How to Release the Golf Club for Maximum Power

Mike Austin set the Guinness Record of 515 yards on a drive in the 1974 National Senior Open. His prodigious clubhead speed was not completely due to size and strength, but instead his technique to release the clubhead.

Steve Pratt and Jerry Crowell, PGA, take you through every detail and joint action required to make this powerful motion, and why this is the ONE AND ONLY hand action Mike Austin used during his playing career.

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17 thoughts on “How to Release the Golf Club for Maximum Power

  1. As Mr.Palmer said swing your swing.. what that means is go hit balls and figure it out and learn to repeat it. Many different swings in the Hall of fame, guess what they practiced WOW.

  2. Viewer beware! Sure this feeling could be good temporarily for someone who slices it hard or needs to add distance and speed. That's about the only type of player that should try this. Anyone else this is a quick ticket to BIG HOOKS and a two way miss. Literally none of the best ball strikers of all time release the club this way. What good is distance if you cant find your ball? Horizontal hinging will produce a power draw when your timing is good, and huge hooks and blocks when it is off. This type of release used to be taught and predominant decades ago but there's a reason why pros stopped doing it. They are playing for money and releasing it this way will surely take you out of the money, every time. Your good shots might be longer but your scores will go up quickly with a high rate of closure like this. Much more of a timing element involved in this stall flip release than say an angled hinge

  3. Great presentation! I have Mike Austin video etc but this is super clear as to the necessary release from the top. In the past I was able to hit the ball furthest after being told to release in this way but I was later told this was quite wrong! Anyway looking forward to trying this out again on the range . Am I right in thinking Dalton McChleery taught similarly? Was he by any chance influenced in his approach by Mike Austin?

  4. When I open a jar my wrist is radial deviated and I'm resisting ulnar deviation while applying leverage with the right forearm. So, I would say that rather than ulnar deviation, it's really beginning at maximum radial deviation and returning to neutral. Once the wrist goes past neutral and into ulnar deviation there is very little strength. All the strength is applied by removing the radial deviation. If you started with your wrist neutral and attempted to ulnar deviate to open the jar there's no strength or leverage.

  5. If you're advocating a throwing motion, why does it matter what the left hand is doing? I feel like the left hand is nothing more than a guide to impact and to release path. Trying to apply power with the left mucks up the works for me. Btw, I open pickle jars with the right hand

  6. It’s not the most powerful way to open the jar. The better way is to hold the lid and twist the glass part due to it having a better grip and surface area to apply force through.

  7. In 'muscles and joints' part 2 Mike talks about dorsi flexion and says that forearm rotation should not happen. But I agree that Mike always did forearm roll in backswing and followthru. In this clip here, ' how to release', you say the opposite compared with your latest version 'detailed hand action' you promote dorsi and palmar flexion of the right hand. Thats confusing to me. What is correct now?

  8. How does all this emphasis on powerful hand action match with Mike’s comments that his hands were reactive through the ball just responding to an initial impetus at the very start of the downswing.

  9. I tried adding this yesterday, not sure if it went through, so please delete if this is a duplicate: Love seeing the throwing action, but I'm hoping in another video we get to see the throw and turn/shift together in a complete downswing. This video was great, I have a better understanding of the throw now, but it still felt like a tease too. Left me wanting to see a lot more.

  10. Ok , so you swing right handed but open jars with your left hand.if you have the time to perfect the timing of the strike your method works as it did with Hogan and Snead etc.

  11. The hand action you describe is similar to that advocated by Dalton McCrary although he emphasises primarily the left arm. The release you demonstrate without the pivot is pretty much like his pole drill. ?

  12. Great video. Now I understand what Mike A was telling Mike D when he was hitting balls with just his right arm. He told him spin it with his hand action Because of his stroke he used his left hand to demonstrate the spinning action. Great job

  13. About 2 years prior to Mike’s passing, I was in CA and met with the individual teaching the “new” Austin hand action. Completely powerless and not what he actually did because we played 9 holes of golf together. When I called to speak with Mike, he was very generous with his time but became extremely agitated when I brought up what this gentleman had taught me as Mike’s swing. He was emphatic to follow what he had taught on other videos such as Austinology and was clearly angry at the man.

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