Jon Rahm’s—hers is more extended, not flexed.
• • Forcing her into Jon’s position would actually hurt her swing, not help it.
• • A key factor is wrist mobility—Lucía has limited flexion in her lead (left) wrist, which restricts how closed the clubface can get at the top.

   

• • Demonstrating this with an exercise: she can’t flex or extend her wrist beyond a certain point without compensating with finger movement.
• • Players with more wrist mobility can achieve a more closed clubface at the top, like Jon.
• • Since Lucía lacks that range, her natural position must be preserved and not forced into an unnatural shape.
• • Coaches must adapt their teaching to the player’s anatomy—not the other way around.
• • Good results don’t always come from copying elite players’ mechanics; they come from working with your own body’s capabilities.