It is no fun to feel pieces of your body moving everywhere, at different speeds, and in different directions, when they all should be working as a cohesive unit throughout the swing. This problem causes a loss of power and direction. When disconnection occurs, it comes from either a pivot speed of the body that is too fast or improper motions causing the wrists to cock too early or too late. Usually, when wrist motion is faulty, the club shaft moves off plane. But, and this is important, you can be on plane and still be disconnected if the wrist hinge doesn t match up with the player s pivot speed during the swing.
Disconnection is also relative to the player s skill level.
The higher the handicap, the more there seems to be a tendency to be disconnected en route to the top via the wrists. The key to understanding and curing this action is to allow the turning of the body and the setting of the wrists to match up so they all arrive at the top together. If you watch Mark O Meara, you will notice that when his body stops turning his club stops moving, and when his arms, hands and club stop moving, the torso stops turning. Everything arrives together, but the speed of the pivot and the speed of the setting wrists are both different, yet synchronized to arrive at the top together and connected. Your pivot is how your torso turns and how you displace your weight.